Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Nursing journal rankings 2009
36 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Nursing has 36 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.19 on 2008 to 1.28, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.82. The top three are American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, and Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care.
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 in Nursing (4)
Up to Health Sciences36 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 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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1American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.65Q1 | 7.57 0.23 down from 2008 | 1,604 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
2International Journal of Nursing Education ScholarshipDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.81Q1 | 1.94 0.20 down from 2008 | 52 | 5% | $2,712 | ||
3Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.38Q1 | 5.76 0.80 up from 2008 | 301 | 14% | — | ||
4Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.37Q1 | 5.05 0.33 up from 2008 | 1,485 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
5Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States | 2.04Q1 | 1.48 0.35 up from 2008 | 157 | 3% | $3,500 | ||
6International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and ClassificationsWiley · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.14 0.18 up from 2008 | 44 | 3% | — | ||
7Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.79 0.58 up from 2008 | 356 | 3% | — | ||
8Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.14 0.72 up from 2008 | 352 | 7% | $3,930 | ||
9Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.82Q1 | 3.36 0.05 up from 2008 | 242 | 10% | — | ||
10Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.48 0.33 up from 2008 | 368 | 13% | $4,010 | ||
11Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 3.65 0.32 up from 2008 | 250 | 25% | $3,790 | ||
12BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 3.41 0.59 up from 2008 | 241 | 28% | $4,090 | ||
13Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 2.78 0.65 up from 2008 | 46 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
14Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.35Q2 | 2.20 0.47 up from 2008 | 126 | 9% | $3,700 | ||
15Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.34Q2 | 2.60 0.19 up from 2008 | 280 | 23% | $4,110 | ||
16Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.55 0.60 up from 2008 | 204 | 8% | $3,970 | ||
17Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 1.31Q2 | 2.53 0.38 down from 2008 | 229 | 5% | $3,570 | ||
18LipidsWiley · United States | 1.30Q2 | 2.63 0.19 up from 2008 | 400 | 18% | $3,589 | ||
19Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.25Q3 | 0.89no change | 213 | 7% | — | ||
20Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.11Q3 | 1.96 0.13 up from 2008 | 280 | 39% | — | ||
21Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 1.02Q3 | 2.06 0.60 up from 2008 | 220 | 39% | $4,150 | ||
22Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 2.34 0.65 up from 2008 | 96 | 94% | $4,130 | ||
23Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.96Q3 | 1.66 0.18 down from 2008 | 350 | 8% | $3,750 | ||
24Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.81Q3 | 1.30 0.13 down from 2008 | 190 | 14% | $4,260 | ||
25Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.65Q3 | 1.30 0.25 up from 2008 | 589 | 9% | $4,290 | ||
26International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition ResearchOAHogrefe Verlag · Switzerland | 0.64Q3 | 1.32 0.03 down from 2008 | 127 | 7% | — | ||
27Nursing Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.96 0.06 up from 2008 | 201 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
28Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.29Q4 | 0.30 0.22 down from 2008 | 74 | 14% | — | ||
29Cereal Foods WorldAmerican Association of Cereal Chemists · United States | 0.26Q4 | 0.24 0.23 down from 2008 | 247 | 0% | — | ||
30Scandinavian Journal of Food & NutritionSwedish Nutrition Foundation · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.36 0.08 down from 2008 | 70 | — | — | ||
31Annales Nestlé (English ed )Karger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.24Q4 | 0.57 0.52 up from 2008 | 31 | 22% | — | ||
32Journal of Applied GlycoscienceOAJapanese Society of Applied Glycoscience · Japan | 0.21Q4 | 0.19 0.46 down from 2008 | 191 | 39% | — | ||
33Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.20 0.09 up from 2008 | 529 | 0% | — | ||
34NutrireSpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.06Q4 | 0.05 0.05 up from 2008 | 32 | 0% | $3,890 | ||
35Nutrition Research and PracticeOASouth Korea | 0.06Q4 | 0.15 0.03 down from 2008 | 107 | 98% | — | ||
36Arbor Clinical Nutrition UpdatesCambridge University Press · Australia | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 63 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Nursing, compared.
- Nutrition and Dietetics28
- Research and Theory6
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
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.
16 additional Nursing 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
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,601 +27.0% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.28 +39.5% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 64 | 64 | 68 | 64 | 67 | 69 | 65 | 60 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,167 | 21,848 | 22,638 | 24,055 | 24,750 | 26,977 | 28,827 | 31,236 | 33,594 | 36,601 | 41,173 | 44,651 | 47,631 | 48,824 | 52,171 | 55,051 | 57,707 | 58,897 | 61,127 | 64,054 | 67,520 | 71,980 | 75,020 | 75,890 | 74,874 | 78,756 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.688 | 0.692 | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 1.0907 | 1.28 | 1.309 | 1.312 | 1.29 | 1.22 | 1.095 | 1.0906 | 1.092 | 1.10 | 0.959 | 0.98 | 0.964 | 1.001 | 0.941 | 0.939 | 0.88 | 0.91 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.4% | 50 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.077 per 1,000 | 42 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +0.7% | 56 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 69.5% | 60 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,560 | 40 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 23.4% | 59 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.6% | 60 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.95 | 60 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 23.2% | 60 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.5% | 60 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.