European Journal of Physics

European Journal of Physics is a journal of the European Physical Society and its primary mission is to assist in maintaining and improving the standard of taught physics in universities and other institutes of higher education. Authors submitting articles must indicate the usefulness of their material to physics education and make clear the level of readership (undergraduate or graduate) for which the article is intended. Submissions that omit this information or which, in the publisher's opinion, do not contribute to the above mission will not be considered for publication. To this end, we welcome articles that provide original insights and aim to enhance learning in one or more areas of physics. They should normally include at least one of the following: Explanations of how contemporary research can inform the understanding of physics at university level: for example, a survey of a research field at a level accessible to students, explaining how it illustrates some general principles. Original insights into the derivation of results. These should be of some general interest, consisting of more than corrections to textbooks. Descriptions of novel laboratory exercises illustrating new techniques of general interest. Those based on relatively inexpensive equipment are especially welcome. Articles of a scholarly or reflective nature that are aimed to be of interest to, and at a level appropriate for, physics students or recent graduates. Descriptions of successful and original student projects, experimental, theoretical or computational. Discussions of the history, philosophy and epistemology of physics, at a level accessible to physics students and teachers. Reports of new developments in physics curricula and the techniques for teaching physics. Physics Education Research reports: articles that provide original experimental and/or theoretical research contributions that directly relate to the teaching and learning of university-level physics.

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Category	Year	Quartile
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	1999	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2000	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2001	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2002	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2003	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2004	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2005	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2006	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2007	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2008	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2009	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2010	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2011	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2012	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2013	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2014	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2015	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2016	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2017	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2018	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2019	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2020	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2021	Q3
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2022	Q2
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)	2023	Q2

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	0.254
2000	0.315
2001	0.347
2002	0.339
2003	0.415
2004	0.455
2005	0.440
2006	0.435
2007	0.466
2008	0.562
2009	0.370
2010	0.443
2011	0.492
2012	0.427
2013	0.486
2014	0.432
2015	0.444
2016	0.377
2017	0.337
2018	0.441
2019	0.437
2020	0.421
2021	0.391
2022	0.389
2023	0.410

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	77
2000	79
2001	85
2002	90
2003	84
2004	106
2005	136
2006	124
2007	149
2008	132
2009	172
2010	140
2011	168
2012	171
2013	174
2014	166
2015	246
2016	188
2017	236
2018	244
2019	178
2020	209
2021	288
2022	160
2023	121

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	0.196
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	0.339
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	0.306
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	0.329
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	0.390
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	0.453
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	0.515
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.589
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.596
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	0.581
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	0.784
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	0.674
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	0.786
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	0.708
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	0.737
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	0.675
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	0.679
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	0.646
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	0.733
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	0.878
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	0.858
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	0.998
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	0.958
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	0.807
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	0.825
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	0.196
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	0.369
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	0.302
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	0.320
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	0.398
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	0.510
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	0.575
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.552
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	0.653
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	0.604
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	0.773
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	0.700
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	0.815
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	0.704
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	0.668
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	0.688
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	0.718
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	0.614
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	0.680
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	0.919
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	0.873
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	0.968
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	0.937
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	0.757
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	0.798
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.189
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	0.363
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	0.346
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	0.256
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	0.457
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.523
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	0.505
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.587
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	0.642
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	0.619
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	0.826
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	0.714
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	0.891
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	0.640
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	0.690
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	0.745
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	0.721
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	0.595
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	0.689
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	0.953
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	0.856
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	0.938
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	0.956
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	0.724
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	0.712

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	8
Self Cites	2000	17
Self Cites	2001	12
Self Cites	2002	22
Self Cites	2003	23
Self Cites	2004	36
Self Cites	2005	41
Self Cites	2006	45
Self Cites	2007	53
Self Cites	2008	43
Self Cites	2009	100
Self Cites	2010	80
Self Cites	2011	84
Self Cites	2012	83
Self Cites	2013	77
Self Cites	2014	79
Self Cites	2015	95
Self Cites	2016	96
Self Cites	2017	120
Self Cites	2018	163
Self Cites	2019	80
Self Cites	2020	112
Self Cites	2021	145
Self Cites	2022	81
Self Cites	2023	74
Total Cites	1999	41
Total Cites	2000	83
Total Cites	2001	68
Total Cites	2002	77
Total Cites	2003	101
Total Cites	2004	132
Total Cites	2005	161
Total Cites	2006	180
Total Cites	2007	239
Total Cites	2008	247
Total Cites	2009	313
Total Cites	2010	317
Total Cites	2011	362
Total Cites	2012	338
Total Cites	2013	320
Total Cites	2014	353
Total Cites	2015	367
Total Cites	2016	360
Total Cites	2017	408
Total Cites	2018	616
Total Cites	2019	583
Total Cites	2020	637
Total Cites	2021	591
Total Cites	2022	511
Total Cites	2023	524

