Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2023
69 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 69 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2022 to 0.63, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Physics Reports, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, and Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
69 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.38Q1 | 25.28 4.59 down from 2022 | 164 | 43% | $6,240 | ||
2Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.87Q1 | 11.14 0.79 up from 2022 | 116 | 58% | $4,780 | ||
3Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 2.68Q1 | 5.45 1.93 down from 2022 | 528 | 100% | $979 | ||
4Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 8.27 2.07 up from 2022 | 868 | 61% | $4,160 | ||
5SciPost Physics Lecture NotesOASciPost.org · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 4.73 3.01 down from 2022 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
6Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 5.38 0.83 up from 2022 | 140 | 52% | $2,920 | ||
7Matter and Radiation at ExtremesOAAmerican Institute of Physics · China | 1.76Q1 | 4.61 0.23 up from 2022 | 152 | 100% | — | ||
8Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 3.59 0.95 down from 2022 | 2,164 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
9Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 1.64Q1 | 1.74 1.44 down from 2022 | 80 | 61% | $3,240 | ||
10Proceedings of 37th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2019)Publisher not listed | 1.54Q1 | —no 2022 value | 168 | — | — | ||
11Reviews of Modern Plasma PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.48Q1 | 4.02 0.86 down from 2022 | 70 | 58% | $3,590 | ||
12Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.37 0.01 up from 2022 | 448 | 86% | $3,325 | ||
13High Power Laser Science and EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 4.94 1.01 up from 2022 | 170 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
14The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 3.56 0.53 down from 2022 | 3,519 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
15Chinese Physics CIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 3.22 0.18 down from 2022 | 892 | 93% | $2,410 | ||
16Physical review. D/Physical review. D.American Physical Society · United States | 1.26Q1 | 4.24 0.95 down from 2022 | 11,942 | 74% | — | ||
17Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.19Q1 | 10.59 3.08 down from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.14Q1 | 3.96 0.84 down from 2022 | 7,613 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
19The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.12Q2 | 2.47 0.24 down from 2022 | 905 | 57% | $3,990 | ||
20Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 2.51 0.44 down from 2022 | 880 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
21Computing and Software for Big ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.06Q2 | 2.62 0.45 down from 2022 | 63 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
22Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.00Q2 | 2.95 0.27 down from 2022 | 2,891 | 54% | — | ||
23Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 1.00Q2 | 3.37 0.34 up from 2022 | 1,417 | 100% | $2,595 | ||
24Nuclear Science and TechniquesSpringer Nature · China | 0.97Q2 | 3.70 0.76 up from 2022 | 406 | 19% | $3,390 | ||
| 0.88Q2 | —no 2022 value | 116 | — | — | |||
26Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.10 0.13 up from 2022 | 831 | 92% | $3,325 | ||
27EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.85Q2 | 0.39 0.02 down from 2022 | 3,855 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.17 0.15 down from 2022 | 411 | 86% | $3,550 | ||
29The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.81Q2 | 2.73 0.11 up from 2022 | 1,002 | 43% | $3,790 | ||
30ParticlesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.74Q2 | 1.91 0.61 up from 2022 | 126 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
31InstrumentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.71Q2 | 2.03 0.38 down from 2022 | 158 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
32Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.71Q2 | 1.56 0.16 down from 2022 | 238 | 36% | $2,290 | ||
33Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.68Q2 | 2.13 0.69 up from 2022 | 632 | 31% | $2,590 | ||
34Letters in High Energy PhysicsOAUnited Kingdom | 0.65Q2 | 1.27 0.62 down from 2022 | 40 | 100% | $300 | ||
35Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.63Q2 | 1.93 0.17 down from 2022 | 2,430 | 48% | — | ||
| 0.58Q3 | 1.49 0.22 down from 2022 | 2,624 | 50% | $2,620 | |||
37High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 1.26 0.43 down from 2022 | 120 | 47% | $2,870 | ||
38International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.56Q3 | 1.30 0.21 down from 2022 | 1,034 | 13% | — | ||
39Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 0.55Q3 | 0.84 0.54 down from 2022 | 155 | 19% | — | ||
40Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.60 0.50 up from 2022 | 100 | 58% | $3,990 | ||
41Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.48 0.21 down from 2022 | 3,054 | 34% | — | ||
42Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 1.35 0.13 down from 2022 | 2,709 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
43Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.47Q3 | 2.06 0.36 up from 2022 | 1,670 | 46% | $2,810 | ||
44Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 1.57 0.21 down from 2022 | 663 | 90% | — | ||
45Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 1.14 0.09 down from 2022 | 210 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
46Open Research (University of Surrey)OAWiley · China | 0.39Q3 | 0.46 0.03 down from 2022 | 3,492 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
47International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.37Q3 | 0.97 0.11 down from 2022 | 352 | 4% | — | ||
48Radiation Detection Technology and MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.32Q3 | 0.88 0.18 up from 2022 | 211 | 12% | $3,190 | ||
49Physics of Particles and NucleiPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.80 0.26 up from 2022 | 335 | 17% | — | ||
50Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.31Q3 | 1.04 0.27 up from 2022 | 99 | 100% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics110
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics108
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics69
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics47
- Radiation26
- Condensed Matter Physics8
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 63,106 -1.2% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.63 +6.9% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 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.