Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics journal rankings 2016
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics has 39 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2015 to 0.97, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are SIAM Review, Journal of Complex Networks, and Nonlinear Dynamics.
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)
39 ranked journals
Filters
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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1SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.15Q1 | 4.16 0.91 up from 2015 | 106 | 36% | — | ||
2Journal of Complex NetworksOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 4.14 0.01 up from 2015 | 101 | 57% | $4,533 | ||
3Nonlinear DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 3.91 0.57 up from 2015 | 1,834 | 9% | $4,790 | ||
4Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical SimulationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.01 0.17 up from 2015 | 1,103 | 25% | $3,710 | ||
5Applied Mathematics LettersElsevier BV · United States | 1.93Q1 | 2.44 0.46 up from 2015 | 609 | 99% | $3,800 | ||
6Network ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.82Q1 | 1.71 0.21 down from 2015 | 83 | 72% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.33 0.28 up from 2015 | 119 | 65% | $3,290 | ||
8Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.56 0.10 up from 2015 | 728 | 94% | — | ||
9Journal of Artificial Societies and Social SimulationOAUniversity of Surrey · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.44 0.17 down from 2015 | 239 | 100% | $1,300 | ||
10Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.58 0.17 up from 2015 | 686 | 45% | — | ||
11Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 2.47 0.23 up from 2015 | 2,504 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
12Chaos Solitons & FractalsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.82 0.02 up from 2015 | 650 | 18% | $3,970 | ||
13Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 1.85 0.09 up from 2015 | 48 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
14Regular and Chaotic DynamicsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 1.25Q2 | 2.18 0.57 down from 2015 | 147 | 31% | — | ||
15SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical SystemsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.19Q2 | 2.01 0.18 down from 2015 | 195 | 51% | — | ||
16Physica D Nonlinear PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 1.65 0.33 down from 2015 | 413 | 69% | $3,640 | ||
17Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and ExperimentInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 2.16 0.13 up from 2015 | 899 | 87% | $3,290 | ||
18Studies in Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 1.06Q2 | 2.00 0.97 up from 2015 | 128 | 40% | $4,550 | ||
19Wave MotionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 1.68 0.07 up from 2015 | 287 | 33% | $3,640 | ||
20International Journal of Bifurcation and ChaosWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.97Q2 | 1.57 0.26 down from 2015 | 735 | 20% | — | ||
21Internet MathematicsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q3 | 1.55 0.02 down from 2015 | 67 | 91% | — | ||
22Reports on Mathematical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.73Q3 | 0.82 0.20 down from 2015 | 149 | 50% | $3,000 | ||
23Results in PhysicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.72Q3 | 1.24 0.59 down from 2015 | 173 | 100% | $1,920 | ||
24Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.23 0.55 up from 2015 | 115 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
25European Journal of Applied MathematicsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 0.72 0.32 down from 2015 | 153 | 62% | $3,550 | ||
26International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and ApplicationOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.68Q3 | 0.56 0.67 down from 2015 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
27International Journal of Modern Physics CWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.66Q3 | 1.11 0.01 up from 2015 | 455 | 23% | — | ||
28Journal of Non-Equilibrium ThermodynamicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.61Q3 | 1.87 0.12 up from 2015 | 65 | 31% | $2,712 | ||
29Advances in Mathematical PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.85 0.34 down from 2015 | 292 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
30Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsPleiades Publishing · Germany | 0.58Q3 | 1.06 0.05 up from 2015 | 374 | 39% | — | ||
31American Journal of PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.58Q4 | 1.00 0.09 down from 2015 | 509 | 47% | — | ||
32Advances in Complex SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.55Q4 | 0.72 0.03 down from 2015 | 235 | 14% | — | ||
33Journal of Nonlinear DynamicsHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.51Q4 | 0.63no change | 32 | 100% | — | ||
34European Journal of PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.34Q4 | 0.66no change | 544 | 58% | $3,325 | ||
35Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & MaterialsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.32Q4 | 1.09 0.34 up from 2015 | 153 | 9% | — | ||
36Journal of Applied Mathematics and PhysicsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.38 0.05 up from 2015 | 438 | 100% | — | ||
37Physics EducationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.49 0.13 up from 2015 | 401 | 48% | $3,325 | ||
38The Physics TeacherAmerican Association of Physics Teachers · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.28 0.02 down from 2015 | 921 | 5% | — | ||
39FormaOAJapan | 0.16Q4 | 0.24 0.02 down from 2015 | 46 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Statistical and Nonlinear 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.
14 additional Statistical and Nonlinear 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
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,051 +11.3% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.97 +0.9% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 28 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 43 | 43 | 45 | 43 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 17,200 | 17,922 | 18,793 | 20,160 | 21,241 | 22,294 | 24,061 | 25,936 | 27,661 | 28,618 | 29,355 | 30,335 | 31,430 | 32,383 | 33,840 | 35,268 | 36,051 | 35,941 | 35,726 | 36,681 | 38,080 | 39,593 | 41,294 | 42,139 | 42,544 | 43,309 | |
| Median OJR | 0.721 | 0.70 | 0.95 | 0.9637 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 0.976 | 0.980 | 1.10 | 1.09 | 1.27 | 1.14 | 0.89 | 0.9640 | 0.94 | 1.08 | 0.97 | 1.002 | 0.93 | 0.82 | 0.88 | 0.71 | 0.717 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.67 |
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.