Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Domain ranking · 2012
Health Sciences journal rankings 2012
3,809 ranked journals · Domain
Health Sciences has 3,809 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.
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.
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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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 56.47Q1 | 196.93 85.70 up from 2011 | 71 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 14.48Q1 | 26.42 0.69 down from 2011 | 2,863 | 37% | — | ||
3Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.28Q1 | 25.06 2.92 up from 2011 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
4Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 8.66Q1 | 14.45 9.48 down from 2011 | 101 | 50% | $3,750 | ||
5Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 8.12Q1 | 15.60 1.17 up from 2011 | 485 | 56% | — | ||
6Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 7.95Q1 | 6.11 1.90 down from 2011 | 87 | 89% | $4,430 | ||
7Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 7.11Q1 | 20.07 0.63 up from 2011 | 465 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
8The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.04Q1 | 13.02 0.58 up from 2011 | 3,526 | 40% | $7,890 | ||
9The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.98Q1 | 16.56 0.25 up from 2011 | 536 | 44% | $7,280 | ||
10CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.76Q1 | 14.84 0.07 up from 2011 | 2,642 | 20% | — | ||
11Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.75Q1 | 5.56 1.04 up from 2011 | 113 | 8% | — | ||
12The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.40Q1 | 14.09 0.09 down from 2011 | 714 | 10% | $7,280 | ||
13Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.31Q1 | 12.73 0.82 down from 2011 | 2,042 | 98% | $7,166 | ||
14PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 6.14Q1 | 12.27 0.11 up from 2011 | 586 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
15Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.98Q1 | 13.68 1.24 down from 2011 | 3,135 | 9% | — | ||
16MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 5.50Q1 | 9.52 1.40 down from 2011 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
17European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 14.44 4.32 up from 2011 | 1,181 | 43% | $5,922 | ||
18Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 11.11 0.85 up from 2011 | 230 | 15% | — | ||
19Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.29Q1 | 9.74 0.57 down from 2011 | 83 | 52% | $6,710 | ||
20Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 5.19Q1 | 10.41 0.32 down from 2011 | 1,324 | 33% | $12,690 | ||
21Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.85Q1 | 2.91 0.39 down from 2011 | 61 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
22European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 4.84Q1 | 10.13 0.61 up from 2011 | 880 | 9% | $5,250 | ||
23BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 10.65 0.26 down from 2011 | 948 | 61% | $5,570 | ||
24Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 4.53Q1 | 10.51 0.01 down from 2011 | 845 | 39% | $4,700 | ||
25Sports MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 4.38Q1 | 7.22 0.36 up from 2011 | 194 | 19% | $5,790 | ||
26Alzheimer s & DementiaWiley · United States | 4.35Q1 | 12.66 6.25 up from 2011 | 276 | 24% | $4,200 | ||
27PLoS PathogensOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.22Q1 | 9.96 1.02 down from 2011 | 1,556 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
28Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 4.19Q1 | 9.48 0.20 up from 2011 | 1,834 | 99% | — | ||
29Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer NetworkNational Comprehensive Cancer | 4.15Q1 | 7.48 1.30 down from 2011 | 223 | 65% | — | ||
30Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.15Q1 | 2.96 0.38 down from 2011 | 135 | 28% | $4,400 | ||
31The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.11Q1 | 6.69 0.58 up from 2011 | 925 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
32JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 4.10Q1 | 10.85 0.67 up from 2011 | 648 | 48% | $5,436 | ||
33The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.09Q1 | 12.55 0.68 up from 2011 | 463 | 31% | $7,280 | ||
34Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.02Q1 | 5.99 2.21 down from 2011 | 1,371 | 22% | — | ||
35Seminars in Liver DiseaseThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 4.01Q1 | 9.76 0.54 up from 2011 | 125 | 14% | — | ||
36PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 3.98Q1 | 7.09 0.33 down from 2011 | 2,446 | 18% | — | ||
37Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 6.77 0.18 up from 2011 | 118 | 7% | $4,430 | ||
38Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.91Q1 | 9.82 0.44 down from 2011 | 417 | 61% | $4,990 | ||
39American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 3.12 0.27 up from 2011 | 251 | 28% | $3,620 | ||
40GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.85Q1 | 8.75 0.24 down from 2011 | 1,864 | 39% | $4,180 | ||
41BMC MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 11.07 0.85 up from 2011 | 308 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
42Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.80Q1 | 7.01 0.30 down from 2011 | 248 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
43DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.76Q1 | 8.32 0.26 down from 2011 | 1,144 | 93% | — | ||
44Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 5.23 1.14 down from 2011 | 227 | 43% | $4,170 | ||
45Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.73Q1 | 3.30 0.57 up from 2011 | 108 | 19% | — | ||
46American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.70Q1 | 7.88 0.55 down from 2011 | 1,491 | 32% | — | ||
47Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 9.44 1.20 up from 2011 | 1,130 | 11% | $4,870 | ||
48American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.64Q1 | 8.14 0.13 down from 2011 | 1,398 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
49AutophagyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.63Q1 | 9.18 2.95 up from 2011 | 247 | 99% | — | ||
50Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.61Q1 | 7.14 0.73 down from 2011 | 1,350 | 8% | — |
Fields of Health Sciences, compared.
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.
1,289 additional Health Sciences 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
- 3,809
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,126,669 +22.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.78 +3.9% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 464
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 2,007 | 2,150 | 2,285 | 2,374 | 2,486 | 2,626 | 2,757 | 2,922 | 3,062 | 3,193 | 3,364 | 3,591 | 3,809 | 4,129 | 4,361 | 4,544 | 4,757 | 4,979 | 5,239 | 5,390 | 5,462 | 5,563 | 5,606 | 5,618 | 5,549 | 5,406 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 813,419 | 909,304 | 974,228 | 1,051,248 | 1,094,845 | 1,200,886 | 1,317,521 | 1,455,690 | 1,577,275 | 1,733,757 | 1,887,930 | 2,035,231 | 2,126,669 | 2,204,628 | 2,320,572 | 2,437,477 | 2,534,543 | 2,585,157 | 2,649,222 | 2,728,712 | 2,846,138 | 3,078,764 | 3,332,730 | 3,490,788 | 3,507,496 | 3,550,948 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.6778 | 0.70 | 0.726 | 0.748 | 0.767 | 0.773 | 0.78 | 0.741 | 0.76 | 0.750 | 0.737 | 0.727 | 0.71 | 0.725 | 0.735 | 0.680 | 0.67 | 0.6776 | 0.681 | 0.69 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.3% | 4,151 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.372 per 1,000 | 4,101 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.3% | 5,009 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 5,406 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 2,959 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.2% | 5,241 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.70 | 5,372 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.2% | 5,398 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.