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Journal rankings · indicator year 2004

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Field ranking · 2004

Nursing journal rankings 2004

31 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences

Nursing has 31 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2003 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Journal of Nutrition, and Journal of the American College of Nutrition.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

31
1% of Health Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.80+0.08 vs 2003
This fieldAll 0.76World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

6%
All fields: 14%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,990
Median positive listed APC: $3,990 among 18 journals. 13 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields in Nursing (4)

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31 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
Nursing ranking, 2004

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.

OJR

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
1American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States
2.96Q16.58 0.84 up from 20031,115100%$5,200
2Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States
2.03Q14.17 0.11 up from 20031,84499%$5,200
3Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States
2.02Q14.00 0.40 up from 20032053%—
4BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
1.96Q12.55 0.84 down from 20031473%$4,090
5Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States
1.49Q12.55 0.49 up from 20032125%$3,930
1.36Q13.78 1.81 up from 20031318%$4,110
7Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.35Q13.31 0.53 up from 20032827%—
8Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States
1.28Q10.86 0.08 up from 20032852%—
9Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.25Q20.87 0.05 down from 200327913%$4,010
10LipidsWiley · United States
1.20Q21.97 0.73 down from 20035305%$3,589
1.15Q22.91 0.95 up from 20033457%$3,790
12Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
1.03Q21.76 0.31 up from 200352100%$3,550
13Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.88Q20.73 0.39 up from 20032101%—
14Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States
0.86Q21.50 0.12 up from 20034244%$3,750
15Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany
0.83Q21.34 0.30 up from 20031524%$4,260
16Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States
0.80Q20.57 0.13 down from 20031585%$3,500
17Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.79Q31.33 0.12 down from 200313935%—
0.64Q31.36 0.22 up from 20031705%—
0.64Q31.17 0.49 up from 20032040%—
0.60Q30.95 0.33 up from 20031152%$3,700
0.60Q30.40 0.16 down from 2003374%—
22Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.59Q30.56 0.04 down from 20031219%$3,970
23Nursing Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States
0.53Q30.74 0.02 up from 20031550%$4,150
24Cereal Foods WorldAmerican Association of Cereal Chemists · United States
0.47Q30.43 0.23 down from 2003630%—
25Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.43Q40.90 0.06 down from 20034285%$4,290
0.34Q40.70 0.13 up from 200326246%$4,150
27Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States
0.31Q41.10 0.91 up from 2003798%$3,570
0.20Q40.69 0.41 up from 20038130%—
29Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.20Q40.25 0.05 down from 2003750%—
30Journal of Applied GlycoscienceOAJapanese Society of Applied Glycoscience · Japan
0.18Q40.42 0.04 up from 200317279%—
31Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
0.10Q40.15 0.10 up from 20034430%—

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.

10 additional Nursing 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
31
Window papers (baseline)
24,750 +13.3% from indicator year 2001
Median OJR
0.80 +16.4% from indicator year 2001
Rising journals (2025)
0

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3030303131313232353639424348505556616464686467696560
Window papers (baseline)20,16721,84822,63824,05524,75026,97728,82731,23633,59436,60141,17344,65147,63148,82452,17155,05157,70758,89761,12764,05467,52071,98075,02075,89074,87478,756
Median OJR0.590.6880.6920.720.800.810.921.021.09071.281.3091.3121.291.221.0951.09061.0921.100.9590.980.9641.0010.9410.9390.880.91
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 3.4%50 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 1.077 per 1,00042 journals
Output growthMedian: +0.7%56 journals
Open access shareMedian: 69.5%60 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,56040 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 23.4%59 journals
Review shareMedian: 2.6%60 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.9560 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 23.2%60 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 41.5%60 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.