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Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Field ranking · 2005

Health Professions journal rankings 2005

330 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences

Health Professions has 330 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.19. 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.

Ranked journals

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.

330
13% 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.

0.62+0.02 vs 2004
This fieldAll 0.79World 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.

15%
All fields: 15%
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.

$3,650
Median positive listed APC: $3,650 among 145 journals. 185 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields in Health Professions (11)

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330 ranked journals

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Health Professions ranking, 2005

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 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.

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1Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States
4.73Q13.76 0.97 up from 20049094%$4,430
2The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.10Q18.23 0.71 up from 20045,23929%$7,890
3Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
3.68Q12.80 0.93 up from 2004858%—
4Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States
3.34Q11.27 0.43 down from 2004570%$3,900
5Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany
3.30Q12.78 0.66 down from 2004100100%$2,950
6Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom
3.18Q13.06 0.48 up from 200429991%$3,750
7Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
3.16Q13.51 0.36 up from 20045503%—
8American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States
3.09Q13.91 0.48 up from 20041,19287%—
9Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom
3.03Q15.14 1.24 up from 200426580%$4,332
10The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.96Q13.10 0.40 up from 200431826%$4,408
11JONA s Healthcare Law Ethics and RegulationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.94Q10.36 1.98 down from 2004340%—
12Education for HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.85Q12.97 0.88 up from 20041193%—
13Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom
2.83Q13.14 1.15 up from 200414353%$4,330
2.82Q12.49 0.47 up from 200413314%$3,620
15Journal of Health Services Research & PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
2.65Q11.78 0.16 down from 20049510%$4,150
16Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States
2.45Q11.75 0.45 up from 20041028%$4,400
17Canadian Public PolicyUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada
2.33Q11.23 0.22 up from 20041640%—
18Journal of General Internal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.27Q13.49 0.52 up from 200451862%$5,290
19American Journal of Health PromotionSAGE Publishing · United States
2.23Q13.28 1.10 up from 20041528%$4,150
2.21Q11.02 0.12 up from 200412580%$2,400
21Nursing InquiryWiley · Australia
2.20Q11.25 0.23 down from 20049313%$4,720
22BMJPublisher not listed
2.16Q12.34 2.82 down from 200426628%—
23BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom
2.15Q12.02 0.54 down from 200451199%—
24Health & Social Care in the CommunityWiley · United Kingdom
2.05Q11.97 0.53 up from 200418147%$2,700
1.98Q13.40 0.22 up from 20041,26719%$4,760
1.97Q12.16 0.19 down from 200426410%$3,150
27Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.95Q11.31 0.40 down from 2004957%—
28Health Education & BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States
1.94Q12.59 0.49 up from 20041498%$4,400
29JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.94Q11.80 0.35 up from 20042440%—
30Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.94Q11.63 0.23 up from 20041083%—
31Journal for Healthcare QualityLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.93Q10.48 2.07 down from 20041130%—
32Health Education ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.92Q11.78 0.49 down from 200424335%$4,533
33International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States
1.92Q11.33 0.02 up from 20041054%$4,400
34Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States
1.91Q12.15 0.05 up from 20041646%$3,640
35Gait & PostureElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.88Q12.41 0.22 up from 20042914%$3,510
36Health Care AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
1.88Q11.80 1.03 up from 2004784%$2,890
37Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.83Q12.18 0.73 up from 200413668%$5,123
38Nursing ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.81Q12.49 0.09 up from 20041748%—
39BioethicsWiley · United Kingdom
1.81Q11.63 0.26 up from 20044231%$4,550
40Health ExpectationsOAWiley · United Kingdom
1.77Q12.45 0.62 up from 200410793%$4,190
41Ambulatory PediatricsElsevier BV · United States
1.76Q11.80 0.17 down from 20042140%—
42Journal of Advanced NursingWiley · United Kingdom
1.68Q12.12 0.15 up from 200485413%$5,450
43The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States
1.68Q12.56 0.36 up from 2004180100%—
1.66Q11.24 0.30 up from 20049836%$3,650
1.66Q1—no 2004 value60——
1.64Q11.80 0.11 down from 2004156——
47Journal of Clinical NursingWiley · United Kingdom
1.61Q12.00 0.35 up from 200434525%$5,450
48International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.59Q11.61 0.04 up from 200425436%$3,686
49Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States
1.58Q11.59 0.30 up from 20041371%—
50Quality Management in Health CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.58Q11.11 0.37 up from 2004422%—

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.

117 additional 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
330
Window papers (baseline)
102,597 +29.5% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR
0.62 +12.1% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025)
38Comparison-group list (38)

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals253271295302318330346367390401415428449473492507527551566585601612616609600586
Window papers (baseline)66,02072,76979,19586,33592,515102,597113,331125,469137,977152,092168,072183,124195,764208,179223,186242,061257,124268,029276,391287,165300,893324,777346,759357,796362,286380,673
Median OJR0.530.540.550.580.600.620.630.670.740.810.850.890.84280.84350.8380.900.8340.8160.800.82100.82070.750.730.770.790.830
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 3.6%405 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 0.694 per 1,000396 journals
Output growthMedian: -3.1%554 journals
Open access shareMedian: 74.5%586 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,290259 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 19.6%558 journals
Review shareMedian: 1.8%586 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.86581 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 41.6%586 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 47.9%585 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.