Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Physiology journal rankings 2002
62 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Physiology has 62 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR rose 0.17 on 2001 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Pain, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and The Journals of Gerontology Series A.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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)
- Surgery358
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine133
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health125
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine124
- Oncology96
- Epidemiology87
- Infectious Diseases78
- Psychiatry and Mental health74
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging65
- Neurology64
- Physiology62
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism57
Show all 42 subfields
- Dermatology47
- Hematology47
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine47
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health46
- Ophthalmology42
- Obstetrics and Gynecology36
- Nephrology26
- Pharmacology26
- Rheumatology25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Reproductive Medicine22
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Complementary and alternative medicine16
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine15
- Rehabilitation15
- Geriatrics and Gerontology13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine9
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
62 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 5.35 0.15 up from 2001 | 757 | 3% | — | ||
2American Journal of Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 2.56 0.18 up from 2001 | 487 | 11% | $3,300 | ||
3The Journals of Gerontology Series AOxford University Press · United States | 1.69Q1 | 4.24 1.55 up from 2001 | 511 | 29% | $4,408 | ||
4Annals of Behavioral MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 2.40 0.20 up from 2001 | 125 | 35% | $4,433 | ||
5Obesity ResearchWiley · United States | 1.58Q1 | 3.28 0.02 down from 2001 | 303 | 61% | — | ||
6European Journal of Clinical NutritionSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.20 0.30 down from 2001 | 305 | 8% | $3,590 | ||
7Exercise and Sport Sciences ReviewsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.18 0.18 up from 2001 | 51 | 3% | — | ||
8International Journal of ObesitySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.90 0.27 down from 2001 | 703 | 7% | $4,790 | ||
9American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and MetabolismAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.46Q1 | 3.58 0.45 up from 2001 | 888 | 7% | — | ||
10American Journal of Clinical PathologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.41Q1 | 2.95 0.83 up from 2001 | 399 | 26% | $4,660 | ||
11Experimental GerontologyOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.39Q1 | 3.94 1.06 up from 2001 | 367 | 2% | $3,400 | ||
12Clinical ChemistryAmerican Association for Clinical Chemistry · United States | 1.32Q1 | 2.86 0.06 down from 2001 | 1,325 | 12% | $4,636 | ||
13Nutrition and CancerRoutledge · United States | 1.25Q1 | 2.10 0.27 down from 2001 | 310 | 3% | — | ||
14Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 2.26 0.23 up from 2001 | 465 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
15Journal of Applied PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.21Q1 | 2.89 0.20 up from 2001 | 1,874 | 5% | — | ||
16Nitric OxideElsevier BV · United States | 1.14Q1 | 2.60 0.80 up from 2001 | 163 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
17NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.15 0.70 up from 2001 | 633 | 2% | $3,870 | ||
18Mechanisms of Ageing and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 3.13 1.05 up from 2001 | 409 | 4% | $4,780 | ||
19American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.10Q2 | 3.19 0.82 up from 2001 | 1,425 | 5% | — | ||
20Proceedings of The Society for Experimental Biology and MedicineWiley · United States | 1.05Q2 | 1.61 0.42 down from 2001 | 301 | — | — | ||
21Addictive BehaviorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 1.70 0.44 up from 2001 | 264 | 1% | $4,450 | ||
22Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.96Q2 | 2.34 0.16 up from 2001 | 554 | 2% | $4,990 | ||
23Journal of EpidemiologyOAJapan Epidemiological Association · Japan | 0.94Q2 | 1.51 0.41 up from 2001 | 181 | 100% | $1,356 | ||
24Aging Clinical and Experimental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 0.92Q2 | 1.69 0.34 up from 2001 | 166 | 4% | $4,490 | ||
25Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.72 0.50 down from 2001 | 238 | 1% | $3,320 | ||
26Physiology & BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 0.89Q2 | 1.91 0.52 up from 2001 | 830 | 6% | $3,500 | ||
27Nicotine & Tobacco ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 3.26 2.13 up from 2001 | 106 | 6% | $5,392 | ||
28Journal of AsthmaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.42 0.24 down from 2001 | 215 | 2% | — | ||
29Clinical BiochemistryElsevier BV · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.81 0.24 up from 2001 | 321 | 4% | $3,000 | ||
30Microvascular ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 0.82Q2 | 1.73 0.24 up from 2001 | 241 | 1% | $3,340 | ||
