Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Health journal rankings 2004
32 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 32 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.52, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
32 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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1Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 2.77 0.24 down from 2003 | 1,287 | 8% | $3,800 | ||
2Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.76Q1 | 1.82 1.37 down from 2003 | 95 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 2.63 0.15 up from 2003 | 713 | 92% | — | ||
4Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.27 0.30 up from 2003 | 103 | 6% | $4,790 | ||
5Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 1.34 0.04 down from 2003 | 256 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
6Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.00 0.07 down from 2003 | 82 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
7Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.39Q1 | 0.99 0.86 down from 2003 | 135 | 3% | — | ||
8Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 1.18 0.01 up from 2003 | 86 | 3% | $4,090 | ||
9Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.31 0.32 up from 2003 | 231 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
10Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.27Q2 | 0.89 0.08 up from 2003 | 57 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
11Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.26Q2 | 1.64 0.17 up from 2003 | 81 | 7% | $4,400 | ||
12The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.16Q2 | 0.66 0.45 down from 2003 | 108 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
13Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.23 0.59 up from 2003 | 215 | 7% | $3,130 | ||
14Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 0.73Q2 | 1.06 0.11 up from 2003 | 380 | 73% | $2,600 | ||
15Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.60Q2 | 0.48 0.06 down from 2003 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
16International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 0.55Q2 | 0.55 0.11 down from 2003 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
17Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 0.63 0.38 up from 2003 | 83 | 5% | — | ||
18Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.31 0.07 down from 2003 | 113 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
19Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 0.42Q3 | 0.61 0.12 up from 2003 | 592 | 100% | — | ||
20Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.30Q3 | 0.27 0.14 up from 2003 | 117 | 0% | $3,090 | ||
21International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.29Q3 | 0.41 0.02 down from 2003 | 87 | 10% | — | ||
22Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.24Q3 | 0.21 0.09 down from 2003 | 34 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
23Journal of Religious GerontologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.23Q3 | 0.34 0.16 up from 2003 | 101 | 4% | — | ||
24Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.21Q3 | 0.16 0.11 up from 2003 | 133 | — | — | ||
25Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.09 0.05 up from 2003 | 108 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
26Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.16Q4 | 0.14 0.03 up from 2003 | 96 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
27Health and Social Care ChaplaincyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.06Q4 | 0.09 0.04 up from 2003 | 65 | 41% | — | ||
28Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 0.06Q4 | 0.03 0.16 down from 2003 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
29American Journal of Pastoral CounselingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.03Q4 | 0.00 0.02 down from 2003 | 78 | 4% | — | ||
30Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.02Q4 | 0.01 0.01 down from 2003 | 236 | 0% | — | ||
31Spirituality and Health InternationalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.00Q4 | 0.01 0.04 down from 2003 | 88 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 46 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science716
- Education363
- Political Science and International Relations222
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies36
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Law26
- Demography24
- Transportation24
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
5 additional Health 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
- 32
- Window papers (baseline)
- 9,628 +20.1% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.5180 -13.3% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.