Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Domain ranking · 2022
Physical Sciences journal rankings 2022
6,729 ranked journals · Domain
Physical Sciences has 6,729 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.19. The top three are Reviews of Modern Physics, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and Satellite Navigation.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 19.63Q1 | 50.52 4.28 down from 2021 | 103 | 79% | — | ||
2IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 15.49Q1 | 43.36 2.28 down from 2021 | 245 | 52% | $2,645 | ||
3Satellite NavigationOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 11.89Q1 | 12.45 2.02 down from 2021 | 60 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
4Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.39Q1 | 31.95 3.05 down from 2021 | 78 | 77% | $3,880 | ||
5Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.90Q1 | 34.36 2.73 down from 2021 | 202 | 29% | $6,040 | ||
6Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.67Q1 | 33.20 2.12 down from 2021 | 92 | 55% | $6,990 | ||
7Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.38Q1 | 29.87 3.12 up from 2021 | 157 | 37% | $6,240 | ||
8Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 8.59Q1 | 34.79 0.48 down from 2021 | 586 | 29% | $12,690 | ||
9Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 8.15Q1 | 14.46 5.62 down from 2021 | 380 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
10Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.02Q1 | 32.89 2.79 up from 2021 | 70 | 26% | $6,150 | ||
11Computers and Education Artificial IntelligenceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.79Q1 | 17.84 5.33 down from 2021 | 44 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
12Nature PhotonicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.37Q1 | 22.95 2.59 down from 2021 | 551 | 35% | $12,690 | ||
13ExplorationOAWiley · China | 7.36Q1 | 29.00no 2021 value | 32 | 100% | $3,500 | — | |
14Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 7.29Q1 | 17.54 6.00 down from 2021 | 289 | 37% | — | ||
15Nature NanotechnologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.24Q1 | 31.63 4.16 up from 2021 | 643 | 44% | $12,690 | ||
16Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.19Q1 | 25.24 2.27 down from 2021 | 175 | 37% | $6,500 | ||
17Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.10Q1 | 28.22 0.32 down from 2021 | 834 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
18Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.01Q1 | 18.80 0.48 down from 2021 | 446 | 33% | $4,740 | ||
19Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 6.92Q1 | 31.88 2.42 down from 2021 | 1,024 | 34% | — | ||
20Nature SustainabilityNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 24.03 3.23 up from 2021 | 603 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
21Journal of Bioresources and BioproductsOAElsevier BV · Canada | 6.87Q1 | 32.95 10.89 up from 2021 | 77 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
22International Journal of Information Management Data InsightsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.69Q1 | 22.14 0.14 up from 2021 | 56 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
23ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.64Q1 | 18.05 0.59 down from 2021 | 514 | 54% | — | ||
24Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.60Q1 | 11.31 1.23 up from 2021 | 110 | 36% | $5,860 | ||
25Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.53Q1 | 20.98 0.53 up from 2021 | 791 | 45% | $12,690 | ||
26Electrochemical Energy ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 6.51Q1 | 29.38 0.81 down from 2021 | 80 | 40% | $3,390 | ||
27JouleElsevier BV · United States | 6.47Q1 | 27.45 1.52 down from 2021 | 730 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
28Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.39Q1 | 16.19 3.31 down from 2021 | 144 | 39% | $3,810 | ||
29Nature CatalysisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 27.38 0.12 down from 2021 | 479 | 36% | $12,690 | ||
30Nature Machine IntelligenceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 19.24 0.92 down from 2021 | 384 | 53% | $12,690 | ||
31Advances in Optics and PhotonicsOptica Publishing Group · United States | 6.27Q1 | 27.30 7.51 up from 2021 | 50 | 62% | — | ||
32SusMatOAWiley · United States | 6.25Q1 | 28.50no 2021 value | 36 | 100% | $3,000 | — | |
33Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.18Q1 | 17.76 3.17 down from 2021 | 540 | 52% | $12,690 | ||
34Blockchain Research and ApplicationsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 9.86 6.11 up from 2021 | 36 | 100% | $1,600 | ||
35Resources Environment and SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.99Q1 | 16.61 9.81 up from 2021 | 38 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
| 5.93Q1 | 14.56 2.82 down from 2021 | 66 | 100% | — | |||
37Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.90Q1 | 17.50 5.45 up from 2021 | 168 | 34% | $4,190 | ||
| 5.72Q1 | 14.68 5.76 up from 2021 | 47 | 100% | — | |||
39Postdigital Science and EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 5.61Q1 | 11.20 1.35 up from 2021 | 243 | 71% | $3,190 | ||
40Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.49Q1 | 15.97 1.00 up from 2021 | 445 | 79% | $2,645 | ||
41Engineered RegenerationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.46Q1 | 21.68 8.09 up from 2021 | 40 | 100% | $700 | ||
42Advanced MaterialsGermany | 5.46Q1 | 23.25 2.39 down from 2021 | 5,443 | 33% | $6,070 | ||
43Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.44Q1 | 15.12 0.63 down from 2021 | 121 | 73% | $4,680 | ||
44EnergyChemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.42Q1 | 23.48 13.99 down from 2021 | 62 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
45Big Data Mining and AnalyticsOATsinghua University Press · China | 5.40Q1 | 21.14 13.41 up from 2021 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
46Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.32Q1 | 12.75 1.90 down from 2021 | 382 | 47% | $4,080 | ||
47British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.29Q1 | 10.73 2.81 up from 2021 | 419 | 48% | $4,250 | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.29Q1 | 13.43 3.91 down from 2021 | 1,337 | 38% | $2,645 | ||
49Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 5.22Q1 | 7.48 0.20 up from 2021 | 60 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
50Interactive Technology and Smart EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 9.28 2.59 up from 2021 | 103 | 21% | — |
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,862 additional Physical Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 6,729
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,801,009 +4.1% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.666 -2.2% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 544
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.