Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Subfield ranking · 2025
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics journal rankings 2025
49 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics has 49 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 0.99. No journal’s likely rank range stays within the top 3, so the intro names none.
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)
49 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 #13 of 49SIAM ReviewSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.04Q1 | 5.18 0.85 up from 2024 | 129 | 11% | — | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #5 of 49International Journal of Mathematics and Computer in EngineeringPublisher not listed | 1.92Q1 | 4.84 9.29 down from 2024 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #4 of 49Chaos Solitons & FractalsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 5.75 0.01 down from 2024 | 3,779 | 18% | $3,970 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #5 of 49Nonlinear DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.56Q1 | 5.80 0.45 down from 2024 | 3,618 | 14% | $4,790 | ||
Rank 5; likely between #2 and #15 of 49Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering SciencesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 4.09 0.29 up from 2024 | 67 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #14 of 49Journal of Artificial Societies and Social SimulationOAUniversity of Surrey · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 3.01 0.41 up from 2024 | 109 | 100% | $1,300 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #5 and #9 of 49Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical SimulationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 3.80 0.05 down from 2024 | 1,739 | 17% | $3,710 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #5 and #14 of 49Journal of Ocean Engineering and ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.10Q1 | 3.76 0.05 down from 2024 | 246 | 100% | $0 listed | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 9; likely between #6 and #16 of 49Applied Mathematics LettersElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q1 | 2.62 0.09 down from 2024 | 1,036 | 14% | $3,800 | ||
Rank 10; likely between #5 and #20 of 49Data-Centric EngineeringOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 3.73 0.55 up from 2024 | 115 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 11; likely between #8 and #14 of 49Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q1 | 3.51 0.08 up from 2024 | 2,287 | 19% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 12; likely between #10 and #16 of 49Results in PhysicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q1 | 3.95 0.67 down from 2024 | 2,637 | 100% | $1,920 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 13; likely between #7 and #21 of 49Studies in Applied MathematicsWiley · United States | 0.99Q1 | 2.39 0.11 up from 2024 | 293 | 47% | $4,550 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #12 and #19 of 49Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear ScienceAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.94Q2 | 3.36 0.15 up from 2024 | 1,736 | 32% | — | ||
Rank 15; likely between #6 and #29 of 49Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and ComputingBegell House · United States | 0.93Q2 | 3.75 0.33 down from 2024 | 61 | 32% | — | ||
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #20 of 49Physica D Nonlinear PhenomenaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 2.88 0.14 down from 2024 | 893 | 39% | $3,640 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #7 and #26 of 49Chaos Theory and ApplicationsOATürkiye | 0.90Q2 | 3.08 1.05 up from 2024 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 18; likely between #11 and #22 of 49Journal of Nonlinear ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.89Q2 | 2.51 0.14 up from 2024 | 337 | 47% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #12 and #22 of 49Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 2.65 0.47 down from 2024 | 743 | 59% | — | ||
Rank 20; likely between #11 and #27 of 49Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 2.04 0.42 up from 2024 | 215 | 100% | $1,490 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 21; likely between #13 and #25 of 49Applied Network ScienceOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.83Q2 | 2.33 0.27 up from 2024 | 242 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #9 and #31 of 49Journal of Non-Equilibrium ThermodynamicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.76Q2 | 3.99 0.12 down from 2024 | 105 | 20% | $2,712 | ||
Rank 23; likely between #18 and #28 of 49SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical SystemsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 0.73Q2 | 2.40 0.58 up from 2024 | 287 | 11% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 24; likely between #19 and #30 of 49Journal of Physics ComplexityOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 2.08 0.40 up from 2024 | 201 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
Rank 25; likely between #22 and #29 of 49International Journal of Bifurcation and ChaosWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.67Q2 | 2.40 0.02 down from 2024 | 777 | 5% | — | ||
Rank 26; likely between #20 and #31 of 49Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and ExperimentInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 2.06 0.16 down from 2024 | 695 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #19 and #32 of 49Network ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.60 0.32 up from 2024 | 75 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #24 and #30 of 49Physical review. EAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.62Q3 | 2.60 0.30 up from 2024 | 5,105 | 36% | — | ||
