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Journal rankings · indicator year 2010

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Subfield ranking · 2010

Rheumatology journal rankings 2010

43 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Rheumatology has 43 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2009 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.98. The top three are European Cells and Materials, Arthritis & Rheumatism, and Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

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.

43
2% 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.

0.80-0.09 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.

19%
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.

$3,700
Median positive listed APC: $3,700 among 25 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 17 have no known price. All fields: $3,490.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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43 ranked journals

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Quartile

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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APC (list price)
Rheumatology 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.

Compare
3.78Q18.63 2.29 up from 200949100%$1,000
2Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States
3.48Q17.99 0.03 up from 20091,46335%—
3Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom
3.06Q17.50 0.97 up from 20091,23955%$4,870
2.76Q14.85 0.30 down from 200919913%$4,180
5Current Opinion in RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.74Q15.83 0.19 up from 200928721%—
6Arthritis Care & ResearchWiley · United States
2.69Q15.89 0.69 up from 200976331%$4,640
7Arthritis Research & TherapyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.30Q15.11 0.10 down from 2009672100%$3,690
8Autoimmunity ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.22Q16.45 0.63 down from 200937416%$4,730
9Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States
2.17Q14.11 0.15 up from 200915427%$3,500
10Seminars in Arthritis and RheumatismElsevier BV · United States
2.01Q14.97 1.03 up from 200918618%$4,370
11Osteoarthritis and CartilageElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.98Q14.44 0.49 up from 2009663100%$3,700
12Lara D. VeekenOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.82Q24.00 0.22 up from 20091,18843%$4,597
13The Journal of RheumatologyThe Journal of Rheumatology Publishing Company Limited · Canada
1.69Q23.14 1.26 up from 200970396%—
14Current Rheumatology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.37Q22.78 0.36 up from 200921325%$4,490
1.32Q22.29no 2009 value41100%—
16Joint Bone SpineElsevier BV · France
1.23Q22.81 0.63 up from 20095155%$3,020
17LupusSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.20Q22.69 0.26 down from 200959611%$4,150
18International Urogynecology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
1.13Q22.42 0.21 down from 200972820%$3,790
19Clinical RheumatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Belgium
0.99Q22.04 0.13 up from 200981212%$4,890
20Scandinavian Journal of RheumatologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.93Q22.47 0.35 up from 200930310%—
21Connective Tissue ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.91Q22.26 0.05 up from 200916210%—
22JCR Journal of Clinical RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.80Q21.64 0.22 up from 20093737%—
23Nature Clinical Practice RheumatologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
0.80Q32.10 0.30 up from 2009545——
24Nature Reviews RheumatologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
0.77Q33.17no 2009 value19912%——
25Musculoskeletal CareWiley · United Kingdom
0.76Q31.46 0.28 up from 20096219%$3,240
26Modern RheumatologyOxford University Press · United States
0.72Q31.86 0.27 up from 20096795%$3,208
27The Open Rheumatology JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
0.70Q31.79 0.92 up from 200932100%—
28Rheumatology InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.66Q31.38 0.02 down from 20091,00714%$4,990
29APLAR Journal of RheumatologyWiley · Singapore
0.30Q3—no 2009 value690%—
30Expert Review of Clinical ImmunologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.29Q30.86 0.51 up from 200924931%—
31Zeitschrift für RheumatologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.26Q30.62 0.20 up from 200929615%$3,390
32Current Rheumatology ReviewsBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
0.22Q30.44no change966%—
33La Revue de Médecine InterneElsevier BV · France
0.18Q30.46 0.05 up from 20098740%$2,300
0.17Q40.34 0.10 up from 200915022%$3,700
35International Journal of Clinical RheumatologyOAOMICS Publishing Group · United Kingdom
0.16Q40.24no 2009 value629%——
36Revista Brasileira de ReumatologiaOAElsevier BV · Brazil
0.15Q40.31 0.05 up from 2009196100%$2,490
37Reumatología ClínicaElsevier BV · Spain
0.14Q40.33 0.02 up from 20093094%$3,180
38Journal of Pelvic Medicine and SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.12Q40.21 0.07 up from 2009125——
39PteridinesOADe Gruyter Open · Germany
0.12Q40.50 0.13 up from 20093693%$1,808
40Future RheumatologyFuture Medicine · United Kingdom
0.10Q40.30 0.13 up from 2009134——
41Indian Journal of RheumatologyOAMedknow · India
0.07Q40.17no change113100%$0 listed
0.03Q40.08 0.04 up from 20091750%$3,170
43Reumatologia/RheumatologyOATermedia Publishing House · Poland
0.01Q40.02no change200100%—

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.

19 additional Rheumatology 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
43
Window papers (baseline)
42,988 +27.7% from indicator year 2007
Median OJR
0.7969 -0.8% from indicator year 2007
Rising journals (2025)
6

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 journals2024252730323738383943495356595858656567696765676770
Window papers (baseline)17,82120,68522,37724,45925,26927,86730,64333,67236,34839,43942,98846,08648,17949,40051,21453,34154,57855,36656,12357,30659,41062,54165,72067,50167,70169,555
Median OJR0.910.7820.8620.810.8841.050.8550.8030.920.8910.79690.8880.8770.950.8790.8470.95740.8890.8730.930.990.95690.8690.8510.7850.7970

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.