Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Rheumatology journal rankings 2005
32 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Rheumatology has 32 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.17 on 2004 to 1.05, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.73. The top three are Arthritis & Rheumatism, European Cells and Materials, and Current Opinion in Rheumatology.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery409
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine172
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health145
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine139
- Oncology120
- Infectious Diseases92
- Epidemiology91
- Psychiatry and Mental health87
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging81
- Neurology76
- Physiology72
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism70
- Rheumatology32
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine54
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health52
- Dermatology49
- Hematology48
- Ophthalmology46
- Obstetrics and Gynecology41
- Nephrology31
- Pharmacology31
- Complementary and alternative medicine25
- Reproductive Medicine25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Geriatrics and Gerontology19
- Otorhinolaryngology17
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine17
- Rehabilitation17
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine13
- Immunology and Allergy12
- Hepatology9
- Genetics8
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine6
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology6
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
32 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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1Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 3.26Q1 | 8.13 0.77 up from 2004 | 1,541 | 11% | — | ||
2European Cells and MaterialsOASwitzerland | 2.28Q1 | 5.13 2.28 up from 2004 | 32 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
3Current Opinion in RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.05Q1 | 5.03 1.01 up from 2004 | 316 | 5% | — | ||
4Lara D. VeekenOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 5.11 1.82 up from 2004 | 167 | 30% | $4,597 | ||
5Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 4.74 1.00 up from 2004 | 1,278 | 89% | $4,870 | ||
6Osteoarthritis and CartilageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.37 0.79 up from 2004 | 360 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
7Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 4.26 1.24 up from 2004 | 145 | 0% | $3,500 | ||
8Seminars in Arthritis and RheumatismElsevier BV · United States | 1.73Q1 | 3.47 0.91 down from 2004 | 145 | 0% | $4,370 | ||
9Arthritis Care & ResearchWiley · United States | 1.70Q2 | 3.44 0.32 up from 2004 | 403 | 15% | $4,640 | ||
10Arthritis ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 3.29 0.19 down from 2004 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
11Arthritis Research & TherapyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 5.64 3.60 up from 2004 | 209 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
12British journal of rheumatologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 3.09 0.34 up from 2004 | 941 | 26% | — | ||
13Best Practice & Research Clinical RheumatologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.90 0.56 up from 2004 | 171 | 4% | $4,180 | ||
14Autoimmunity ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 2.78 0.02 up from 2004 | 242 | 2% | $4,730 | ||
15Scandinavian Journal of RheumatologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 3.00 1.25 up from 2004 | 237 | 6% | — | ||
16LupusSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.94 0.76 up from 2004 | 437 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
17Current Rheumatology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.01Q3 | 2.25 0.13 up from 2004 | 203 | 0% | $4,490 | ||
18International Urogynecology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.96Q3 | 2.10 0.47 up from 2004 | 308 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
19Connective Tissue ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q3 | 2.81 0.96 up from 2004 | 215 | 0% | — | ||
20Joint Bone SpineElsevier BV · France | 0.62Q3 | 1.30 0.23 up from 2004 | 452 | 1% | $3,020 | ||
21Rheumatology InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.61Q3 | 1.16 0.15 up from 2004 | 346 | 5% | $4,990 | ||
22Clinical RheumatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Belgium | 0.60Q3 | 1.15 0.08 down from 2004 | 465 | 8% | $4,890 | ||
23Zeitschrift für RheumatologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.35Q3 | 0.95 0.49 up from 2004 | 172 | 5% | $3,390 | ||
24La Revue de Médecine InterneElsevier BV · France | 0.18Q3 | 0.44 0.07 down from 2004 | 797 | 0% | $2,300 | ||
25JCR Journal of Clinical RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.16Q4 | 0.43 0.14 up from 2004 | 240 | 0% | — | ||
26PteridinesOADe Gruyter Open · Germany | 0.15Q4 | 0.57 0.08 up from 2004 | 48 | 79% | $1,808 | ||
27APLAR Journal of RheumatologyWiley · Singapore | 0.13Q4 | 0.30 0.24 up from 2004 | 80 | 2% | — | ||
28Musculoskeletal CareWiley · United Kingdom | 0.12Q4 | 0.33 0.24 down from 2004 | 40 | 21% | $3,240 | ||
29Journal of Pelvic Medicine and SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.22 0.11 down from 2004 | 79 | 0% | — | ||
30Modern RheumatologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.07Q4 | 0.20 0.01 up from 2004 | 287 | 1% | $3,208 | ||
31Revista española de reumatología: Órgano Oficial de la Sociedad Española de ReumatologíaPublisher not listed | 0.05Q4 | 0.06 0.03 up from 2004 | 191 | 0% | — | ||
32Revista Brasileira de ReumatologiaOAElsevier BV · Brazil | 0.04Q4 | 0.09 0.09 up from 2004 | 101 | 100% | $2,490 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Rheumatology highlighted.
- Surgery409
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine172
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health145
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine139
- Oncology120
- Infectious Diseases92
- Epidemiology91
- Psychiatry and Mental health87
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging81
- Neurology76
- Physiology72
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism70
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine54
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health52
- Dermatology49
- Hematology48
- Ophthalmology46
- Obstetrics and Gynecology41
- Rheumatology32
- Nephrology31
- Pharmacology31
- Complementary and alternative medicine25
- Reproductive Medicine25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Geriatrics and Gerontology19
- Otorhinolaryngology17
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine17
- Rehabilitation17
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine13
- Immunology and Allergy12
- Hepatology9
- Genetics8
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine6
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology6
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
12 additional Rheumatology 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)
- 27,867 +24.5% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.05 +21.8% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 30 | 32 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 43 | 49 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 65 | 65 | 67 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 67 | 67 | 70 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 17,821 | 20,685 | 22,377 | 24,459 | 25,269 | 27,867 | 30,643 | 33,672 | 36,348 | 39,439 | 42,988 | 46,086 | 48,179 | 49,400 | 51,214 | 53,341 | 54,578 | 55,366 | 56,123 | 57,306 | 59,410 | 62,541 | 65,720 | 67,501 | 67,701 | 69,555 | |
| Median OJR | 0.91 | 0.782 | 0.862 | 0.81 | 0.884 | 1.05 | 0.855 | 0.803 | 0.92 | 0.891 | 0.7969 | 0.888 | 0.877 | 0.95 | 0.879 | 0.847 | 0.9574 | 0.889 | 0.873 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.9569 | 0.869 | 0.851 | 0.785 | 0.7970 |
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.