Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Global ranking · 2004
Journal rankings 2004
11,336 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 11,336 journals for 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.42. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, Linguistic Inquiry, and The Linguistic Review. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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.
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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields11,336 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 27.72Q1 | 30.68 10.29 up from 2003 | 40 | 15% | — | ||
2Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 24.84Q1 | 6.80 4.03 up from 2003 | 97 | 2% | — | ||
3The Linguistic ReviewDe Gruyter · Germany | 24.68Q1 | 10.21 8.96 up from 2003 | 42 | 0% | $2,712 | ||
4Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 23.70Q1 | 36.38 6.03 up from 2003 | 105 | 69% | — | ||
5Natural Language & Linguistic TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 19.73Q1 | 5.36 3.79 up from 2003 | 66 | 5% | $3,090 | ||
6The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 18.29Q1 | 8.25 0.26 down from 2003 | 127 | 17% | $7,619 | ||
7Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 17.89Q1 | 6.98 2.95 up from 2003 | 59 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
8ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 16.92Q1 | 9.68 1.84 up from 2003 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
9CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 15.99Q1 | 43.02 13.49 up from 2003 | 66 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
10European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 15.46Q1 | 2.82 0.35 down from 2003 | 64 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
11Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 15.34Q1 | 10.11 2.27 up from 2003 | 70 | 3% | — | ||
12Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.28Q1 | 5.64 2.64 up from 2003 | 139 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
13Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.04Q1 | 4.07 2.82 down from 2003 | 85 | 5% | $4,170 | ||
14MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.98Q1 | 7.31 0.69 down from 2003 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
15European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.81Q1 | 2.97 1.18 up from 2003 | 50 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
16International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 13.79Q1 | 3.72 0.91 down from 2003 | 121 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
17ACM Transactions on Internet TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 13.78Q1 | 7.81 0.74 down from 2003 | 34 | 19% | — | ||
18Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.25Q1 | 6.57 0.46 up from 2003 | 120 | 11% | $5,400 | ||
19Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.10Q1 | 4.07 2.15 up from 2003 | 73 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
20American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 12.85Q1 | 3.41 0.64 down from 2003 | 233 | 7% | $4,100 | ||
21Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 12.56Q1 | 5.12 1.06 down from 2003 | 170 | 11% | — | ||
22User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.41Q1 | 6.69 1.24 down from 2003 | 46 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
23Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 12.33Q1 | 5.27 1.20 down from 2003 | 48 | 31% | $7,310 | ||
24The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.26Q1 | 5.44 0.22 down from 2003 | 164 | 48% | — | ||
25Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 12.09Q1 | 4.76 1.57 down from 2003 | 237 | 14% | $4,250 | ||
26British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.99Q1 | 3.72 0.43 down from 2003 | 99 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
27Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 11.91Q1 | 3.07 1.18 down from 2003 | 63 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
28Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.53Q1 | 16.06 5.01 up from 2003 | 47 | 0% | $6,150 | ||
29ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.41Q1 | 9.07 2.99 up from 2003 | 38 | 9% | — | ||
30Review of International StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.23Q1 | 3.07 2.50 up from 2003 | 160 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
31The VLDB JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 11.23Q1 | 8.28 0.04 down from 2003 | 62 | 16% | $2,990 | ||
32Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.22Q1 | 5.17 0.32 down from 2003 | 316 | 4% | — | ||
33Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 11.19Q1 | 31.98 10.65 up from 2003 | 82 | 0% | $4,500 | ||
34Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.12Q1 | 4.22 1.66 up from 2003 | 252 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
35Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 11.10Q1 | 4.15 1.01 up from 2003 | 72 | 22% | $4,030 | ||
36Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 11.03Q1 | 1.88 0.36 up from 2003 | 63 | 2% | $3,830 | ||
37Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.83Q1 | 3.68 0.19 up from 2003 | 155 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
38Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 10.75Q1 | 2.89 0.16 up from 2003 | 157 | 15% | — | ||
39The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 10.66Q1 | 5.75 0.72 down from 2003 | 345 | 28% | $4,430 | ||
40Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.64Q1 | 4.12 8.16 down from 2003 | 59 | 13% | $6,040 | ||
41The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.56Q1 | 2.74 4.16 down from 2003 | 95 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
42ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.49Q1 | 9.83 1.03 up from 2003 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
43Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.39Q1 | 3.53 0.31 down from 2003 | 92 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
44International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.39Q1 | 1.66 0.38 up from 2003 | 35 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
45JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 10.29Q1 | 2.56 0.41 up from 2003 | 182 | 41% | $4,170 | ||
46IEEE Personal CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 10.26Q1 | 1.20 8.57 down from 2003 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
47New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 10.19Q1 | 19.73 0.70 up from 2003 | 2,638 | 23% | — | ||
48Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 10.17Q1 | 5.00 1.48 down from 2003 | 50 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
49Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.10Q1 | 15.43 6.06 up from 2003 | 45 | 70% | — | ||
50American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 9.97Q1 | 3.25 0.41 up from 2003 | 52 | 0% | — |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences2,023
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences1,698
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences1,159
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences765
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences627
- PsychologySocial Sciences609
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences542
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences510
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences498
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences379
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences364
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences318
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences305
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences275
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences262
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences243
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences223
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences155
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences92
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences84
- DentistryHealth Sciences71
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences43
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences32
- NursingHealth Sciences31
- EnergyPhysical Sciences19
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences9
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
3,838 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 11,336
- Window papers (baseline)
- 6,719,812 +22.6% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.76 +12.9% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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 |
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| Ranked journals | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.