Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Domain ranking · 2013
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2013
5,440 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 5,440 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.52. The top three are ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Reviews of Modern Physics, and ACM Computing Surveys.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 28.01Q1 | 29.08 5.78 down from 2012 | 127 | 15% | — | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 24.99Q1 | 46.90 0.18 down from 2012 | 167 | 83% | — | ||
3ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 18.91Q1 | 17.03 2.55 up from 2012 | 80 | 27% | — | ||
4Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 16.00Q1 | 21.44 4.03 up from 2012 | 74 | 13% | $6,990 | ||
5Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.54Q1 | 24.57 0.19 down from 2012 | 65 | 20% | $6,040 | ||
6Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.86Q1 | 28.64 5.18 up from 2012 | 155 | 10% | $6,500 | ||
7International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.79Q1 | 1.56 0.07 down from 2012 | 96 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
8Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.23Q1 | 22.47 0.28 up from 2012 | 115 | 45% | $6,240 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 12.84Q1 | 5.43 0.21 down from 2012 | 143 | 29% | $2,645 | ||
10IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 12.39Q1 | 13.30 1.94 up from 2012 | 201 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
11Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 11.21Q1 | 15.39 4.16 down from 2012 | 58 | 63% | $3,880 | ||
12Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.59Q1 | 11.31 0.74 up from 2012 | 62 | 4% | $3,690 | ||
13Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 10.47Q1 | 19.99 0.74 down from 2012 | 841 | 31% | $12,690 | ||
14Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 10.46Q1 | 23.17 1.79 up from 2012 | 556 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
15Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.90Q1 | 20.57 5.45 up from 2012 | 168 | 68% | $4,680 | ||
16ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.56Q1 | 6.89 0.80 up from 2012 | 50 | 29% | — | ||
17ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.46Q1 | 6.62 0.11 down from 2012 | 54 | 23% | — | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.36Q1 | 8.07 1.36 up from 2012 | 738 | 34% | $2,645 | ||
19Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.14Q1 | 19.06 1.14 up from 2012 | 755 | 33% | $12,690 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Smart GridInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.72Q1 | 8.59 4.74 down from 2012 | 401 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
21Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 8.61Q1 | 2.24 2.52 down from 2012 | 63 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
22International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.30Q1 | 8.06 1.94 down from 2012 | 47 | 11% | $4,400 | ||
23Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.23Q1 | 2.99 0.57 down from 2012 | 100 | 13% | $5,860 | ||
24IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.20Q1 | 8.40 1.16 up from 2012 | 344 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
25Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.11Q1 | 15.18 1.10 down from 2012 | 50 | 17% | $6,150 | ||
26IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 8.04Q1 | 4.41 0.41 down from 2012 | 281 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
27The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.02Q1 | 7.34 0.79 up from 2012 | 247 | 24% | $4,400 | ||
28IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.00Q1 | 6.69 0.79 down from 2012 | 183 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
29Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.90Q1 | 3.60 0.02 down from 2012 | 104 | 33% | $2,290 | ||
30Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 7.88Q1 | 7.00 2.08 up from 2012 | 119 | 73% | — | ||
31IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.81Q1 | 8.38 0.26 up from 2012 | 258 | 24% | $2,995 | ||
32User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.78Q1 | 6.95 1.83 up from 2012 | 55 | 50% | $3,290 | ||
33Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.77Q1 | 7.34 0.26 up from 2012 | 91 | 31% | — | ||
34Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.76Q1 | 4.40 0.62 up from 2012 | 55 | 6% | — | ||
35Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.60Q1 | 6.39 0.77 up from 2012 | 40 | 7% | $3,390 | ||
36Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 7.59Q1 | 6.91 0.73 down from 2012 | 277 | 100% | — | ||
37Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.53Q1 | 6.99 1.52 up from 2012 | 561 | 9% | — | ||
38Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.30Q1 | 6.22 2.65 down from 2012 | 731 | 37% | $2,645 | ||
39AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.28Q1 | 5.14 0.05 up from 2012 | 1,068 | 16% | $3,760 | ||
40Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.26Q1 | 6.89 3.25 down from 2012 | 93 | 20% | — | ||
41Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.22Q1 | 12.61 1.61 up from 2012 | 919 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
42Archives of Computational Methods in EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 7.22Q1 | 5.50 0.02 down from 2012 | 40 | 27% | $4,690 | ||
43Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.19Q1 | 4.74 1.10 up from 2012 | 73 | 13% | $3,940 | ||
44Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 7.09Q1 | 17.04 3.71 up from 2012 | 1,298 | 17% | — | ||
45The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 7.08Q1 | 14.49 2.22 down from 2012 | 472 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
46The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 7.03Q1 | 4.32 1.27 up from 2012 | 185 | 100% | — | ||
47ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.00Q1 | 5.44 0.42 up from 2012 | 69 | 17% | — | ||
48Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.95Q1 | 3.34 1.76 down from 2012 | 46 | 29% | $3,190 | ||
49LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.81Q1 | 2.92 0.06 up from 2012 | 183 | 15% | $4,590 | ||
50Advanced MaterialsGermany | 6.75Q1 | 13.39 0.45 down from 2012 | 2,967 | 27% | $6,070 |
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,944 additional Physical Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 5,440
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,894,389 +16.1% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.82 -6.2% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 2,978 | 3,130 | 3,308 | 3,456 | 3,568 | 3,676 | 3,772 | 3,984 | 4,244 | 4,490 | 4,657 | 4,878 | 5,152 | 5,440 | 5,715 | 5,957 | 6,138 | 6,264 | 6,379 | 6,515 | 6,592 | 6,653 | 6,729 | 6,756 | 6,753 | 6,689 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 2,394,543 | 2,616,266 | 2,843,810 | 3,093,298 | 3,313,683 | 3,580,201 | 3,872,505 | 4,185,648 | 4,493,645 | 4,800,486 | 5,075,806 | 5,354,164 | 5,648,473 | 5,894,389 | 6,132,497 | 6,314,481 | 6,413,369 | 6,301,559 | 5,933,082 | 5,573,353 | 5,450,875 | 5,628,343 | 5,801,009 | 5,736,495 | 5,650,353 | 5,795,472 | |
| Median OJR | 0.683 | 0.698 | 0.74 | 0.784 | 0.79 | 0.805 | 0.83 | 0.839 | 0.85 | 0.8694 | 0.8692 | 0.86 | 0.840 | 0.82 | 0.812 | 0.783 | 0.76 | 0.72 | 0.695 | 0.681 | 0.679 | 0.676 | 0.666 | 0.6623 | 0.6622 | 0.667 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.4% | 5,226 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 2.726 per 1,000 | 4,677 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +1.1% | 6,002 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 61.9% | 6,689 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 3,753 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.2% | 6,406 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 6,689 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 6,602 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 33.6% | 6,689 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 45.5% | 6,676 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.