Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Subfield ranking · 2025
Nuclear and High Energy Physics journal rankings 2025
65 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics has 65 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.61, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Physics Reports and Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics: each is likely ranked within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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)
65 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #1 of 65Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.19Q1 | 27.88 2.13 down from 2024 | 172 | 38% | $6,240 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #2 and #2 of 65Progress in Particle and Nuclear PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.61Q1 | 16.48 2.43 up from 2024 | 77 | 69% | $4,780 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #3 and #10 of 65SciPost Physics Lecture NotesOASciPost.org · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 6.08 0.92 up from 2024 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #14 of 65Astroparticle PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 4.85 1.94 up from 2024 | 154 | 53% | $2,920 | ||
Rank 5; likely between #4 and #8 of 65Physics Letters BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 4.34 0.21 up from 2024 | 2,205 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 6; likely between #3 and #28 of 65Computing and Software for Big ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.54Q1 | 4.55 1.53 up from 2024 | 59 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #13 of 65High Power Laser Science and EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 5.10 0.41 down from 2024 | 238 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #4 and #16 of 65Reviews of Modern Plasma PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.45Q1 | 4.97 0.41 up from 2024 | 110 | 53% | $3,590 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #6 and #11 of 65The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.44Q1 | 4.60 0.16 up from 2024 | 3,669 | 100% | $0 listed | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 10; likely between #5 and #17 of 65Matter and Radiation at ExtremesOAAmerican Institute of Physics · China | 1.36Q1 | 4.27 0.29 down from 2024 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 11; likely between #3 and #31 of 65Progress of Theoretical and Experimental PhysicsOAUniversity of Oxford · Japan | 1.31Q1 | 1.96 4.84 down from 2024 | 516 | 100% | $979 | ||
Rank 12; likely between #8 and #17 of 65Nuclear Science and TechniquesSpringer Nature · China | 1.27Q1 | 4.58 0.56 up from 2024 | 574 | 11% | $3,390 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 13; likely between #8 and #16 of 65Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 4.21 0.87 up from 2024 | 930 | 54% | $4,160 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 14; likely between #8 and #21 of 65Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 2.68 0.40 down from 2024 | 363 | 50% | $3,325 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #11 and #17 of 65Physical review. D/Physical review. D.American Physical Society · United States | 1.18Q1 | 5.47 0.82 up from 2024 | 12,906 | 75% | — | ||
Rank 16; likely between #9 and #21 of 65The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.17Q1 | 2.87 0.22 up from 2024 | 837 | 56% | $3,990 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 17; likely between #13 and #19 of 65Journal of High Energy PhysicsOASpringer Nature · Italy | 1.13Q1 | 4.85 0.18 up from 2024 | 7,612 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 18; likely between #4 and #30 of 65Nuclear Physics AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 2.07 0.70 down from 2024 | 340 | 34% | $2,590 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #14 and #22 of 65Chinese Physics CIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.67 0.05 down from 2024 | 840 | 55% | $2,410 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #15 and #22 of 65Nuclear Physics BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 2.92 0.09 up from 2024 | 943 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 21; likely between #18 and #23 of 65Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.98Q2 | 3.40 0.11 up from 2024 | 2,871 | 43% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 22; likely between #19 and #25 of 65Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing | 0.94Q2 | 3.84 0.13 up from 2024 | 1,453 | 100% | $2,595 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 23; likely between #15 and #31 of 65ParticlesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.88Q2 | 2.55 0.21 up from 2024 | 173 | 100% | $1,930 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 24; likely between #19 and #28 of 65Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 3.04 0.46 up from 2024 | 406 | 100% | $3,550 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 25; likely between #22 and #28 of 65EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.85Q2 | 0.48 0.09 up from 2024 | 4,279 | 100% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 26; likely between #22 and #28 of 65Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 2.51 0.19 up from 2024 | 739 | 65% | $3,325 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 27; likely between #10 and #39 of 65Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle ScienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.83Q2 | 8.93 0.45 up from 2024 | 57 | 95% | — | ||
Rank 28; likely between #20 and #33 of 65Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.99 0.61 up from 2024 | 156 | 23% | — | ||
