Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Surgery journal rankings 2004
391 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Surgery has 391 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.35, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 0.80. The top three are Diabetes, Gastroenterology, and Annals of Surgery.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery391
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine152
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health137
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine136
- Oncology109
- Epidemiology94
- Infectious Diseases86
- Psychiatry and Mental health82
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging71
- Neurology68
- Physiology67
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism65
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine51
- Dermatology49
- Hematology49
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health49
- Ophthalmology43
- Obstetrics and Gynecology38
- Pharmacology30
- Rheumatology30
- Nephrology28
- Reproductive Medicine25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Complementary and alternative medicine21
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine16
- Rehabilitation16
- Geriatrics and Gerontology14
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine6
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
391 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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1DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 4.00Q1 | 10.00 1.13 up from 2003 | 1,346 | 56% | — | ||
2GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.81Q1 | 9.35 0.72 up from 2003 | 1,505 | 48% | $4,180 | ||
3Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.58Q1 | 6.98 0.22 up from 2003 | 646 | 99% | — | ||
4MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 2.84Q1 | 5.77 0.85 up from 2003 | 112 | 7% | $1,950 | ||
5GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 5.44 0.85 up from 2003 | 1,326 | 96% | — | ||
6The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.18Q1 | 3.46 0.40 up from 2003 | 428 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
7Clinical Journal of PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.13Q1 | 4.35 1.32 up from 2003 | 209 | 4% | — | ||
8Annals of MedicineOAInforma · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 4.58 0.61 up from 2003 | 210 | 96% | $2,557 | ||
9The American Journal of Surgical PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.07Q1 | 4.72 0.65 up from 2003 | 708 | 1% | — | ||
10Current Opinion in LipidologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 4.58 0.41 down from 2003 | 278 | 1% | — | ||
11RadiographicsRadiological Society of North America · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.16 0.73 up from 2003 | 425 | 2% | — | ||
12Annals of Surgical OncologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.80Q1 | 4.40 1.20 up from 2003 | 504 | 2% | $4,590 | ||
13Computer Aided SurgeryTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.96 0.32 down from 2003 | 163 | 38% | — | ||
14British Medical BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 3.18 0.20 up from 2003 | 197 | 8% | $4,362 | ||
15Archives of SurgeryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 1.77Q1 | 3.33 0.45 up from 2003 | 704 | 11% | — | ||
16American Journal of TransplantationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 4.26 0.66 up from 2003 | 507 | 94% | $4,300 | ||
17Journal of Bone and Joint SurgeryWolters Kluwer · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.80 0.49 up from 2003 | 1,297 | 1% | — | ||
18AnesthesiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.69 0.08 up from 2003 | 1,025 | 50% | — | ||
19British journal of surgeryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.44 0.16 up from 2003 | 932 | 33% | $5,007 | ||
20TransplantationWolters Kluwer · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.90 0.03 up from 2003 | 2,302 | 2% | — | ||
21AtherosclerosisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.06 0.13 up from 2003 | 1,043 | 2% | $4,020 | ||
22HelicobacterWiley · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.53 0.26 down from 2003 | 190 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
23Journal of Orthopaedic Research®Wiley · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.88 0.08 down from 2003 | 629 | 42% | $3,970 | ||
24Liver TransplantationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.59Q1 | 3.97 0.16 up from 2003 | 665 | 58% | $2,150 | ||
25SpineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.56Q1 | 2.61 0.19 down from 2003 | 1,830 | 2% | — | ||
26The American Journal of SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.86 0.27 up from 2003 | 882 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
27Human PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.54Q1 | 3.34 0.03 up from 2003 | 666 | 2% | $3,550 | ||
28Gastroenterology Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.68 0.67 up from 2003 | 183 | 0% | $3,560 | ||
