Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Rheumatology journal rankings 2009
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Rheumatology has 39 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.89, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.96. The top three are Arthritis & Rheumatism, European Cells and Materials, and Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery500
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine212
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine184
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health180
- Oncology134
- Epidemiology119
- Infectious Diseases110
- Psychiatry and Mental health100
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging99
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism95
- Physiology91
- Neurology87
- Rheumatology39
Show all 42 subfields
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health64
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine63
- Ophthalmology59
- Hematology55
- Dermatology51
- Obstetrics and Gynecology44
- Nephrology37
- Pharmacology34
- Complementary and alternative medicine31
- Reproductive Medicine31
- Emergency Medicine30
- Geriatrics and Gerontology25
- Otorhinolaryngology21
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine18
- Rehabilitation18
- Immunology and Allergy16
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Genetics11
- Hepatology10
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine9
- Urology9
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
39 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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1Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 3.60Q1 | 7.96 0.26 up from 2008 | 1,505 | 30% | — | ||
2European Cells and MaterialsOASwitzerland | 3.12Q1 | 6.34 1.05 up from 2008 | 57 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
3Best Practice & Research Clinical RheumatologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 5.15 0.42 up from 2008 | 208 | 11% | $4,180 | ||
4Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 6.53 1.20 up from 2008 | 1,288 | 35% | $4,870 | ||
5Current Opinion in RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.70Q1 | 5.64 0.26 down from 2008 | 282 | 19% | — | ||
6Autoimmunity ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 7.08 1.66 up from 2008 | 318 | 14% | $4,730 | ||
7Arthritis Care & ResearchWiley · United States | 2.41Q1 | 5.20 0.79 up from 2008 | 673 | 31% | $4,640 | ||
8Arthritis Research & TherapyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 5.21 0.06 up from 2008 | 579 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
9Seminars in Arthritis and RheumatismElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.93 0.78 down from 2008 | 206 | 8% | $4,370 | ||
10Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.96 1.05 up from 2008 | 148 | 4% | $3,500 | ||
11Osteoarthritis and CartilageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q2 | 3.95 0.08 down from 2008 | 679 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
12Lara D. VeekenOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 3.78 0.27 up from 2008 | 1,250 | 37% | $4,597 | ||
13LupusSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 2.95 0.22 up from 2008 | 491 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
14Current Rheumatology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.20Q2 | 2.42 0.07 down from 2008 | 215 | 13% | $4,490 | ||
15International Urogynecology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 2.62 0.31 up from 2008 | 675 | 19% | $3,790 | ||
16Joint Bone SpineElsevier BV · France | 1.09Q2 | 2.19 0.02 down from 2008 | 490 | 4% | $3,020 | ||
17Connective Tissue ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.21 0.38 up from 2008 | 145 | 13% | — | ||
18Clinical RheumatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Belgium | 0.92Q2 | 1.90 0.03 up from 2008 | 926 | 17% | $4,890 | ||
19Scandinavian Journal of RheumatologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.12 0.17 down from 2008 | 320 | 3% | — | ||
20The Journal of RheumatologyThe Journal of Rheumatology Publishing Company Limited · Canada | 0.89Q2 | 1.88 1.88 up from 2008 | 116 | 96% | — | ||
21Nature Clinical Practice RheumatologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 1.80 0.14 up from 2008 | 807 | 31% | — | ||
22JCR Journal of Clinical RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.42 0.23 down from 2008 | 316 | 4% | — | ||
23Rheumatology InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.67Q3 | 1.40 0.02 down from 2008 | 713 | 15% | $4,990 | ||
24Modern RheumatologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.59 0.22 up from 2008 | 624 | 6% | $3,208 | ||
25Musculoskeletal CareWiley · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.18 0.18 up from 2008 | 69 | 14% | $3,240 | ||
26La Revue de Médecine InterneElsevier BV · France | 0.17Q3 | 0.41 0.05 down from 2008 | 1,005 | 0% | $2,300 | ||
27Zeitschrift für RheumatologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.17Q3 | 0.42 0.30 down from 2008 | 272 | 10% | $3,390 | ||
28Current Rheumatology ReviewsBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.15Q3 | 0.44 0.02 up from 2008 | 125 | 5% | — | ||
29APLAR Journal of RheumatologyWiley · Singapore | 0.15Q3 | 0.36 0.05 up from 2008 | 144 | — | — | ||
30Expert Review of Clinical ImmunologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.14Q3 | 0.35 0.05 down from 2008 | 265 | 30% | — | ||
31Revista Brasileira de ReumatologiaOAElsevier BV · Brazil | 0.14Q4 | 0.26 0.17 down from 2008 | 195 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
32PteridinesOADe Gruyter Open · Germany | 0.13Q4 | 0.37 0.02 down from 2008 | 46 | 100% | $1,808 | ||
33International Journal of Rheumatic DiseasesWiley · Australia | 0.13Q4 | 0.24no 2008 value | 75 | 20% | $3,700 | — | |
34Reumatología ClínicaElsevier BV · Spain | 0.12Q4 | 0.31 0.10 up from 2008 | 270 | 1% | $3,180 | ||
35Future RheumatologyFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 0.10Q4 | 0.17 0.06 down from 2008 | 208 | — | — | ||
36Journal of Pelvic Medicine and SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.07Q4 | 0.14 0.06 down from 2008 | 136 | 2% | — | ||
37Indian Journal of RheumatologyOAMedknow · India | 0.05Q4 | 0.17 0.12 up from 2008 | 99 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
38Reumatología Clínica (English Edition)Elsevier BV · Spain | 0.02Q4 | 0.04 0.04 down from 2008 | 116 | 0% | $3,170 | ||
39Reumatologia/RheumatologyOATermedia Publishing House · Poland | 0.01Q4 | 0.01 0.01 up from 2008 | 207 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Rheumatology highlighted.
- Surgery500
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine212
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine184
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health180
- Oncology134
- Epidemiology119
- Infectious Diseases110
- Psychiatry and Mental health100
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging99
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism95
- Physiology91
- Neurology87
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health64
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine63
- Ophthalmology59
- Hematology55
- Dermatology51
- Obstetrics and Gynecology44
- Rheumatology39
- Nephrology37
- Pharmacology34
- Complementary and alternative medicine31
- Reproductive Medicine31
- Emergency Medicine30
- Geriatrics and Gerontology25
- Otorhinolaryngology21
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine18
- Rehabilitation18
- Immunology and Allergy16
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Genetics11
- Hepatology10
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine9
- Urology9
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
18 additional Rheumatology 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
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 39,439 +28.7% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.891 +4.1% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 30 | 32 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 43 | 49 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 65 | 65 | 67 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 67 | 67 | 70 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 17,821 | 20,685 | 22,377 | 24,459 | 25,269 | 27,867 | 30,643 | 33,672 | 36,348 | 39,439 | 42,988 | 46,086 | 48,179 | 49,400 | 51,214 | 53,341 | 54,578 | 55,366 | 56,123 | 57,306 | 59,410 | 62,541 | 65,720 | 67,501 | 67,701 | 69,555 | |
| Median OJR | 0.91 | 0.782 | 0.862 | 0.81 | 0.884 | 1.05 | 0.855 | 0.803 | 0.92 | 0.891 | 0.7969 | 0.888 | 0.877 | 0.95 | 0.879 | 0.847 | 0.9574 | 0.889 | 0.873 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.9569 | 0.869 | 0.851 | 0.785 | 0.7970 |
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.