Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Global ranking · 2000
Journal rankings 2000
9,334 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 9,334 journals for 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Economic Literature, and European Law Journal. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. 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 1997–1999, the window the 2000 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.
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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields9,334 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 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 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 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1Brookings Papers on Economic ActivityUnited States | 23.67Q1 | 9.79no 1999 value | 35 | 42% | — | — | |
2Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 18.69Q1 | 7.31no 1999 value | 37 | 3% | — | — | |
3European Law JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 18.22Q1 | 2.95no 1999 value | 63 | 7% | $3,570 | — | |
4The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 17.49Q1 | 5.96no 1999 value | 125 | 24% | $7,619 | — | |
5Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 16.43Q1 | 4.47no 1999 value | 124 | 10% | — | — | |
6Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 15.10Q1 | 5.83no 1999 value | 46 | 0% | $3,190 | — | |
7California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.42Q1 | 6.39no 1999 value | 114 | 4% | $3,900 | — | |
8International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 14.14Q1 | 4.21no 1999 value | 104 | 25% | $3,550 | — | |
9The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.85Q1 | 4.02no 1999 value | 185 | 52% | — | — | |
10MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.25Q1 | 5.36no 1999 value | 80 | 18% | — | — | |
11Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.06Q1 | 14.61no 1999 value | 36 | 17% | $4,440 | — | |
12World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.93Q1 | 3.91no 1999 value | 85 | 33% | — | — | |
13CellCell Press · United States | 11.63Q1 | 30.80no 1999 value | 1,300 | 97% | $11,400 | — | |
14JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 10.95Q1 | 2.63no 1999 value | 113 | 10% | $4,170 | — | |
15Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 10.86Q1 | 12.13no 1999 value | 166 | 36% | — | — | |
16Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 10.68Q1 | 15.82no 1999 value | 82 | 5% | — | — | |
17Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical PhysicsInternational Press of Boston · United States | 10.10Q1 | 13.94no 1999 value | 113 | 100% | — | — | |
18Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.90Q1 | 5.21no 1999 value | 42 | 8% | $7,310 | — | |
19Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.78Q1 | 4.37no 1999 value | 155 | 5% | $3,900 | — | |
20Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 9.44Q1 | 2.02no 1999 value | 65 | 100% | — | — | |
21Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.42Q1 | 4.38no 1999 value | 162 | 18% | $4,740 | — | |
22Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.27Q1 | 2.85no 1999 value | 83 | 6% | $3,900 | — | |
23Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.19Q1 | 3.65no 1999 value | 249 | 4% | $5,400 | — | |
24ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.14Q1 | 3.14no 1999 value | 41 | 100% | — | — | |
25The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 8.98Q1 | 4.35no 1999 value | 413 | 18% | $4,430 | — | |
26West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.73Q1 | 1.69no 1999 value | 140 | 5% | — | — | |
27New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 8.44Q1 | 15.30no 1999 value | 2,603 | 29% | — | — | |
28Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference DataAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 8.44Q1 | 6.07no 1999 value | 58 | 0% | — | — | |
29American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.42Q1 | 3.37no 1999 value | 142 | 2% | — | — | |
30Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 8.40Q1 | 2.14no 1999 value | 63 | 0% | — | — | |
31Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.33Q1 | 3.33no 1999 value | 164 | 11% | — | — | |
32Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 8.26Q1 | 19.72no 1999 value | 1,047 | 11% | $12,690 | — | |
33Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 8.23Q1 | 2.19no 1999 value | 1,308 | 1% | — | — | |
34Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.21Q1 | 7.93no 1999 value | 67 | 4% | — | — | |
35Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.16Q1 | 2.50no 1999 value | 48 | 0% | $3,650 | — | |
36Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 8.10Q1 | 10.41no 1999 value | 284 | 5% | $4,500 | — | |
37Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 8.10Q1 | 3.40no 1999 value | 345 | 3% | — | — | |
38CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 3.25no 1999 value | 96 | 10% | $3,570 | — | |
39Journal of Islamic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.98Q1 | 2.00no 1999 value | 31 | 0% | $4,026 | — | |
40Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.90Q1 | 16.56no 1999 value | 159 | 17% | $3,750 | — | |
41Catalysis ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.90Q1 | 6.25no 1999 value | 31 | 10% | — | — | |
42Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.89Q1 | 3.30no 1999 value | 53 | 0% | $2,500 | — | |
43Journal of Public PolicyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.89Q1 | 2.29no 1999 value | 51 | 6% | $3,550 | — | |
44Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 7.85Q1 | 3.17no 1999 value | 305 | 9% | $4,250 | — | |
45International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 7.84Q1 | 2.83no 1999 value | 143 | 0% | — | — | |
46American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.81Q1 | 2.95no 1999 value | 358 | 12% | — | — | |
47Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.71Q1 | 9.61no 1999 value | 56 | 50% | $3,880 | — | |
48Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.55Q1 | 3.24no 1999 value | 96 | 11% | $5,098 | — | |
49American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 7.54Q1 | 2.39no 1999 value | 186 | 2% | $4,100 | — | |
50American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.46Q1 | 2.74no 1999 value | 229 | 5% | $3,900 | — |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences1,634
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences1,406
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences945
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences609
- PsychologySocial Sciences519
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences511
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences429
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences408
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences395
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences316
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences301
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences270
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences253
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences240
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences229
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences220
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences196
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences137
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences77
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences72
- DentistryHealth Sciences56
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences34
- NursingHealth Sciences30
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences23
- EnergyPhysical Sciences16
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences8
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
3,518 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, 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: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 9,334
- Window papers (baseline)
- 4,957,530 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.66 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.