Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Health journal rankings 2011
40 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 40 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2010 to 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.00. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, and Homicide Studies.
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 of Social Sciences (22)
40 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 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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1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.54Q1 | 5.18 1.00 up from 2010 | 104 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
2Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.54Q1 | 2.92 0.38 up from 2010 | 56 | 3% | — | ||
3Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.35Q1 | 1.98 0.18 up from 2010 | 72 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
4Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 3.82 0.07 down from 2010 | 1,592 | 32% | $3,800 | ||
5Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 2.18 0.41 up from 2010 | 86 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
6Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.43Q1 | 3.49 0.99 down from 2010 | 155 | 44% | $4,790 | ||
7Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.11 0.49 up from 2010 | 152 | 17% | — | ||
8Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 1.65 0.41 down from 2010 | 450 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
9Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.08Q1 | 2.79 0.34 up from 2010 | 217 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
10Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.78 0.19 down from 2010 | 841 | 92% | — | ||
11Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.99Q2 | 2.45 0.16 down from 2010 | 188 | 45% | $4,400 | ||
12Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.93Q2 | 1.79 0.08 up from 2010 | 255 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
13European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.85Q2 | 2.21 0.29 up from 2010 | 92 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
14International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 1.83Q2 | 2.68 1.31 up from 2010 | 63 | 6% | — | ||
15The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.78Q2 | 1.10 0.55 down from 2010 | 101 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
16Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.43Q2 | 1.75 0.40 up from 2010 | 197 | 19% | $4,090 | ||
17Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 1.21Q2 | 1.76 0.01 down from 2010 | 412 | 96% | $2,600 | ||
18Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.54no change | 480 | 11% | $3,130 | ||
19Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.16 0.25 up from 2010 | 200 | 8% | — | ||
20Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 1.01Q2 | 1.48 0.08 up from 2010 | 356 | 100% | — | ||
21Health Statistics QuarterlyThe Stationery Office · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 1.14 0.09 up from 2010 | 64 | 88% | — | ||
22Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.91Q3 | 0.71 0.08 up from 2010 | 93 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
23Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.87Q3 | 0.83 0.17 down from 2010 | 245 | 20% | $3,290 | ||
24Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.87Q3 | 0.84 0.29 down from 2010 | 99 | 13% | — | ||
25Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.74 0.24 up from 2010 | 54 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
26Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.81 0.25 up from 2010 | 40 | 13% | — | ||
27International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.55 0.22 up from 2010 | 85 | 5% | — | ||
28Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.98 0.40 up from 2010 | 77 | 0% | — | ||
29The Journal of psychology and ChristianityChristian Association for Psychological Studies · United States | 0.48Q3 | 0.31 0.24 down from 2010 | 123 | 0% | — | ||
30Journal of Muslim Mental HealthOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.23 0.85 down from 2010 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
31Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q4 | 0.26 0.13 down from 2010 | 74 | 8% | — | ||
32BMC ProceedingsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.37Q4 | 1.01 0.14 up from 2010 | 328 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
33Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.34Q4 | 0.21 0.15 down from 2010 | 203 | 2% | $3,090 | ||
34Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.24 0.03 down from 2010 | 160 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
35Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 0.31Q4 | 0.44 0.04 up from 2010 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.42 0.30 up from 2010 | 58 | 11% | — | ||
37Journal of Social InclusionOAGriffith University · Australia | 0.18Q4 | 0.06no 2010 value | 34 | 100% | — | — | |
38Spirituality and Health InternationalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.15Q4 | —no 2010 value | 31 | — | — | ||
39Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.11Q4 | 0.12 0.04 up from 2010 | 268 | 1% | — | ||
40Health and Social Care ChaplaincyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.17 down from 2010 | 39 | 33% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,005
- Education521
- Political Science and International Relations279
- Gender Studies56
- Communication52
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research44
- Transportation41
- Health40
- Law39
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Anthropology34
- Urban Studies33
- Demography31
- Geography, Planning and Development20
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
12 additional Health 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
- 40
- Window papers (baseline)
- 17,136 +32.1% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.9995 +12.7% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.