Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Epidemiology journal rankings 2008
114 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Epidemiology has 114 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Autophagy, Stroke, and Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases.
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.
Subfields of Medicine (42)
- Surgery474
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine199
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine173
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health173
- Oncology127
- Epidemiology114
- Infectious Diseases106
- Psychiatry and Mental health98
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging94
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism89
- Physiology89
- Neurology85
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine60
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health60
- Ophthalmology55
- Hematology52
- Dermatology50
- Obstetrics and Gynecology45
- Rheumatology38
- Nephrology33
- Pharmacology32
- Reproductive Medicine32
- Emergency Medicine29
- Complementary and alternative medicine28
- Geriatrics and Gerontology24
- Otorhinolaryngology21
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine18
- Rehabilitation18
- Immunology and Allergy15
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Genetics11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine9
- Hepatology9
- Urology8
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
114 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 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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1AutophagyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.87Q1 | 6.15 1.23 up from 2007 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
2StrokeLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.87Q1 | 6.15 0.36 up from 2007 | 1,817 | 59% | — | ||
3Current Opinion in Infectious DiseasesLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.75Q1 | 5.80 0.26 up from 2007 | 213 | 9% | — | ||
4Seminars in Liver DiseaseThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 2.69Q1 | 5.86 0.27 down from 2007 | 153 | 2% | — | ||
5Veterinary ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 3.81 0.69 down from 2007 | 177 | 98% | $2,390 | ||
6Clinical Gastroenterology and HepatologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.25Q1 | 5.43 0.40 up from 2007 | 808 | 38% | $4,470 | ||
7Journal of HepatologyElsevier BV · Denmark | 2.18Q1 | 5.47 0.16 up from 2007 | 948 | 45% | $5,500 | ||
8Psychology of Addictive BehaviorsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.99 0.02 down from 2007 | 189 | 59% | — | ||
9Journal of VirologyOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 1.96Q1 | 5.91 0.02 down from 2007 | 4,476 | 100% | — | ||
10Journal of NeurotraumaMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.91Q1 | 4.50 0.06 up from 2007 | 428 | 27% | — | ||
11Journal of Studies on Alcohol and DrugsAlcohol Research Documentation · United States | 1.89Q1 | 2.95no 2007 value | 55 | 45% | — | ||
12Journal of Studies on AlcoholAlcohol Research Documentation · United States | 1.86Q1 | 4.20 1.12 up from 2007 | 171 | — | — | ||
13AddictionWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.45 0.45 up from 2007 | 961 | 42% | $4,600 | ||
14Journal of Head Trauma RehabilitationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.74 0.46 down from 2007 | 171 | 3% | — | ||
15The Pediatric Infectious Disease JournalLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.72Q1 | 3.68 0.42 up from 2007 | 984 | 7% | — | ||
16Infectious Disease Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.76 0.20 down from 2007 | 154 | 21% | $4,050 | ||
17Alimentary Pharmacology & TherapeuticsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 4.47 0.59 up from 2007 | 1,277 | 52% | $5,250 | ||
18Seminars in Pediatric Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.57 0.06 up from 2007 | 66 | — | — | ||
19Journal of Clinical VirologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 3.19 0.32 down from 2007 | 615 | 18% | $4,210 | ||
20VaccineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 4.09 0.59 up from 2007 | 2,522 | 21% | $3,620 | ||
21Journal of Viral HepatitisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.69 0.12 up from 2007 | 370 | 23% | $4,610 | ||
22VirologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q1 | 3.49 0.46 down from 2007 | 1,579 | 100% | $3,160 | ||
23MetabolismElsevier BV · United States | 1.43Q1 | 3.51 0.01 down from 2007 | 768 | 26% | $5,340 | ||
24Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental ResearchWiley · United States | 1.38Q1 | 3.55 0.15 up from 2007 | 859 | 48% | $4,110 | ||
25Harm Reduction JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 2.96 0.88 up from 2007 | 80 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
26Journal of Burn Care & RehabilitationOxford University Press · United States | 1.29Q1 | —no 2007 value | 69 | — | — | ||
27Drug and Alcohol ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 2.28 0.20 up from 2007 | 239 | 13% | $4,430 | ||
28ShockLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.25Q1 | 3.00 0.13 down from 2007 | 697 | 11% | — | ||
29Annals of PharmacotherapySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.24Q1 | 2.69 0.31 up from 2007 | 1,021 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
30Expert Review of VaccinesOAInforma · United States | 1.23Q2 | 3.36 0.90 up from 2007 | 248 | 25% | — | ||
31Cerebrovascular DiseasesKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.20Q2 | 2.94 0.74 up from 2007 | 554 | 39% | — | ||
32NeuroendocrinologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.19Q2 | 3.19 0.61 up from 2007 | 241 | 9% | — | ||
33Pediatric Critical Care MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.97 0.10 down from 2007 | 484 | 6% | — | ||
34Journal of Critical CareElsevier BV · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.93 0.26 up from 2007 | 206 | 10% | $3,610 | ||
35Clinical Journal of Sport MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.06 0.11 up from 2007 | 326 | 3% | — | ||
36Clinical and Vaccine ImmunologyOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.62 0.02 up from 2007 | 785 | 100% | — | ||
37Journal of NeuroendocrinologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 3.44 0.48 up from 2007 | 366 | 43% | $4,550 | ||
38Avian PathologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.01 0.23 up from 2007 | 220 | 98% | — | ||
39Alcohol and AlcoholismOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 2.57 0.17 up from 2007 | 304 | 44% | $4,286 | ||
40Journal of Drug IssuesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.22 0.08 up from 2007 | 131 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
41Journal of NeuroimagingWiley · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.12 0.26 down from 2007 | 251 | 17% | $3,750 | ||
42Human VaccinesLandes Bioscience · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.77 0.98 up from 2007 | 106 | 99% | — | ||
43QJMOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 2.05 0.19 down from 2007 | 361 | 30% | $4,382 | ||
44Optometry and Vision ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.86 0.07 down from 2007 | 384 | 8% | — | ||
45Substance Use & MisuseTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.43 0.38 down from 2007 | 354 | 20% | — | ||
46Transplant Infectious DiseaseWiley · Denmark | 1.02Q2 | 2.43 1.10 down from 2007 | 187 | 12% | $3,920 | ||
47Applied NeuropsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.17 0.47 up from 2007 | 97 | 5% | — | ||
48International Journal of Drug PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 2.12 0.68 up from 2007 | 250 | 24% | $4,350 | ||
49Neuropsychological RehabilitationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 2.41 0.32 up from 2007 | 126 | 14% | — | ||
50Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo CruzOAInstituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde · Brazil | 0.96Q2 | 1.85 0.14 up from 2007 | 630 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Epidemiology highlighted.
- Surgery474
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine199
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine173
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health173
- Oncology127
- Epidemiology114
- Infectious Diseases106
- Psychiatry and Mental health98
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging94
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism89
- Physiology89
- Neurology85
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine60
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health60
- Ophthalmology55
- Hematology52
- Dermatology50
- Obstetrics and Gynecology45
- Rheumatology38
- Nephrology33
- Pharmacology32
- Reproductive Medicine32
- Emergency Medicine29
- Complementary and alternative medicine28
- Geriatrics and Gerontology24
- Otorhinolaryngology21
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine18
- Rehabilitation18
- Immunology and Allergy15
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Genetics11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine9
- Hepatology9
- Urology8
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
44 additional Epidemiology 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
- 114
- Window papers (baseline)
- 103,216 +38.3% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.835 +1.6% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 17
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 77 | 81 | 87 | 89 | 94 | 91 | 97 | 108 | 114 | 119 | 129 | 139 | 147 | 157 | 166 | 176 | 187 | 185 | 193 | 198 | 196 | 204 | 196 | 199 | 187 | 178 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 48,701 | 54,887 | 59,554 | 64,149 | 67,383 | 74,616 | 83,633 | 94,079 | 103,216 | 113,942 | 125,223 | 136,221 | 144,307 | 149,052 | 156,773 | 162,831 | 168,650 | 170,014 | 174,699 | 179,855 | 189,056 | 200,238 | 212,651 | 217,205 | 217,754 | 220,321 | |
| Median OJR | 0.668 | 0.61 | 0.670 | 0.71 | 0.69 | 0.82223 | 0.85 | 0.8287 | 0.835 | 0.86 | 0.8293 | 0.830 | 0.87 | 0.844 | 0.836 | 0.795 | 0.82224 | 0.803 | 0.74 | 0.832 | 0.78 | 0.755 | 0.81 | 0.787 | 0.760 | 0.797 |
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.