Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Radiation journal rankings 2020
29 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Radiation has 29 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 0.74. The top three are Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology, and Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.
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)
29 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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1Medical PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.62Q1 | 4.30 0.62 up from 2019 | 1,809 | 50% | $3,360 | ||
2Radiation OncologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.27 0.81 up from 2019 | 703 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
3Journal of Applied Clinical Medical PhysicsOAWiley · United States | 1.07Q1 | 2.24 0.25 up from 2019 | 708 | 100% | $900 | ||
4Quantum Beam ScienceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.05Q1 | 2.20 0.03 down from 2019 | 63 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
5Physics and Imaging in Radiation OncologyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q1 | 2.29 0.11 down from 2019 | 147 | 100% | $1,980 | ||
6Journal of Synchrotron RadiationOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 2.62 0.04 down from 2019 | 651 | 77% | $3,180 | ||
7Radiation MeasurementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.76Q1 | 2.14 0.45 up from 2019 | 524 | 28% | $3,690 | ||
8Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation OncologyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.74Q1 | 1.55 0.41 up from 2019 | 59 | 100% | $1,410 | ||
9Physica MedicaElsevier BV · Italy | 0.69Q2 | 1.60 0.09 up from 2019 | 1,336 | 47% | $2,780 | ||
10Applied Radiation and IsotopesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 1.65 0.12 up from 2019 | 1,276 | 21% | $3,220 | ||
11Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.65Q2 | 1.60 0.01 down from 2019 | 271 | — | $3,140 | ||
12X-Ray SpectrometryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 1.12 0.19 down from 2019 | 265 | 33% | $3,250 | ||
13Synchrotron Radiation NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.59Q2 | 1.69 0.36 up from 2019 | 137 | 26% | — | ||
14Medical dosimetryElsevier BV · United States | 0.59Q2 | 1.23 0.28 down from 2019 | 218 | 13% | $2,500 | ||
15Reports of Practical Oncology & RadiotherapyOAElsevier BV · Poland | 0.57Q2 | 1.39 0.10 down from 2019 | 264 | 100% | $1,713 | ||
16Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and AtomsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.46Q3 | 1.36 0.03 up from 2019 | 1,852 | 26% | $2,810 | ||
17Journal of Medical PhysicsOAMedknow · India | 0.41Q3 | 0.70 0.13 down from 2019 | 157 | 100% | — | ||
18NukleonikaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.40Q3 | 1.15 0.11 up from 2019 | 79 | 100% | $800 | ||
19Polish Journal of Medical Physics And EngineeringOADe Gruyter · Poland | 0.37Q3 | 0.82 0.35 up from 2019 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
20Nuclear Technology and Radiation ProtectionOAVinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences · Serbia | 0.34Q3 | 0.92 0.06 up from 2019 | 150 | 100% | $161 | ||
| 0.30Q3 | 0.74 0.35 up from 2019 | 133 | 0% | — | |||
22Journal of Neutron ResearchIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.26Q3 | 0.89 0.13 up from 2019 | 63 | 59% | $4,150 | ||
23Precision Radiation OncologyOAWiley · Australia | 0.20Q4 | 0.42 0.15 up from 2019 | 65 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
24Progress in Medical PhysicsOASouth Korea | 0.20Q4 | 0.48 0.07 down from 2019 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
25Journal of Radiotherapy in PracticeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.16Q4 | 0.44 0.10 up from 2019 | 237 | 17% | $3,550 | ||
26International Journal of Medical Physics Clinical Engineering and Radiation OncologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.32 0.15 down from 2019 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.13Q4 | 0.34 0.10 up from 2019 | 116 | — | — | |||
28Neutron NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.35 0.06 down from 2019 | 88 | 57% | — | ||
29International Journal of PIXEWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.02Q4 | 0.38 0.04 up from 2019 | 46 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Radiation 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.
3 additional Radiation 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
- 29
- Window papers (baseline)
- 21,625 +0.9% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.569 -3.0% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 30 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 26 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,078 | 10,951 | 11,565 | 11,952 | 12,534 | 13,156 | 13,955 | 14,795 | 15,366 | 15,760 | 16,753 | 17,542 | 18,222 | 18,291 | 18,988 | 20,280 | 21,135 | 21,436 | 21,528 | 21,634 | 21,625 | 20,843 | 20,058 | 19,001 | 18,525 | 18,640 | |
| Median OJR | 0.457 | 0.44 | 0.377 | 0.515 | 0.522 | 0.385 | 0.32 | 0.27 | 0.31 | 0.34 | 0.375 | 0.5639 | 0.535 | 0.54 | 0.5641 | 0.513 | 0.575 | 0.587 | 0.521 | 0.532 | 0.569 | 0.458 | 0.478 | 0.49 | 0.481 | 0.589 |
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.