31Tobacco ControlBMJ · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 2.06 0.86 up from 2001 | 293 | 86% | — | ||
32BiogerontologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.79Q3 | 2.37 0.50 up from 2001 | 67 | 0% | $4,790 | ||
33Journal of Aging and Physical ActivityHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.70Q3 | 0.83 0.14 up from 2001 | 102 | 8% | — | ||
34Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)De Gruyter · Germany | 0.65Q3 | 1.20 0.08 down from 2001 | 653 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
35Experimental PhysiologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 1.56 0.59 up from 2001 | 342 | 44% | $2,940 | ||
36Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory InvestigationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 0.99 0.36 down from 2001 | 307 | 2% | — | ||
37Annals of Clinical Biochemistry International Journal of Laboratory MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 1.05 0.16 up from 2001 | 303 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
38Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory SciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.51Q3 | 4.54 0.31 up from 2001 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
39Folia Phoniatrica et LogopaedicaKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.43Q3 | 0.50 0.10 down from 2001 | 81 | 22% | — | ||
40Journal of Nutritional Science and VitaminologyOACenter for Academic Publications Japan · Japan | 0.42Q3 | 0.74 0.01 down from 2001 | 200 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of VoiceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.37Q3 | 0.12 0.05 down from 2001 | 1,106 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
42Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical PharmacologyThomson Reuters · Spain | 0.35Q3 | 0.68 0.06 up from 2001 | 251 | 0% | — | ||
43Biological Research For NursingSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.73 0.35 up from 2001 | 66 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
44Sao Paulo Medical JournalOAMedical Association of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.33Q3 | 0.71 0.38 up from 2001 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
45Nutritional NeuroscienceTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.32Q3 | 1.12 0.63 up from 2001 | 123 | 2% | — | ||
46SepsisSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.27Q3 | 0.38 0.62 down from 2001 | 67 | — | — | ||
47Journal of Nutrition for the ElderlyHaworth Press · United States | 0.25Q3 | 0.30 0.05 down from 2001 | 86 | 0% | — | ||
48Rejuvenation ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.52 0.01 down from 2001 | 142 | 0% | — | ||
49Topics in Clinical NutritionLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.06 0.03 down from 2001 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
50Logopedics Phoniatrics VocologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.34 0.17 up from 2001 | 64 | 3% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Physiology highlighted.
- Surgery358
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine133
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health125
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine124
- Oncology96
- Epidemiology87
- Infectious Diseases78
- Psychiatry and Mental health74
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging65
- Neurology64
- Physiology62
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism57
- Dermatology47
- Hematology47
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine47
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health46
- Ophthalmology42
- Obstetrics and Gynecology36
- Nephrology26
- Pharmacology26
- Rheumatology25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Reproductive Medicine22
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Complementary and alternative medicine16
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine15
- Rehabilitation15
- Geriatrics and Gerontology13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine9
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Physiology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 62
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,863 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.80 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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 | 59 | 62 | 62 | 67 | 67 | 72 | 75 | 82 | 89 | 91 | 95 | 104 | 110 | 120 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 143 | 155 | 160 | 163 | 163 | 162 | 161 | 159 | 154 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 43,956 | 48,028 | 49,863 | 52,236 | 52,608 | 55,626 | 58,658 | 62,565 | 65,322 | 70,406 | 76,421 | 81,146 | 83,401 | 84,300 | 88,598 | 93,045 | 98,474 | 102,056 | 105,556 | 109,112 | 113,571 | 121,103 | 127,537 | 130,703 | 130,394 | 133,596 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.63 | 0.80 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.778 | 0.781 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 0.836 | 0.90 | 0.99 | 0.943 | 0.975 | 0.970 | 0.96 | 0.940 | 0.878 | 0.837 | 0.841 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.884 | 0.82 | 0.87 |
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.