Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics journal rankings 2023
47 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics has 47 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Chaos Solitons & Fractals, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, and SIAM Review.
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)
47 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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1Chaos Solitons & FractalsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 5.70 3.02 down from 2022 | 3,080 | 18% | $3,970 | ||
2Journal of Ocean Engineering and ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.93Q1 | 5.23 1.47 down from 2022 | 308 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.93 0.50 up from 2022 | 129 | 27% | — | ||
4Nonlinear DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 5.55 0.39 down from 2022 | 2,693 | 18% | $4,790 | ||
5Physica D Nonlinear PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 2.75 2.27 down from 2022 | 615 | 45% | $3,640 | ||
6Data-Centric EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.65 2.25 down from 2022 | 76 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Artificial Societies and Social SimulationOAUniversity of Surrey · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 2.92 2.09 down from 2022 | 113 | 100% | $1,300 | ||
8Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 2.48 0.85 down from 2022 | 99 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
9Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical SimulationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 3.50 0.57 down from 2022 | 1,286 | 20% | $3,710 | ||
10Results in PhysicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 4.63 0.69 down from 2022 | 2,711 | 100% | $1,920 | ||
11Applied Mathematics LettersElsevier BV · United States | 1.21Q1 | 2.89 0.64 down from 2022 | 1,173 | 17% | $3,800 | ||
12Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q1 | 3.13 0.26 down from 2022 | 2,533 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
13Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 2.99 0.35 down from 2022 | 890 | 73% | — | ||
14Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and ComputingBegell House · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.00 2.79 down from 2022 | 36 | 58% | — | ||
15Journal of Non-Equilibrium ThermodynamicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 4.33 2.69 down from 2022 | 93 | 33% | $2,712 | ||
16Studies in Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.41 0.21 up from 2022 | 228 | 54% | $4,550 | ||
17Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.27 0.02 down from 2022 | 276 | 51% | $3,290 | ||
18Applied Network ScienceOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.89Q2 | 2.00 0.53 down from 2022 | 279 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
19Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.83Q2 | 2.72 0.29 down from 2022 | 1,633 | 36% | — | ||
20International Journal of Bifurcation and ChaosWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.76Q2 | 1.97 0.39 down from 2022 | 899 | 7% | — | ||
21European Journal of Applied MathematicsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.43 0.59 down from 2022 | 123 | 81% | $3,550 | ||
22Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and ExperimentInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 2.14 0.13 down from 2022 | 883 | 69% | $3,290 | ||
23Journal of Physics ComplexityOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 2.10 0.11 up from 2022 | 174 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
24Chaos Theory and ApplicationsOATürkiye | 0.68Q2 | 2.03 0.28 down from 2022 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
25Wave MotionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.66Q3 | 2.30 0.13 up from 2022 | 299 | 30% | $3,640 | ||
26Physical review. EAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.65Q3 | 2.13 0.39 down from 2022 | 5,685 | 34% | — | ||
27Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.41 0.34 up from 2022 | 144 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
28Network ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 0.59Q3 | 0.98 0.40 down from 2022 | 108 | 96% | $3,550 | ||
29Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & MaterialsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.58Q3 | 3.04 0.39 up from 2022 | 92 | 1% | — | ||
30DynamicsOASwitzerland | 0.54Q3 | 1.56 0.52 down from 2022 | 39 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
31Journal of Complex NetworksOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 1.22 0.33 down from 2022 | 159 | 47% | $4,533 | ||
32SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical SystemsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.48 0.14 up from 2022 | 262 | 25% | — | ||
33Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsPleiades Publishing · Germany | 0.46Q3 | 1.12 0.02 up from 2022 | 361 | 7% | — | ||
34Reports on Mathematical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.45Q3 | 1.06 0.15 up from 2022 | 148 | 18% | $3,000 | ||
35International Journal of Modern Physics CWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.44Q3 | 1.61 0.16 down from 2022 | 573 | 2% | — | ||
36Regular and Chaotic DynamicsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.42Q3 | 0.92 0.67 down from 2022 | 141 | 24% | — | ||
37Advances in Mathematical PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.42Q4 | 1.18 0.04 down from 2022 | 530 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
38Advances in Complex SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.38Q4 | 1.19 0.03 down from 2022 | 368 | 13% | — | ||
39American Journal of PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.96 0.02 up from 2022 | 444 | 47% | — | ||
40Notes on Number Theory and Discrete MathematicsOABulgaria | 0.29Q4 | 0.76 0.27 up from 2022 | 238 | 100% | — | ||
41European Journal of PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.28Q4 | 0.77 0.02 up from 2022 | 620 | 95% | $3,325 | ||
42Physics EducationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.79 0.01 down from 2022 | 665 | 41% | $3,325 | ||
43Journal of Mathematical Sciences and ModellingOASüleyman Demirel University · Türkiye | 0.27Q4 | 0.71 0.27 up from 2022 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
44The Physics TeacherAmerican Association of Physics Teachers · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.40 0.16 down from 2022 | 949 | 14% | — | ||
45Journal of Applied Mathematics and PhysicsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.48 0.21 down from 2022 | 690 | 100% | — | ||
46The Physics EducatorWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.11Q4 | 0.52 0.16 up from 2022 | 68 | 7% | — | ||
47International Journal of Applied Nonlinear ScienceInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.08Q4 | 0.19 0.01 down from 2022 | 31 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Statistical and Nonlinear 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.
14 additional Statistical and Nonlinear 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
- 47
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,139 +10.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.68 -22.3% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 28 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 43 | 43 | 45 | 43 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 17,200 | 17,922 | 18,793 | 20,160 | 21,241 | 22,294 | 24,061 | 25,936 | 27,661 | 28,618 | 29,355 | 30,335 | 31,430 | 32,383 | 33,840 | 35,268 | 36,051 | 35,941 | 35,726 | 36,681 | 38,080 | 39,593 | 41,294 | 42,139 | 42,544 | 43,309 | |
| Median OJR | 0.721 | 0.70 | 0.95 | 0.9637 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 0.976 | 0.980 | 1.10 | 1.09 | 1.27 | 1.14 | 0.89 | 0.9640 | 0.94 | 1.08 | 0.97 | 1.002 | 0.93 | 0.82 | 0.88 | 0.71 | 0.717 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.67 |
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.