Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2018
71 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 71 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Physics Reports, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, and Computer Physics Communications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
71 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.48Q1 | 30.98 9.25 up from 2017 | 156 | 43% | $6,240 | ||
2Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.01Q1 | 11.25 0.38 down from 2017 | 72 | 74% | $4,780 | ||
3Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 4.05 0.03 up from 2017 | 877 | 66% | $4,160 | ||
4The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 4.92 0.57 down from 2017 | 2,275 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5Chinese Physics CIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 5.55 2.15 up from 2017 | 709 | 82% | $2,410 | ||
6Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fieldsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.85Q1 | —no 2017 value | 3,398 | — | — | ||
7Matter and Radiation at ExtremesOAAmerican Institute of Physics · China | 1.76Q1 | 3.87 1.22 up from 2017 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
8Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 4.26 0.24 down from 2017 | 2,762 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
9Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 3.42 0.03 up from 2017 | 977 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
10Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.42Q1 | 5.56 0.34 up from 2017 | 6,412 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 3.32 0.37 down from 2017 | 540 | 87% | $3,325 | ||
12Physical review. D/Physical review. D.American Physical Society · United States | 1.36Q1 | 4.52no change | 6,935 | 98% | — | ||
13High Power Laser Science and EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 3.14 0.32 down from 2017 | 108 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
14The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 2.75 0.34 down from 2017 | 792 | 58% | $3,990 | ||
15Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 1.22Q1 | 2.44 0.47 up from 2017 | 151 | 54% | $3,240 | ||
16Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 2.82 0.42 down from 2017 | 259 | 68% | $2,920 | ||
17Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.12Q1 | 3.12 0.47 down from 2017 | 1,262 | 78% | $2,595 | ||
18The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.05Q1 | 1.81 0.54 down from 2017 | 755 | 54% | $3,790 | ||
19Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.55 0.39 down from 2017 | 791 | 80% | $3,325 | ||
20Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.52 0.13 up from 2017 | 97 | 68% | — | ||
21Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.97Q2 | 3.17 0.30 down from 2017 | 3,278 | 74% | — | ||
22Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.92Q2 | 8.57 0.05 up from 2017 | 52 | 83% | — | ||
23EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.86Q2 | 0.40 0.02 down from 2017 | 6,564 | 100% | — | ||
24Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.82Q2 | 1.63 0.52 down from 2017 | 852 | 44% | $2,590 | ||
25Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.37 0.63 up from 2017 | 367 | 77% | $3,550 | ||
26Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 0.78Q2 | 1.77 0.27 down from 2017 | 594 | 100% | $979 | ||
27Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.78 0.18 up from 2017 | 3,487 | 37% | — | ||
28Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.79 0.28 up from 2017 | 2,396 | 79% | $3,290 | ||
| 0.69Q2 | —no 2017 value | 215 | — | — | |||
| 0.68Q2 | 1.66 0.03 down from 2017 | 3,063 | 52% | $2,620 | |||
31Proceedings of Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2014 — PoS(TIPP2014)Publisher not listed | 0.66Q2 | —no 2017 value | 217 | — | — | ||
32International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.66Q2 | 1.40 0.38 down from 2017 | 407 | 37% | — | ||
33Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.65Q2 | 1.58 0.12 down from 2017 | 481 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
34ScholarpediaOAScholarpedia Corporation · United States | 0.63Q2 | 1.27 0.14 down from 2017 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
35High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.62Q2 | 1.38 0.54 down from 2017 | 147 | 38% | $2,870 | ||
36Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.62Q2 | 2.01 0.07 down from 2017 | 4,161 | 37% | — | ||
37Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC2016)Publisher not listed | 0.61Q3 | 0.19no 2017 value | 191 | — | — | — | |
| 0.60Q3 | 0.22 0.04 down from 2017 | 282 | — | — | |||
39International Journal of Modern Physics Conference SeriesOAWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.59Q3 | 0.25 0.05 down from 2017 | 441 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.56Q3 | —no 2017 value | 315 | — | — | |||
41International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.52Q3 | 1.16 0.12 down from 2017 | 1,099 | 69% | — | ||
42Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 1.12 0.04 down from 2017 | 284 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
43Nuclear Science and TechniquesSpringer Nature · China | 0.48Q3 | 1.03 0.03 down from 2017 | 363 | 7% | $3,390 | ||
44Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.48Q3 | 0.41 0.09 down from 2017 | 4,021 | 27% | — | ||
45Plasma Physics ReportsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.47Q3 | 1.13 0.01 up from 2017 | 357 | 3% | — | ||
46Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.44Q3 | 1.56 0.03 down from 2017 | 2,175 | 26% | $2,810 | ||
47Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 1.01 0.22 down from 2017 | 614 | 43% | — | ||
48Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.63 0.06 down from 2017 | 72 | 26% | — | ||
| 0.34Q3 | 0.12 0.06 down from 2017 | 205 | — | — | |||
50Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.32Q3 | 0.85 0.44 down from 2017 | 365 | 48% | $2,290 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics108
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics92
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics71
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics43
- Radiation25
- Condensed Matter Physics9
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 71
- Window papers (baseline)
- 67,814 +2.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.62 -14.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 | 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.