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	0.158
External Cites per document	2000	0.293
External Cites per document	2001	0.249
External Cites per document	2002	0.228
External Cites per document	2003	0.307
External Cites per document	2004	0.371
External Cites per document	2005	0.429
External Cites per document	2006	0.414
External Cites per document	2007	0.508
External Cites per document	2008	0.499
External Cites per document	2009	0.526
External Cites per document	2010	0.523
External Cites per document	2011	0.626
External Cites per document	2012	0.531
External Cites per document	2013	0.507
External Cites per document	2014	0.534
External Cites per document	2015	0.532
External Cites per document	2016	0.451
External Cites per document	2017	0.480
External Cites per document	2018	0.676
External Cites per document	2019	0.753
External Cites per document	2020	0.798
External Cites per document	2021	0.707
External Cites per document	2022	0.637
External Cites per document	2023	0.685
Cites per document	1999	0.196
Cites per document	2000	0.369
Cites per document	2001	0.302
Cites per document	2002	0.320
Cites per document	2003	0.398
Cites per document	2004	0.510
Cites per document	2005	0.575
Cites per document	2006	0.552
Cites per document	2007	0.653
Cites per document	2008	0.604
Cites per document	2009	0.773
Cites per document	2010	0.700
Cites per document	2011	0.815
Cites per document	2012	0.704
Cites per document	2013	0.668
Cites per document	2014	0.688
Cites per document	2015	0.718
Cites per document	2016	0.614
Cites per document	2017	0.680
Cites per document	2018	0.919
Cites per document	2019	0.873
Cites per document	2020	0.968
Cites per document	2021	0.937
Cites per document	2022	0.757
Cites per document	2023	0.798

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	9.09
2000	11.39
2001	7.06
2002	10.00
2003	14.29
2004	5.66
2005	14.71
2006	12.90
2007	8.05
2008	15.15
2009	8.72
2010	10.00
2011	15.48
2012	8.77
2013	10.34
2014	9.04
2015	10.16
2016	13.83
2017	15.68
2018	14.34
2019	16.29
2020	11.96
2021	12.50
2022	13.75
2023	9.09

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	0
Non-citable documents	2000	0
Non-citable documents	2001	0
Non-citable documents	2002	1
Non-citable documents	2003	5
Non-citable documents	2004	7
Non-citable documents	2005	12
Non-citable documents	2006	11
Non-citable documents	2007	11
Non-citable documents	2008	6
Non-citable documents	2009	6
Non-citable documents	2010	11
Non-citable documents	2011	11
Non-citable documents	2012	11
Non-citable documents	2013	6
Non-citable documents	2014	15
Non-citable documents	2015	13
Non-citable documents	2016	13
Non-citable documents	2017	4
Non-citable documents	2018	7
Non-citable documents	2019	7
Non-citable documents	2020	9
Non-citable documents	2021	6
Non-citable documents	2022	6
Non-citable documents	2023	4
Citable documents	1999	209
Citable documents	2000	225
Citable documents	2001	225
Citable documents	2002	240
Citable documents	2003	249
Citable documents	2004	252
Citable documents	2005	268
Citable documents	2006	315
Citable documents	2007	355
Citable documents	2008	403
Citable documents	2009	399
Citable documents	2010	442
Citable documents	2011	433
Citable documents	2012	469
Citable documents	2013	473
Citable documents	2014	498
Citable documents	2015	498
Citable documents	2016	573
Citable documents	2017	596
Citable documents	2018	663
Citable documents	2019	661
Citable documents	2020	649
Citable documents	2021	625
Citable documents	2022	669
Citable documents	2023	653

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	174
Uncited documents	2000	175
Uncited documents	2001	177
Uncited documents	2002	188
Uncited documents	2003	190
Uncited documents	2004	179
Uncited documents	2005	184
Uncited documents	2006	206
Uncited documents	2007	244
Uncited documents	2008	275
Uncited documents	2009	264
Uncited documents	2010	284
Uncited documents	2011	270
Uncited documents	2012	303
Uncited documents	2013	298
Uncited documents	2014	309
Uncited documents	2015	317
Uncited documents	2016	387
Uncited documents	2017	377
Uncited documents	2018	391
Uncited documents	2019	395
Uncited documents	2020	367
Uncited documents	2021	333
Uncited documents	2022	423
Uncited documents	2023	378
Cited documents	1999	35
Cited documents	2000	50
Cited documents	2001	48
Cited documents	2002	53
Cited documents	2003	64
Cited documents	2004	80
Cited documents	2005	96
Cited documents	2006	120
Cited documents	2007	122
Cited documents	2008	134
Cited documents	2009	141
Cited documents	2010	169
Cited documents	2011	174
Cited documents	2012	177
Cited documents	2013	181
Cited documents	2014	204
Cited documents	2015	194
Cited documents	2016	199
Cited documents	2017	223
Cited documents	2018	279
Cited documents	2019	273
Cited documents	2020	291
Cited documents	2021	298
Cited documents	2022	252
Cited documents	2023	279