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Journal rankings · indicator year 2011

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Subfield ranking · 2011

Immunology journal rankings 2011

79 ranked journals · Subfield in Immunology and Microbiology

Immunology has 79 ranked journals in 2011. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.09 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2010. A journal needs OJR 1.64 to reach Q1. The top three are Nature Immunology, Immunity, and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 score is computed on.

79
72% of Immunology and Microbiology
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.

1.09-0.01 vs 2010
This subfieldAll 0.94World 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.

23%
All fields: 22%
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.

$3,790
Median positive listed APC: $3,790 among 55 journals. 24 have no known price. All fields: $3,470.

Subfields of Immunology and Microbiology (5)

79 ranked journals

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Immunology ranking, 2011

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 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.

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1Nature ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United States
6.51Q119.84 1.64 up from 201065149%$12,690
2ImmunityCell Press · United States
6.02Q118.72 0.88 down from 2010634100%$10,400
3The Journal of Experimental MedicineRockefeller University Press · United States
4.43Q112.37 0.06 up from 20101,01186%—
4Annual Review of ImmunologyAnnual Reviews · United States
3.26Q167.13 9.15 up from 20106429%—
5Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States
3.23Q18.96 1.11 up from 20101,45652%$4,900
6Seminars in ImmunopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
3.04Q17.38 0.21 up from 201012346%$3,790
7Seminars in ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States
2.77Q16.59 2.06 down from 201014241%$4,370
8Journal of AutoimmunityElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.72Q19.49 1.77 up from 201028645%$5,420
9The AAPS JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
2.43Q15.75 1.64 up from 201024893%$5,090
10Mucosal ImmunologyOAElsevier BV · United States
2.36Q16.53 0.39 up from 2010230100%$4,370
11The Journal of ImmunologyAmerican Association of Immunologists · United States
2.19Q16.56 0.25 up from 20105,63533%$3,500
12BioDrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland
2.10Q14.73 0.58 down from 20101214%$5,190
13Nature reviews. ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.08Q114.97 0.39 down from 201059619%—
14Journal of Leukocyte BiologyOxford University Press · United States
1.84Q15.46 0.57 up from 201083636%$3,800
15Journal of Innate ImmunityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.77Q14.35 1.71 up from 201015260%$3,590
1.76Q15.06 0.37 up from 20101,20972%$4,550
17Clinical Reviews in Allergy & ImmunologySpringer Nature · United States
1.72Q15.06 1.81 up from 201017117%$5,490
18Inflammation & Allergy - Drug TargetsBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
1.71Q14.56 0.91 up from 201010310%—
19Genes and ImmunitySpringer Nature · United States
1.65Q14.47 0.43 down from 201027051%$3,190
20Expert Opinion on Biological TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.64Q14.71 0.65 up from 201046119%—
21Critical Reviews in ImmunologyBegell House · United States
1.64Q24.59 0.23 up from 20108617%—
22Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.62Q24.36 0.27 up from 201059029%$4,400
23Journal of Clinical ImmunologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.53Q23.68 0.04 down from 201032234%$4,990
24BMC ImmunologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.47Q23.43 0.24 down from 2010204100%$3,090
25CytokineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.41Q22.96 0.76 down from 201058810%$3,220
26Clinical & Experimental ImmunologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.40Q24.41 0.79 up from 201071994%$3,816
27International ImmunologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.40Q23.53 0.31 down from 201038858%$3,530
28ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.37Q23.64 0.16 up from 201065567%$5,330
29International Reviews of ImmunologyTaylor & Francis · United States
1.32Q23.85 0.57 down from 20107524%—
30Immunity & AgeingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.30Q23.33 0.36 down from 201052100%$3,190
31Immunologic ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.30Q22.94 1.01 down from 201018051%$2,890
32Clinical and Developmental ImmunologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.30Q23.05 0.03 up from 201062100%$2,100
33ImmunobiologyOAElsevier BV · Germany
1.29Q23.21 0.63 down from 201036024%$2,840
34Innate ImmunityOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.25Q22.97 0.14 up from 201015850%$2,650
35Journal of Interferon & Cytokine ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States
1.21Q23.46 1.01 up from 201030944%—
1.16Q23.47 1.03 up from 201036435%$4,460
37Cellular and Molecular ImmunologySpringer Nature · China
1.15Q23.36 0.88 up from 2010192100%$5,190
38Molecular ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.14Q23.15 0.02 up from 20101,02914%$3,340
39Immunology and Cell BiologyWiley · Australia
1.14Q23.06 0.01 up from 201039236%$3,750
40Developmental & Comparative ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.09Q23.02 0.51 down from 201045015%$3,340
41Immunology LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.06Q32.66 0.13 up from 201044221%$3,290
42Journal of Immunological MethodsElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.04Q32.54 0.10 down from 201056937%$2,970
43Human ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States
1.03Q33.02 0.10 down from 20105716%$3,600
44Cellular ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.02Q32.27 0.73 down from 201035325%$3,550
45ImmunogeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.02Q33.29 0.18 up from 201022741%$2,890
46Fish & Shellfish ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.01Q33.49 0.04 up from 20107034%$4,330
47Toxicologic PathologySAGE Publishing · United States
0.99Q32.06 0.51 down from 201036639%$4,150
48Veterinary Immunology and ImmunopathologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.94Q31.86 0.37 down from 201078220%$3,250
49Scandinavian Journal of ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom
0.87Q32.48 0.31 up from 201045359%$4,480
50Immunological ReviewsWiley · United States
0.86Q312.14 2.24 down from 201037946%$5,000

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.

21 additional Immunology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
79
Window papers (baseline)
65,596 +21.6% from indicator year 2008
Median OJR
1.09 +8.6% from indicator year 2008
Rising journals (2025)
5

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals5659636562646872717476798186838890969490928788888886
Window papers (baseline)33,67335,81137,96340,36242,06544,84947,60050,96053,92357,72663,07265,59667,60167,57970,68472,62473,35472,79072,09872,44774,04577,36281,61583,77984,35384,391
Median OJR0.720.780.8340.820.8300.880.890.9591.0021.151.1001.091.0961.041.081.061.050.950.9210.9700.9310.9320.9670.9560.9220.87

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.