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Journal rankings · indicator year 2025

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Global ranking · 2025

Journal rankings 2025

21,493 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields

This release ranks 21,493 journals for 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.35. The three highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and Reviews of Geophysics: each is likely ranked within the top 50. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked, and each rank comes with a likely range.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Data licence: these rankings are published under CC BY 4.0. They are computed from OpenAlex data, which is released under CC0.

Ranked journals

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.

21,493
Health SciencesLife SciencesPhysical SciencesSocial Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.78+0.01 vs 2024
All journalsWorld 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

38%
8,238 fully open-access journals
Median listed APC

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.

$3,200
Median positive listed APC: $3,200 among 10,868 journals. Another 370 list $0; 10,255 have no known price.

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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields
Health Sciences5,406 journals
Life Sciences3,016 journals
Physical Sciences6,689 journals
Social Sciences6,382 journals

21,493 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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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.

OJR

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.

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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #2 of 21,493CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States
116.27Q1505.84 229.09 up from 202478100%$4,330
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #16,700 of 21,493QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society
28.27Q11.72 43.85 down from 20244631%—
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #9 of 21,493IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
15.89Q152.27 2.68 down from 202429926%$2,645
Rank 4; likely between #2 and #17 of 21,493Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States
15.74Q136.15 9.40 down from 20245684%$3,880
Rank 5; likely between #2 and #13 of 21,493Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States
15.33Q150.96 6.37 up from 202410336%—
Rank 6; likely between #2 and #45 of 21,493MMWR SupplementsOAUnited States
14.36Q116.58 24.42 down from 202440——
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #12 of 21,493Signal Transduction and Targeted TherapyOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom
14.09Q155.38 21.43 up from 20241,202100%$3,790Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 8; likely between #3 and #21 of 21,493International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland
13.92Q155.27 25.29 up from 2024188100%$0 listedRising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 9; likely between #6 and #15 of 21,493New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States
12.85Q134.58 2.47 up from 20242,50416%—
Rank 10; likely between #5 and #23 of 21,493Nature Reviews Disease PrimersNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
12.51Q172.06 17.61 up from 202413417%—
Rank 11; likely between #3 and #52 of 21,493International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
12.22Q129.79 2.70 down from 202421836%$3,990
Rank 12; likely between #6 and #22 of 21,493The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands
12.10Q127.15 1.04 up from 20242,68436%$7,890
Rank 13; likely between #7 and #44 of 21,493Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States
10.95Q126.30 0.11 down from 20249775%$3,750
Rank 14; likely between #12 and #26 of 21,493Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States
10.80Q133.21 0.42 up from 20241,44655%$12,690
Rank 15; likely between #4 and #214 of 21,493Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical SystemsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
10.39Q147.18 6.30 up from 202471100%$0 listed
Rank 16; likely between #11 and #50 of 21,493Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands
10.19Q127.88 2.13 down from 202417238%$6,240
Rank 17; likely between #14 and #36 of 21,493CellCell Press · United States
10.00Q136.19 2.51 up from 20241,41679%$11,400
Rank 18; likely between #12 and #50 of 21,493Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
9.98Q144.69 2.55 up from 20249329%$6,990
Rank 19; likely between #10 and #75 of 21,493Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States
9.73Q115.00 1.05 down from 20246446%—
Rank 20; likely between #16 and #43 of 21,493Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
9.68Q145.91 4.15 up from 202430836%$6,040
Rank 21; likely between #10 and #100 of 21,493International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States
9.54Q15.71 2.48 down from 20246958%—
Rank 22; likely between #16 and #55 of 21,493Journal of Hematology & OncologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
9.48Q132.16 1.95 up from 2024397100%$4,990Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 23; likely between #17 and #51 of 21,493Molecular CancerOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
