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Journal rankings · indicator year 2010

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Subfield ranking · 2010

Physiology journal rankings 2010

95 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Physiology has 95 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2009 to 0.84, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.54. The top three are American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Acta Neuropathologica, and International Journal of Obesity.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

95
3% of Medicine
Median OJR

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.

0.84-0.07 vs 2009
This subfieldAll 0.93World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

24%
All fields: 20%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,590
Median positive listed APC: $3,590 among 45 journals. 50 have no known price. All fields: $3,490.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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95 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Physiology ranking, 2010

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.

OJR

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.

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1American Journal of Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.69Q15.11 0.16 down from 200983030%$3,300
2Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
3.10Q18.06 1.09 up from 200939348%$4,990
3International Journal of ObesitySpringer Nature · United Kingdom
2.75Q16.06 0.52 up from 200974535%$4,790
4Annals of Behavioral MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.70Q15.42 0.62 up from 200921973%$4,433
5PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · Netherlands
2.66Q15.77 0.24 down from 20091,04030%—
6Molecular NeurodegenerationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.63Q16.42 0.67 up from 200996100%$3,090
7ObesityWiley · United States
2.55Q14.82 0.25 up from 20091,44074%$4,980
8American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and MetabolismAmerican Physiological Society · United States
2.22Q15.14 0.01 down from 20091,02053%—
9Molecular PainOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
2.19Q15.13 0.13 down from 2009184100%$2,650
10The Journals of Gerontology Series AOxford University Press · United States
2.16Q15.13 1.01 up from 200962756%$4,408
11Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.12Q13.61 0.36 down from 200963923%$3,650
12Clinical ChemistryAmerican Association for Clinical Chemistry · United States
2.10Q14.78 0.03 down from 20091,21628%$4,636
13Exercise and Sport Sciences ReviewsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.04Q14.36 0.89 up from 200911333%—
14Journal of Clinical Sleep MedicineAmerican Academy of Sleep Medicine · United States
1.98Q13.69 0.55 down from 200924962%—
15Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.89Q14.01 0.83 down from 200936916%$3,320
16European Journal of Clinical NutritionSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.75Q13.13 0.17 down from 200956433%$3,590
17Journal of Applied PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States
1.71Q13.88 0.53 up from 20091,66946%—
18Applied Physiology Nutrition and MetabolismNRC Research Press · Canada
1.66Q13.18 0.58 up from 200942612%—
19Physiology & BehaviorElsevier BV · United States
1.65Q13.35 0.28 down from 200990939%$3,500
20Nutrition & MetabolismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.62Q13.62 0.22 up from 2009111100%$3,590
21Mechanisms of Ageing and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.61Q14.86 0.43 up from 200925846%$4,780
22Experimental GerontologyOAElsevier BV · United States
1.55Q13.89 0.05 up from 200941039%$3,400
23Nicotine & Tobacco ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.55Q13.64no change38248%$5,392
1.54Q13.70 0.29 up from 20091,34751%—
25Journal of Aging and Physical ActivityHuman Kinetics · United States
1.54Q22.55 0.17 up from 20099336%—
26Addictive BehaviorsElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.53Q22.67no change57653%$4,450
27Journal of Physical Activity and HealthHuman Kinetics · United States
1.53Q22.78 0.31 up from 200920826%—
28Experimental PhysiologyOAWiley · United Kingdom
1.41Q23.19 0.11 up from 200941055%$2,940
29Nitric OxideElsevier BV · United States
1.34Q23.72 1.37 up from 200923216%$3,400
30NutritionElsevier BV · United States
1.33Q22.81 0.04 down from 200956711%$3,870
31American Journal of Clinical PathologyOxford University Press · United States
1.33Q23.00 0.13 up from 200972034%$4,660
32Microvascular ResearchElsevier BV · United States
1.31Q22.81 0.18 down from 200925326%$3,340
33Tobacco ControlBMJ · United Kingdom
1.30Q23.35 0.14 down from 200930856%—
34Nutrition and CancerRoutledge · United States
1.26Q23.19 0.36 up from 200930518%—
35Journal of EpidemiologyOAJapan Epidemiological Association · Japan
1.26Q22.06 0.15 up from 2009141100%$1,356
36Allergology InternationalOAElsevier BV · Japan
1.25Q22.92 0.26 down from 2009190100%$2,280
37The journal of nutrition health & agingOASpringer Science+Business Media · France
1.23Q22.59 0.09 down from 200932185%$3,450
38Aging Clinical and Experimental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy
1.20Q22.18 0.45 up from 200923217%$4,490
1.12Q22.19 0.38 up from 20091006%—
40Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical SciencesOACanadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences · Canada
1.11Q22.32 0.73 up from 200987100%$2,200
41BiogerontologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.07Q23.26 0.48 up from 200917317%$4,790
42Regenerative MedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom
1.02Q22.59 0.32 up from 200925310%—
43Clinical BiochemistryElsevier BV · United States
1.01Q22.42 0.28 up from 20098285%$3,000
44Rejuvenation ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States
1.01Q23.03 0.24 down from 200927223%—
0.92Q22.02 0.14 down from 200933433%$4,150
46Nature Reviews EndocrinologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
0.91Q23.25 3.25 up from 200922012%—
0.84Q21.98 0.50 up from 200934626%—
48Aviation Space and Environmental MedicineAerospace Medical Association · United States
0.84Q21.30 0.44 up from 20094022%—
0.83Q31.95 0.15 down from 20099349%$2,712
50Nutrition ReviewsOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.82Q31.26 2.65 down from 20093,23025%$4,981

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.

41 additional Physiology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
95
Window papers (baseline)
76,421 +22.1% from indicator year 2007
Median OJR
0.836 +7.2% from indicator year 2007
Rising journals (2025)
9

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals5962626767727582899195104110120127129131143155160163163162161159154
Window papers (baseline)43,95648,02849,86352,23652,60855,62658,65862,56565,32270,40676,42181,14683,40184,30088,59893,04598,474102,056105,556109,112113,571121,103127,537130,703130,394133,596
Median OJR0.590.630.800.710.730.740.7780.7810.850.910.8360.900.990.9430.9750.9700.960.9400.8780.8370.8410.890.930.8840.820.87

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.