Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Health journal rankings 2001
28 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 28 ranked journals in 2001. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2000 to 0.60, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.65. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
28 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 Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.88Q1 | 2.84 0.01 down from 2000 | 77 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
2Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 2.74 0.62 up from 2000 | 922 | 2% | $3,800 | ||
3Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 1.83 0.37 down from 2000 | 197 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
4Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 2.23Q1 | 1.44 0.36 down from 2000 | 83 | 7% | — | ||
5Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.81Q1 | 0.98 0.57 down from 2000 | 76 | 11% | $4,400 | ||
6Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 1.86 0.06 down from 2000 | 522 | 98% | — | ||
7Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 1.36 0.33 up from 2000 | 97 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
8The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.62Q2 | 0.93 0.01 down from 2000 | 117 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
9Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.49Q2 | 1.02 0.21 down from 2000 | 191 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.37Q2 | 1.55 0.05 down from 2000 | 105 | 3% | $4,790 | ||
11Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 1.21 0.39 down from 2000 | 77 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
12Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.14Q2 | 0.76 0.26 down from 2000 | 65 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
13Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.95 0.51 up from 2000 | 161 | 50% | $4,790 | ||
14Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 0.66Q2 | 0.89 0.11 down from 2000 | 469 | 81% | $2,600 | ||
15Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.54 0.09 down from 2000 | 234 | 0% | $3,130 | ||
16Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.37 0.06 up from 2000 | 97 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
17Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.46 0.25 down from 2000 | 38 | 7% | — | ||
18International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 0.31Q3 | 0.50 0.01 down from 2000 | 70 | 7% | — | ||
19International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.31Q3 | 0.49 0.01 down from 2000 | 52 | 5% | — | ||
20Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.26Q3 | 0.09 0.05 down from 2000 | 84 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
21Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 0.25Q3 | 0.29 0.02 up from 2000 | 618 | 100% | — | ||
22Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.18Q4 | 0.20 0.03 down from 2000 | 99 | 6% | $3,090 | ||
23Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.11 0.03 up from 2000 | 85 | 0% | — | ||
24Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 0.12Q4 | 0.10no change | 69 | 100% | — | ||
25Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2000 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
26Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.06Q4 | 0.03no change | 227 | 0% | — | ||
27American Journal of Pastoral CounselingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.00Q4 | 0.10 0.10 up from 2000 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
27Health and Social Care ChaplaincyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.04 down from 2000 | 45 | 36% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science615
- Education314
- Political Science and International Relations187
- Public Administration39
- Communication30
- Gender Studies29
- Health28
- Linguistics and Language28
- Safety Research28
- Anthropology27
- Library and Information Sciences26
- Law24
- Transportation21
- Urban Studies17
- Demography16
- Geography, Planning and Development14
- Cultural Studies7
- Development1
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
5 additional Health 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
- 28
- Window papers (baseline)
- 8,015 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.60 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.