Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journal rankings 2014
85 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics has 85 ranked journals in 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 1.31. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics, and Light Science & Applications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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.
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy (8)
85 ranked journals
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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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 23.10Q1 | 34.63 12.27 down from 2013 | 134 | 79% | — | ||
2Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.12Q1 | 25.72 5.15 up from 2013 | 182 | 77% | $4,680 | ||
3Light Science & ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 8.10Q1 | 16.64 5.02 up from 2013 | 58 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
4Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.22Q1 | 14.59 1.98 up from 2013 | 998 | 27% | $12,690 | ||
5Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular ScienceWiley · United States | 6.41Q1 | 9.01 1.19 down from 2013 | 186 | 22% | $5,230 | ||
6Nature PhysicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.66Q1 | 9.18 1.48 down from 2013 | 924 | 39% | $12,690 | ||
7Physical Review LettersAmerican Physical Society · United States | 3.82Q1 | 7.94 0.13 down from 2013 | 11,189 | 79% | $3,750 | ||
8Physical Review XOAAmerican Physical Society · United States | 3.50Q1 | 6.89 0.74 down from 2013 | 210 | 100% | $4,200 | ||
9International Reviews in Physical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 8.31 3.17 up from 2013 | 41 | 21% | — | ||
10Progress in Surface ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 6.29 0.20 up from 2013 | 34 | 25% | $4,130 | ||
11Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.39Q1 | 6.19 0.67 up from 2013 | 1,494 | 37% | $4,500 | ||
12Photonics ResearchOptica Publishing Group · United States | 2.20Q1 | 4.10no 2013 value | 31 | 7% | — | — | |
13Physics-UspekhiInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 5.08 1.84 up from 2013 | 443 | 18% | — | ||
14Annual Reports Section C (Physical Chemistry)Royal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 4.16 0.59 down from 2013 | 31 | — | — | ||
15New Journal of PhysicsOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 3.88 0.12 down from 2013 | 2,552 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
16BiointerphasesAmerican Institute of Physics · Germany | 1.77Q1 | 4.53 0.69 up from 2013 | 130 | 25% | — | ||
17Journal of Computational ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.23 0.11 down from 2013 | 852 | 30% | $4,520 | ||
18Color and Imaging ConferenceUnited States | 1.57Q1 | 0.53 0.07 up from 2013 | 165 | 96% | — | ||
19Conference on Colour in Graphics Imaging and VisionSociety for Imaging Science and Technology | 1.56Q1 | 0.55 0.24 up from 2013 | 58 | — | — | ||
20Physical Review BAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.39Q1 | 4.04 0.14 up from 2013 | 16,788 | 73% | $2,675 | ||
21Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional ImagingPublisher not listed | 1.31Q1 | 0.36no change | 227 | — | — | ||
22Annals of PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.31Q1 | 2.36 0.01 down from 2013 | 474 | 71% | $3,160 | ||
23Europhysics Letters (EPL)Institute of Physics · France | 1.28Q2 | 2.44 0.11 down from 2013 | 2,746 | 74% | $1,895 | ||
24The Journal of Physical Chemistry AAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.28Q2 | 2.97 0.02 up from 2013 | 4,470 | 16% | — | ||
25Physical Review AAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.25Q2 | 3.02 0.18 down from 2013 | 8,447 | 73% | $2,675 | ||
26Laser Physics LettersIOP Publishing · Germany | 1.22Q2 | 2.79 0.34 down from 2013 | 665 | 46% | $3,325 | ||
27SPINWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.18Q2 | 2.40 0.40 up from 2013 | 72 | 15% | — | ||
28Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative TransferElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 3.04 0.56 up from 2013 | 848 | 16% | $2,870 | ||
29Comptes Rendus PhysiqueOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 1.16Q2 | 2.27 0.48 up from 2013 | 251 | 35% | — | ||
30The Journal of Chemical PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.15Q2 | 3.12 0.12 down from 2013 | 8,116 | 39% | $3,500 | ||
31Journal of OpticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.64 0.24 up from 2013 | 854 | 51% | $3,325 | ||
32Journal of Physics A Mathematical and TheoreticalInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.71 0.08 up from 2013 | 2,405 | 88% | $3,325 | ||
33Journal of the Optical Society of America BOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.19 0.02 up from 2013 | 1,361 | 22% | — | ||
34Annalen der PhysikWiley · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 2.09 0.36 up from 2013 | 385 | 63% | $3,840 | ||
35Physics Letters AElsevier BV | 1.00Q2 | 1.79 0.05 up from 2013 | 2,086 | 28% | $2,150 | ||
36Atomic Data and Nuclear Data TablesElsevier BV · United States | 0.99Q2 | 2.46 0.44 up from 2013 | 81 | 33% | $3,030 | ||
37Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 2.04 0.05 up from 2013 | 1,325 | 63% | $3,325 | ||
38Applied Physics BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.94Q2 | 1.88 0.08 down from 2013 | 1,353 | 23% | $4,090 | ||
39Annual Review of Physical ChemistryAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.93Q2 | 17.21 0.97 up from 2013 | 101 | 54% | — | ||
40Frontiers of PhysicsHigher Education Press · China | 0.89Q2 | 1.93 0.38 up from 2013 | 221 | 26% | $3,890 | ||
41Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid PublicationsOASpringer Nature | 0.87Q2 | 1.71 0.38 up from 2013 | 199 | 100% | $1,921 | ||
42The European Physical Journal BSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.86Q2 | 1.66 0.01 up from 2013 | 1,281 | 53% | $3,490 | ||
43The European Physical Journal PlusSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.82Q2 | 1.62 0.15 down from 2013 | 447 | 24% | $3,890 | ||
44Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 1.36 0.10 up from 2013 | 125 | 40% | $2,700 | ||
45Journal of the Optical Society of America AOptica Publishing Group · United States | 0.81Q3 | 1.86 0.22 up from 2013 | 1,001 | 21% | — | ||
46Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.78Q3 | 1.76 0.28 up from 2013 | 317 | 22% | $3,170 | ||
47Annual Review of Condensed Matter PhysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.76Q3 | 12.71 0.65 up from 2013 | 53 | 57% | — | ||
48Advances in Physical ChemistryHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.76Q3 | 1.64 0.10 up from 2013 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
49Molecular PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 1.64 0.04 up from 2013 | 1,089 | 14% | — | ||
50Foundations of PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.72Q3 | 1.16 0.14 up from 2013 | 229 | 56% | $2,390 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics102
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics85
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics67
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics36
- Radiation24
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 additional Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 85
- Window papers (baseline)
- 116,212 +3.5% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.82 -14.1% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 57 | 64 | 62 | 65 | 65 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 71 | 78 | 81 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 92 | 97 | 105 | 103 | 103 | 108 | 107 | 105 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 84,695 | 86,753 | 86,412 | 89,035 | 91,151 | 95,706 | 100,546 | 106,715 | 110,735 | 112,436 | 112,382 | 112,245 | 113,539 | 114,815 | 116,212 | 117,514 | 117,344 | 117,182 | 115,527 | 113,962 | 112,377 | 111,323 | 110,326 | 106,860 | 103,126 | 100,852 | |
| Median OJR | 0.710 | 0.60 | 0.59 | 0.642 | 0.640 | 0.77 | 0.807 | 0.783 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.95 | 0.83 | 0.778 | 0.82 | 0.813 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.706 | 0.67 | 0.662 | 0.68 | 0.657 | 0.70 |
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.