Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging journal rankings 2003
69 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging has 69 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.02. The top three are Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and Radiology.
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 of Medicine (42)
- 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
69 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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1Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 4.83 0.23 up from 2002 | 87 | 0% | $4,170 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.34Q1 | 4.42 0.81 up from 2002 | 399 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
3RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 2.56Q1 | 4.25 0.10 down from 2002 | 1,662 | 2% | — | ||
4Seminars in Radiation OncologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.06 1.43 up from 2002 | 128 | 1% | $3,330 | ||
5Seminars in Nuclear MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 1.99Q1 | 4.05 1.58 up from 2002 | 100 | 0% | $5,090 | ||
6Magnetic Resonance in MedicineWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.75 0.39 up from 2002 | 999 | 66% | $3,680 | ||
7Journal of Magnetic Resonance ImagingWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.20 0.03 up from 2002 | 709 | 64% | $3,680 | ||
8NMR in BiomedicineWiley · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 3.50 1.28 up from 2002 | 179 | 27% | $3,640 | ||
9Physics in Medicine and BiologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.36 0.04 up from 2002 | 908 | 62% | $3,325 | ||
10Journal of Refractive SurgerySlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.40 0.21 up from 2002 | 298 | 1% | — | ||
11European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 2.83 0.05 up from 2002 | 633 | 4% | $3,490 | ||
12Investigative RadiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.36Q1 | 2.22 0.55 down from 2002 | 292 | 2% | — | ||
13American Journal of RoentgenologyAmerican Roentgen Ray Society · United States | 1.36Q1 | 2.41 0.09 up from 2002 | 1,947 | 6% | — | ||
14CorneaLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.95 0.39 up from 2002 | 586 | 1% | — | ||
15Radiation ResearchRadiation Research Society · United States | 1.17Q1 | 3.15 0.66 up from 2002 | 614 | 6% | — | ||
16Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic ResonanceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 1.71 0.45 down from 2002 | 80 | 6% | $3,000 | ||
17Ultrasonic ImagingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q1 | 1.42 0.09 up from 2002 | 48 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
18International Journal of Radiation BiologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.02Q1 | 2.30 0.22 up from 2002 | 357 | 4% | — | ||
19Molecular ImagingOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.10no 2002 value | 41 | 100% | $2,175 | — | |
20Plasma Chemistry and Plasma ProcessingSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.29 0.13 up from 2002 | 101 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
21Nuclear Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 2.02 0.06 down from 2002 | 354 | 6% | $3,740 | ||
22Journal of Computer Assisted TomographyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.52 0.08 down from 2002 | 517 | 1% | — | ||
23Magnetic Resonance ImagingElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.49 0.08 down from 2002 | 502 | 5% | $3,380 | ||
24Topics in Magnetic Resonance ImagingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.49 0.20 up from 2002 | 98 | 0% | — | ||
25European RadiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.93Q2 | 1.71 0.44 up from 2002 | 646 | 3% | $2,890 | ||
26European Journal of RadiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 1.29 0.01 down from 2002 | 390 | 4% | $3,440 | ||
27Health PhysicsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.14 0.05 down from 2002 | 425 | 1% | — | ||
28Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.82Q2 | 2.00 0.81 up from 2002 | 141 | 0% | $5,090 | ||
29Computerized Medical Imaging and GraphicsElsevier BV · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.33 0.24 up from 2002 | 166 | 5% | $3,180 | ||
30Academic RadiologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.75Q2 | 1.49 0.07 up from 2002 | 536 | 4% | $3,510 | ||
31Clinical RadiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 1.25 0.16 up from 2002 | 621 | 3% | $3,530 | ||
32Journal of Nuclear CardiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.37 0.46 up from 2002 | 263 | 1% | $4,190 | ||
33British Journal of RadiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 1.18 0.25 up from 2002 | 623 | 2% | $3,005 | ||
34International Journal of Imaging Systems and TechnologyWiley · United States | 0.72Q2 | 0.30 0.72 down from 2002 | 80 | 7% | $3,800 | ||
34Lasers in Medical ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.36 0.38 up from 2002 | 106 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
36Radiation and Environmental BiophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.72Q3 | 1.13 0.01 up from 2002 | 118 | 12% | $3,290 | ||
37Cancer Biotherapy and RadiopharmaceuticalsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.58 0.19 up from 2002 | 181 | 4% | — | ||
38Computer Methods and Programs in BiomedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.66Q3 | 0.99no change | 231 | 5% | $3,350 | ||
39Radiation Protection DosimetryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 0.71 0.20 up from 2002 | 364 | 5% | $4,533 | ||
40Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & SurgeryMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.34 0.21 up from 2002 | 135 | 4% | — | ||
41Medical & Biological Engineering & ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.63Q3 | 1.02 0.15 down from 2002 | 297 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
42Nuclear Medicine CommunicationsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.23 0.29 up from 2002 | 487 | 1% | — | ||
43Acta RadiologicaSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 1.02 0.17 up from 2002 | 403 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
44RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden VerfahrenThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.52Q3 | 0.85 0.25 up from 2002 | 629 | 1% | — | ||
45Clinical ImagingElsevier BV · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.85 0.42 up from 2002 | 247 | 1% | $3,310 | ||
46Molecular Imaging and BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.79no 2002 value | 48 | 2% | $4,190 | — | |
47Journal of Radiological ProtectionIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.47 0.01 up from 2002 | 229 | 62% | $3,325 | ||
48Korean Journal of RadiologyKorean Society of Radiology · South Korea | 0.47Q3 | 1.05 0.65 up from 2002 | 125 | 98% | — | ||
49Journal of Imaging Informatics in MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.64 0.25 down from 2002 | 151 | 83% | $4,690 | ||
50American Journal of Forensic Medicine & PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.57 0.02 down from 2002 | 266 | 1% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging highlighted.
- 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.
26 additional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,035 +15.8% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.721 +14.7% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 17
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 | 61 | 62 | 65 | 69 | 71 | 81 | 86 | 91 | 94 | 99 | 105 | 108 | 112 | 129 | 136 | 138 | 142 | 144 | 146 | 153 | 160 | 170 | 165 | 161 | 161 | 160 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 31,991 | 33,317 | 34,796 | 37,035 | 39,286 | 43,274 | 47,322 | 52,587 | 57,088 | 62,304 | 66,935 | 71,199 | 73,942 | 75,725 | 78,414 | 81,654 | 84,328 | 85,658 | 86,101 | 86,811 | 88,776 | 94,999 | 102,782 | 107,079 | 109,840 | 115,452 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.69 | 0.70 | 0.721 | 0.738 | 0.737 | 0.81 | 0.797 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.92 | 0.890 | 0.90 | 0.720 | 0.785 | 0.799 | 0.7862 | 0.7860 | 0.788 | 0.782 | 0.891 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.722 | 0.725 | 0.71 |
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.