Rank 29; likely between #23 and #31 of 49Wave MotionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.62Q3 | 2.19 0.36 down from 2024 | 354 | 27% | $3,640 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #23 and #33 of 49Journal of Complex NetworksOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 1.98 0.42 up from 2024 | 147 | 44% | $4,533 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #25 and #36 of 49European Journal of Applied MathematicsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 1.66 0.37 up from 2024 | 128 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #31 and #38 of 49International Journal of Modern Physics CWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.42Q3 | 1.35 0.32 down from 2024 | 575 | 5% | — | ||
Rank 33; likely between #31 and #38 of 49Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsPleiades Publishing · Germany | 0.42Q3 | 1.21 0.10 down from 2024 | 398 | 6% | — | ||
Rank 34; likely between #30 and #41 of 49Reports on Mathematical PhysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.41Q3 | 1.02 0.21 down from 2024 | 142 | 20% | $3,000 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #31 and #42 of 49Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & MaterialsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.39Q3 | 1.35 0.96 down from 2024 | 172 | 0% | — | ||
Rank 36; likely between #32 and #40 of 49Advances in Mathematical PhysicsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.38Q3 | 1.18 0.08 down from 2024 | 276 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
Rank 37; likely between #30 and #44 of 49Journal of Mathematical Sciences and ModellingOASüleyman Demirel University · Türkiye | 0.36Q3 | 1.15 0.22 up from 2024 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 38; likely between #32 and #43 of 49DynamicsOASwitzerland | 0.36Q4 | 1.14 0.01 down from 2024 | 117 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 39; likely between #33 and #43 of 49European Journal of PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.34Q4 | 1.26 0.07 up from 2024 | 417 | 48% | $3,325 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 40; likely between #34 and #43 of 49Advances in Complex SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.33Q4 | 0.88 0.45 down from 2024 | 304 | 8% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #36 and #43 of 49Regular and Chaotic DynamicsPleiades Publishing · Russia | 0.30Q4 | 0.85 0.08 down from 2024 | 150 | 16% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 42; likely between #38 and #44 of 49American Journal of PhysicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.93no change | 423 | 46% | — | ||
Rank 43; likely between #37 and #44 of 49Physics EducationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 1.19 0.10 up from 2024 | 602 | 47% | $3,325 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 44; likely between #40 and #49 of 49International Journal of Applied Nonlinear ScienceInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.30 0.04 up from 2024 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
Rank 45; likely between #43 and #49 of 49Open Communications in Nonlinear Mathematical PhysicsOAFrance | 0.17Q4 | 0.51 0.14 up from 2024 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 46; likely between #43 and #49 of 49Notes on Number Theory and Discrete MathematicsOABulgaria | 0.17Q4 | 0.31 0.28 down from 2024 | 216 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #44 and #49 of 49Journal of Applied Mathematics and PhysicsOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.52 0.01 up from 2024 | 784 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 48; likely between #44 and #49 of 49The Physics EducatorWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.13Q4 | 0.48 0.05 up from 2024 | 74 | 17% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #46 and #49 of 49The Physics TeacherAmerican Association of Physics Teachers · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.47 0.07 up from 2024 | 976 | 12% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 |
4 Statistical and Nonlinear 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.
- 1Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical PhysicsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom+117% vs groupOJR 0.44 → 0.84range +35% to +247%
- 2European Journal of PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom+61% vs groupOJR 0.24 → 0.34range +16% to +122%
- 3SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical SystemsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States+47% vs groupOJR 0.57 → 0.73range +7.6% to +101%
- 4Physics EducationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom+50% vs groupOJR 0.21 → 0.27range +1.1% to +122%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -73% to +269% (ratio scale)
5 Statistical and Nonlinear 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 Ocean Engineering and ScienceOAElsevier BV · China-34% vs groupOJR 1.91 → 1.10range -49% to -14%
- 2The Physics TeacherAmerican Association of Physics Teachers · United States-33% vs groupOJR 0.21 → 0.12range -49% to -12%
- 3Results in PhysicsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands-15% vs groupOJR 1.33 → 0.99range -21% to -7.9%
- 4Regular and Chaotic DynamicsPleiades Publishing · Russia-41% vs groupOJR 0.59 → 0.30range -62% to -7.4%
- 5Chaos Solitons & FractalsElsevier BV · United Kingdom-14% vs groupOJR 2.27 → 1.71range -21% to -6.1%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -64% to +177% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Statistical and Nonlinear 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 Statistical and Nonlinear 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
- 49
- Window papers (baseline)
- 43,309 +4.9% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.67 -7.0% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
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 | 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.