Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Health journal rankings 2005
32 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 32 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2004 to 0.38, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.74. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and Homicide Studies.
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 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 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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1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.53Q1 | 3.51 1.69 up from 2004 | 95 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
2Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 3.48 0.71 up from 2004 | 1,420 | 10% | $3,800 | ||
3Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.54Q1 | 1.00 0.11 up from 2004 | 52 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
4Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 1.80 0.80 up from 2004 | 86 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
5Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 2.91 0.28 up from 2004 | 749 | 94% | — | ||
6Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 2.03 0.85 up from 2004 | 93 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
7Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.10 0.17 down from 2004 | 105 | 5% | $4,790 | ||
8Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 1.71 0.37 up from 2004 | 306 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
9Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.72Q2 | 1.49 0.19 up from 2004 | 236 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.63 0.01 down from 2004 | 99 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
11Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.16Q2 | 0.84 0.15 down from 2004 | 197 | 2% | — | ||
12The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.12Q2 | 0.87 0.21 up from 2004 | 104 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
13Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 0.80Q2 | 1.11 0.05 up from 2004 | 369 | 93% | $2,600 | ||
14Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.18 0.05 down from 2004 | 262 | 9% | $3,130 | ||
15Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 0.59Q2 | 0.65 0.04 up from 2004 | 557 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.39Q2 | 0.54 0.24 up from 2004 | 109 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
17Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.38Q3 | 0.20 0.28 down from 2004 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
18International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.61 0.06 up from 2004 | 73 | 0% | — | ||
19Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 0.35Q3 | 0.11 0.08 up from 2004 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
20Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.40 0.23 down from 2004 | 80 | 4% | — | ||
21Journal of Religious GerontologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.19 0.16 down from 2004 | 92 | — | — | ||
22Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.31Q3 | 0.35 0.20 up from 2004 | 87 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
23International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.24Q3 | 0.30 0.11 down from 2004 | 68 | 6% | — | ||
24Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.24Q3 | 0.25 0.02 down from 2004 | 116 | 4% | $3,090 | ||
25Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.21no change | 46 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
26Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.10no change | 168 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
27Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.09 0.06 down from 2004 | 89 | — | — | ||
28Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.10Q4 | 0.57 0.57 up from 2004 | 43 | — | — | ||
29Spirituality and Health InternationalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.08Q4 | 0.07 0.05 up from 2004 | 133 | 2% | — | ||
30Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.04Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2004 | 237 | 0% | — | ||
31Health and Social Care ChaplaincyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.04Q4 | 0.00 0.09 down from 2004 | 66 | 52% | — | ||
32American Journal of Pastoral CounselingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 61 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science742
- Education390
- Political Science and International Relations236
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies39
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Linguistics and Language30
- Anthropology29
- Transportation28
- Law25
- Demography22
- Urban Studies21
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
5 additional Health 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
- 32
- Window papers (baseline)
- 10,256 +19.5% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 0.38 -50.2% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 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.