Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
General Health Professions journal rankings 2009
314 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
General Health Professions has 314 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2008 to 0.84, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, The Lancet, and Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions314
- Occupational Therapy19
- Emergency Medical Services17
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation16
- Health Information Management12
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology9
- Speech and Hearing7
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology0
- Medical Terminology0
314 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.03Q1 | 5.32 0.33 up from 2008 | 86 | 17% | — | ||
2The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.62Q1 | 10.93 1.59 up from 2008 | 3,684 | 38% | $7,890 | ||
3Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.61Q1 | 4.52 1.92 down from 2008 | 50 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
4Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.07Q1 | 2.39 0.11 up from 2008 | 51 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
5Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.31Q1 | 4.00 0.47 up from 2008 | 87 | 89% | $4,430 | ||
6Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.17Q1 | 3.37 0.09 up from 2008 | 147 | 20% | $4,400 | ||
7American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 3.67 1.39 up from 2008 | 177 | 29% | $3,620 | ||
8Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.47Q1 | 5.68 1.03 up from 2008 | 125 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
9American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.28Q1 | 4.27 0.12 up from 2008 | 1,167 | 94% | — | ||
10BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 3.57 0.24 down from 2008 | 296 | 37% | — | ||
11Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&OHogrefe Verlag · Germany | 3.14Q1 | 0.84 2.04 down from 2008 | 134 | 0% | — | ||
12The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 2.77 0.24 down from 2008 | 314 | 43% | $4,408 | ||
13Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.91Q1 | 1.93 0.01 down from 2008 | 179 | 23% | $3,730 | ||
14Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 2.45 0.47 down from 2008 | 411 | 94% | $3,750 | ||
15Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.72Q1 | 3.56 0.14 down from 2008 | 627 | 37% | — | ||
16Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 3.01 0.26 up from 2008 | 194 | 52% | $4,330 | ||
17BMJPublisher not listed | 2.64Q1 | 3.72 1.82 up from 2008 | 583 | 2% | — | ||
18Evaluation & the Health ProfessionsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.58Q1 | 1.72 1.74 down from 2008 | 73 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
19Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 3.56 0.04 down from 2008 | 132 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
20Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 2.30 0.06 down from 2008 | 144 | 73% | $5,123 | ||
21International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 2.77 0.60 up from 2008 | 182 | 39% | $3,686 | ||
22Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.39Q1 | 2.85 0.11 down from 2008 | 362 | 18% | $4,400 | ||
23Journal of General Internal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.30Q1 | 3.24 0.10 up from 2008 | 1,177 | 99% | $5,290 | ||
24International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.26Q1 | 1.63 0.30 down from 2008 | 122 | 4% | $4,400 | ||
25The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 2.15Q1 | 2.84 0.44 up from 2008 | 381 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of Healthcare ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.15Q1 | 1.00 0.13 down from 2008 | 48 | 1% | — | ||
27Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.06 1.77 up from 2008 | 120 | 3% | — | ||
28Nursing InquiryWiley · Australia | 2.11Q1 | 1.37 0.19 down from 2008 | 116 | 11% | $4,720 | ||
29Health Education ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.34 0.10 down from 2008 | 291 | 60% | $4,533 | ||
30Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.09Q1 | 2.34 0.94 up from 2008 | 115 | 5% | — | ||
31American Journal of Health PromotionSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.02Q1 | 3.04 0.17 up from 2008 | 200 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
32JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.01Q1 | 1.88 0.44 down from 2008 | 258 | 2% | — | ||
33Nursing ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.45 0.35 down from 2008 | 204 | 35% | — | ||
34Culture Health & SexualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 1.87 0.08 up from 2008 | 147 | 11% | — | ||
35Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.37 1.19 down from 2008 | 54 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
36Health Information & Libraries JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.50 0.66 up from 2008 | 156 | 59% | $3,240 | ||
37Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 2.02 0.26 up from 2008 | 441 | 11% | $4,220 | ||
38Journal of Health Services Research & PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.73 0.51 up from 2008 | 124 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
39International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.52 0.60 up from 2008 | 67 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
40European Journal of Public HealthOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 2.49 0.41 up from 2008 | 387 | 72% | $3,181 | ||
41Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 1.46 0.28 down from 2008 | 206 | 3% | — | ||
42Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.37 0.34 up from 2008 | 1,367 | 44% | $4,760 | ||
43BMC Health Services ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.62 0.07 down from 2008 | 654 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
44BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 3.38 0.33 up from 2008 | 1,100 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
45Journal of Advanced NursingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.47 0.32 down from 2008 | 924 | 24% | $5,450 | ||
46Annual Review of Public HealthAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.86Q1 | 10.64 2.55 up from 2008 | 60 | 19% | — | ||
47Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 1.85Q1 | 2.50 1.18 down from 2008 | 174 | 95% | $2,480 | ||
48Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.03 0.75 up from 2008 | 149 | 31% | $4,260 | ||
49Nursing EthicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.69 0.03 down from 2008 | 178 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
50The Journal of Primary PreventionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.62 0.48 up from 2008 | 113 | 35% | $3,790 |
Subfields of Health Professions, with General Health Professions highlighted.
- General Health Professions314
- Occupational Therapy19
- Emergency Medical Services17
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation16
- Health Information Management12
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology9
- Speech and Hearing7
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology0
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
90 additional General Health Professions journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 314
- Window papers (baseline)
- 83,408 +29.9% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.835 +24.6% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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 | 204 | 215 | 234 | 238 | 250 | 260 | 271 | 289 | 305 | 314 | 327 | 334 | 351 | 371 | 387 | 398 | 417 | 437 | 449 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 484 | 484 | 478 | 466 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 38,240 | 42,047 | 45,752 | 49,898 | 53,367 | 58,843 | 64,217 | 70,320 | 76,474 | 83,408 | 92,174 | 100,149 | 106,727 | 112,937 | 120,774 | 132,312 | 141,342 | 148,496 | 153,280 | 159,194 | 164,940 | 176,625 | 186,208 | 190,820 | 188,939 | 194,090 | |
| Median OJR | 0.550 | 0.56 | 0.552 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.6706 | 0.6705 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.835 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.848 | 0.838 | 0.82 | 0.845 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.810 | 0.814 | 0.855 |
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.