Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Field ranking · 2010
Medicine journal rankings 2010
2,755 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Medicine has 2,755 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.33. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, New England Journal of Medicine, and Endocrine Reviews.
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.
Subfields in Medicine (42)
Up to Health Sciences- Surgery531
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine221
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine190
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health184
- Oncology141
- Epidemiology129
- Infectious Diseases118
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging105
- Psychiatry and Mental health102
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism101
- Neurology95
- Physiology95
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine72
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health65
- Ophthalmology60
- Hematology57
- Dermatology56
- Obstetrics and Gynecology43
- Rheumatology43
- Nephrology37
- Reproductive Medicine36
- Pharmacology35
- Complementary and alternative medicine34
- Emergency Medicine31
- Geriatrics and Gerontology26
- Otorhinolaryngology25
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Rehabilitation18
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine15
- Immunology and Allergy14
- Genetics11
- Hepatology10
- Urology10
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
2,755 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 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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 40.02Q1 | 104.89 2.25 up from 2009 | 70 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 13.37Q1 | 27.46 3.51 up from 2009 | 2,831 | 36% | — | ||
3Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 13.34Q1 | 28.36 1.74 down from 2009 | 103 | 64% | $3,750 | ||
4Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 10.82Q1 | 18.53 0.92 down from 2009 | 104 | 94% | — | ||
5Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 7.17Q1 | 12.75 0.31 down from 2009 | 479 | 44% | — | ||
6Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 7.00Q1 | 18.35 0.09 up from 2009 | 390 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
7CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.87Q1 | 13.08 0.63 down from 2009 | 2,676 | 22% | — | ||
8Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.57Q1 | 13.88 0.76 up from 2009 | 1,928 | 97% | $7,166 | ||
9The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.53Q1 | 14.43 0.23 up from 2009 | 537 | 34% | $7,280 | ||
10Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 5.80Q1 | 12.13 0.54 down from 2009 | 1,090 | 32% | $12,690 | ||
11Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.56Q1 | 14.07 2.11 up from 2009 | 3,361 | 12% | — | ||
12Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.04Q1 | 11.27 2.44 up from 2009 | 79 | 58% | $6,710 | ||
13PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.90Q1 | 11.52 1.40 up from 2009 | 742 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
14The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.85Q1 | 12.68 2.76 up from 2009 | 623 | 15% | $7,280 | ||
15Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 10.29 1.09 up from 2009 | 190 | 14% | — | ||
16Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.56Q1 | 8.46 0.52 up from 2009 | 1,247 | 22% | — | ||
17PLoS PathogensOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.54Q1 | 10.46 0.02 up from 2009 | 940 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
18BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.46Q1 | 10.10 0.04 up from 2009 | 933 | 61% | $5,570 | ||
19GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.32Q1 | 9.08 0.79 down from 2009 | 1,728 | 39% | $4,180 | ||
20JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 4.32Q1 | 11.19 0.05 down from 2009 | 695 | 45% | $5,436 | ||
21Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 4.16Q1 | 9.19 0.44 up from 2009 | 719 | 28% | $4,700 | ||
22The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.97Q1 | 9.80 0.42 up from 2009 | 346 | 20% | $7,280 | ||
23DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.92Q1 | 9.11 0.40 up from 2009 | 1,260 | 88% | — | ||
24Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.90Q1 | 8.25 0.50 down from 2009 | 1,250 | 8% | — | ||
25American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.87Q1 | 7.76 1.00 down from 2009 | 1,377 | 35% | — | ||
26Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.79Q1 | 6.87 0.82 down from 2009 | 1,096 | 9% | — | ||
27European Cells and MaterialsOASwitzerland | 3.78Q1 | 8.63 2.29 up from 2009 | 49 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
28European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 3.71Q1 | 7.90 1.35 up from 2009 | 1,020 | 6% | $5,250 | ||
29American Journal of Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.69Q1 | 5.11 0.16 down from 2009 | 830 | 30% | $3,300 | ||
30Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.67Q1 | 8.49 1.06 up from 2009 | 2,103 | 98% | — | ||
31European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 7.61 0.05 up from 2009 | 1,616 | 39% | $5,922 | ||
32Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 5.92 1.30 up from 2009 | 195 | 26% | $4,170 | ||
33HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.61Q1 | 8.66 0.09 up from 2009 | 1,775 | 67% | $2,900 | ||
34Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 6.47 0.03 up from 2009 | 969 | 31% | $5,100 | ||
35JACC: Cardiovascular InterventionsElsevier BV · United States | 3.49Q1 | 5.47 1.46 up from 2009 | 311 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
36Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 3.48Q1 | 7.99 0.03 up from 2009 | 1,463 | 35% | — | ||
37RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 3.45Q1 | 6.97 0.43 up from 2009 | 1,516 | 19% | — | ||
38Progress in Cardiovascular DiseasesElsevier BV · United States | 3.44Q1 | 6.65 0.70 up from 2009 | 108 | 7% | $4,130 | ||
39Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology | 3.42Q1 | 8.43 0.73 up from 2009 | 1,024 | 66% | — | ||
40The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.41Q1 | 5.47 0.55 up from 2009 | 831 | 10% | $4,400 | ||
41Seminars in Liver DiseaseThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 3.40Q1 | 7.60 0.85 up from 2009 | 135 | 26% | — | ||
42GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 8.30 1.36 up from 2009 | 854 | 36% | — | ||
43The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismOxford University Press · United States | 3.40Q1 | 7.84 0.51 up from 2009 | 2,153 | 54% | $3,750 | ||
44Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 6.48 0.04 up from 2009 | 183 | 29% | $4,450 | ||
45Schizophrenia BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 8.14 0.88 up from 2009 | 464 | 86% | $4,981 | ||
46Clinical Infectious DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 3.37Q1 | 7.50 0.40 up from 2009 | 2,283 | 40% | $4,763 | ||
47PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 3.36Q1 | 6.19 0.77 up from 2009 | 2,843 | 17% | — | ||
48Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 9.92 1.66 up from 2009 | 161 | 48% | $4,490 | ||
49Current Opinion in Infectious DiseasesLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.29Q1 | 7.08 0.81 up from 2009 | 239 | 18% | — | ||
50The OncologistOAAlphaMed Press · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 6.99 0.78 down from 2009 | 470 | 95% | $3,852 |
Subfields of Medicine, compared.
- Surgery531
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine221
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine190
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health184
- Oncology141
- Epidemiology129
- Infectious Diseases118
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging105
- Psychiatry and Mental health102
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism101
- Neurology95
- Physiology95
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine72
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health65
- Ophthalmology60
- Hematology57
- Dermatology56
- Obstetrics and Gynecology43
- Rheumatology43
- Nephrology37
- Reproductive Medicine36
- Pharmacology35
- Complementary and alternative medicine34
- Emergency Medicine31
- Geriatrics and Gerontology26
- Otorhinolaryngology25
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Rehabilitation18
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine15
- Immunology and Allergy14
- Genetics11
- Hepatology10
- Urology10
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
945 additional Medicine 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
- 2,755
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,634,063 +29.0% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.756 +7.4% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 404Comparison-group list (404)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 1,634 | 1,746 | 1,853 | 1,933 | 2,023 | 2,148 | 2,258 | 2,390 | 2,497 | 2,616 | 2,755 | 2,949 | 3,131 | 3,412 | 3,611 | 3,760 | 3,936 | 4,122 | 4,350 | 4,487 | 4,543 | 4,639 | 4,671 | 4,692 | 4,640 | 4,521 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 709,310 | 795,253 | 851,873 | 918,177 | 953,693 | 1,044,918 | 1,146,485 | 1,266,791 | 1,370,140 | 1,505,784 | 1,634,063 | 1,757,108 | 1,828,247 | 1,889,231 | 1,983,210 | 2,073,801 | 2,149,396 | 2,185,378 | 2,236,129 | 2,298,903 | 2,395,179 | 2,590,856 | 2,809,142 | 2,949,143 | 2,961,797 | 2,982,923 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.704 | 0.724 | 0.739 | 0.756 | 0.748 | 0.760 | 0.730 | 0.749 | 0.741 | 0.725 | 0.717 | 0.701 | 0.702 | 0.715 | 0.663 | 0.655 | 0.661 | 0.660 | 0.67 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.2% | 3,512 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.465 per 1,000 | 3,472 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.9% | 4,166 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 4,521 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,046 | 2,526 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 4,393 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.8% | 4,521 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.69 | 4,492 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.6% | 4,521 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.3% | 4,514 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.