9.39Q138.06 2.29 up from 2024632100%$5,090
Rank 24; likely between #6 and #281 of 21,493RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
9.35Q19.36 0.49 down from 202416131%$3,650
Rank 25; likely between #18 and #53 of 21,493Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
9.29Q115.76 0.18 up from 202444931%$4,690
Rank 26; likely between #8 and #176 of 21,493Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States
9.07Q112.31 3.07 down from 20245636%—
Rank 27; likely between #16 and #78 of 21,493Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States
9.01Q121.99 0.70 down from 2024108100%—
Rank 28; likely between #17 and #70 of 21,493Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands
8.99Q138.39 10.90 up from 202454157%$10,400Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 29; likely between #2 and #8,590 of 21,493American Journal of Qualitative ResearchOAUnited States
8.84Q12.35 18.54 down from 2024135100%—
Rank 30; likely between #23 and #63 of 21,493Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain
8.81Q117.08 4.38 down from 2024474100%$2,200
Rank 31; likely between #13 and #112 of 21,493The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States
8.78Q113.39 2.83 up from 20246341%$4,120
Rank 32; likely between #20 and #77 of 21,493ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States
8.68Q128.08 2.73 down from 202481882%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 33; likely between #13 and #141 of 21,493The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States
8.67Q115.16 5.49 up from 202414340%$7,619
Rank 34; likely between #21 and #78 of 21,493Computers and Education Artificial IntelligenceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
8.66Q136.54 1.88 down from 2024305100%$2,500
Rank 35; likely between #3 and #471 of 21,493European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands
8.64Q17.91 2.36 down from 202415550%$5,071Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 36; likely between #18 and #92 of 21,493Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States
8.63Q113.22 0.80 up from 202421063%$4,360
Rank 37; likely between #10 and #210 of 21,493Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands
8.62Q19.42 3.72 down from 202428940%$4,740
Rank 38; likely between #19 and #92 of 21,493Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
8.62Q124.95 6.16 up from 202410350%$5,860Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 39; likely between #9 and #164 of 21,493American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States
8.60Q19.28 3.41 down from 202432516%—
Rank 40; likely between #21 and #85 of 21,493CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
8.59Q125.08 2.29 up from 20241,3195%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 41; likely between #27 and #71 of 21,493Cell MetabolismCell Press · United States
8.52Q129.24 5.30 up from 202456658%$10,400Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 42; likely between #13 and #211 of 21,493Contemporary Security PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
8.34Q15.83 1.40 down from 20248870%—
Rank 43; likely between #23 and #107 of 21,493West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
8.33Q15.90 0.50 up from 202421080%—
Rank 44; likely between #16 and #193 of 21,493iMetaOAWiley · Australia
8.16Q125.45 1.05 up from 2024236100%$1,320
Rank 45; likely between #17 and #155 of 21,493Satellite NavigationOASpringer Nature · Singapore
8.10Q112.89 2.11 up from 202489100%$1,670
Rank 46; likely between #19 and #191 of 21,493Smart Learning EnvironmentsOASpringer Nature · Germany
8.10Q128.08 3.95 up from 2024165100%$1,810Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 47; likely between #23 and #134 of 21,493Innovation and Green DevelopmentOAElsevier BV
8.08Q117.79 0.68 down from 2024118100%$1,900
Rank 48; likely between #18 and #202 of 21,493Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States
8.02Q111.89 2.02 up from 20247234%—
Rank 49; likely between #10 and #409 of 21,493Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom
8.01Q19.50 3.41 up from 20245435%—
Rank 50; likely between #44 and #78 of 21,493Journal of Retailing and Consumer ServicesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
7.93Q116.09 0.13 down from 20241,14326%$4,510Rising vs field, 2022–25

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.

3,631 additional 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
21,493
Window papers (baseline)
15,824,017 +4.9% from indicator year 2022
Median OJR
0.784 +0.9% from indicator year 2022
Rising journals (2025)
1,582

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals9,3349,88210,46510,96311,33611,78712,24112,89613,53214,19014,88115,68216,54817,49418,33119,10819,79320,38120,89621,25221,43621,67421,88121,92521,77221,493
Window papers (baseline)4,957,5305,479,1865,909,8246,400,0376,719,8127,257,8687,834,8938,493,9809,133,2439,844,44210,531,96811,212,66011,823,61312,322,01012,852,91513,340,49713,715,97513,759,98713,523,01313,360,60513,565,53514,325,42315,089,41015,369,09515,403,86115,824,017
Median OJR0.660.680.710.750.760.7910.8380.8620.890.9190.930.9410.9350.9150.900.880.8630.8430.830.8220.8230.7940.7770.77210.77190.784
Every category in 2025

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.