Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2020
74 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 74 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2019 to 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Physics Reports, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, and Nuclear Data Sheets.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
74 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.30Q1 | 25.24 4.45 down from 2019 | 152 | 47% | $6,240 | ||
2Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.22Q1 | 15.99 1.38 up from 2019 | 97 | 65% | $4,780 | ||
3Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 2.94Q1 | 8.98 5.05 up from 2019 | 93 | 48% | $3,240 | ||
4Reviews of Modern Plasma PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.49Q1 | 5.50 2.18 down from 2019 | 34 | 50% | $3,590 | ||
5Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 5.19 0.37 up from 2019 | 2,695 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 4.68 0.81 up from 2019 | 854 | 69% | $4,160 | ||
7The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.67Q1 | 4.69 0.07 up from 2019 | 2,996 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
| 1.64Q1 | 0.63no 2019 value | 238 | — | — | — | ||
9Physical review. D/Physical review. D.American Physical Society · United States | 1.45Q1 | 5.58 0.45 up from 2019 | 10,626 | 99% | — | ||
10Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.44Q1 | 17.00 4.46 up from 2019 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
11Proceedings of 37th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2019)Publisher not listed | 1.40Q1 | 0.69no 2019 value | 35 | 100% | — | — | |
12Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.37Q1 | 5.53 0.32 down from 2019 | 6,541 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 3.08 0.16 down from 2019 | 888 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 3.19 0.48 up from 2019 | 518 | 86% | $3,325 | ||
15Matter and Radiation at ExtremesOAAmerican Institute of Physics · China | 1.23Q1 | 2.63 0.19 down from 2019 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
16The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.21Q1 | 3.26 0.85 up from 2019 | 709 | 73% | $3,990 | ||
17High Power Laser Science and EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.93 1.02 up from 2019 | 164 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
18Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q1 | 2.35 1.53 down from 2019 | 225 | 70% | $2,920 | ||
19Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.05Q1 | 3.62 0.33 up from 2019 | 3,090 | 75% | — | ||
20EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.04Q2 | 0.50 0.01 up from 2019 | 7,642 | 100% | — | ||
21Chinese Physics CIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.12 0.45 down from 2019 | 589 | 86% | $2,410 | ||
22Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 0.95Q2 | 3.17 0.22 down from 2019 | 1,410 | 72% | $2,595 | ||
23The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.92Q2 | 2.89 0.86 up from 2019 | 600 | 51% | $3,790 | ||
24Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.20 0.71 down from 2019 | 117 | 73% | — | ||
25Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 2.40 0.23 down from 2019 | 889 | 68% | $3,325 | ||
26International Journal of Modern Physics Conference SeriesOAWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.79Q2 | 0.37 0.11 up from 2019 | 226 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.78Q2 | 0.31no 2019 value | 177 | — | — | — | ||
28SciPost Physics ProceedingsOASciPost.org · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 1.85 1.85 up from 2019 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
29Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 0.77Q2 | 2.14 0.17 up from 2019 | 515 | 100% | $979 | ||
30Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 2.05 0.34 down from 2019 | 325 | 74% | $3,550 | ||
31InstrumentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.71Q2 | 1.81 0.14 up from 2019 | 96 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
32Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.67Q2 | 1.75 0.24 down from 2019 | 896 | 58% | $2,590 | ||
| 0.64Q2 | 1.66 0.18 up from 2019 | 3,274 | 51% | $2,620 | |||
34Nuclear Science and TechniquesSpringer Nature · China | 0.64Q2 | 1.72 0.04 down from 2019 | 530 | 12% | $3,390 | ||
35Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.60Q2 | 1.73 0.11 down from 2019 | 2,364 | 77% | $3,290 | ||
36Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC2016)Publisher not listed | 0.59Q2 | —no 2019 value | 191 | — | — | ||
37Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.59Q2 | 1.64 0.06 down from 2019 | 3,251 | 38% | — | ||
38Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.59Q3 | 2.05 0.10 up from 2019 | 3,725 | 45% | — | ||
39ParticlesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.58Q3 | 1.67 0.13 up from 2019 | 55 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
40International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.54Q3 | 1.43 0.18 down from 2019 | 1,028 | 50% | — | ||
41Proceedings of 23rd International Spin Physics Symposium — PoS(SPIN2018)Publisher not listed | 0.52Q3 | 0.21 0.79 down from 2019 | 117 | — | — | ||
| 0.49Q3 | 0.19no 2019 value | 105 | — | — | — | ||
43Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 1.40 0.19 up from 2019 | 417 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
44High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.48Q3 | 1.15 0.09 down from 2019 | 154 | 51% | $2,870 | ||
44Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.48Q3 | 1.49 0.57 up from 2019 | 347 | 55% | $2,290 | ||
46Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.73 0.70 up from 2019 | 105 | 33% | $3,990 | ||
47Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 1.42 0.18 up from 2019 | 668 | 44% | — | ||
48Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.58 0.10 up from 2019 | 6,753 | 32% | — | ||
49Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.42Q3 | 0.74 0.01 down from 2019 | 78 | 35% | — | ||
50International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.40Q3 | 1.10 0.07 up from 2019 | 378 | 37% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics119
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics105
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics74
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics43
- Radiation29
- Condensed Matter Physics9
- Instrumentation1
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 74
- Window papers (baseline)
- 63,894 -6.0% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.59 -9.3% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.