Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Health Professions journal rankings 2011
428 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Health Professions has 428 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.89, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are Milbank Quarterly, The Lancet, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 Health Professions (11)
Up to Health Sciences- General Health Professions334
- Occupational Therapy22
- Health Information Management17
- Emergency Medical Services16
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology8
- Speech and Hearing8
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
428 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 7.04Q1 | 8.02 2.25 up from 2010 | 87 | 89% | $4,430 | ||
2The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.95Q1 | 12.44 0.95 up from 2010 | 3,589 | 40% | $7,890 | ||
3Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.63Q1 | 4.51 0.18 down from 2010 | 100 | 13% | — | ||
4Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.64Q1 | 3.34 0.67 up from 2010 | 140 | 37% | $4,400 | ||
5American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 4.62Q1 | 2.85 0.99 down from 2010 | 222 | 35% | $3,620 | ||
6International Journal of Medical InformaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.48Q1 | 4.32 0.04 down from 2010 | 259 | 26% | $3,150 | ||
7Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 4.34Q1 | 7.31 0.82 down from 2010 | 180 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
8Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.69Q1 | 3.30 0.90 up from 2010 | 58 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
9Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 5.03 0.91 up from 2010 | 240 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
10Journal of Teaching in Physical EducationHuman Kinetics · United States | 3.14Q1 | 2.35 0.61 up from 2010 | 73 | 14% | — | ||
11American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.14Q1 | 4.14 0.31 up from 2010 | 1,295 | 87% | — | ||
12Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.12Q1 | 2.73 0.63 up from 2010 | 106 | 9% | — | ||
13The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 3.57 0.52 up from 2010 | 317 | 41% | $4,408 | ||
14Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 3.15 0.38 up from 2010 | 207 | 59% | $4,330 | ||
15Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 5.82 0.88 up from 2010 | 324 | 99% | $4,332 | ||
16Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.90Q1 | 4.05 0.21 up from 2010 | 610 | 27% | — | ||
17Economics & Human BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.87Q1 | 3.59 0.67 up from 2010 | 130 | 23% | $3,290 | ||
18International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 3.88 0.28 up from 2010 | 172 | 34% | $3,686 | ||
19Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional PracticeEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 0.40 0.16 down from 2010 | 46 | 7% | — | ||
20Safety ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 2.33 0.30 up from 2010 | 422 | 6% | $4,360 | ||
21The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 2.64Q1 | 3.36 0.25 up from 2010 | 386 | 100% | — | ||
22Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 2.55 0.23 down from 2010 | 346 | 94% | $3,750 | ||
23Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.56Q1 | 1.44 0.40 down from 2010 | 57 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
24International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.54Q1 | 2.24 0.46 up from 2010 | 124 | 9% | $4,400 | ||
25BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 2.86 1.17 down from 2010 | 476 | 39% | — | ||
26Journal of Geriatric Physical TherapyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.50Q1 | 3.33 1.50 up from 2010 | 46 | 19% | — | ||
27Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.44 0.16 down from 2010 | 177 | 76% | $5,123 | ||
28Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.41Q1 | 1.94 0.54 up from 2010 | 200 | 27% | $3,730 | ||
29Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.41Q1 | 2.92 0.51 up from 2010 | 164 | 24% | $3,640 | ||
30Health Informatics JournalOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 2.20 0.39 up from 2010 | 73 | 22% | $2,000 | ||
31Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.36Q1 | 3.06 0.29 down from 2010 | 479 | 23% | $4,400 | ||
32Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.03 0.12 up from 2010 | 53 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
33Health ExpectationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.70 0.31 down from 2010 | 159 | 95% | $4,190 | ||
34Physical Education and Sport PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.44 0.98 up from 2010 | 79 | 13% | — | ||
35The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 2.79 0.06 down from 2010 | 258 | 10% | $3,510 | ||
36Sport Education and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.47 0.89 up from 2010 | 71 | 24% | — | ||
37Australia and New Zealand Health PolicyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.84 0.89 up from 2010 | 59 | — | — | ||
38The Journal of Primary PreventionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.15Q1 | 2.70 1.06 up from 2010 | 101 | 37% | $3,790 | ||
39BMJPublisher not listed | 2.15Q1 | 0.82 3.01 down from 2010 | 635 | 2% | — | ||
40International Journal of Nursing StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.26 0.49 up from 2010 | 467 | 23% | $5,840 | ||
41JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.14 0.37 down from 2010 | 258 | 1% | — | ||
42Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.07Q1 | 1.12 1.43 down from 2010 | 137 | 6% | — | ||
43Journal of General Internal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.07Q1 | 2.99 0.34 down from 2010 | 1,009 | 98% | $5,290 | ||
44Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 2.06Q1 | 2.08 0.17 up from 2010 | 140 | 32% | $4,260 | ||
45Journal of Public Health PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.30 0.69 up from 2010 | 133 | 36% | $2,890 | ||
46Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.24 0.57 up from 2010 | 142 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
47BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 3.26 0.40 down from 2010 | 1,742 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
48International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 2.56 0.14 up from 2010 | 101 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
49Health Care Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 2.26 0.69 up from 2010 | 96 | 21% | $2,090 | ||
50Academic PediatricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 2.85 0.58 up from 2010 | 153 | 28% | $3,400 |
Subfields of Health Professions, compared.
- General Health Professions334
- Occupational Therapy22
- Health Information Management17
- Emergency Medical Services16
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology8
- Speech and Hearing8
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
131 additional Health Professions journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 428
- Window papers (baseline)
- 183,124 +32.7% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.89 +20.6% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 38Comparison-group list (38)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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 | 253 | 271 | 295 | 302 | 318 | 330 | 346 | 367 | 390 | 401 | 415 | 428 | 449 | 473 | 492 | 507 | 527 | 551 | 566 | 585 | 601 | 612 | 616 | 609 | 600 | 586 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 66,020 | 72,769 | 79,195 | 86,335 | 92,515 | 102,597 | 113,331 | 125,469 | 137,977 | 152,092 | 168,072 | 183,124 | 195,764 | 208,179 | 223,186 | 242,061 | 257,124 | 268,029 | 276,391 | 287,165 | 300,893 | 324,777 | 346,759 | 357,796 | 362,286 | 380,673 | |
| Median OJR | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.8428 | 0.8435 | 0.838 | 0.90 | 0.834 | 0.816 | 0.80 | 0.8210 | 0.8207 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.830 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.6% | 405 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.694 per 1,000 | 396 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.1% | 554 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 74.5% | 586 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,290 | 259 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 19.6% | 558 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.8% | 586 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.86 | 581 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 41.6% | 586 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 47.9% | 585 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.