Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Domain ranking · 2009
Health Sciences journal rankings 2009
3,193 ranked journals · Domain
Health Sciences has 3,193 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.31. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Endocrine Reviews, and New England Journal of Medicine.
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.
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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 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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 41.69Q1 | 102.64 20.78 up from 2008 | 62 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 12.38Q1 | 30.10 9.36 up from 2008 | 100 | 76% | $3,750 | ||
3New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 12.26Q1 | 23.96 1.54 up from 2008 | 2,838 | 31% | — | ||
4Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 10.43Q1 | 19.46 1.95 down from 2008 | 103 | 95% | — | ||
5Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 7.90Q1 | 13.05 1.39 down from 2008 | 481 | 41% | — | ||
6Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 7.03Q1 | 18.26 0.47 down from 2008 | 371 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
7Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.03Q1 | 5.32 0.33 up from 2008 | 86 | 17% | — | ||
8CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 7.00Q1 | 13.71 1.13 down from 2008 | 2,699 | 23% | — | ||
9Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.01Q1 | 13.12 1.30 up from 2008 | 2,078 | 88% | $7,166 | ||
10The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.88Q1 | 14.20 3.17 up from 2008 | 526 | 39% | $7,280 | ||
11The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.62Q1 | 10.93 1.59 up from 2008 | 3,684 | 38% | $7,890 | ||
12Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.61Q1 | 4.52 1.92 down from 2008 | 50 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
13Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 5.46Q1 | 12.67 0.46 up from 2008 | 1,142 | 36% | $12,690 | ||
14Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.19Q1 | 11.97 0.20 down from 2008 | 3,196 | 14% | — | ||
15Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.07Q1 | 2.39 0.11 up from 2008 | 51 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
16JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 4.77Q1 | 11.24 0.30 down from 2008 | 700 | 44% | $5,436 | ||
17PLoS PathogensOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.56Q1 | 10.44 0.61 down from 2008 | 588 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
18GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.48Q1 | 9.88 0.91 down from 2008 | 1,652 | 18% | $4,180 | ||
19Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.45Q1 | 8.83 0.25 up from 2008 | 74 | 52% | $6,710 | ||
20BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 10.06 0.05 up from 2008 | 973 | 57% | $5,570 | ||
21Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 4.35Q1 | 9.21 1.02 up from 2008 | 172 | 12% | — | ||
22Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.31Q1 | 4.00 0.47 up from 2008 | 87 | 89% | $4,430 | ||
23Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.27Q1 | 7.95 0.40 up from 2008 | 1,309 | 25% | — | ||
24Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium ProceedingsElsevier BV · United States | 4.19Q1 | 2.30 1.76 down from 2008 | 39 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
25The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 9.91 1.61 up from 2008 | 571 | 12% | $7,280 | ||
26Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.17Q1 | 3.37 0.09 up from 2008 | 147 | 20% | $4,400 | ||
27PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.12Q1 | 10.12 3.06 up from 2008 | 963 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
28American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 4.03Q1 | 8.76 0.74 up from 2008 | 1,396 | 28% | — | ||
29American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 3.67 1.39 up from 2008 | 177 | 29% | $3,620 | ||
30Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 3.96Q1 | 8.75 0.05 up from 2008 | 627 | 34% | $4,700 | ||
31Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.96Q1 | 8.74 1.06 down from 2008 | 1,171 | 7% | — | ||
32Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.92Q1 | 7.69 0.12 down from 2008 | 962 | 8% | — | ||
33The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.77Q1 | 9.38 0.15 up from 2008 | 354 | 13% | $7,280 | ||
34DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.76Q1 | 8.71 0.65 down from 2008 | 1,427 | 91% | — | ||
35HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.66Q1 | 8.57 0.71 down from 2008 | 1,567 | 68% | $2,900 | ||
36American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.65Q1 | 7.57 0.23 down from 2008 | 1,604 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
37Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 8.26 2.02 down from 2008 | 166 | 52% | $4,490 | ||
38Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 3.60Q1 | 7.96 0.26 up from 2008 | 1,505 | 30% | — | ||
39European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 7.55 0.53 up from 2008 | 1,711 | 41% | $5,922 | ||
40Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.47Q1 | 5.68 1.03 up from 2008 | 125 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
41American Journal of Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 5.27 0.39 up from 2008 | 757 | 34% | $3,300 | ||
42IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.42Q1 | 4.99 0.03 up from 2008 | 483 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
43MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.37Q1 | 7.67 0.68 up from 2008 | 107 | 12% | $1,950 | ||
44RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 3.37Q1 | 6.55 0.23 down from 2008 | 1,559 | 15% | — | ||
45Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 6.44 0.61 up from 2008 | 873 | 27% | $5,100 | ||
46Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.33Q1 | 7.43 0.22 down from 2008 | 2,258 | 99% | — | ||
47Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.90 0.45 up from 2008 | 300 | 97% | $4,332 | ||
48Proceedings of the American Thoracic SocietyAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.29Q1 | 5.78 0.41 up from 2008 | 367 | 37% | — | ||
49GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 6.95 0.03 up from 2008 | 995 | 18% | — | ||
50American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.28Q1 | 4.27 0.12 up from 2008 | 1,167 | 94% | — |
Fields of Health Sciences, compared.
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.
1,047 additional Health Sciences 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
- 3,193
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,733,757 +31.6% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.748 +10.4% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 464
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 |
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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.