Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2016
68 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 68 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2015 to 0.67, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Physics Reports, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, and Computer Physics Communications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
68 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.07Q1 | 19.03 1.13 up from 2015 | 153 | 79% | $6,240 | ||
2Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.57Q1 | 12.39 1.51 up from 2015 | 65 | 73% | $4,780 | ||
3Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 4.37 0.56 up from 2015 | 894 | 54% | $4,160 | ||
4The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.16Q1 | 6.00 0.62 up from 2015 | 1,576 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 5.28 0.10 up from 2015 | 2,534 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 2.00Q1 | 4.84 0.15 up from 2015 | 10,168 | — | — | ||
7Chinese Physics CIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 5.31 1.40 up from 2015 | 719 | 56% | $2,410 | ||
8Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 4.48 1.11 up from 2015 | 297 | 87% | $2,920 | ||
9Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.14 0.07 up from 2015 | 873 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
10Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.71 0.94 down from 2015 | 78 | 65% | — | ||
11Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.48Q1 | 6.15 0.01 down from 2015 | 6,256 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
12Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 1.34Q1 | 1.75 0.64 up from 2015 | 480 | 27% | $3,240 | ||
13The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 3.47 0.92 up from 2015 | 528 | 64% | $3,990 | ||
14Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.19Q1 | 3.74 0.16 down from 2015 | 998 | 83% | $2,595 | ||
15The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.16Q1 | 2.45 0.73 up from 2015 | 842 | 53% | $3,790 | ||
16Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.14Q1 | 3.97 0.39 up from 2015 | 3,351 | 74% | — | ||
17Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 3.05 0.40 up from 2015 | 561 | 87% | $3,325 | ||
18EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.97Q2 | 0.40 0.05 up from 2015 | 4,864 | 100% | — | ||
19Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.92Q2 | 4.55 3.42 down from 2015 | 56 | 65% | — | ||
| 0.90Q2 | 0.33no 2015 value | 315 | — | — | — | ||
21Computational Science & DiscoveryIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.86 0.65 up from 2015 | 45 | — | — | ||
22Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 2.61 0.20 up from 2015 | 682 | 78% | $3,325 | ||
23High Power Laser Science and EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.33 0.08 up from 2015 | 94 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
24Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 0.80Q2 | 1.98 0.17 up from 2015 | 504 | 100% | $979 | ||
25International Journal of Modern Physics Conference SeriesOAWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.79Q2 | 0.33 0.01 up from 2015 | 877 | 97% | — | ||
26Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.78Q2 | 1.62 0.03 up from 2015 | 3,722 | 35% | — | ||
27International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.77Q2 | 1.71 0.29 down from 2015 | 965 | 61% | — | ||
28ScholarpediaOAScholarpedia Corporation · United States | 0.73Q2 | 1.19 0.01 down from 2015 | 158 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.70Q2 | 0.24 0.12 down from 2015 | 431 | — | — | |||
| 0.69Q2 | 1.56 0.01 down from 2015 | 3,153 | 50% | $2,620 | |||
31Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.69Q2 | 2.32 0.01 up from 2015 | 3,796 | 32% | — | ||
32Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 1.57 0.21 down from 2015 | 553 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
33High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.68Q2 | 1.18 0.46 down from 2015 | 200 | 55% | $2,870 | ||
34Proceedings of Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2014 — PoS(TIPP2014)Publisher not listed | 0.67Q2 | 0.25no 2015 value | 217 | — | — | — | |
35Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.66Q3 | 2.01 0.55 up from 2015 | 1,190 | 59% | $2,590 | ||
36Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.56 0.29 down from 2015 | 1,965 | 80% | $3,290 | ||
37Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.39 0.13 down from 2015 | 3,824 | 66% | — | ||
38International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.53Q3 | 1.20 0.03 down from 2015 | 382 | 45% | — | ||
39Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 1.33 0.42 up from 2015 | 422 | 64% | $3,550 | ||
40Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 1.35 0.22 down from 2015 | 288 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
| 0.48Q3 | 0.17no 2015 value | 215 | — | — | — | ||
42Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.47Q3 | 1.47 0.13 down from 2015 | 1,923 | 21% | $2,810 | ||
43Plasma Physics ReportsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.38Q3 | 1.15 0.01 up from 2015 | 306 | 5% | — | ||
44Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.35Q3 | 0.92 0.24 up from 2015 | 625 | 51% | — | ||
45Acta Physica Polonica BOAJagiellonian University · Poland | 0.35Q3 | 0.78 0.06 up from 2015 | 639 | 58% | — | ||
| 0.34Q3 | —no 2015 value | 238 | — | — | |||
47Physics of Particles and NucleiPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.78 0.21 up from 2015 | 289 | 19% | — | ||
48Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.79 0.17 down from 2015 | 438 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
49Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.29Q3 | 1.04 0.34 up from 2015 | 487 | 59% | $2,290 | ||
50Plasma and Fusion ResearchOAJapan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research · Japan | 0.28Q3 | 0.82 0.11 up from 2015 | 418 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics107
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics89
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics68
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics39
- Radiation24
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 66,181 +4.0% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.668 -1.0% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.