Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Global ranking · 2001
Journal rankings 2001
9,882 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 9,882 journals for 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are Journal of Economic Literature, International Organization, and Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. 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 1998–2000, the window the 2001 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 subfields9,882 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 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 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 2001. | Compare |
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1Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 25.08Q1 | 10.71 3.40 up from 2000 | 59 | 13% | — | ||
2International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 24.96Q1 | 6.05 1.84 up from 2000 | 120 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
3Brookings Papers on Economic ActivityUnited States | 21.48Q1 | 4.17 5.62 down from 2000 | 48 | 50% | — | ||
4The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.78Q1 | 8.30 2.33 up from 2000 | 131 | 4% | $7,619 | ||
5World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 18.49Q1 | 5.07 1.17 up from 2000 | 83 | 22% | — | ||
6Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 17.09Q1 | 4.68 1.83 up from 2000 | 100 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
7Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 14.74Q1 | 5.03 2.03 up from 2000 | 58 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
8California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.38Q1 | 2.97 3.42 down from 2000 | 113 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
9American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 13.58Q1 | 5.05 2.66 up from 2000 | 178 | 0% | $4,100 | ||
10Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 13.27Q1 | 2.80 1.67 down from 2000 | 122 | 7% | — | ||
11Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 13.12Q1 | 16.75 4.75 up from 2000 | 30 | 5% | — | ||
12The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.05Q1 | 4.98 0.96 up from 2000 | 192 | 42% | — | ||
13Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.97Q1 | 3.67 2.16 down from 2000 | 41 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
14Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.87Q1 | 13.08 1.53 down from 2000 | 35 | 0% | $4,440 | ||
15Millennium Journal of International StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.26Q1 | 1.77 1.18 up from 2000 | 106 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
16European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.85Q1 | 2.66 1.11 up from 2000 | 50 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
17ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.44Q1 | 6.12 1.95 up from 2000 | 30 | 7% | — | ||
18Environmental PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.40Q1 | 5.39 4.35 up from 2000 | 170 | 2% | — | ||
19Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 11.28Q1 | 4.04 1.18 down from 2000 | 41 | 7% | $7,310 | ||
20Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 11.11Q1 | 19.09 3.27 up from 2000 | 73 | 3% | — | ||
21Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.07Q1 | 5.31 0.95 up from 2000 | 126 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
22Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 10.76Q1 | 12.24 0.11 up from 2000 | 168 | 56% | — | ||
23The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 10.71Q1 | 3.80 1.51 up from 2000 | 71 | 4% | $3,986 | ||
24Comparative PoliticsCity University of New York · United States | 10.52Q1 | 3.35 2.41 up from 2000 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
25MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 10.46Q1 | 5.24 0.12 down from 2000 | 87 | 4% | — | ||
26International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.44Q1 | 4.36 1.53 up from 2000 | 105 | 3% | — | ||
27CellCell Press · United States | 10.19Q1 | 26.69 4.11 down from 2000 | 1,215 | 94% | $11,400 | ||
28Review of International StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 10.13Q1 | 2.08 1.31 up from 2000 | 171 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
29Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.89Q1 | 2.99 0.34 down from 2000 | 171 | 16% | — | ||
30The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 9.87Q1 | 4.24 0.10 down from 2000 | 332 | 21% | $4,430 | ||
31American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.58Q1 | 3.84 0.47 up from 2000 | 150 | 3% | — | ||
32Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 9.36Q1 | 21.79 5.23 up from 2000 | 135 | 20% | $3,750 | ||
33Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.36Q1 | 2.70 1.36 up from 2000 | 63 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
34American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.24Q1 | 4.07 1.11 up from 2000 | 469 | 11% | — | ||
35Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 9.20Q1 | 7.93no change | 63 | 5% | — | ||
36Review of International Political EconomyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 9.18Q1 | 2.33 0.52 up from 2000 | 78 | 16% | — | ||
37Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 9.09Q1 | 10.90 0.49 up from 2000 | 330 | 2% | $4,500 | ||
38Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 9.02Q1 | 3.73 1.86 up from 2000 | 103 | 8% | — | ||
39Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.00Q1 | 4.00 1.69 down from 2000 | 41 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
40Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 8.98Q1 | 3.60 0.20 up from 2000 | 388 | 2% | — | ||
41Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.97Q1 | 3.55 0.10 down from 2000 | 212 | 9% | $5,400 | ||
42CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 8.91Q1 | 24.16 6.54 up from 2000 | 75 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
43British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.71Q1 | 2.84 0.71 up from 2000 | 98 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
44Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.70Q1 | 1.49 1.75 down from 2000 | 101 | 37% | $5,098 | ||
45Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 8.65Q1 | 19.14 4.94 up from 2000 | 75 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
46New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 8.62Q1 | 14.53 0.77 down from 2000 | 2,567 | 30% | — | ||
47Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.50Q1 | 4.00 2.00 up from 2000 | 169 | 14% | $4,300 | ||
48Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.49Q1 | 3.95 0.43 down from 2000 | 162 | 8% | $4,740 | ||
49SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 8.36Q1 | 2.36 0.84 up from 2000 | 33 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
50Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 8.36Q1 | 3.92 0.61 up from 2000 | 158 | 11% | — |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences1,746
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences1,451
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences1,010
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences650
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences569
- PsychologySocial Sciences548
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences465
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences425
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences420
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences326
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences319
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences281
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences271
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences255
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences234
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences231
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences201
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences138
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences81
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences76
- DentistryHealth Sciences64
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences39
- NursingHealth Sciences30
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences27
- EnergyPhysical Sciences17
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences8
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
3,581 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, 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: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 9,882
- Window papers (baseline)
- 5,479,186 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.68 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 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 | 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.