Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Health journal rankings 2012
43 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 43 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2011 to 0.94, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.92. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Homicide Studies, and Social Science & Medicine.
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 Social Sciences (22)
43 ranked journals
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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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1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.56Q1 | 6.38 1.20 up from 2011 | 111 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
2Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.58Q1 | 1.98no change | 67 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
3Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 3.86 0.04 up from 2011 | 1,597 | 39% | $3,800 | ||
4Psychology of ViolenceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.71Q1 | 2.95 2.57 up from 2011 | 39 | 30% | — | ||
5Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.53Q1 | 2.98 0.19 up from 2011 | 270 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
6Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 2.06 0.12 down from 2011 | 94 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
7Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.53 0.39 down from 2011 | 81 | 8% | — | ||
8European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 2.12 0.09 down from 2011 | 92 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
9Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 2.83 0.05 up from 2011 | 798 | 71% | — | ||
10Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.79 0.32 down from 2011 | 157 | 18% | — | ||
11International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.91 0.77 down from 2011 | 66 | 13% | — | ||
12Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.80Q2 | 2.51 0.98 down from 2011 | 191 | 48% | $4,790 | ||
13Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.78Q2 | 2.41 0.04 down from 2011 | 200 | 47% | $4,400 | ||
14Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.77Q2 | 1.61 0.17 down from 2011 | 261 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
15Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.77Q2 | 1.79 0.14 up from 2011 | 404 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
16Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q2 | 2.13 0.38 up from 2011 | 185 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
17The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.45Q2 | 1.27 0.17 up from 2011 | 106 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
18Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 1.74 0.20 up from 2011 | 467 | 14% | $3,130 | ||
19Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 1.13Q2 | 1.75 0.01 down from 2011 | 394 | 96% | $2,600 | ||
20Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.98Q2 | 1.11 0.27 up from 2011 | 112 | 3% | — | ||
21Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 0.96Q2 | 1.34 0.14 down from 2011 | 331 | 100% | — | ||
22Partner AbuseSpringer Nature · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.41 0.07 down from 2011 | 61 | 8% | — | ||
23Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 1.07 0.09 down from 2011 | 217 | 8% | — | ||
24Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.84Q3 | 0.94 0.21 up from 2011 | 58 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
25Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 0.82Q3 | 0.81 0.37 up from 2011 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
26Health Statistics QuarterlyThe Stationery Office · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 0.97 0.17 down from 2011 | 80 | — | — | ||
27Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.71Q3 | 0.77 0.07 down from 2011 | 295 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
28Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 0.63 0.08 down from 2011 | 104 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
29Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.05 0.24 up from 2011 | 33 | 7% | — | ||
30Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.42 0.56 down from 2011 | 70 | 4% | — | ||
31International Journal of Critical Indigenous StudiesOAQueensland University of Technology · Australia | 0.54Q3 | 0.70 0.08 up from 2011 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Muslim Mental HealthOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.35 0.12 up from 2011 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
33International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 0.47 0.08 down from 2011 | 79 | 2% | — | ||
34Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at RiskChildren at Risk · United States | 0.44Q4 | 0.27 0.23 down from 2011 | 37 | 98% | — | ||
35The Journal of psychology and ChristianityChristian Association for Psychological Studies · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.36 0.05 up from 2011 | 123 | 0% | — | ||
36Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.15 0.09 down from 2011 | 145 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
37Journal of Social InclusionOAGriffith University · Australia | 0.29Q4 | 0.14 0.08 up from 2011 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
38BMC ProceedingsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.28Q4 | 0.43 0.58 down from 2011 | 962 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
39Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.25Q4 | 0.32 0.12 up from 2011 | 215 | 8% | $3,090 | ||
40Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.26no change | 70 | 5% | — | ||
41Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.42no change | 52 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.09Q4 | 0.12 0.01 down from 2011 | 278 | 0% | — | ||
43Health and Social Care ChaplaincyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.07Q4 | 0.09 0.09 up from 2011 | 48 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,049
- Education564
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Gender Studies57
- Communication54
- Safety Research49
- Public Administration48
- Health43
- Transportation40
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law37
- Anthropology36
- Urban Studies36
- Demography33
- Geography, Planning and Development24
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
9 additional Health 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
- 43
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,694 +28.8% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.94 -3.1% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.