Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
General Health Professions journal rankings 2005
260 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
General Health Professions has 260 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.25. The top three are Milbank Quarterly, The Lancet, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions260
- Occupational Therapy20
- Emergency Medical Services13
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation13
- Health Information Management9
- Speech and Hearing6
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology4
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
- Pharmacy0
260 ranked journals
Filters
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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.73Q1 | 3.76 0.97 up from 2004 | 90 | 94% | $4,430 | ||
2The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.10Q1 | 8.23 0.71 up from 2004 | 5,239 | 29% | $7,890 | ||
3Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.68Q1 | 2.80 0.93 up from 2004 | 85 | 8% | — | ||
4Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.34Q1 | 1.27 0.43 down from 2004 | 57 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
5Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.30Q1 | 2.78 0.66 down from 2004 | 100 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
6Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 3.06 0.48 up from 2004 | 299 | 91% | $3,750 | ||
7Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.16Q1 | 3.51 0.36 up from 2004 | 550 | 3% | — | ||
8American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.09Q1 | 3.91 0.48 up from 2004 | 1,192 | 87% | — | ||
9The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 3.10 0.40 up from 2004 | 318 | 26% | $4,408 | ||
10JONA s Healthcare Law Ethics and RegulationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.94Q1 | 0.36 1.98 down from 2004 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
11Education for HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 2.97 0.88 up from 2004 | 119 | 3% | — | ||
12Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 3.14 1.15 up from 2004 | 143 | 53% | $4,330 | ||
13American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 2.49 0.47 up from 2004 | 133 | 14% | $3,620 | ||
14Journal of Health Services Research & PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 1.78 0.16 down from 2004 | 95 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
15Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.45Q1 | 1.75 0.45 up from 2004 | 102 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
16Canadian Public PolicyUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 2.33Q1 | 1.23 0.22 up from 2004 | 164 | 0% | — | ||
17Journal of General Internal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 3.49 0.52 up from 2004 | 518 | 62% | $5,290 | ||
18American Journal of Health PromotionSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.23Q1 | 3.28 1.10 up from 2004 | 152 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
19INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and FinancingOASAGE Publishing · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.02 0.12 up from 2004 | 125 | 80% | $2,400 | ||
20Nursing InquiryWiley · Australia | 2.20Q1 | 1.25 0.23 down from 2004 | 93 | 13% | $4,720 | ||
21BMJPublisher not listed | 2.16Q1 | 2.34 2.82 down from 2004 | 266 | 28% | — | ||
22BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 2.02 0.54 down from 2004 | 511 | 99% | — | ||
23Health & Social Care in the CommunityWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.97 0.53 up from 2004 | 181 | 47% | $2,700 | ||
24Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyWiley · United States | 1.98Q1 | 3.40 0.22 up from 2004 | 1,267 | 19% | $4,760 | ||
25Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.95Q1 | 1.31 0.40 down from 2004 | 95 | 7% | — | ||
26Health Education & BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.59 0.49 up from 2004 | 149 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
27JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.80 0.35 up from 2004 | 244 | 0% | — | ||
28Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.63 0.23 up from 2004 | 108 | 3% | — | ||
29Journal for Healthcare QualityLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.93Q1 | 0.48 2.07 down from 2004 | 113 | 0% | — | ||
30Health Education ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 1.78 0.49 down from 2004 | 243 | 35% | $4,533 | ||
31International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.33 0.02 up from 2004 | 105 | 4% | $4,400 | ||
32Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.15 0.05 up from 2004 | 164 | 6% | $3,640 | ||
33Health Care AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.80 1.03 up from 2004 | 78 | 4% | $2,890 | ||
34Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.18 0.73 up from 2004 | 136 | 68% | $5,123 | ||
35Nursing ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.81Q1 | 2.49 0.09 up from 2004 | 174 | 8% | — | ||
36BioethicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 1.63 0.26 up from 2004 | 42 | 31% | $4,550 | ||
37Health ExpectationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.45 0.62 up from 2004 | 107 | 93% | $4,190 | ||
38Ambulatory PediatricsElsevier BV · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.80 0.17 down from 2004 | 214 | 0% | — | ||
39Journal of Advanced NursingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.12 0.15 up from 2004 | 854 | 13% | $5,450 | ||
40The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.56 0.36 up from 2004 | 180 | 100% | — | ||
41Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 1.24 0.30 up from 2004 | 98 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
42The Joint Commission Journal on Quality ImprovementElsevier BV · United States | 1.66Q1 | —no 2004 value | 60 | — | — | ||
43Journal of Clinical NursingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.00 0.35 up from 2004 | 345 | 25% | $5,450 | ||
44International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 1.61 0.04 up from 2004 | 254 | 36% | $3,686 | ||
45Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.58Q1 | 1.59 0.30 up from 2004 | 137 | 1% | — | ||
46Quality Management in Health CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.58Q1 | 1.11 0.37 up from 2004 | 42 | 2% | — | ||
47Journal of Health Organization and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 1.03 0.60 up from 2004 | 66 | 6% | — | ||
48Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 1.52Q1 | 2.17 0.14 down from 2004 | 159 | 94% | $2,480 | ||
49Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 1.29 0.19 down from 2004 | 441 | 5% | $4,220 | ||
50Family & Community HealthLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.67 0.52 up from 2004 | 81 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with General Health Professions highlighted.
- General Health Professions260
- Occupational Therapy20
- Emergency Medical Services13
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation13
- Health Information Management9
- Speech and Hearing6
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology4
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
- Pharmacy0
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
85 additional General Health Professions journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 260
- Window papers (baseline)
- 58,843 +28.6% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 0.6706 +21.6% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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 | 204 | 215 | 234 | 238 | 250 | 260 | 271 | 289 | 305 | 314 | 327 | 334 | 351 | 371 | 387 | 398 | 417 | 437 | 449 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 484 | 484 | 478 | 466 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 38,240 | 42,047 | 45,752 | 49,898 | 53,367 | 58,843 | 64,217 | 70,320 | 76,474 | 83,408 | 92,174 | 100,149 | 106,727 | 112,937 | 120,774 | 132,312 | 141,342 | 148,496 | 153,280 | 159,194 | 164,940 | 176,625 | 186,208 | 190,820 | 188,939 | 194,090 | |
| Median OJR | 0.550 | 0.56 | 0.552 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.6706 | 0.6705 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.835 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.848 | 0.838 | 0.82 | 0.845 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.810 | 0.814 | 0.855 |
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.