Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Global ranking · 2008
Journal rankings 2008
13,532 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 13,532 journals for 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.89, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, ACM Computing Surveys, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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.
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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields13,532 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 42.32Q1 | 81.86 4.59 down from 2007 | 63 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 31.44Q1 | 23.88 0.75 down from 2007 | 36 | 14% | — | ||
3Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 26.21Q1 | 33.45 3.43 down from 2007 | 110 | 87% | — | ||
4Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 17.66Q1 | 7.87 2.49 up from 2007 | 238 | 18% | $4,250 | ||
5International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 17.22Q1 | 5.61 0.33 up from 2007 | 96 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
6American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.45Q1 | 3.25 0.36 down from 2007 | 188 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
7Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 15.18Q1 | 9.78 3.08 up from 2007 | 222 | 5% | — | ||
8Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 15.05Q1 | 9.32 1.61 up from 2007 | 255 | 11% | — | ||
9Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 14.93Q1 | 5.16 1.21 down from 2007 | 162 | 9% | — | ||
10The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.93Q1 | 6.90 0.33 up from 2007 | 163 | 49% | — | ||
11ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 13.82Q1 | 4.60 5.83 down from 2007 | 44 | 13% | — | ||
12Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.48Q1 | 14.70 4.06 down from 2007 | 34 | 6% | $6,150 | ||
13American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.47Q1 | 5.29 0.26 down from 2007 | 143 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
14Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits ConferenceInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.36Q1 | 5.50no 2007 value | 84 | 6% | — | ||
15MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.31Q1 | 6.64 1.46 down from 2007 | 207 | 3% | — | ||
16Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.14Q1 | 13.77 1.04 down from 2007 | 53 | 5% | $6,040 | ||
17Advances In PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 12.94Q1 | 17.48 6.11 up from 2007 | 33 | 89% | — | ||
18American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.63Q1 | 4.55 0.45 down from 2007 | 76 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
19The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 12.62Q1 | 6.58 0.28 up from 2007 | 289 | 21% | $4,430 | ||
20Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.58Q1 | 3.94 1.12 down from 2007 | 107 | 8% | $4,170 | ||
21The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 12.52Q1 | 8.18 0.02 up from 2007 | 58 | 21% | — | ||
22The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 12.43Q1 | 6.90 1.22 up from 2007 | 184 | 11% | $7,619 | ||
23Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.15Q1 | 4.93 1.33 up from 2007 | 41 | 27% | $4,290 | ||
24Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.97Q1 | 4.81 0.79 down from 2007 | 190 | 16% | — | ||
25ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.97Q1 | 8.11 3.60 down from 2007 | 39 | 11% | — | ||
26Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.67Q1 | 8.51 0.08 down from 2007 | 90 | 25% | $1,700 | ||
27Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 11.65Q1 | 5.09 0.33 down from 2007 | 84 | 10% | — | ||
28Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.54Q1 | 5.47 0.09 up from 2007 | 191 | 19% | $4,790 | ||
29Foreign AffairsCouncil on Foreign Relations · United States | 11.53Q1 | 4.11 0.08 up from 2007 | 811 | 0% | — | ||
30ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.50Q1 | 9.22 0.74 down from 2007 | 36 | 19% | — | ||
31Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.47Q1 | 4.21 0.02 down from 2007 | 373 | 19% | $4,740 | ||
32Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.42Q1 | 10.33 2.80 up from 2007 | 57 | 7% | $6,990 | ||
33New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 11.34Q1 | 22.42 0.35 up from 2007 | 2,875 | 30% | — | ||
34American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.33Q1 | 4.61 0.91 down from 2007 | 139 | 9% | — | ||
35The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 11.31Q1 | 5.17 0.67 up from 2007 | 41 | 83% | $3,986 | ||
36Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 11.28Q1 | 5.13 0.63 up from 2007 | 87 | 28% | $4,420 | ||
37Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 11.13Q1 | 3.09 0.26 down from 2007 | 216 | 21% | — | ||
38Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.13Q1 | 21.41 1.03 up from 2007 | 103 | 97% | — | ||
39Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.07Q1 | 17.08 0.44 down from 2007 | 197 | 53% | $6,240 | ||
40International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 11.05Q1 | 3.43 0.46 down from 2007 | 100 | 5% | — | ||
41Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.90Q1 | 18.47 4.89 up from 2007 | 125 | 7% | $6,500 | ||
42Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.62Q1 | 7.80 5.02 up from 2007 | 111 | 4% | — | ||
43Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.61Q1 | 5.00 0.10 up from 2007 | 315 | 14% | $4,280 | ||
44ACM Transactions on Sensor NetworksAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.61Q1 | 9.36 1.10 up from 2007 | 57 | 14% | — | ||
45Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.56Q1 | 3.53 0.51 up from 2007 | 76 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
46Perspectives on Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.55Q1 | 11.63 4.30 up from 2007 | 52 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
47IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 10.31Q1 | 6.97 4.06 down from 2007 | 56 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
48Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 10.19Q1 | 3.22 2.01 down from 2007 | 68 | 31% | $5,110 | ||
49Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.15Q1 | 3.82 0.74 down from 2007 | 131 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
50Surface Science ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.15Q1 | 12.56 5.06 up from 2007 | 57 | 4% | $4,440 |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences2,497
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences2,018
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences1,445
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences919
- PsychologySocial Sciences713
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences707
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences691
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences621
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences581
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences472
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences401
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences390
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences333
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences329
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences289
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences269
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences242
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences166
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences109
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences96
- DentistryHealth Sciences89
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences51
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences40
- NursingHealth Sciences35
- EnergyPhysical Sciences20
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences9
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
4,661 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 13,532
- Window papers (baseline)
- 9,133,243 +25.8% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.89 +12.8% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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 | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.