Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Rheumatology journal rankings 2003
27 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Rheumatology has 27 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2002 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.54. The top three are Arthritis & Rheumatism, Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, and Arthritis Care & Research.
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
- Rheumatology27
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- Hematology48
- Dermatology47
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine47
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health47
- Ophthalmology41
- Obstetrics and Gynecology39
- Nephrology27
- Pharmacology27
- 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
27 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 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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1Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 2.79Q1 | 6.31 0.78 up from 2002 | 1,351 | 7% | — | ||
2Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 2.04Q1 | 3.80no change | 157 | 0% | $3,500 | ||
3Arthritis Care & ResearchWiley · United States | 2.01Q1 | 3.29no 2002 value | 112 | 9% | $4,640 | — | |
4Osteoarthritis and CartilageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.63 0.58 up from 2002 | 308 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
5Current Opinion in RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.75Q1 | 3.52 0.49 down from 2002 | 267 | 1% | — | ||
6Seminars in Arthritis and RheumatismElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.33 0.15 up from 2002 | 139 | 0% | $4,370 | ||
7Arthritis ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.41 0.35 up from 2002 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
8Lara D. VeekenOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 2.86 0.52 up from 2002 | 442 | 20% | $4,597 | ||
9International Urogynecology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 2.66 0.81 up from 2002 | 196 | 2% | $3,790 | ||
10Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 2.92 0.05 up from 2002 | 975 | 90% | $4,870 | ||
11Current Rheumatology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.33Q2 | 1.88 0.54 up from 2002 | 210 | 0% | $4,490 | ||
12British journal of rheumatologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 2.47 0.45 up from 2002 | 492 | 21% | — | ||
13Best Practice & Research Clinical RheumatologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 1.80 0.36 up from 2002 | 149 | 0% | $4,180 | ||
14LupusSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.76 0.03 up from 2002 | 441 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
15Scandinavian Journal of RheumatologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 1.75 0.04 down from 2002 | 215 | 4% | — | ||
16Connective Tissue ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.02 0.83 down from 2002 | 150 | 3% | — | ||
17Rheumatology InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.59Q3 | 0.86 1.08 down from 2002 | 79 | 4% | $4,990 | ||
18Clinical RheumatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Belgium | 0.58Q3 | 0.90 0.02 down from 2002 | 309 | 3% | $4,890 | ||
19Autoimmunity ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.54Q3 | 1.17no 2002 value | 52 | 1% | $4,730 | — | |
20Joint Bone SpineElsevier BV · France | 0.43Q3 | 0.87 0.22 up from 2002 | 243 | 1% | $3,020 | ||
21Zeitschrift für RheumatologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.40Q3 | 0.47 0.54 down from 2002 | 158 | 2% | $3,390 | ||
22Arthritis Research & TherapyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.70 0.03 up from 2002 | 476 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
23JCR Journal of Clinical RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.35 0.01 up from 2002 | 176 | 0% | — | ||
24La Revue de Médecine InterneElsevier BV · France | 0.13Q4 | 0.26 0.01 up from 2002 | 738 | 0% | $2,300 | ||
25PteridinesOADe Gruyter Open · Germany | 0.11Q4 | 0.31 0.03 down from 2002 | 53 | 100% | $1,808 | ||
26Modern RheumatologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.04Q4 | 0.09 0.04 down from 2002 | 189 | 2% | $3,208 | ||
27Revista española de reumatología: Órgano Oficial de la Sociedad Española de ReumatologíaPublisher not listed | 0.02Q4 | 0.09 0.02 down from 2002 | 165 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Rheumatology 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.
11 additional Rheumatology 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
- 27
- Window papers (baseline)
- 24,459 +37.2% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.81 -11.7% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 30 | 32 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 43 | 49 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 65 | 65 | 67 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 67 | 67 | 70 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 17,821 | 20,685 | 22,377 | 24,459 | 25,269 | 27,867 | 30,643 | 33,672 | 36,348 | 39,439 | 42,988 | 46,086 | 48,179 | 49,400 | 51,214 | 53,341 | 54,578 | 55,366 | 56,123 | 57,306 | 59,410 | 62,541 | 65,720 | 67,501 | 67,701 | 69,555 | |
| Median OJR | 0.91 | 0.782 | 0.862 | 0.81 | 0.884 | 1.05 | 0.855 | 0.803 | 0.92 | 0.891 | 0.7969 | 0.888 | 0.877 | 0.95 | 0.879 | 0.847 | 0.9574 | 0.889 | 0.873 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.9569 | 0.869 | 0.851 | 0.785 | 0.7970 |
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.