Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Global ranking · 2010
Journal rankings 2010
14,881 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 14,881 journals for 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.93, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields14,881 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1STUDI ORGANIZZATIVIFrancoAngeli · Italy | 44.32Q1 | 21.12 20.99 up from 2009 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
2CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 40.02Q1 | 104.89 2.25 up from 2009 | 70 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
3Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 31.84Q1 | 55.30 18.41 up from 2009 | 119 | 78% | — | ||
4ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 29.93Q1 | 26.52 4.35 up from 2009 | 54 | 16% | — | ||
5Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 27.54Q1 | 4.48 26.34 down from 2009 | 33 | 27% | $3,190 | ||
6The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 21.16Q1 | 11.03 1.01 up from 2009 | 140 | 22% | $7,619 | ||
7ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 20.48Q1 | 8.83 0.23 down from 2009 | 49 | 10% | — | ||
8Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 19.75Q1 | 4.88 4.42 down from 2009 | 168 | 66% | $0 listed | ||
9Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 17.91Q1 | 10.44 1.01 down from 2009 | 89 | 27% | $1,700 | ||
10Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 16.65Q1 | 7.94 0.38 up from 2009 | 98 | 8% | — | ||
11Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 16.62Q1 | 7.03 2.84 down from 2009 | 216 | 4% | — | ||
12Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 16.40Q1 | 4.59 1.62 up from 2009 | 48 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
13Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 15.85Q1 | 8.27 0.60 down from 2009 | 235 | 12% | — | ||
14Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.32Q1 | 24.10 2.11 down from 2009 | 136 | 13% | $6,500 | ||
15American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 15.28Q1 | 6.97 1.95 up from 2009 | 144 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
16American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.01Q1 | 4.45 0.42 up from 2009 | 139 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
17Journal of Natural Resources Policy ResearchRoutledge · United Kingdom | 14.99Q1 | 8.00no 2009 value | 39 | 14% | — | — | |
18Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 14.96Q1 | 5.66 2.73 down from 2009 | 277 | 29% | $4,250 | ||
19American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 14.93Q1 | 4.40 0.33 up from 2009 | 198 | 14% | $4,100 | ||
20Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.93Q1 | 26.38 11.69 up from 2009 | 35 | 6% | $6,150 | ||
21American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.89Q1 | 5.66 4.66 up from 2009 | 36 | 35% | — | ||
22International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 14.50Q1 | 4.80 0.42 up from 2009 | 84 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
23Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.36Q1 | 15.20 5.93 up from 2009 | 67 | 11% | $6,990 | ||
24Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.11Q1 | 8.44 1.54 down from 2009 | 92 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
25Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 13.93Q1 | 13.09 11.91 down from 2009 | 35 | 59% | $5,085 | ||
26The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.91Q1 | 6.98 1.39 up from 2009 | 152 | 52% | — | ||
27Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.53Q1 | 17.23 2.19 down from 2009 | 50 | 21% | $6,040 | ||
28New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 13.37Q1 | 27.46 3.51 up from 2009 | 2,831 | 36% | — | ||
29Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 13.34Q1 | 28.36 1.74 down from 2009 | 103 | 64% | $3,750 | ||
30Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 13.07Q1 | 3.26 0.49 up from 2009 | 67 | 0% | $3,830 | ||
31CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 12.75Q1 | 4.58 0.75 down from 2009 | 107 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
32Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 12.72Q1 | 3.69 0.25 up from 2009 | 209 | 14% | — | ||
33Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.52Q1 | 6.24 0.10 down from 2009 | 284 | 34% | $4,790 | ||
34American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.48Q1 | 5.28 0.47 up from 2009 | 120 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
35Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.38Q1 | 5.35 2.54 up from 2009 | 84 | 28% | $2,290 | ||
36MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.37Q1 | 7.37 0.31 up from 2009 | 206 | 1% | — | ||
37Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.04Q1 | 5.88 2.91 up from 2009 | 40 | 15% | $2,500 | ||
38Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.93Q1 | 19.09 1.69 up from 2009 | 158 | 35% | $6,240 | ||
39The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.74Q1 | 6.54 0.61 up from 2009 | 272 | 30% | $4,430 | ||
40US Department of EducationPublisher not listed | 11.56Q1 | 9.37 7.92 up from 2009 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
41British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.51Q1 | 3.58 0.87 up from 2009 | 123 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
42Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.46Q1 | 6.52 0.83 up from 2009 | 185 | 2% | $4,540 | ||
43Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.43Q1 | 5.87 1.16 down from 2009 | 179 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
44Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.35Q1 | 4.24 0.43 up from 2009 | 119 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
45Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 11.32Q1 | 31.40 4.60 up from 2009 | 920 | 58% | $12,690 | ||
46Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 11.25Q1 | 7.38 1.31 up from 2009 | 294 | 19% | $4,028 | ||
47International Journal on Semantic Web and Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 11.24Q1 | 9.33 5.17 up from 2009 | 46 | 6% | — | ||
48Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 11.22Q1 | 3.75 0.02 down from 2009 | 60 | 25% | $7,310 | ||
49Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 11.21Q1 | 7.00 0.72 down from 2009 | 83 | 71% | — | ||
50Indiana Journal of Global Legal StudiesIndiana University Press · United States | 11.13Q1 | 0.57 0.07 up from 2009 | 68 | 0% | — |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences2,755
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences2,231
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences1,578
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences1,003
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences809
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences791
- PsychologySocial Sciences759
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences691
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences647
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences533
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences450
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences415
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences351
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences345
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences306
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences276
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences266
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences176
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences123
- DentistryHealth Sciences102
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences100
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences53
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences44
- NursingHealth Sciences39
- EnergyPhysical Sciences26
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences12
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
5,137 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 14,881
- Window papers (baseline)
- 10,531,968 +24.0% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.93 +7.8% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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 | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.