Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Pharmacology journal rankings 2001
24 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pharmacology has 24 ranked journals in 2001. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2000 to 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Natural Product Reports, and Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery336
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine128
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health118
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine111
- Oncology88
- Epidemiology81
- Infectious Diseases73
- Psychiatry and Mental health71
- Neurology63
- Physiology62
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging62
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism51
- Pharmacology24
Show all 42 subfields
- Dermatology46
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine44
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health44
- Hematology43
- Ophthalmology43
- Obstetrics and Gynecology35
- Nephrology24
- Rheumatology24
- Emergency Medicine23
- Reproductive Medicine20
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Rehabilitation15
- Complementary and alternative medicine14
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine14
- Geriatrics and Gerontology13
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine11
- Immunology and Allergy9
- Genetics8
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine7
- Hepatology7
- Urology5
- Gastroenterology4
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
24 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 2.88Q1 | 4.74 0.36 up from 2000 | 201 | 0% | $4,990 | ||
2Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 4.72 0.99 up from 2000 | 110 | 2% | — | ||
3Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug TherapyWiley · United States | 1.16Q1 | 2.09 0.28 up from 2000 | 617 | 5% | $4,030 | ||
4Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical TherapyAmerican Physical Therapy Association · United States | 1.07Q1 | 1.19 0.65 down from 2000 | 167 | 0% | — | ||
5Journal of PainElsevier BV · United States | 1.07Q1 | 1.61no 2000 value | 49 | 94% | $4,180 | — | |
6Physical TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 1.05Q1 | 1.31 0.27 down from 2000 | 239 | 21% | $4,035 | ||
7Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation MedicineFoundation for Rehabilitation Information · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.39 0.49 up from 2000 | 105 | — | — | ||
8Therapeutic Drug MonitoringLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.93 0.37 up from 2000 | 378 | 2% | — | ||
9Ozone Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.81Q2 | 0.82 0.39 up from 2000 | 126 | 2% | — | ||
10European Journal of PainWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.43 0.40 up from 2000 | 132 | 9% | $4,310 | ||
11Experimental and Clinical PsychopharmacologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 0.69Q2 | 1.10 0.18 down from 2000 | 304 | 2% | — | ||
12Journal of Natural ProductsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.63Q2 | 1.11 0.07 up from 2000 | 1,326 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
13Manual TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 1.16 0.42 up from 2000 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
14The Journal of AntibioticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.55Q3 | 1.24 0.03 down from 2000 | 546 | 91% | $4,590 | ||
15Journal of Manipulative and Physiological TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.85 0.02 down from 2000 | 238 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
16Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and TherapeuticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.57 0.19 down from 2000 | 185 | 17% | $4,520 | ||
17Australian Journal of PhysiotherapyElsevier BV · Australia | 0.39Q3 | 0.57 0.22 down from 2000 | 79 | 92% | — | ||
18Pain MedicineOxford University Press · United States | 0.28Q3 | 0.36no 2000 value | 45 | 19% | $5,036 | — | |
19ActinomycetologicaOAJapan | 0.18Q4 | 0.64 0.24 up from 2000 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
20Der SchmerzSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.15Q4 | 0.36 0.10 up from 2000 | 61 | 1% | $3,390 | ||
21International journal of medicinal mushroomsBegell House · United States | 0.09Q4 | 0.14 0.13 down from 2000 | 78 | 44% | — | ||
22Journal of Orthopaedic MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.04Q4 | 0.28 0.17 down from 2000 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
23Journal of Manual & Manipulative TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.02Q4 | 0.05 0.14 down from 2000 | 84 | 9% | — | ||
24AMA guides newsletterPublisher not listed | 0.01Q4 | 0.01no change | 102 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pharmacology highlighted.
- Surgery336
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine128
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health118
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine111
- Oncology88
- Epidemiology81
- Infectious Diseases73
- Psychiatry and Mental health71
- Neurology63
- Physiology62
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging62
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism51
- Dermatology46
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine44
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health44
- Hematology43
- Ophthalmology43
- Obstetrics and Gynecology35
- Nephrology24
- Pharmacology24
- Rheumatology24
- Emergency Medicine23
- Reproductive Medicine20
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Rehabilitation15
- Complementary and alternative medicine14
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine14
- Geriatrics and Gerontology13
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine11
- Immunology and Allergy9
- Genetics8
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine7
- Hepatology7
- Urology5
- Gastroenterology4
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
11 additional Pharmacology 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
- 24
- Window papers (baseline)
- 22,467 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.59 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 29 | 33 | 32 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 51 | 54 | 53 | 54 | 51 | 52 | 49 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 19,603 | 22,467 | 24,630 | 27,412 | 29,324 | 32,358 | 35,691 | 39,107 | 42,145 | 45,380 | 48,527 | 52,153 | 54,359 | 55,921 | 57,834 | 58,910 | 59,488 | 58,462 | 57,882 | 58,590 | 61,076 | 65,359 | 69,176 | 70,919 | 70,967 | 72,738 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.672 | 0.51 | 0.62 | 0.715 | 0.667 | 0.7235 | 0.80 | 0.892 | 0.91 | 1.001 | 0.891 | 0.7936 | 0.7943 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.65 | 0.644 | 0.642 | 0.662 | 0.75 | 0.659 | 0.7243 | 0.73 |
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.