Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Pharmacology journal rankings 2011
36 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pharmacology has 36 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.64. The top three are Natural Product Reports, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, and Journal of Pain.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery570
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine236
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine200
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health192
- Oncology150
- Epidemiology139
- Infectious Diseases131
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism111
- Neurology109
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging108
- Psychiatry and Mental health107
- Physiology104
- Pharmacology36
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- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine78
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health68
- Ophthalmology62
- Dermatology60
- Hematology59
- Rheumatology49
- Obstetrics and Gynecology48
- Nephrology41
- Complementary and alternative medicine36
- Reproductive Medicine36
- Emergency Medicine30
- Geriatrics and Gerontology30
- Otorhinolaryngology28
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Rehabilitation20
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine18
- Immunology and Allergy14
- Genetics12
- Hepatology12
- Urology11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
36 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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1Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 10.25 0.04 down from 2010 | 208 | 8% | — | ||
2Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 3.55Q1 | 6.22 0.72 up from 2010 | 187 | 6% | $4,990 | ||
3Journal of PainElsevier BV · United States | 2.83Q1 | 6.24 0.78 up from 2010 | 463 | 100% | $4,180 | ||
4Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical TherapyAmerican Physical Therapy Association · United States | 2.09Q1 | 4.16 0.49 up from 2010 | 254 | 7% | — | ||
5Physical TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 2.05Q1 | 3.68 0.34 up from 2010 | 449 | 37% | $4,035 | ||
6European Journal of PainWiley · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.26 0.27 down from 2010 | 496 | 24% | $4,310 | ||
7Experimental and Clinical PsychopharmacologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.71Q1 | 3.30 0.05 up from 2010 | 164 | 59% | — | ||
8Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug TherapyWiley · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.79 0.16 up from 2010 | 479 | 13% | $4,030 | ||
9Manual TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.96 0.60 up from 2010 | 268 | 13% | — | ||
10Pain MedicineOxford University Press · United States | 1.63Q2 | 3.07 0.06 up from 2010 | 558 | 33% | $5,036 | ||
11Journal of Natural ProductsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.57Q2 | 3.43 0.21 up from 2010 | 1,270 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
12Therapeutic Drug MonitoringLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.50Q2 | 2.91 1.14 down from 2010 | 360 | 15% | — | ||
13BMC Clinical PharmacologyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 3.54 0.90 up from 2010 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
14Chiropractic & Manual TherapiesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 2.04 0.02 down from 2010 | 62 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
15Journal of Manipulative and Physiological TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q2 | 2.37 0.20 down from 2010 | 295 | 20% | $2,900 | ||
16Current Drug SafetyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 1.91 0.68 down from 2010 | 85 | 2% | — | ||
17WorkIOS Press · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 1.13 0.09 up from 2010 | 312 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
18The Journal of AntibioticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.93Q2 | 2.07 0.13 down from 2010 | 388 | 16% | $4,590 | ||
19Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.89Q3 | 3.20 1.97 up from 2010 | 86 | 9% | — | ||
20Australian Journal of PhysiotherapyElsevier BV · Australia | 0.81Q3 | 2.07 0.61 up from 2010 | 135 | — | — | ||
21Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and TherapeuticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 1.15 0.36 down from 2010 | 316 | 21% | $4,520 | ||
22Journal of physiotherapyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.76Q3 | 1.33no 2010 value | 57 | 100% | $3,450 | — | |
23Brazilian Journal of Physical TherapyElsevier BV · Brazil | 0.70Q3 | 1.11 0.09 up from 2010 | 232 | 93% | $3,000 | ||
24Ozone Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.66Q3 | 1.05 0.25 down from 2010 | 149 | 3% | — | ||
25Journal of Manual & Manipulative TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 1.57 0.12 up from 2010 | 106 | 100% | — | ||
26Der SchmerzSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.54Q3 | 1.21 0.01 up from 2010 | 210 | 13% | $3,390 | ||
27International journal of medicinal mushroomsBegell House · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.65 0.05 up from 2010 | 143 | 8% | — | ||
28ActinomycetologicaOAJapan | 0.35Q4 | 0.52 0.58 down from 2010 | 32 | — | — | ||
29Advances in PhysiotherapyInforma · United Kingdom | 0.34Q4 | 0.43 0.29 down from 2010 | 83 | 3% | — | ||
30Current Enzyme InhibitionBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.32Q4 | 0.89 0.15 up from 2010 | 55 | 17% | — | ||
31International journal of osteopathic medicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.26Q4 | 0.41 0.57 down from 2010 | 70 | 22% | $2,740 | ||
31Journal of Chiropractic MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.26Q4 | 0.43 0.18 down from 2010 | 92 | 67% | $3,300 | ||
33Scandinavian Journal of PainOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.19Q4 | 0.50 0.36 down from 2010 | 62 | 21% | $2,260 | ||
34International Musculoskeletal MedicineManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.14Q4 | 0.29 0.02 down from 2010 | 74 | 11% | — | ||
35Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy - An International JournalInstitute of Medico-legal Publications Private Limited · India | 0.03Q4 | 0.04 0.09 down from 2010 | 177 | 0% | — | ||
36AMA guides newsletterPublisher not listed | 0.00Q4 | 0.09 0.08 down from 2010 | 51 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pharmacology highlighted.
- Surgery570
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine236
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine200
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health192
- Oncology150
- Epidemiology139
- Infectious Diseases131
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism111
- Neurology109
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging108
- Psychiatry and Mental health107
- Physiology104
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine78
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health68
- Ophthalmology62
- Dermatology60
- Hematology59
- Rheumatology49
- Obstetrics and Gynecology48
- Nephrology41
- Complementary and alternative medicine36
- Pharmacology36
- Reproductive Medicine36
- Emergency Medicine30
- Geriatrics and Gerontology30
- Otorhinolaryngology28
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Rehabilitation20
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine18
- Immunology and Allergy14
- Genetics12
- Hepatology12
- Urology11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
11 additional Pharmacology 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
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 52,153 +23.7% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.91 +26.0% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 29 | 33 | 32 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 51 | 54 | 53 | 54 | 51 | 52 | 49 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 19,603 | 22,467 | 24,630 | 27,412 | 29,324 | 32,358 | 35,691 | 39,107 | 42,145 | 45,380 | 48,527 | 52,153 | 54,359 | 55,921 | 57,834 | 58,910 | 59,488 | 58,462 | 57,882 | 58,590 | 61,076 | 65,359 | 69,176 | 70,919 | 70,967 | 72,738 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.672 | 0.51 | 0.62 | 0.715 | 0.667 | 0.7235 | 0.80 | 0.892 | 0.91 | 1.001 | 0.891 | 0.7936 | 0.7943 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.65 | 0.644 | 0.642 | 0.662 | 0.75 | 0.659 | 0.7243 | 0.73 |
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.