Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Domain ranking · 2008
Health Sciences journal rankings 2008
3,062 ranked journals · Domain
Health Sciences has 3,062 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.25. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.
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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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 | ||
2New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 11.34Q1 | 22.42 0.35 up from 2007 | 2,875 | 30% | — | ||
3Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.13Q1 | 21.41 1.03 up from 2007 | 103 | 97% | — | ||
4Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 10.11Q1 | 20.75 1.90 down from 2007 | 104 | 64% | $3,750 | ||
5Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 9.09Q1 | 14.44 4.24 down from 2007 | 463 | 36% | — | ||
6Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 8.08Q1 | 3.53 2.24 down from 2007 | 118 | 89% | $4,430 | ||
7Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 6.84Q1 | 18.74 0.79 up from 2007 | 372 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
8Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.70Q1 | 4.98 1.29 up from 2007 | 94 | 3% | — | ||
9CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.50Q1 | 14.84 1.02 up from 2007 | 2,917 | 18% | — | ||
10The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.51Q1 | 9.34 0.54 down from 2007 | 3,743 | 37% | $7,890 | ||
11Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 5.40Q1 | 11.83 0.54 up from 2007 | 2,166 | 90% | $7,166 | ||
12Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 5.08Q1 | 12.21 1.74 up from 2007 | 1,218 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
13Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.01Q1 | 12.16 0.11 down from 2007 | 3,368 | 13% | — | ||
14PLoS PathogensOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.94Q1 | 11.05 0.52 up from 2007 | 343 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
15JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 4.71Q1 | 11.54 0.47 down from 2007 | 738 | 48% | $5,436 | ||
16Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.48Q1 | 2.27 0.22 up from 2007 | 51 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
17GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 10.79 1.22 up from 2007 | 1,509 | 17% | $4,180 | ||
18The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.18Q1 | 11.02 3.93 up from 2007 | 485 | 32% | $7,280 | ||
19Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.18Q1 | 8.58 0.70 up from 2007 | 69 | 38% | $6,710 | ||
20Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.09Q1 | 3.28 0.24 up from 2007 | 140 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
21BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 10.01 0.52 up from 2007 | 929 | 56% | $5,570 | ||
22Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.07Q1 | 7.55 0.03 down from 2007 | 1,340 | 21% | — | ||
23Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 10.28 0.34 up from 2007 | 153 | 32% | $4,490 | ||
24DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 4.03Q1 | 9.36 0.55 down from 2007 | 1,471 | 79% | — | ||
25Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.95Q1 | 7.81 0.06 up from 2007 | 853 | 8% | — | ||
26Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.87Q1 | 9.80 1.13 up from 2007 | 1,158 | 8% | — | ||
27Obesity ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 5.84 2.27 down from 2007 | 200 | 3% | $5,450 | ||
28The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.73Q1 | 9.24 1.49 up from 2007 | 339 | 12% | $7,280 | ||
29Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 8.18 1.27 up from 2007 | 167 | 8% | — | ||
30MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.64Q1 | 6.99 0.31 down from 2007 | 107 | 19% | $1,950 | ||
31American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.63Q1 | 8.01 0.25 up from 2007 | 1,480 | 29% | — | ||
32HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.63Q1 | 9.28 0.79 up from 2007 | 1,372 | 66% | $2,900 | ||
33Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 3.55Q1 | 8.70 0.03 down from 2007 | 762 | 25% | $4,700 | ||
34Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 7.23 0.33 up from 2007 | 131 | 11% | $4,450 | ||
35European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 7.02 0.08 down from 2007 | 1,588 | 36% | $5,922 | ||
36RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 3.45Q1 | 6.78 0.66 up from 2007 | 1,631 | 15% | — | ||
37American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.44Q1 | 2.28 0.42 up from 2007 | 171 | 19% | $3,620 | ||
38Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 4.52 0.01 up from 2007 | 161 | 36% | $4,170 | ||
39PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 3.43Q1 | 7.06 1.59 up from 2007 | 1,050 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
40Seminars in Nuclear MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 3.43Q1 | 5.97 0.84 down from 2007 | 91 | 16% | $5,090 | ||
41The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 8.30 0.48 up from 2007 | 535 | 10% | $7,280 | ||
42Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.41Q1 | 7.65 0.87 down from 2007 | 2,231 | 76% | — | ||
43IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.36Q1 | 4.96 0.25 down from 2007 | 437 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
44American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.35Q1 | 7.79 0.14 up from 2007 | 1,524 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
45Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium ProceedingsElsevier BV · United States | 3.32Q1 | 4.06 1.13 up from 2007 | 85 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
46International Journal of Pediatric ObesityWiley · United States | 3.31Q1 | 5.30 2.33 up from 2007 | 60 | 10% | — | ||
47Clinical Pharmacology & TherapeuticsWiley · United States | 3.27Q1 | 5.76 0.11 down from 2007 | 708 | 16% | $4,410 | ||
48Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 3.25Q1 | 7.70 0.07 up from 2007 | 1,654 | 23% | — | ||
49Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 2.93 0.28 up from 2007 | 441 | 93% | $3,750 | ||
50Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 2.75 0.06 up from 2007 | 167 | 63% | $4,330 |
Fields of Health Sciences, compared.
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.
954 additional Health Sciences 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
- 3,062
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,577,275 +31.3% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.726 +14.9% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 464
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 | 2,007 | 2,150 | 2,285 | 2,374 | 2,486 | 2,626 | 2,757 | 2,922 | 3,062 | 3,193 | 3,364 | 3,591 | 3,809 | 4,129 | 4,361 | 4,544 | 4,757 | 4,979 | 5,239 | 5,390 | 5,462 | 5,563 | 5,606 | 5,618 | 5,549 | 5,406 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 813,419 | 909,304 | 974,228 | 1,051,248 | 1,094,845 | 1,200,886 | 1,317,521 | 1,455,690 | 1,577,275 | 1,733,757 | 1,887,930 | 2,035,231 | 2,126,669 | 2,204,628 | 2,320,572 | 2,437,477 | 2,534,543 | 2,585,157 | 2,649,222 | 2,728,712 | 2,846,138 | 3,078,764 | 3,332,730 | 3,490,788 | 3,507,496 | 3,550,948 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.6778 | 0.70 | 0.726 | 0.748 | 0.767 | 0.773 | 0.78 | 0.741 | 0.76 | 0.750 | 0.737 | 0.727 | 0.71 | 0.725 | 0.735 | 0.680 | 0.67 | 0.6776 | 0.681 | 0.69 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.3% | 4,151 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.372 per 1,000 | 4,101 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.3% | 5,009 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 5,406 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 2,959 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.2% | 5,241 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.70 | 5,372 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.2% | 5,398 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.