Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2015
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 67 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are Physics Reports, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, and Physics Letters B.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
67 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.19Q1 | 17.90 3.09 down from 2014 | 156 | 64% | $6,240 | ||
2Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 10.89 6.37 up from 2014 | 128 | 62% | $4,780 | ||
3Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 5.18 1.33 down from 2014 | 2,537 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 3.81 0.38 up from 2014 | 884 | 54% | $4,160 | ||
5The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 5.38 0.14 up from 2014 | 1,383 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6Chinese Physics CIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.90 2.53 up from 2014 | 689 | 79% | $2,410 | ||
7Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 4.07 0.50 down from 2014 | 833 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.65 0.27 up from 2014 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
9Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 3.37 0.15 down from 2014 | 347 | 80% | $2,920 | ||
10Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.58Q1 | 6.16 0.15 down from 2014 | 5,935 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.44Q1 | 4.68 0.04 down from 2014 | 10,158 | 96% | — | ||
12Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.42Q1 | 7.97 4.15 down from 2014 | 49 | 74% | — | ||
13Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 2.65 0.34 down from 2014 | 558 | 79% | $3,325 | ||
14The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 2.55 0.83 down from 2014 | 531 | 52% | $3,990 | ||
15Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q1 | 1.11 0.76 down from 2014 | 447 | 34% | $3,240 | ||
16Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.15Q1 | 3.59 0.18 down from 2014 | 3,404 | 68% | — | ||
17The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.11Q1 | 1.71 0.33 down from 2014 | 753 | 34% | $3,790 | ||
18Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.09Q2 | 3.90 0.39 up from 2014 | 866 | 78% | $2,595 | ||
19High Power Laser Science and EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.25 0.48 up from 2014 | 63 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
20Computational Science & DiscoveryIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 1.21 0.81 down from 2014 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
21Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 2.41 0.42 down from 2014 | 735 | 79% | $3,325 | ||
| 1.05Q2 | 0.36no 2014 value | 431 | — | — | — | ||
23Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 1.01Q2 | 1.81 0.15 down from 2014 | 371 | 100% | $979 | ||
24Progress of Theoretical PhysicsOxford University Press · Japan | 0.95Q2 | —no 2014 value | 131 | 0% | — | ||
25Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.78 0.41 down from 2014 | 437 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
26Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.59 0.16 down from 2014 | 3,970 | 30% | — | ||
27EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.86Q2 | 0.35 0.04 up from 2014 | 4,450 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.86Q2 | —no 2014 value | 238 | — | — | |||
29International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.85Q2 | 2.00 0.15 up from 2014 | 846 | 60% | — | ||
30International Journal of Modern Physics Conference SeriesOAWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.76Q2 | 0.31 0.11 up from 2014 | 1,509 | 85% | — | ||
31Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.76Q2 | 0.53 0.27 down from 2014 | 3,301 | 37% | — | ||
| 0.74Q2 | 1.57 0.13 up from 2014 | 3,208 | 45% | $2,620 | |||
33ScholarpediaOAScholarpedia Corporation · United States | 0.73Q2 | 1.20 0.11 up from 2014 | 143 | 100% | — | ||
34Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.73Q2 | 1.46 0.62 down from 2014 | 1,180 | 52% | $2,590 | ||
35High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.72Q3 | 1.64 0.18 up from 2014 | 206 | 40% | $2,870 | ||
36Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.71Q3 | 2.30 0.07 down from 2014 | 3,589 | 30% | — | ||
37Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.84 0.09 up from 2014 | 1,934 | 81% | $3,290 | ||
38Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.57 0.30 up from 2014 | 275 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
39International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.50Q3 | 1.23 0.36 down from 2014 | 374 | 43% | — | ||
40Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.49Q3 | 1.60 0.24 up from 2014 | 1,557 | 26% | $2,810 | ||
41Springer USPublisher not listed | 0.47Q3 | 0.13 1.09 down from 2014 | 125 | 0% | — | ||
42Plasma Physics ReportsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.47Q3 | 1.14 0.30 up from 2014 | 334 | 4% | — | ||
43Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 0.90 0.14 up from 2014 | 389 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
44Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.96 0.14 down from 2014 | 324 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
45Acta Physica Polonica BOAJagiellonian University · Poland | 0.35Q3 | 0.72 0.15 up from 2014 | 574 | 60% | — | ||
46Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.31Q3 | 0.46 0.03 down from 2014 | 82 | 20% | — | ||
| 0.31Q3 | 0.10 0.09 down from 2014 | 238 | — | — | |||
48Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.29Q3 | 0.70 0.06 down from 2014 | 609 | 55% | $2,290 | ||
49Physics of Particles and NucleiPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.27Q3 | 0.57 0.17 down from 2014 | 290 | 30% | — | ||
50Plasma and Fusion ResearchOAJapan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research · Japan | 0.27Q3 | 0.71 0.14 up from 2014 | 479 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics102
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics87
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics67
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics37
- Radiation24
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 additional Nuclear and High Energy Physics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 66,208 +8.4% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.73 +45.8% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 53 | 54 | 53 | 55 | 55 | 54 | 54 | 58 | 62 | 61 | 62 | 68 | 68 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 68 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 64 | 65 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 39,221 | 40,935 | 42,909 | 43,795 | 45,983 | 46,695 | 50,220 | 52,179 | 54,354 | 55,711 | 56,975 | 59,147 | 61,090 | 63,612 | 65,297 | 66,208 | 66,181 | 67,942 | 67,814 | 66,805 | 63,894 | 62,108 | 61,567 | 63,106 | 62,910 | 62,149 | |
| Median OJR | 0.542 | 0.458 | 0.503 | 0.47 | 0.456 | 0.52 | 0.549 | 0.543 | 0.455 | 0.547 | 0.505 | 0.53 | 0.497 | 0.675 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.668 | 0.65 | 0.62 | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.538 | 0.56 | 0.63 | 0.60 | 0.61 |
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.