Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Domain ranking · 2000
Health Sciences journal rankings 2000
2,007 ranked journals · Domain
Health Sciences has 2,007 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.92. The top three are New England Journal of Medicine, Endocrine Reviews, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.
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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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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1New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 8.44Q1 | 15.30no 1999 value | 2,603 | 29% | — | — | |
2Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.90Q1 | 16.56no 1999 value | 159 | 17% | $3,750 | — | |
3Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 7.44Q1 | 14.26no 1999 value | 103 | 60% | — | — | |
4CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 7.32Q1 | 17.62no 1999 value | 84 | 100% | $4,330 | — | |
5Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 5.12Q1 | 11.47no 1999 value | 1,357 | 10% | $12,690 | — | |
6Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.09Q1 | 8.41no 1999 value | 527 | 7% | — | — | |
7Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.28Q1 | 1.89no 1999 value | 59 | 2% | $3,900 | — | |
8Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.16Q1 | 2.62no 1999 value | 92 | 81% | $4,430 | — | |
9Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 2.88no 1999 value | 74 | 17% | $4,170 | — | |
10CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.76Q1 | 7.24no 1999 value | 3,796 | 46% | — | — | |
11Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.74Q1 | 8.28no 1999 value | 1,581 | 2% | — | — | |
12Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.66Q1 | 6.63no 1999 value | 1,448 | 91% | $7,166 | — | |
13GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.60Q1 | 7.35no 1999 value | 1,244 | 47% | $4,180 | — | |
14BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 6.91no 1999 value | 567 | 17% | $5,570 | — | |
15BMJPublisher not listed | 3.42Q1 | 4.05no 1999 value | 41 | 1% | — | — | |
16MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.33Q1 | 6.10no 1999 value | 96 | 3% | $1,950 | — | |
17Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.33Q1 | 6.43no 1999 value | 650 | 96% | — | — | |
18Schizophrenia BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 7.00no 1999 value | 180 | 24% | $4,981 | — | |
19American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 2.78no 1999 value | 119 | 8% | $3,620 | — | |
20Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 3.17Q1 | 7.08no 1999 value | 839 | 3% | $4,700 | — | |
21Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium ProceedingsElsevier BV · United States | 3.14Q1 | 2.02no 1999 value | 104 | 100% | $3,200 | — | |
22The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 2.30no 1999 value | 285 | 29% | $4,408 | — | |
23Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 3.02Q1 | 4.38no 1999 value | 202 | 0% | $4,990 | — | |
24JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 2.98Q1 | 7.99no 1999 value | 1,004 | 17% | $5,436 | — | |
25IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.94Q1 | 2.91no 1999 value | 323 | 11% | $2,645 | — | |
26Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 2.05no 1999 value | 95 | 4% | $4,430 | — | |
27Seminars in Liver DiseaseThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 2.72Q1 | 6.66no 1999 value | 119 | 5% | — | — | |
28Seminars in Cancer BiologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.71Q1 | 5.45no 1999 value | 40 | 2% | $6,060 | — | |
29American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 2.70Q1 | 5.88no 1999 value | 1,736 | 4% | — | — | |
30Annals of PeriodontologyWiley · United States | 2.70Q1 | 4.76no 1999 value | 77 | 4% | — | — | |
31The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 4.91no 1999 value | 7,390 | 20% | $7,890 | — | |
32Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.66Q1 | 4.37no 1999 value | 79 | 24% | — | — | |
33Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 2.65Q1 | 5.06no 1999 value | 1,739 | 1% | — | — | |
34Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.64Q1 | 1.88no 1999 value | 184 | 3% | — | — | |
35Canadian Public PolicyUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 2.57Q1 | 1.21no 1999 value | 241 | 2% | — | — | |
36DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 2.51Q1 | 6.15no 1999 value | 1,437 | 57% | — | — | |
37Health Education & BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.48Q1 | 2.55no 1999 value | 153 | 5% | $4,400 | — | |
38PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 2.38Q1 | 3.85no 1999 value | 1,755 | 1% | — | — | |
39Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.36Q1 | 2.73no 1999 value | 534 | 1% | — | — | |
40The American Journal of MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 2.36Q1 | 4.08no 1999 value | 824 | 32% | $3,770 | — | |
41Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & MetabolismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 5.74no 1999 value | 459 | 59% | $4,200 | — | |
42AIDSLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 6.70no 1999 value | 1,113 | 3% | — | — | |
43International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.31Q1 | 1.80no 1999 value | 127 | 5% | $4,400 | — | |
44Emerging infectious diseasesOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 2.30Q1 | 4.10no 1999 value | 386 | 100% | — | — | |
45Journal of Bone and Mineral ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.27Q1 | 5.00no 1999 value | 818 | 30% | $3,780 | — | |
46Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 2.26Q1 | 4.50no 1999 value | 1,632 | 6% | — | — | |
47Neurobiology of DiseaseOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.26Q1 | 5.49no 1999 value | 134 | 99% | $4,180 | — | |
48StrokeLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.25Q1 | 4.50no 1999 value | 1,590 | 38% | — | — | |
49The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.97no 1999 value | 415 | 5% | $4,400 | — | |
50The Journal of Infectious DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 2.21Q1 | 5.67no 1999 value | 1,866 | 29% | $4,763 | — |
Fields of Health Sciences, compared.
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.
761 additional Health Sciences 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
- 2,007
- Window papers (baseline)
- 813,419 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.50 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 464
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 | 2,007 | 2,150 | 2,285 | 2,374 | 2,486 | 2,626 | 2,757 | 2,922 | 3,062 | 3,193 | 3,364 | 3,591 | 3,809 | 4,129 | 4,361 | 4,544 | 4,757 | 4,979 | 5,239 | 5,390 | 5,462 | 5,563 | 5,606 | 5,618 | 5,549 | 5,406 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 813,419 | 909,304 | 974,228 | 1,051,248 | 1,094,845 | 1,200,886 | 1,317,521 | 1,455,690 | 1,577,275 | 1,733,757 | 1,887,930 | 2,035,231 | 2,126,669 | 2,204,628 | 2,320,572 | 2,437,477 | 2,534,543 | 2,585,157 | 2,649,222 | 2,728,712 | 2,846,138 | 3,078,764 | 3,332,730 | 3,490,788 | 3,507,496 | 3,550,948 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.6778 | 0.70 | 0.726 | 0.748 | 0.767 | 0.773 | 0.78 | 0.741 | 0.76 | 0.750 | 0.737 | 0.727 | 0.71 | 0.725 | 0.735 | 0.680 | 0.67 | 0.6776 | 0.681 | 0.69 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.3% | 4,151 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.372 per 1,000 | 4,101 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.3% | 5,009 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 5,406 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 2,959 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.2% | 5,241 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.70 | 5,372 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.2% | 5,398 journals |
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.