Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Domain ranking · 2019
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2019
6,515 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 6,515 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, Physics Reports, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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.
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 20.55Q1 | 50.00 7.85 up from 2018 | 127 | 88% | — | ||
2Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.25Q1 | 29.69 1.29 down from 2018 | 155 | 44% | $6,240 | ||
3IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.39Q1 | 26.13 0.10 up from 2018 | 388 | 43% | $2,645 | ||
4Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.69Q1 | 23.36 4.92 up from 2018 | 847 | 28% | — | ||
5Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 11.42Q1 | 23.26 4.47 up from 2018 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
6Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.17Q1 | 29.40 8.33 up from 2018 | 105 | 38% | $6,990 | ||
7Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.83Q1 | 23.46 5.74 up from 2018 | 81 | 71% | $3,880 | ||
8Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 10.28Q1 | 19.52 3.36 up from 2018 | 281 | 100% | — | ||
9Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.27Q1 | 31.84 5.84 up from 2018 | 173 | 44% | $6,040 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 10.24Q1 | 15.68 1.72 down from 2018 | 852 | 46% | $2,645 | ||
11Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.50Q1 | 25.55 1.59 down from 2018 | 658 | 36% | $12,690 | ||
12Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.41Q1 | 30.47 3.64 up from 2018 | 45 | 30% | $6,150 | ||
13Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 8.71Q1 | 21.40 3.93 down from 2018 | 765 | 50% | $12,690 | ||
14Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 8.40Q1 | 27.97 0.38 up from 2018 | 985 | 33% | — | ||
15ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.34Q1 | 15.76 3.71 up from 2018 | 310 | 36% | — | ||
16Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.30Q1 | 21.60 6.78 up from 2018 | 216 | 39% | $6,500 | ||
17Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 8.02Q1 | 17.30 1.25 up from 2018 | 137 | 43% | — | ||
18Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.99Q1 | 8.96 4.01 up from 2018 | 142 | 29% | $5,860 | ||
19Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.22Q1 | 18.62 1.70 up from 2018 | 268 | 87% | $4,680 | ||
20Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.15Q1 | 14.17 0.21 up from 2018 | 297 | 28% | $4,740 | ||
21Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.13Q1 | 13.38 2.71 up from 2018 | 56 | 19% | $4,190 | ||
22International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.09Q1 | 13.35 6.32 down from 2018 | 67 | 47% | $4,400 | ||
23Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.04Q1 | 15.77 5.60 up from 2018 | 82 | 30% | $3,810 | ||
24Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 13.71 0.65 up from 2018 | 822 | 37% | $12,690 | ||
25IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.92Q1 | 9.91 1.57 up from 2018 | 251 | 52% | $2,645 | ||
26Advanced MaterialsGermany | 6.80Q1 | 24.09 1.31 up from 2018 | 4,876 | 40% | $6,070 | ||
27Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 6.75Q1 | 21.67 0.47 up from 2018 | 958 | 34% | $4,500 | ||
28Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.68Q1 | 19.36 0.13 up from 2018 | 858 | 49% | $12,690 | ||
29Advances in Optics and PhotonicsOptica Publishing Group · United States | 6.65Q1 | 17.58 1.03 up from 2018 | 44 | 24% | — | ||
30Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.57Q1 | 14.60 3.35 up from 2018 | 84 | 76% | $4,780 | ||
31Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.39Q1 | 16.19 0.38 up from 2018 | 735 | 42% | $12,690 | ||
32Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.37Q1 | 11.08 0.75 down from 2018 | 53 | 33% | $5,310 | ||
33Nature SustainabilityNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.06Q1 | 9.36no 2018 value | 198 | 41% | $12,690 | — | |
34LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.97Q1 | 5.38 1.03 up from 2018 | 422 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
35JouleElsevier BV · United States | 5.90Q1 | 21.93 5.04 up from 2018 | 378 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
36Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.78Q1 | 9.13 2.17 up from 2018 | 149 | 57% | $5,240 | ||
37Advanced Energy MaterialsWiley · Germany | 5.70Q1 | 22.69 2.99 up from 2018 | 2,146 | 35% | $5,790 | ||
38Journal of the American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 5.69Q1 | 4.05 0.39 down from 2018 | 60 | 77% | — | ||
39Nature ChemistryNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.68Q1 | 17.39 0.32 up from 2018 | 675 | 46% | $12,690 | ||
40Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 5.64Q1 | 12.43 0.79 down from 2018 | 230 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
41Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.56Q1 | 3.20 0.37 down from 2018 | 57 | 10% | — | ||
42IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.50Q1 | 10.02 1.08 up from 2018 | 1,520 | 62% | $2,995 | ||
43Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.46Q1 | 10.50 1.25 up from 2018 | 573 | 43% | $5,120 | ||
44Nature CatalysisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.44Q1 | 20.62 1.72 up from 2018 | 198 | 35% | $12,690 | ||
45Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 11.26 0.96 down from 2018 | 660 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
46Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.38Q1 | 5.54 0.29 down from 2018 | 230 | 48% | $2,290 | ||
47Applied Physics ReviewsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 5.31Q1 | 19.30 5.01 up from 2018 | 131 | 51% | — | ||
48Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.29Q1 | 8.46 0.35 up from 2018 | 174 | 47% | $5,450 | ||
49IEEE Internet of Things JournalInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.29Q1 | 12.22 0.78 down from 2018 | 1,192 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
50International Journal of Intelligent SystemsWiley · United States | 5.26Q1 | 11.90 3.26 up from 2018 | 239 | 75% | $2,700 |
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,948 additional Physical Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 6,515
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,573,353 -13.1% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.681 -10.2% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 | 2,978 | 3,130 | 3,308 | 3,456 | 3,568 | 3,676 | 3,772 | 3,984 | 4,244 | 4,490 | 4,657 | 4,878 | 5,152 | 5,440 | 5,715 | 5,957 | 6,138 | 6,264 | 6,379 | 6,515 | 6,592 | 6,653 | 6,729 | 6,756 | 6,753 | 6,689 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 2,394,543 | 2,616,266 | 2,843,810 | 3,093,298 | 3,313,683 | 3,580,201 | 3,872,505 | 4,185,648 | 4,493,645 | 4,800,486 | 5,075,806 | 5,354,164 | 5,648,473 | 5,894,389 | 6,132,497 | 6,314,481 | 6,413,369 | 6,301,559 | 5,933,082 | 5,573,353 | 5,450,875 | 5,628,343 | 5,801,009 | 5,736,495 | 5,650,353 | 5,795,472 | |
| Median OJR | 0.683 | 0.698 | 0.74 | 0.784 | 0.79 | 0.805 | 0.83 | 0.839 | 0.85 | 0.8694 | 0.8692 | 0.86 | 0.840 | 0.82 | 0.812 | 0.783 | 0.76 | 0.72 | 0.695 | 0.681 | 0.679 | 0.676 | 0.666 | 0.6623 | 0.6622 | 0.667 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.4% | 5,226 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 2.726 per 1,000 | 4,677 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +1.1% | 6,002 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 61.9% | 6,689 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 3,753 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.2% | 6,406 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 6,689 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 6,602 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 33.6% | 6,689 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 45.5% | 6,676 journals |
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.