Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Field ranking · 2006
Medicine journal rankings 2006
2,258 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Medicine has 2,258 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Endocrine Reviews, and New England Journal of Medicine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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 in Medicine (42)
Up to Health Sciences- Surgery428
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine181
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health154
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine150
- Oncology120
- Epidemiology97
- Infectious Diseases95
- Psychiatry and Mental health89
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging86
- Neurology82
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism78
- Physiology75
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine54
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health54
- Dermatology51
- Hematology48
- Ophthalmology48
- Obstetrics and Gynecology41
- Rheumatology37
- Nephrology34
- Pharmacology29
- Complementary and alternative medicine27
- Reproductive Medicine27
- Emergency Medicine24
- Geriatrics and Gerontology23
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Rehabilitation18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine17
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Immunology and Allergy12
- Genetics9
- Hepatology9
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Urology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
2,258 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 24.88Q1 | 70.14 21.70 up from 2005 | 61 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 11.25Q1 | 26.20 4.03 up from 2005 | 119 | 19% | $3,750 | ||
3New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 10.15Q1 | 21.50 1.19 up from 2005 | 2,868 | 24% | — | ||
4Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 8.28Q1 | 14.45 2.51 up from 2005 | 444 | 21% | — | ||
5Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 8.13Q1 | 16.96 4.07 up from 2005 | 126 | 100% | — | ||
6Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 5.96Q1 | 16.92 1.10 up from 2005 | 423 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
7Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 5.78Q1 | 12.74 1.71 down from 2005 | 1,231 | 15% | $12,690 | ||
8CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.62Q1 | 12.40 0.43 down from 2005 | 3,669 | 27% | — | ||
9Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 4.74Q1 | 11.33 0.31 up from 2005 | 2,956 | 9% | — | ||
10JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 4.36Q1 | 11.00 0.68 up from 2005 | 808 | 29% | $5,436 | ||
11Obesity ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.25Q1 | 9.93 0.81 up from 2005 | 100 | 11% | $5,450 | ||
12PLoS PathogensOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.19Q1 | 7.38no 2005 value | 39 | 100% | $3,043 | — | |
13Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.18Q1 | 9.99 1.68 up from 2005 | 2,308 | 91% | $7,166 | ||
14Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.15Q1 | 9.14 1.57 up from 2005 | 90 | 22% | $6,710 | ||
15Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 4.14Q1 | 8.76 0.94 up from 2005 | 747 | 65% | — | ||
16Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 8.27 1.83 up from 2005 | 152 | 22% | $4,490 | ||
17GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.01Q1 | 10.23 1.07 up from 2005 | 1,521 | 47% | $4,180 | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.01Q1 | 5.64 0.19 down from 2005 | 439 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
19DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.90Q1 | 9.98 0.83 up from 2005 | 1,385 | 57% | — | ||
20Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.74Q1 | 7.27 0.50 up from 2005 | 1,303 | 13% | — | ||
21BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 8.28 0.27 up from 2005 | 861 | 38% | $5,570 | ||
22Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.61Q1 | 7.54 0.87 up from 2005 | 1,448 | 2% | — | ||
23JNCI MonographsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 4.41 1.63 down from 2005 | 96 | 59% | — | ||
24The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.47Q1 | 8.46 1.79 up from 2005 | 327 | 11% | $7,280 | ||
25MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.35Q1 | 7.58 1.20 up from 2005 | 106 | 13% | $1,950 | ||
26PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 3.29Q1 | 5.49 1.00 up from 2005 | 371 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
27European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 7.10 0.22 up from 2005 | 1,099 | 26% | $5,922 | ||
28Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 3.24Q1 | 8.01 0.28 up from 2005 | 919 | 12% | $4,700 | ||
29Seminars in Nuclear MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 3.24Q1 | 6.13 1.74 up from 2005 | 89 | 0% | $5,090 | ||
30Clinical Pharmacology & TherapeuticsWiley · United States | 3.23Q1 | 6.20 0.31 up from 2005 | 453 | 3% | $4,410 | ||
31Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 7.35 1.40 up from 2005 | 132 | 5% | — | ||
32Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.14Q1 | 8.53 1.45 up from 2005 | 2,117 | 52% | — | ||
33Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 3.13Q1 | 7.81 0.32 down from 2005 | 1,713 | 12% | — | ||
34European Cells and MaterialsOASwitzerland | 3.12Q1 | 4.59 0.54 down from 2005 | 41 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
35The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.11Q1 | 6.35 0.73 down from 2005 | 419 | 7% | $7,280 | ||
36Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 3.74 1.88 up from 2005 | 46 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
37American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.04Q1 | 7.31 0.12 up from 2005 | 1,636 | 23% | — | ||
38HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.04Q1 | 8.04 0.43 up from 2005 | 1,355 | 60% | $2,900 | ||
39Seminars in Radiation OncologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.02Q1 | 6.34 2.22 up from 2005 | 138 | 0% | $3,330 | ||
40Atherosclerosis SupplementsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 5.78 1.91 down from 2005 | 58 | 1% | $3,000 | ||
41RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 3.00Q1 | 5.93 0.36 up from 2005 | 1,732 | 4% | — | ||
42Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 3.75 0.09 up from 2005 | 144 | 11% | $4,170 | ||
43Journal of Bone and Mineral ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.91Q1 | 7.75 1.21 up from 2005 | 809 | 38% | $3,780 | ||
44Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 2.90Q1 | 5.31 1.21 down from 2005 | 241 | 4% | $4,990 | ||
45PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 2.83Q1 | 5.22 0.26 up from 2005 | 2,640 | 4% | — | ||
46GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 6.75 0.37 up from 2005 | 1,320 | 94% | — | ||
47Seminars in Liver DiseaseThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 2.82Q1 | 6.14 0.72 up from 2005 | 175 | 2% | — | ||
48Sports MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.80Q1 | 5.55 0.99 up from 2005 | 203 | 3% | $5,790 | ||
49The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismOxford University Press · United States | 2.73Q1 | 7.39 0.69 up from 2005 | 2,899 | 34% | $3,750 | ||
50The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 6.69 0.66 up from 2005 | 426 | 4% | $7,280 |
Subfields of Medicine, compared.
- Surgery428
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine181
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health154
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine150
- Oncology120
- Epidemiology97
- Infectious Diseases95
- Psychiatry and Mental health89
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging86
- Neurology82
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism78
- Physiology75
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine54
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health54
- Dermatology51
- Hematology48
- Ophthalmology48
- Obstetrics and Gynecology41
- Rheumatology37
- Nephrology34
- Pharmacology29
- Complementary and alternative medicine27
- Reproductive Medicine27
- Emergency Medicine24
- Geriatrics and Gerontology23
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Rehabilitation18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine17
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Immunology and Allergy12
- Genetics9
- Hepatology9
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Urology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
690 additional Medicine journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 2,258
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,146,485 +24.9% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.68 +13.1% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 404Comparison-group list (404)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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 | 1,634 | 1,746 | 1,853 | 1,933 | 2,023 | 2,148 | 2,258 | 2,390 | 2,497 | 2,616 | 2,755 | 2,949 | 3,131 | 3,412 | 3,611 | 3,760 | 3,936 | 4,122 | 4,350 | 4,487 | 4,543 | 4,639 | 4,671 | 4,692 | 4,640 | 4,521 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 709,310 | 795,253 | 851,873 | 918,177 | 953,693 | 1,044,918 | 1,146,485 | 1,266,791 | 1,370,140 | 1,505,784 | 1,634,063 | 1,757,108 | 1,828,247 | 1,889,231 | 1,983,210 | 2,073,801 | 2,149,396 | 2,185,378 | 2,236,129 | 2,298,903 | 2,395,179 | 2,590,856 | 2,809,142 | 2,949,143 | 2,961,797 | 2,982,923 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.704 | 0.724 | 0.739 | 0.756 | 0.748 | 0.760 | 0.730 | 0.749 | 0.741 | 0.725 | 0.717 | 0.701 | 0.702 | 0.715 | 0.663 | 0.655 | 0.661 | 0.660 | 0.67 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.2% | 3,512 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.465 per 1,000 | 3,472 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.9% | 4,166 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 4,521 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,046 | 2,526 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 4,393 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.8% | 4,521 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.69 | 4,492 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.6% | 4,521 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.3% | 4,514 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.