Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Field ranking · 2006
Nursing journal rankings 2006
32 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Nursing has 32 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2005 to 0.92, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Journal of Nutrition, and Journal of Nursing Education.
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 Nursing (4)
Up to Health Sciences32 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 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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1American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.14Q1 | 7.10 0.07 up from 2005 | 1,393 | 96% | $5,200 | ||
2Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.08Q1 | 4.61 0.04 up from 2005 | 1,810 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
3Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.28 0.35 up from 2005 | 330 | 1% | — | ||
4Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.59 0.52 up from 2005 | 225 | 6% | — | ||
5Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.20 0.01 up from 2005 | 290 | 10% | $4,010 | ||
6Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.72 0.76 up from 2005 | 235 | 10% | $3,930 | ||
7Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.45Q1 | 4.17 0.91 up from 2005 | 273 | 3% | — | ||
8Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 1.26 0.45 up from 2005 | 174 | 2% | $3,500 | ||
9Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 2.84 0.24 up from 2005 | 352 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
10Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.31Q2 | 2.34 1.11 up from 2005 | 117 | 0% | $3,700 | ||
11BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 2.36 0.47 up from 2005 | 233 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
12Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 3.03 0.42 up from 2005 | 56 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.17Q2 | 2.01 1.04 down from 2005 | 139 | 3% | $4,110 | ||
14LipidsWiley · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.45 0.07 up from 2005 | 468 | 5% | $3,589 | ||
15Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.95Q2 | 0.87 0.11 up from 2005 | 199 | 3% | — | ||
16Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.94Q2 | 1.81 0.02 down from 2005 | 177 | 27% | — | ||
17International Journal of Nursing Education ScholarshipDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.89Q3 | 0.53 0.38 up from 2005 | 61 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
18Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.88Q3 | 1.63 0.11 up from 2005 | 388 | 4% | $3,750 | ||
19International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and ClassificationsWiley · United States | 0.86Q3 | 0.48 0.22 up from 2005 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
20Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.84Q3 | 1.62 0.76 up from 2005 | 180 | 2% | $4,260 | ||
21Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 0.77Q3 | 1.65 0.40 up from 2005 | 196 | 50% | $4,150 | ||
22Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 0.74Q3 | 1.46 0.58 up from 2005 | 129 | 5% | $3,570 | ||
23Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 0.70 0.19 up from 2005 | 142 | 14% | $3,970 | ||
24International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition ResearchOAHogrefe Verlag · Switzerland | 0.61Q3 | 1.29 0.10 down from 2005 | 174 | 5% | — | ||
25Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.59Q4 | 1.14 0.86 up from 2005 | 35 | 87% | $4,130 | ||
26Nursing Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.58Q4 | 0.73 0.08 up from 2005 | 174 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
27Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.57Q4 | 1.20 0.17 up from 2005 | 444 | 7% | $4,290 | ||
28Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.48 0.07 up from 2005 | 75 | 4% | — | ||
29The Journal of Trace Elements in Experimental MedicineWiley · United States | 0.31Q4 | 0.71 0.24 down from 2005 | 48 | — | — | ||
30Journal of Applied GlycoscienceOAJapanese Society of Applied Glycoscience · Japan | 0.21Q4 | 0.30 0.14 down from 2005 | 215 | 87% | — | ||
31Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.18 0.04 down from 2005 | 300 | 0% | — | ||
32Cereal Foods WorldAmerican Association of Cereal Chemists · United States | 0.16Q4 | 0.24 0.02 down from 2005 | 42 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Nursing, compared.
- Nutrition and Dietetics24
- Research and Theory6
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
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.
12 additional Nursing 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
- 32
- Window papers (baseline)
- 28,827 +19.8% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.92 +26.9% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 64 | 64 | 68 | 64 | 67 | 69 | 65 | 60 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,167 | 21,848 | 22,638 | 24,055 | 24,750 | 26,977 | 28,827 | 31,236 | 33,594 | 36,601 | 41,173 | 44,651 | 47,631 | 48,824 | 52,171 | 55,051 | 57,707 | 58,897 | 61,127 | 64,054 | 67,520 | 71,980 | 75,020 | 75,890 | 74,874 | 78,756 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.688 | 0.692 | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 1.0907 | 1.28 | 1.309 | 1.312 | 1.29 | 1.22 | 1.095 | 1.0906 | 1.092 | 1.10 | 0.959 | 0.98 | 0.964 | 1.001 | 0.941 | 0.939 | 0.88 | 0.91 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.4% | 50 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.077 per 1,000 | 42 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +0.7% | 56 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 69.5% | 60 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,560 | 40 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 23.4% | 59 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.6% | 60 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.95 | 60 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 23.2% | 60 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.5% | 60 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.