Rank 29; likely between #20 and #43 of 65Nuclear Data SheetsElsevier BV · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.66 0.09 up from 2024 | 69 | 19% | $3,240 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #27 and #34 of 65The European Physical Journal Special TopicsSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.66Q2 | 2.39 0.13 down from 2024 | 1,005 | 30% | $3,790 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #24 and #40 of 65Journal of Fusion EnergySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.64Q2 | 2.05 0.33 up from 2024 | 108 | 63% | $3,990 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #26 and #44 of 65Laser and Particle BeamsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.61Q2 | 1.78 0.14 down from 2024 | 43 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 33; likely between #29 and #35 of 65Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.61Q2 | 2.47 0.24 up from 2024 | 2,448 | 98% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 34; likely between #28 and #46 of 65Fundamental Plasma PhysicsOAElsevier BV | 0.53Q3 | 1.63 0.51 up from 2024 | 52 | 100% | $1,070 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #31 and #45 of 65Few-Body SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.51Q3 | 1.25 0.56 down from 2024 | 248 | 43% | $2,290 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #26 and #48 of 65Radiation Detection Technology and MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.49Q3 | 1.86 0.79 up from 2024 | 203 | 11% | $3,190 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 37; likely between #29 and #47 of 65High Energy Density PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.49Q3 | 1.46 0.64 up from 2024 | 86 | 14% | $2,870 | ||
Rank 38; likely between #31 and #46 of 65International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.48Q3 | 1.30 0.43 up from 2024 | 330 | 12% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 39; likely between #33 and #46 of 65InstrumentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.48Q3 | 1.45 0.16 up from 2024 | 186 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #34 and #44 of 65International Journal of Modern Physics AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.48Q3 | 1.29no change | 909 | 15% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #35 and #42 of 65Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated EquipmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.48Q3 | 1.55 0.05 up from 2024 | 2,830 | 48% | $2,620 | ||
Rank 42; likely between #34 and #44 of 65Plasma Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 1.68 0.03 up from 2024 | 620 | 8% | — | ||
Rank 43; likely between #38 and #45 of 65Review of Scientific InstrumentsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.45Q3 | 1.68 0.04 down from 2024 | 2,819 | 29% | — | ||
Rank 44; likely between #36 and #45 of 65Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.44Q3 | 1.93 0.18 down from 2024 | 1,453 | 48% | $2,810 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 45; likely between #30 and #49 of 65Acta Physica Polonica BOAJagiellonian University · Poland | 0.41Q3 | 1.02 0.08 down from 2024 | 127 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 46; likely between #43 and #47 of 65Journal of InstrumentationInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 1.38 0.01 up from 2024 | 2,839 | 58% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 47; likely between #40 and #49 of 65Advances in High Energy PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.34Q3 | 0.88 0.18 down from 2024 | 91 | 100% | $1,550 | ||
Rank 48; likely between #44 and #52 of 65Nuclear Physics NewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.28Q3 | 0.63 0.31 up from 2024 | 85 | 43% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #47 and #51 of 65Open Research (University of Surrey)OAWiley · China | 0.25Q3 | 0.37 0.05 down from 2024 | 3,504 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #48 and #52 of 65Plasma Physics ReportsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.21Q4 | 1.05 0.20 down from 2024 | 474 | 9% | — |
14 Nuclear and High Energy Physics journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Nuclear Science and TechniquesSpringer Nature · China+118% vs groupOJR 0.67 → 1.27range +74% to +172%
- 2Radiation Detection Technology and MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore+140% vs groupOJR 0.24 → 0.49range +27% to +352%
- 3ParticlesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland+99% vs groupOJR 0.51 → 0.88range +26% to +217%
- 4Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom+35% vs groupOJR 0.71 → 0.84range +19% to +53%
- 5Physical Review CAmerican Physical Society · United States+27% vs groupOJR 0.88 → 0.98range +18% to +37%
- 6Nuclear FusionOAIOP Publishing+22% vs groupOJR 0.88 → 0.94range +9.9% to +35%
- 7EPJ Web of ConferencesOAEDP Sciences · France+23% vs groupOJR 0.79 → 0.85range +8.4% to +39%
- 8Physics of PlasmasAmerican Institute of Physics · United States+18% vs groupOJR 0.59 → 0.61range +7.8% to +29%
- 9Journal of Plasma PhysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom+36% vs groupOJR 0.74 → 0.88range +5.8% to +75%
- 10The European Physical Journal COASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany+13% vs groupOJR 1.46 → 1.44range +4.3% to +23%
- 11Plasma and Fusion ResearchOAJapan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research · Japan+43% vs groupOJR 0.17 → 0.21range +4.2% to +96%
- 12Fusion Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands+16% vs groupOJR 0.44 → 0.44range +2.6% to +32%
- 13The European Physical Journal ASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany+28% vs groupOJR 1.05 → 1.17range +2.5% to +59%
- 14International Journal of Modern Physics EWorld Scientific · Singapore+45% vs groupOJR 0.38 → 0.48range +0.6% to +110%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -79% to +388% (ratio scale)
2 Nuclear and High Energy Physics journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States-55% vs groupOJR 0.27 → 0.11range -63% to -45%
- 2Computer Physics CommunicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands-35% vs groupOJR 2.23 → 1.27range -57% to -0.8%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -64% to +182% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Nuclear and High Energy Physics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics107
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics105
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics65
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics49
- Radiation25
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 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 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 65
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,149 +0.9% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.61 +8.1% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.