Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics journal rankings 2018
43 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics has 43 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2017 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.25. The top three are SIAM Review, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Applied Mathematics Letters.
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)
43 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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1SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.90Q1 | 5.43 1.83 up from 2017 | 117 | 61% | — | ||
2Nonlinear DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.39Q1 | 4.84 0.32 up from 2017 | 2,136 | 13% | $4,790 | ||
3Applied Mathematics LettersElsevier BV · United States | 2.18Q1 | 3.59 0.89 up from 2017 | 716 | 97% | $3,800 | ||
4Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical SimulationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.74 0.53 up from 2017 | 1,028 | 30% | $3,710 | ||
5Chaos Solitons & FractalsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 3.47 0.78 up from 2017 | 1,080 | 18% | $3,970 | ||
6Studies in Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 1.57Q1 | 2.78 1.06 up from 2017 | 114 | 43% | $4,550 | ||
7Journal of Artificial Societies and Social SimulationOAUniversity of Surrey · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.54 0.56 up from 2017 | 207 | 100% | $1,300 | ||
8Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 3.29 0.49 up from 2017 | 854 | 88% | — | ||
9Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.42Q1 | 3.02 0.26 up from 2017 | 971 | 48% | — | ||
10Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.32Q1 | 2.08 0.18 down from 2017 | 198 | 63% | $3,290 | ||
11Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 2.79 0.41 up from 2017 | 3,255 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
12Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 2.68 0.75 up from 2017 | 69 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
13Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 2.45 1.17 up from 2017 | 108 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
14International Journal of Bifurcation and ChaosWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.16Q2 | 2.42 0.57 up from 2017 | 828 | 21% | — | ||
15Journal of Ocean Engineering and ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.14Q2 | 2.03 0.41 up from 2017 | 68 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Results in PhysicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 3.40 0.36 up from 2017 | 962 | 100% | $1,920 | ||
17SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical SystemsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.19 0.30 up from 2017 | 217 | 49% | — | ||
18Physical review. EAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.02Q2 | 2.59 0.22 up from 2017 | 4,642 | 72% | — | ||
19Network ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.01 0.32 down from 2017 | 101 | 75% | $3,550 | ||
20Physica D Nonlinear PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 2.10 0.23 up from 2017 | 403 | 48% | $3,640 | ||
21Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and ExperimentInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 2.31 0.02 down from 2017 | 1,004 | 87% | $3,290 | ||
22Computational Social NetworksSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.93Q2 | 1.52 0.13 down from 2017 | 41 | 100% | $1,190 | ||
23Applied Network ScienceOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.91Q3 | 1.74 0.24 up from 2017 | 50 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
24Journal of Complex NetworksOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 1.74 0.31 up from 2017 | 128 | 58% | $4,533 | ||
25Wave MotionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.80Q3 | 1.70 0.15 up from 2017 | 309 | 28% | $3,640 | ||
26Journal of Non-Equilibrium ThermodynamicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.73Q3 | 2.02 0.23 up from 2017 | 77 | 16% | $2,712 | ||
27European Journal of Applied MathematicsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 1.15no change | 150 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
28Regular and Chaotic DynamicsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.65Q3 | 1.23 0.49 down from 2017 | 168 | 41% | — | ||
29Reports on Mathematical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.63Q3 | 1.15 0.43 up from 2017 | 137 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
30Internet MathematicsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.27no change | 47 | 83% | — | ||
31International Journal of Modern Physics CWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.52Q3 | 1.07 0.04 up from 2017 | 349 | 17% | — | ||
32American Journal of PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.05 0.02 up from 2017 | 463 | 44% | — | ||
33Advances in Mathematical PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.83 0.11 up from 2017 | 364 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
34Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsPleiades Publishing · Germany | 0.45Q4 | 0.97 0.02 down from 2017 | 408 | 18% | — | ||
35Advances in Complex SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.43Q4 | 0.73 0.06 up from 2017 | 250 | 21% | — | ||
36Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & MaterialsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.37Q4 | 1.95 0.43 up from 2017 | 163 | 4% | — | ||
37European Journal of PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.90 0.19 up from 2017 | 704 | 65% | $3,325 | ||
38International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and ApplicationOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.41 0.03 down from 2017 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
39Physics EducationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.56 0.04 up from 2017 | 505 | 46% | $3,325 | ||
40WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics archivePublisher not listed | 0.19Q4 | 0.21 0.21 up from 2017 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of Applied Mathematics and PhysicsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.35 0.02 up from 2017 | 618 | 100% | — | ||
42The Physics TeacherAmerican Association of Physics Teachers · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.34 0.02 up from 2017 | 803 | 8% | — | ||
43FormaOAJapan | 0.02Q4 | 0.03 0.07 down from 2017 | 56 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Statistical and Nonlinear 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.
12 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 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
- 43
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,726 +1.3% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.93 -13.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 | 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.