Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Health Professions journal rankings 2012
449 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Health Professions has 449 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. 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 in Health Professions (11)
Up to Health Sciences- 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
449 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 | ||
10International Journal of Medical InformaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 3.73 0.59 down from 2011 | 277 | 23% | $3,150 | ||
11American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.16Q1 | 3.99 0.15 down from 2011 | 1,353 | 98% | — | ||
12The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 3.31 0.27 down from 2011 | 314 | 45% | $4,408 | ||
13Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.85Q1 | 3.85 0.20 down from 2011 | 544 | 43% | — | ||
14Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 2.76 0.73 up from 2011 | 48 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
15Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 2.95 0.40 up from 2011 | 374 | 94% | $3,750 | ||
16Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 4.19 0.85 down from 2011 | 313 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
17Economics & Human BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 2.99 0.60 down from 2011 | 149 | 17% | $3,290 | ||
18Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 5.26 0.56 down from 2011 | 442 | 100% | $4,332 | ||
19Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 2.63Q1 | 2.37 0.29 up from 2011 | 160 | 46% | $4,260 | ||
20International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 3.35 0.79 up from 2011 | 134 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
21Occupational Therapy In Health CareTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.61Q1 | 4.33 3.70 up from 2011 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
22Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 2.53 0.62 down from 2011 | 250 | 72% | $4,330 | ||
23BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 3.36 0.51 up from 2011 | 609 | 57% | — | ||
24The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 2.54Q1 | 3.05 0.31 down from 2011 | 352 | 100% | — | ||
25Sport Education and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 1.88 0.59 down from 2011 | 164 | 29% | — | ||
26International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.52Q1 | 2.20 0.04 down from 2011 | 133 | 10% | $4,400 | ||
27DysphagiaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.51Q1 | 2.27 0.16 up from 2011 | 165 | 28% | $4,590 | ||
28Families Systems & HealthAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.45Q1 | 3.06 1.51 up from 2011 | 89 | 14% | — | ||
29International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.98 0.90 down from 2011 | 222 | 25% | $3,686 | ||
30Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 1.77 0.17 down from 2011 | 208 | 15% | $3,730 | ||
31Safety ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 1.99 0.34 down from 2011 | 538 | 9% | $4,360 | ||
32Academic PediatricsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.21 0.64 down from 2011 | 254 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
33Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.95 0.03 up from 2011 | 161 | 33% | $3,640 | ||
34Journal of Teaching in Physical EducationHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.26Q1 | 1.96 0.39 down from 2011 | 69 | 15% | — | ||
35INQUIRY 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 | ||
36Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.22Q1 | 1.21 0.19 up from 2011 | 62 | 12% | — | ||
37Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.09 0.35 down from 2011 | 225 | 78% | $5,123 | ||
38Scandinavian 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 | ||
39Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 3.47 0.22 up from 2011 | 145 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
40JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.13 0.01 down from 2011 | 271 | 1% | — | ||
41Informatics for Health and Social CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.85 0.13 down from 2011 | 63 | 8% | — | ||
42Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.58 0.48 down from 2011 | 455 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
43Research in Nursing & HealthWiley · United States | 2.15Q1 | 2.18 0.02 down from 2011 | 152 | 36% | $4,150 | ||
44The Journal of Primary PreventionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.40 0.30 down from 2011 | 84 | 57% | $3,790 | ||
45European Physical Education ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 1.64 0.59 up from 2011 | 58 | 26% | $3,650 | ||
46Journal of Geriatric Physical TherapyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.10Q1 | 1.75 1.58 down from 2011 | 72 | 13% | — | ||
47Australia and New Zealand Health PolicyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.00 0.84 down from 2011 | 31 | — | — | ||
47Health Care Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 1.58 0.67 down from 2011 | 84 | 31% | $2,090 | ||
49BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 3.50 0.25 up from 2011 | 2,304 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
50Interpreting International Journal of Research and Practice in InterpretingJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 0.55 0.11 down from 2011 | 57 | 29% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, compared.
- 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.
124 additional 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
- 449
- Window papers (baseline)
- 195,764 +28.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.8428 +3.6% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 38Comparison-group list (38)
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 | 253 | 271 | 295 | 302 | 318 | 330 | 346 | 367 | 390 | 401 | 415 | 428 | 449 | 473 | 492 | 507 | 527 | 551 | 566 | 585 | 601 | 612 | 616 | 609 | 600 | 586 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 66,020 | 72,769 | 79,195 | 86,335 | 92,515 | 102,597 | 113,331 | 125,469 | 137,977 | 152,092 | 168,072 | 183,124 | 195,764 | 208,179 | 223,186 | 242,061 | 257,124 | 268,029 | 276,391 | 287,165 | 300,893 | 324,777 | 346,759 | 357,796 | 362,286 | 380,673 | |
| Median OJR | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.8428 | 0.8435 | 0.838 | 0.90 | 0.834 | 0.816 | 0.80 | 0.8210 | 0.8207 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.830 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.6% | 405 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.694 per 1,000 | 396 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.1% | 554 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 74.5% | 586 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,290 | 259 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 19.6% | 558 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.8% | 586 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.86 | 581 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 41.6% | 586 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 47.9% | 585 journals |
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.