Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
General Health Professions journal rankings 2012
351 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
General Health Professions has 351 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2011 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.53. The top three are Milbank Quarterly, The Lancet, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions351
- Occupational Therapy22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation19
- Health Information Management17
- Emergency Medical Services16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology9
- Speech and Hearing9
- Pharmacy3
- Complementary and Manual Therapy2
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
351 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 7.95Q1 | 6.11 1.90 down from 2011 | 87 | 89% | $4,430 | ||
2The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.04Q1 | 13.02 0.58 up from 2011 | 3,526 | 40% | $7,890 | ||
3Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.75Q1 | 5.56 1.04 up from 2011 | 113 | 8% | — | ||
4Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.85Q1 | 2.91 0.39 down from 2011 | 61 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
5Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.15Q1 | 2.96 0.38 down from 2011 | 135 | 28% | $4,400 | ||
6American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 3.12 0.27 up from 2011 | 251 | 28% | $3,620 | ||
7Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.80Q1 | 7.01 0.30 down from 2011 | 248 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
8Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.73Q1 | 3.30 0.57 up from 2011 | 108 | 19% | — | ||
9Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.57Q1 | 2.49 1.05 up from 2011 | 55 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
10American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.16Q1 | 3.99 0.15 down from 2011 | 1,353 | 98% | — | ||
11The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 3.31 0.27 down from 2011 | 314 | 45% | $4,408 | ||
12Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.85Q1 | 3.85 0.20 down from 2011 | 544 | 43% | — | ||
13Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 2.76 0.73 up from 2011 | 48 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
14Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 2.95 0.40 up from 2011 | 374 | 94% | $3,750 | ||
15Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 4.19 0.85 down from 2011 | 313 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
16Economics & Human BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 2.99 0.60 down from 2011 | 149 | 17% | $3,290 | ||
17Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 2.63Q1 | 2.37 0.29 up from 2011 | 160 | 46% | $4,260 | ||
18International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 3.35 0.79 up from 2011 | 134 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
19Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 2.53 0.62 down from 2011 | 250 | 72% | $4,330 | ||
20BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 3.36 0.51 up from 2011 | 609 | 57% | — | ||
21The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 2.54Q1 | 3.05 0.31 down from 2011 | 352 | 100% | — | ||
22International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.52Q1 | 2.20 0.04 down from 2011 | 133 | 10% | $4,400 | ||
23Families Systems & HealthAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.45Q1 | 3.06 1.51 up from 2011 | 89 | 14% | — | ||
24International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.98 0.90 down from 2011 | 222 | 25% | $3,686 | ||
25Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 1.77 0.17 down from 2011 | 208 | 15% | $3,730 | ||
26Academic PediatricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.21 0.64 down from 2011 | 254 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
27Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.95 0.03 up from 2011 | 161 | 33% | $3,640 | ||
28INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and FinancingOASAGE Publishing · United States | 2.23Q1 | 0.90 0.01 up from 2011 | 92 | 92% | $2,400 | ||
29Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.22Q1 | 1.21 0.19 up from 2011 | 62 | 12% | — | ||
30Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.09 0.35 down from 2011 | 225 | 78% | $5,123 | ||
31Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 2.19Q1 | 3.92 0.64 up from 2011 | 193 | 100% | $2,480 | ||
32JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.13 0.01 down from 2011 | 271 | 1% | — | ||
33Informatics for Health and Social CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.85 0.13 down from 2011 | 63 | 8% | — | ||
34Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.58 0.48 down from 2011 | 455 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
35Research in Nursing & HealthWiley · United States | 2.15Q1 | 2.18 0.02 down from 2011 | 152 | 36% | $4,150 | ||
36The Journal of Primary PreventionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.40 0.30 down from 2011 | 84 | 57% | $3,790 | ||
37Australia and New Zealand Health PolicyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.00 0.84 down from 2011 | 31 | — | — | ||
38BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 3.50 0.25 up from 2011 | 2,304 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
39Interpreting International Journal of Research and Practice in InterpretingJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 0.55 0.11 down from 2011 | 57 | 29% | — | ||
40Evidence & PolicyPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 1.16 0.28 down from 2011 | 89 | 16% | — | ||
41Nursing EthicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.04 0.06 up from 2011 | 197 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
42Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.33 0.16 down from 2011 | 144 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
43BMC NursingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.83 0.99 up from 2011 | 49 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
44Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.25 0.44 up from 2011 | 237 | 10% | — | ||
45Health ExpectationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.19 0.51 down from 2011 | 213 | 96% | $4,190 | ||
46Journal of Healthcare ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.56 0.57 up from 2011 | 100 | 4% | — | ||
47Journal of Public Health PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 1.69 0.61 down from 2011 | 154 | 25% | $2,890 | ||
48BMC Health Services ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.07 0.30 up from 2011 | 983 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
49Culture Health & SexualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 2.11 0.17 down from 2011 | 242 | 19% | — | ||
50Journal of General Internal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.96Q1 | 3.35 0.36 up from 2011 | 893 | 99% | $5,290 |
Subfields of Health Professions, with General Health Professions highlighted.
- General Health Professions351
- Occupational Therapy22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation19
- Health Information Management17
- Emergency Medical Services16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology9
- Speech and Hearing9
- Pharmacy3
- Complementary and Manual Therapy2
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
94 additional General Health Professions journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 351
- Window papers (baseline)
- 106,727 +28.0% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.88 +5.4% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 | 204 | 215 | 234 | 238 | 250 | 260 | 271 | 289 | 305 | 314 | 327 | 334 | 351 | 371 | 387 | 398 | 417 | 437 | 449 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 484 | 484 | 478 | 466 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 38,240 | 42,047 | 45,752 | 49,898 | 53,367 | 58,843 | 64,217 | 70,320 | 76,474 | 83,408 | 92,174 | 100,149 | 106,727 | 112,937 | 120,774 | 132,312 | 141,342 | 148,496 | 153,280 | 159,194 | 164,940 | 176,625 | 186,208 | 190,820 | 188,939 | 194,090 | |
| Median OJR | 0.550 | 0.56 | 0.552 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.6706 | 0.6705 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.835 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.848 | 0.838 | 0.82 | 0.845 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.810 | 0.814 | 0.855 |
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.