29The Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.97 0.43 up from 2003 | 539 | 1% | $3,606 | ||
30Journal of the American College of SurgeonsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.72 0.34 up from 2003 | 770 | 0% | $3,600 | ||
31Surgical Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.41 0.36 up from 2003 | 244 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
32Clinical Orthopaedics and Related ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.46Q1 | 2.21no change | 1,372 | 1% | — | ||
33The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.67 0.92 up from 2003 | 1,051 | 1% | — | ||
34XenotransplantationWiley · Denmark | 1.44Q1 | 2.78 0.17 up from 2003 | 159 | 11% | $4,550 | ||
35British Journal of AnaesthesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 2.54 0.62 down from 2003 | 974 | 99% | $4,450 | ||
36Best Practice & Research Clinical GastroenterologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 3.13 1.43 up from 2003 | 198 | 2% | $3,620 | ||
37The American Journal of GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.40Q1 | 3.35 0.55 up from 2003 | 2,409 | 1% | $4,390 | ||
38Annals of Emergency MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 1.39Q1 | 2.41 0.23 down from 2003 | 749 | 24% | $3,850 | ||
39Obesity SurgerySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.38Q1 | 3.93 1.58 up from 2003 | 371 | 2% | $4,590 | ||
40SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.54 0.08 down from 2003 | 901 | 16% | $4,130 | ||
41World Journal of SurgerySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.32Q1 | 2.40 0.12 up from 2003 | 747 | 3% | $4,000 | ||
42Pain Research and ManagementOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.85no change | 67 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
43Clinical BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.75 0.03 up from 2003 | 408 | 6% | $2,980 | ||
44Current Problems in SurgeryOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.28Q1 | 1.74 0.26 down from 2003 | 40 | 0% | $2,780 | ||
45Journal of Shoulder and Elbow SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.59 0.06 up from 2003 | 340 | 3% | $3,850 | ||
46Atherosclerosis SupplementsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 3.25 1.37 up from 2003 | 81 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
47Journal of Gastrointestinal SurgerySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.21Q1 | 2.65 0.55 up from 2003 | 378 | 3% | $3,950 | ||
48European Spine JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.21Q1 | 2.20no change | 314 | 91% | $2,790 | ||
49Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic SurgeonsPublisher not listed | 1.18Q1 | 1.63 0.54 down from 2003 | 149 | 0% | — | ||
50The LaryngoscopeWiley · United States | 1.18Q1 | 2.11 0.18 up from 2003 | 1,208 | 5% | $4,840 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Surgery highlighted.
- Surgery391
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine152
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health137
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine136
- Oncology109
- Epidemiology94
- Infectious Diseases86
- Psychiatry and Mental health82
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging71
- Neurology68
- Physiology67
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism65
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine51
- Dermatology49
- Hematology49
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health49
- Ophthalmology43
- Obstetrics and Gynecology38
- Pharmacology30
- Rheumatology30
- Nephrology28
- Reproductive Medicine25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Complementary and alternative medicine21
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine16
- Rehabilitation16
- Geriatrics and Gerontology14
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine6
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
121 additional Surgery 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
- 391
- Window papers (baseline)
- 120,545 +15.8% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.3484 +4.7% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 87
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 | 316 | 336 | 358 | 378 | 391 | 409 | 428 | 444 | 474 | 500 | 531 | 570 | 610 | 675 | 734 | 773 | 821 | 852 | 901 | 936 | 962 | 985 | 1,001 | 993 | 980 | 945 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 91,365 | 104,064 | 110,345 | 118,403 | 120,545 | 132,135 | 144,236 | 159,671 | 171,317 | 188,308 | 202,162 | 216,202 | 221,967 | 228,874 | 238,791 | 247,306 | 252,044 | 254,527 | 263,607 | 275,745 | 288,629 | 304,057 | 320,840 | 331,064 | 332,656 | 336,566 | |
| Median OJR | 0.350 | 0.33 | 0.336 | 0.342 | 0.3484 | 0.3482 | 0.37 | 0.452 | 0.443 | 0.43 | 0.4390 | 0.4538 | 0.463 | 0.461 | 0.470 | 0.50 | 0.471 | 0.486 | 0.483 | 0.484 | 0.493 | 0.458 | 0.4386 | 0.446 | 0.4542 | 0.448 |
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.