Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Medicine journal rankings 2003
1,933 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Medicine has 1,933 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.60, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, New England Journal of Medicine, and Endocrine Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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 in Medicine (42)
Up to Health Sciences- Surgery378
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine140
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine128
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health128
- Oncology103
- Epidemiology89
- Infectious Diseases82
- Psychiatry and Mental health82
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging69
- Neurology68
- Physiology67
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism60
Show all 42 subfields
- Hematology48
- Dermatology47
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine47
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health47
- Ophthalmology41
- Obstetrics and Gynecology39
- Nephrology27
- Pharmacology27
- Rheumatology27
- Emergency Medicine22
- Reproductive Medicine22
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Complementary and alternative medicine17
- Rehabilitation16
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine15
- Geriatrics and Gerontology13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine12
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
1,933 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 14.57Q1 | 29.53 1.29 up from 2002 | 67 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 9.91Q1 | 19.03 1.86 up from 2002 | 2,518 | 25% | — | ||
3Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.64Q1 | 14.40 4.39 down from 2002 | 155 | 33% | $3,750 | ||
4Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 7.23Q1 | 13.86 3.72 up from 2002 | 151 | 100% | — | ||
5Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 6.16Q1 | 14.69no 2002 value | 134 | 100% | $10,400 | — | |
6Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 6.04Q1 | 13.59 0.10 down from 2002 | 1,168 | 16% | $12,690 | ||
7Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.89Q1 | 9.03 0.52 down from 2002 | 479 | 11% | — | ||
8Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium ProceedingsElsevier BV · United States | 5.85Q1 | 1.78 0.29 down from 2002 | 72 | 96% | $3,200 | ||
9CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 4.98Q1 | 10.65 1.72 up from 2002 | 3,642 | 48% | — | ||
10Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 4.70Q1 | 9.96 0.32 up from 2002 | 2,032 | 7% | — | ||
11JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 4.23Q1 | 9.37 0.08 down from 2002 | 765 | 30% | $5,436 | ||
12Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.23Q1 | 8.20 2.78 up from 2002 | 83 | 3% | $6,710 | ||
13BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 8.53 0.90 up from 2002 | 685 | 28% | $5,570 | ||
14DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.86Q1 | 8.87 0.51 up from 2002 | 1,204 | 51% | — | ||
15GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.79Q1 | 8.63 0.82 up from 2002 | 1,355 | 52% | $4,180 | ||
16Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.76Q1 | 6.83 0.87 up from 2002 | 1,316 | 1% | — | ||
17Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.76Q1 | 6.76 0.01 down from 2002 | 619 | 59% | — | ||
18The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.66Q1 | 7.35 3.18 up from 2002 | 123 | 15% | $7,280 | ||
19Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 4.83 0.23 up from 2002 | 87 | 0% | $4,170 | ||
20Seminars in Liver DiseaseThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 3.64Q1 | 7.13 0.21 down from 2002 | 127 | 0% | — | ||
21Endocrine Related CancerBioscientifica · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 9.53 3.01 up from 2002 | 65 | 76% | — | ||
22Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.50Q1 | 6.96 1.38 up from 2002 | 2,022 | 98% | $7,166 | ||
23IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.34Q1 | 4.42 0.81 up from 2002 | 399 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
24MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.31Q1 | 4.92 0.94 down from 2002 | 108 | 4% | $1,950 | ||
25Archives of Family MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.27Q1 | —no 2002 value | 118 | — | — | ||
26Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.12Q1 | 4.84 0.19 up from 2002 | 1,533 | 7% | — | ||
27American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.07Q1 | 8.06 1.81 up from 2002 | 2,085 | 3% | — | ||
28HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.04Q1 | 7.42 0.52 down from 2002 | 1,314 | 14% | $2,900 | ||
29Schizophrenia BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 4.63 0.63 up from 2002 | 193 | 34% | $4,981 | ||
30Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 2.95Q1 | 6.86 0.17 down from 2002 | 924 | 7% | $4,700 | ||
31Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 2.94Q1 | 4.79 0.46 up from 2002 | 232 | 2% | $4,990 | ||
32Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 4.91 0.35 up from 2002 | 164 | 13% | $4,490 | ||
33Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 2.79Q1 | 6.31 0.78 up from 2002 | 1,351 | 7% | — | ||
34DrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 2.70Q1 | 4.75 0.48 down from 2002 | 517 | 2% | $5,990 | ||
35PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 2.67Q1 | 4.50 0.54 up from 2002 | 2,137 | 2% | — | ||
36Clinical Pharmacology & TherapeuticsWiley · United States | 2.67Q1 | 4.55 0.93 up from 2002 | 323 | 1% | $4,410 | ||
37StrokeLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.66Q1 | 5.54 0.52 up from 2002 | 1,460 | 48% | — | ||
38Journal of Bone and Mineral ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.66Q1 | 5.66 0.07 down from 2002 | 852 | 32% | $3,780 | ||
39Clinical Infectious DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 2.65Q1 | 5.11 0.64 up from 2002 | 2,089 | 26% | $4,763 | ||
40Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology | 2.64Q1 | 6.90 1.65 up from 2002 | 1,011 | 5% | — | ||
41Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 2.60Q1 | 5.85 1.53 up from 2002 | 1,248 | 56% | — | ||
42Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 4.73 0.31 up from 2002 | 125 | 2% | — | ||
43Osteoporosis InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 4.41 0.67 up from 2002 | 352 | 4% | $5,090 | ||
44RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 2.56Q1 | 4.25 0.10 down from 2002 | 1,662 | 2% | — | ||
45BloodElsevier BV · United States | 2.55Q1 | 9.21 2.73 up from 2002 | 4,783 | 34% | $5,500 | ||
46NeurologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.49Q1 | 5.25 0.39 up from 2002 | 3,162 | 11% | — | ||
47HypertensionLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.46Q1 | 6.08 0.89 up from 2002 | 1,235 | 63% | — | ||
48DiabetologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.46Q1 | 5.47 0.84 up from 2002 | 715 | 91% | $3,490 | ||
49Emerging infectious diseasesOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.88 1.15 up from 2002 | 827 | 100% | — | ||
50Parasitology TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | —no 2002 value | 159 | — | — |
Subfields of Medicine, compared.
- Surgery378
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine140
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine128
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health128
- Oncology103
- Epidemiology89
- Infectious Diseases82
- Psychiatry and Mental health82
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging69
- Neurology68
- Physiology67
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism60
- Hematology48
- Dermatology47
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine47
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health47
- Ophthalmology41
- Obstetrics and Gynecology39
- Nephrology27
- Pharmacology27
- Rheumatology27
- Emergency Medicine22
- Reproductive Medicine22
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Complementary and alternative medicine17
- Rehabilitation16
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine15
- Geriatrics and Gerontology13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine12
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
683 additional Medicine journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,933
- Window papers (baseline)
- 918,177 +29.4% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.60 +23.8% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 404Comparison-group list (404)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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 | 1,634 | 1,746 | 1,853 | 1,933 | 2,023 | 2,148 | 2,258 | 2,390 | 2,497 | 2,616 | 2,755 | 2,949 | 3,131 | 3,412 | 3,611 | 3,760 | 3,936 | 4,122 | 4,350 | 4,487 | 4,543 | 4,639 | 4,671 | 4,692 | 4,640 | 4,521 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 709,310 | 795,253 | 851,873 | 918,177 | 953,693 | 1,044,918 | 1,146,485 | 1,266,791 | 1,370,140 | 1,505,784 | 1,634,063 | 1,757,108 | 1,828,247 | 1,889,231 | 1,983,210 | 2,073,801 | 2,149,396 | 2,185,378 | 2,236,129 | 2,298,903 | 2,395,179 | 2,590,856 | 2,809,142 | 2,949,143 | 2,961,797 | 2,982,923 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.704 | 0.724 | 0.739 | 0.756 | 0.748 | 0.760 | 0.730 | 0.749 | 0.741 | 0.725 | 0.717 | 0.701 | 0.702 | 0.715 | 0.663 | 0.655 | 0.661 | 0.660 | 0.67 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.2% | 3,512 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.465 per 1,000 | 3,472 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.9% | 4,166 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 4,521 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,046 | 2,526 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 4,393 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.8% | 4,521 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.69 | 4,492 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.6% | 4,521 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.3% | 4,514 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.