Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2021
76 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 76 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.54, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are Physics Reports, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, and Nuclear Data Sheets.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
76 ranked journals
Filters
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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.57Q1 | 26.74 1.51 up from 2020 | 162 | 39% | $6,240 | ||
2Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.30Q1 | 10.85 5.14 down from 2020 | 116 | 68% | $4,780 | ||
3Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 4.07Q1 | 4.88 4.10 down from 2020 | 82 | 59% | $3,240 | ||
| 1.95Q1 | 0.79 0.10 up from 2020 | 203 | — | — | |||
5Reviews of Modern Plasma PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.95Q1 | 6.11 0.61 up from 2020 | 36 | 62% | $3,590 | ||
6Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 1.91Q1 | 6.33 4.19 up from 2020 | 504 | 100% | $979 | ||
7Computing and Software for Big ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.88Q1 | 5.30 1.65 down from 2020 | 34 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
8Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 5.08 0.11 down from 2020 | 2,508 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
9Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 4.66 0.02 down from 2020 | 855 | 70% | $4,160 | ||
10The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.57Q1 | 4.76 0.07 up from 2020 | 3,282 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Matter and Radiation at ExtremesOAAmerican Institute of Physics · China | 1.53Q1 | 5.36 2.73 up from 2020 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
12Physical review. D/Physical review. D.American Physical Society · United States | 1.48Q1 | 5.73 0.15 up from 2020 | 11,090 | 98% | — | ||
13Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.37Q1 | 17.97 0.97 up from 2020 | 51 | 91% | — | ||
14High Power Laser Science and EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 5.56 1.63 up from 2020 | 181 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
| 1.28Q1 | 0.50 0.12 down from 2020 | 238 | — | — | |||
| 1.28Q1 | 0.53no 2020 value | 116 | — | — | — | ||
17Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 3.26 0.06 up from 2020 | 519 | 77% | $3,325 | ||
18Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.20Q1 | 5.87 0.34 up from 2020 | 6,904 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
19Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 3.04 0.04 down from 2020 | 900 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
20International Journal of Modern Physics Conference SeriesOAWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.11Q2 | 0.70 0.33 up from 2020 | 169 | — | — | ||
21Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 2.87 0.52 up from 2020 | 187 | 63% | $2,920 | ||
22The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 3.08 0.18 down from 2020 | 771 | 73% | $3,990 | ||
23Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.65 0.45 up from 2020 | 114 | 67% | — | ||
24Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 0.91Q2 | 4.09 0.92 up from 2020 | 1,287 | 74% | $2,595 | ||
25Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 2.37 0.04 down from 2020 | 872 | 66% | $3,325 | ||
26EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.90Q2 | 0.50no change | 6,220 | 100% | — | ||
27Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.89Q2 | 3.22 0.39 down from 2020 | 2,983 | 74% | — | ||
28Chinese Physics CIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.74 0.63 up from 2020 | 684 | 77% | $2,410 | ||
29The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.87Q2 | 2.83 0.06 down from 2020 | 586 | 47% | $3,790 | ||
30Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 2.63 0.58 up from 2020 | 368 | 75% | $3,550 | ||
31ParticlesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.74Q2 | 2.32 0.66 up from 2020 | 101 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
32Letters in High Energy PhysicsOAUnited Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 1.19 0.45 down from 2020 | 38 | 100% | $300 | ||
33Nuclear Science and TechniquesSpringer Nature · China | 0.67Q2 | 2.49 0.77 up from 2020 | 475 | 17% | $3,390 | ||
34Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.65Q2 | 2.38 0.33 up from 2020 | 3,191 | 50% | — | ||
35Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.57Q2 | 1.90 0.26 up from 2020 | 3,317 | 40% | — | ||
36Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.56Q2 | 1.18 0.55 down from 2020 | 127 | 8% | $3,990 | ||
37International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.55Q2 | 1.46 0.03 up from 2020 | 1,040 | 57% | — | ||
| 0.54Q2 | 1.52 0.14 down from 2020 | 3,302 | 50% | $2,620 | |||
| 0.53Q3 | 0.21 0.02 up from 2020 | 105 | — | — | |||
40Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.53Q3 | 1.29 0.46 down from 2020 | 906 | 41% | $2,590 | ||
| 0.53Q3 | —no 2020 value | 131 | — | — | |||
42High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 1.38 0.23 up from 2020 | 178 | 78% | $2,870 | ||
43InstrumentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.50Q3 | 1.40 0.41 down from 2020 | 130 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
| 0.48Q3 | 0.19 0.12 down from 2020 | 177 | — | — | |||
45Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 1.70 0.28 up from 2020 | 604 | 44% | — | ||
46Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 1.31 0.41 down from 2020 | 2,458 | 81% | $3,290 | ||
47Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 1.38 0.02 down from 2020 | 363 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
48Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.43Q3 | 1.91 0.18 up from 2020 | 2,230 | 32% | $2,810 | ||
49Proceedings of 23rd International Spin Physics Symposium — PoS(SPIN2018)Publisher not listed | 0.41Q3 | 0.17 0.03 down from 2020 | 117 | — | — | ||
50Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.41Q3 | 1.88 0.39 up from 2020 | 257 | 45% | $2,290 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics117
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics103
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics76
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics45
- Radiation29
- Condensed Matter Physics8
- Instrumentation1
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 76
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,108 -8.4% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.538 -13.6% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.