Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Physiology journal rankings 2006
75 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Physiology has 75 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and Obesity Research.
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 of Medicine (42)
- 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
75 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 Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 4.46 0.74 up from 2005 | 573 | 18% | $3,300 | ||
2Annals of Behavioral MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.75 0.62 down from 2005 | 172 | 28% | $4,433 | ||
3Obesity ResearchWiley · United States | 2.58Q1 | 5.12 0.14 up from 2005 | 761 | — | — | ||
4PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 5.86 0.77 up from 2005 | 1,024 | 13% | — | ||
5International Journal of ObesitySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 5.21 0.25 down from 2005 | 822 | 11% | $4,790 | ||
6Exercise and Sport Sciences ReviewsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.11Q1 | 3.96 0.30 up from 2005 | 84 | 0% | — | ||
7Molecular PainOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.80no 2005 value | 35 | 100% | $2,650 | — | |
8American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and MetabolismAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.82Q1 | 4.75 0.07 down from 2005 | 1,027 | 11% | — | ||
9Nutrition ReviewsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.46 0.24 up from 2005 | 245 | 19% | $4,981 | ||
10Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 3.38 0.90 up from 2005 | 716 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
11The Journals of Gerontology Series AOxford University Press · United States | 1.56Q1 | 3.32 0.18 down from 2005 | 642 | 38% | $4,408 | ||
12Nicotine & Tobacco ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 3.55 0.12 down from 2005 | 180 | 14% | $5,392 | ||
13Clinical ChemistryAmerican Association for Clinical Chemistry · United States | 1.47Q1 | 3.69 0.08 up from 2005 | 1,547 | 28% | $4,636 | ||
14Nutrition & MetabolismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.69no change | 51 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
15American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.43Q1 | 4.00 0.25 up from 2005 | 1,355 | 9% | — | ||
16Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 3.24 0.57 up from 2005 | 390 | 13% | $3,320 | ||
17Journal of Applied PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.39Q1 | 3.46no change | 2,103 | 8% | — | ||
18European Journal of Clinical NutritionSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 2.47 0.34 down from 2005 | 812 | 11% | $3,590 | ||
19Nutrition and CancerRoutledge · United States | 1.20Q1 | 2.77 0.18 down from 2005 | 244 | 8% | — | ||
20NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.20Q2 | 2.58 0.19 up from 2005 | 552 | 5% | $3,870 | ||
21Nitric OxideElsevier BV · United States | 1.18Q2 | 2.93 0.46 up from 2005 | 206 | 2% | $3,400 | ||
22Mechanisms of Ageing and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 3.83 1.10 up from 2005 | 479 | 20% | $4,780 | ||
23Clinical BiochemistryElsevier BV · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.68 0.19 up from 2005 | 491 | 3% | $3,000 | ||
24Physiology & BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.87 0.45 up from 2005 | 944 | 13% | $3,500 | ||
25Experimental GerontologyOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.14Q2 | 3.30 0.11 down from 2005 | 546 | 11% | $3,400 | ||
26Tobacco ControlBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.90 0.37 up from 2005 | 355 | 89% | — | ||
27Addictive BehaviorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q2 | 2.25 0.41 up from 2005 | 601 | 20% | $4,450 | ||
28Experimental PhysiologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.63 0.21 up from 2005 | 298 | 50% | $2,940 | ||
29Microvascular ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.70 0.02 down from 2005 | 172 | 5% | $3,340 | ||
30Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.05Q2 | 3.19 0.63 up from 2005 | 466 | 11% | $4,990 | ||
31American Journal of Clinical PathologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.98Q2 | 2.35 0.09 up from 2005 | 1,139 | 22% | $4,660 | ||
32Journal of AsthmaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.98 0.54 down from 2005 | 333 | 4% | — | ||
33Journal of Aging and Physical ActivityHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.89Q2 | 2.23 0.84 up from 2005 | 92 | 13% | — | ||
34Journal of EpidemiologyOAJapan Epidemiological Association · Japan | 0.85Q2 | 1.68 0.09 up from 2005 | 165 | 100% | $1,356 | ||
35Aging Clinical and Experimental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 0.83Q2 | 1.46 0.18 down from 2005 | 228 | 7% | $4,490 | ||
36Journal of Physical Activity and HealthHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.80Q2 | 1.48 0.54 up from 2005 | 46 | 7% | — | ||
37Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)De Gruyter · Germany | 0.79Q2 | 1.77 0.11 down from 2005 | 795 | 6% | $2,712 | ||
38BiogerontologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 2.59 0.06 up from 2005 | 141 | 7% | $4,790 | ||
39Annals of Clinical Biochemistry International Journal of Laboratory MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 1.88 0.53 up from 2005 | 226 | 41% | $4,150 | ||
40Nutritional NeuroscienceTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.72Q3 | 1.90 0.09 up from 2005 | 130 | 6% | — | ||
41Biological Research For NursingSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.68Q3 | 1.74 0.40 up from 2005 | 82 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
42Folia Phoniatrica et LogopaedicaKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.64Q3 | 0.84 0.31 down from 2005 | 93 | 18% | — | ||
43Sleep And BreathingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.61Q3 | 1.57 0.29 up from 2005 | 78 | 8% | $3,790 | ||
44Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory InvestigationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.58 0.38 up from 2005 | 258 | 0% | — | ||
45Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory SciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.56Q3 | 7.30 2.62 up from 2005 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
46Ageing Research ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 5.88 1.65 up from 2005 | 86 | 11% | $5,520 | ||
47Rejuvenation ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.51Q3 | 3.08 1.36 up from 2005 | 103 | 3% | — | ||
48Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical PharmacologyThomson Reuters · Spain | 0.47Q3 | 1.18 0.20 up from 2005 | 205 | 2% | — | ||
49Journal of VoiceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.47Q3 | 0.32 0.09 up from 2005 | 1,171 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
50Journal of Nutritional Science and VitaminologyOACenter for Academic Publications Japan · Japan | 0.45Q3 | 0.95 0.07 down from 2005 | 227 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Physiology highlighted.
- 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.
29 additional Physiology 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
- 75
- Window papers (baseline)
- 58,658 +12.3% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.778 +9.3% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 | 59 | 62 | 62 | 67 | 67 | 72 | 75 | 82 | 89 | 91 | 95 | 104 | 110 | 120 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 143 | 155 | 160 | 163 | 163 | 162 | 161 | 159 | 154 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 43,956 | 48,028 | 49,863 | 52,236 | 52,608 | 55,626 | 58,658 | 62,565 | 65,322 | 70,406 | 76,421 | 81,146 | 83,401 | 84,300 | 88,598 | 93,045 | 98,474 | 102,056 | 105,556 | 109,112 | 113,571 | 121,103 | 127,537 | 130,703 | 130,394 | 133,596 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.63 | 0.80 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.778 | 0.781 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 0.836 | 0.90 | 0.99 | 0.943 | 0.975 | 0.970 | 0.96 | 0.940 | 0.878 | 0.837 | 0.841 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.884 | 0.82 | 0.87 |
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.