Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Domain ranking · 2014
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2014
5,715 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 5,715 ranked journals in 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
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.
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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% | — | ||
2ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 20.89Q1 | 4.34 24.74 down from 2013 | 207 | 2% | — | ||
3IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 16.71Q1 | 19.61 6.31 up from 2013 | 212 | 37% | $2,645 | ||
4ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 16.64Q1 | 13.39 3.64 down from 2013 | 139 | 22% | — | ||
5Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.55Q1 | 28.73 4.16 up from 2013 | 76 | 32% | $6,040 | ||
6Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.36Q1 | 22.65 1.21 up from 2013 | 63 | 15% | $6,990 | ||
7Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.05Q1 | 24.75 3.89 down from 2013 | 178 | 14% | $6,500 | ||
8Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.61Q1 | 20.99 1.48 down from 2013 | 133 | 55% | $6,240 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 11.24Q1 | 3.93 1.49 down from 2013 | 130 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
10Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.12Q1 | 25.72 5.15 up from 2013 | 182 | 77% | $4,680 | ||
11Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 10.54Q1 | 23.48 0.30 up from 2013 | 674 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
12Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.53Q1 | 5.71 5.59 down from 2013 | 103 | 2% | $3,690 | ||
13Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 10.15Q1 | 19.20 0.79 down from 2013 | 855 | 32% | $12,690 | ||
14Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.53Q1 | 18.70 0.36 down from 2013 | 769 | 37% | $12,690 | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.49Q1 | 9.01 0.94 up from 2013 | 730 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
16Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 9.40Q1 | 8.95 0.61 down from 2013 | 46 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
17Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 9.38Q1 | 17.62 2.23 up from 2013 | 60 | 43% | $3,880 | ||
18Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.20Q1 | 18.00 2.82 up from 2013 | 30 | 8% | $6,150 | ||
19Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 9.15Q1 | 6.46 0.54 down from 2013 | 110 | 37% | — | ||
20User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.88Q1 | 8.28 1.32 up from 2013 | 47 | 44% | $3,290 | ||
21ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.65Q1 | 4.83 1.79 down from 2013 | 67 | 41% | — | ||
22Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.64Q1 | 3.67 0.07 up from 2013 | 128 | 31% | $2,290 | ||
23IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.42Q1 | 8.11 0.29 down from 2013 | 364 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
24Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.40Q1 | 6.55 0.34 down from 2013 | 111 | 14% | — | ||
25Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 8.30Q1 | 21.44 4.40 up from 2013 | 1,440 | 23% | — | ||
26Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.10Q1 | 4.44 2.91 down from 2013 | 108 | 34% | — | ||
27Light Science & ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 8.10Q1 | 16.64 5.02 up from 2013 | 58 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
28Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.05Q1 | 8.51 1.36 up from 2013 | 94 | 36% | $1,700 | ||
29IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 8.02Q1 | 4.89 0.48 up from 2013 | 249 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
30International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.77Q1 | 1.32 0.24 down from 2013 | 93 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
31IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.70Q1 | 8.76 1.84 up from 2013 | 209 | — | — | ||
32IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.69Q1 | 7.25 1.12 down from 2013 | 288 | 20% | $2,995 | ||
33AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.58Q1 | 6.59 1.44 up from 2013 | 1,220 | 23% | $3,760 | ||
34Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 7.44Q1 | 4.93 2.28 up from 2013 | 44 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
35ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.37Q1 | 4.83 2.06 down from 2013 | 72 | 30% | — | ||
36The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.32Q1 | 7.24 0.10 down from 2013 | 289 | 22% | $4,400 | ||
37Mathematical Programming ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.29Q1 | 5.77 0.63 down from 2013 | 42 | 8% | $3,390 | ||
38Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.26Q1 | 7.09 1.32 up from 2013 | 166 | 100% | $4,260 | ||
39Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.22Q1 | 14.59 1.98 up from 2013 | 998 | 27% | $12,690 | ||
40ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.22Q1 | 3.88 1.56 down from 2013 | 58 | 38% | — | ||
41International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 9.54 1.48 up from 2013 | 53 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
42IEEE Transactions on Smart GridInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.05Q1 | 9.24 0.64 up from 2013 | 633 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
43The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 7.02Q1 | 12.30 2.19 down from 2013 | 523 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
44Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.00Q1 | 5.56 0.44 up from 2013 | 511 | 14% | $3,000 | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.94Q1 | 8.61 0.70 up from 2013 | 481 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
46IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.84Q1 | 4.98 0.34 up from 2013 | 1,151 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
47IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.79Q1 | 7.96 1.22 up from 2013 | 778 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
48Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.73Q1 | 4.28 0.42 up from 2013 | 137 | 44% | $2,750 | ||
49The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 6.71Q1 | 3.50 0.82 down from 2013 | 228 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 6.70Q1 | 5.75 1.16 down from 2013 | 261 | 100% | — |
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.
1,923 additional Physical Sciences 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
- 5,715
- Window papers (baseline)
- 6,132,497 +14.5% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.812 -6.1% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
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 |
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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.