Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Physiology journal rankings 2011
104 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Physiology has 104 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2010 to 0.90, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are Acta Neuropathologica, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and International Journal of Obesity.
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
Show all 42 subfields
- 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
104 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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1Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.60Q1 | 10.26 2.20 up from 2010 | 409 | 58% | $4,990 | ||
2American Journal of Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.55Q1 | 4.87 0.24 down from 2010 | 864 | 37% | $3,300 | ||
3International Journal of ObesitySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 5.32 0.74 down from 2010 | 795 | 34% | $4,790 | ||
4PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 5.78 0.01 up from 2010 | 1,089 | 23% | — | ||
5ObesityWiley · United States | 2.61Q1 | 4.89 0.07 up from 2010 | 1,401 | 74% | $4,980 | ||
6Molecular NeurodegenerationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 6.14 0.28 down from 2010 | 135 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
7Exercise and Sport Sciences ReviewsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.44Q1 | 4.58 0.22 up from 2010 | 107 | 30% | — | ||
8Annals of Behavioral MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 4.84 0.59 down from 2010 | 244 | 69% | $4,433 | ||
9American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and MetabolismAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 2.34Q1 | 5.27 0.13 up from 2010 | 897 | 54% | — | ||
10Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 5.08 1.06 up from 2010 | 398 | 17% | $3,320 | ||
11Clinical ChemistryAmerican Association for Clinical Chemistry · United States | 2.22Q1 | 5.29 0.51 up from 2010 | 1,090 | 32% | $4,636 | ||
12Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 3.39 0.22 down from 2010 | 625 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
13The Journals of Gerontology Series AOxford University Press · United States | 2.09Q1 | 5.56 0.43 up from 2010 | 595 | 61% | $4,408 | ||
14Journal of Aging and Physical ActivityHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.07Q1 | 3.86 1.31 up from 2010 | 90 | 27% | — | ||
15Journal of Clinical Sleep MedicineAmerican Academy of Sleep Medicine · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.39 0.70 up from 2010 | 245 | 87% | — | ||
16Nutrition & MetabolismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 4.07 0.45 up from 2010 | 173 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
17Journal of Physical Activity and HealthHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.94 0.16 up from 2010 | 296 | 30% | — | ||
18European Journal of Clinical NutritionSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 3.38 0.25 up from 2010 | 480 | 39% | $3,590 | ||
19Molecular PainOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.56 0.57 down from 2010 | 241 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
20Journal of Applied PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.80Q1 | 3.89 0.02 up from 2010 | 1,644 | 43% | — | ||
21American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.71Q1 | 4.02 0.32 up from 2010 | 1,254 | 54% | — | ||
22Experimental GerontologyOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.61Q1 | 4.42 0.53 up from 2010 | 416 | 24% | $3,400 | ||
23Nutrition and CancerRoutledge · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.77 0.57 up from 2010 | 337 | 33% | — | ||
24Applied Physiology Nutrition and MetabolismNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.59Q1 | 3.32 0.15 up from 2010 | 355 | 16% | — | ||
25American Journal of Clinical PathologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.54Q1 | 3.46 0.46 up from 2010 | 680 | 40% | $4,660 | ||
26Physiology & BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 3.65 0.31 up from 2010 | 848 | 40% | $3,500 | ||
27Mechanisms of Ageing and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.49Q2 | 4.05 0.81 down from 2010 | 273 | 45% | $4,780 | ||
28Experimental PhysiologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 3.28 0.09 up from 2010 | 386 | 57% | $2,940 | ||
29Addictive BehaviorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.77 0.11 up from 2010 | 576 | 55% | $4,450 | ||
30Journal of EpidemiologyOAJapan Epidemiological Association · Japan | 1.46Q2 | 2.43 0.37 up from 2010 | 214 | 100% | $1,356 | ||
31NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.44Q2 | 3.16 0.35 up from 2010 | 633 | 15% | $3,870 | ||
32Nicotine & Tobacco ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 3.52 0.12 down from 2010 | 499 | 46% | $5,392 | ||
33Nitric OxideElsevier BV · United States | 1.39Q2 | 3.97 0.25 up from 2010 | 256 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
34Tobacco ControlBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 3.33 0.02 down from 2010 | 345 | 50% | — | ||
35Microvascular ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 1.34Q2 | 3.16 0.34 up from 2010 | 295 | 30% | $3,340 | ||
36Allergy Asthma and Immunology ResearchOASouth Korea | 1.29Q2 | 2.63 1.28 up from 2010 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
37Simulation in Healthcare The Journal of the Society for Simulation in HealthcareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.27Q2 | 2.60 0.41 up from 2010 | 122 | 5% | — | ||
38International Journal of Alzheimer s DiseaseHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 2.73 2.03 up from 2010 | 80 | 99% | $820 | ||
39Regenerative MedicineFuture Medicine · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 3.09 0.51 up from 2010 | 261 | 14% | — | ||
40Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical SciencesOACanadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences · Canada | 1.20Q2 | 2.24 0.09 down from 2010 | 124 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
41BiogerontologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 3.15 0.10 down from 2010 | 187 | 27% | $4,790 | ||
42Aging Clinical and Experimental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.15Q2 | 2.08 0.10 down from 2010 | 224 | 15% | $4,490 | ||
43The journal of nutrition health & agingOASpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.14Q2 | 2.56 0.03 down from 2010 | 537 | 98% | $3,450 | ||
44Current Aging ScienceBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 3.00 1.65 up from 2010 | 81 | 16% | — | ||
45Allergology InternationalOAElsevier BV · Japan | 1.10Q2 | 2.41 0.50 down from 2010 | 187 | 100% | $2,280 | ||
46Tobacco Induced DiseasesOAE.U.E.P. European Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.52 0.55 up from 2010 | 41 | 100% | $2,372 | ||
47Clinical BiochemistryElsevier BV · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.48 0.05 up from 2010 | 840 | 2% | $3,000 | ||
48Nutritional NeuroscienceTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 2.39 0.61 up from 2010 | 109 | 26% | — | ||
| 1.02Q2 | 2.38 0.45 up from 2010 | 219 | 7% | $3,750 | |||
50Mental health and physical activityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 2.41 0.40 down from 2010 | 41 | 15% | $3,360 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Physiology 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.
33 additional Physiology 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
- 104
- Window papers (baseline)
- 81,146 +24.2% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +5.8% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 | 59 | 62 | 62 | 67 | 67 | 72 | 75 | 82 | 89 | 91 | 95 | 104 | 110 | 120 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 143 | 155 | 160 | 163 | 163 | 162 | 161 | 159 | 154 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 43,956 | 48,028 | 49,863 | 52,236 | 52,608 | 55,626 | 58,658 | 62,565 | 65,322 | 70,406 | 76,421 | 81,146 | 83,401 | 84,300 | 88,598 | 93,045 | 98,474 | 102,056 | 105,556 | 109,112 | 113,571 | 121,103 | 127,537 | 130,703 | 130,394 | 133,596 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.63 | 0.80 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.778 | 0.781 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 0.836 | 0.90 | 0.99 | 0.943 | 0.975 | 0.970 | 0.96 | 0.940 | 0.878 | 0.837 | 0.841 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.884 | 0.82 | 0.87 |
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.