Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Ophthalmology journal rankings 2012
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Ophthalmology has 67 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Ophthalmology, and American Journal of Ophthalmology.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery610
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine245
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health213
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine209
- Oncology153
- Epidemiology147
- Infectious Diseases144
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism124
- Neurology120
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging112
- Physiology110
- Psychiatry and Mental health109
- Ophthalmology67
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- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine85
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health67
- Dermatology64
- Hematology60
- Obstetrics and Gynecology55
- Rheumatology53
- Nephrology40
- Pharmacology38
- Complementary and alternative medicine37
- Reproductive Medicine37
- Geriatrics and Gerontology34
- Emergency Medicine32
- Otorhinolaryngology28
- Rehabilitation21
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine20
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine20
- Hepatology16
- Genetics14
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine10
- Urology10
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
67 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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1Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.29Q1 | 9.74 0.57 down from 2011 | 83 | 52% | $6,710 | ||
2OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.85 0.19 up from 2011 | 1,534 | 35% | $4,990 | ||
3American Journal of OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.58 0.30 down from 2011 | 1,014 | 17% | $4,300 | ||
4Survey of OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.30Q1 | 3.84 0.03 up from 2011 | 165 | 10% | $4,620 | ||
5Archives of OphthalmologyAmerican Medical Association · United States | 2.13Q1 | 3.29 0.24 down from 2011 | 910 | 26% | — | ||
6Current Opinion in OphthalmologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.02Q1 | 3.49no change | 249 | 4% | — | ||
7RetinaLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.77Q1 | 3.26 0.35 up from 2011 | 946 | 6% | — | ||
8Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual ScienceOACadmus Press · United States | 1.70Q1 | 3.88 0.04 up from 2011 | 3,057 | 8% | $1,850 | ||
9British Journal of OphthalmologyBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.61 0.17 up from 2011 | 1,201 | 21% | — | ||
10Experimental Eye ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 2.92 0.27 down from 2011 | 631 | 41% | $4,010 | ||
11Seminars in OphthalmologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 2.21 0.77 up from 2011 | 160 | 4% | — | ||
12Journal of GlaucomaLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.34Q1 | 1.79 0.21 down from 2011 | 430 | 7% | — | ||
13Journal of Cataract & Refractive SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.51 0.22 up from 2011 | 1,328 | 3% | $3,000 | ||
14BMC OphthalmologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 2.31 0.41 up from 2011 | 87 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
15Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental OphthalmologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.13 0.20 up from 2011 | 802 | 19% | $2,990 | ||
16Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and TherapeuticsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.18Q1 | 1.86 0.27 down from 2011 | 317 | 21% | — | ||
17Journal of OphthalmologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 2.14 0.54 up from 2011 | 103 | 100% | $3,040 | ||
18Ocular Immunology and InflammationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.85 0.15 up from 2011 | 267 | 52% | — | ||
19Ophthalmic EpidemiologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.51 0.47 up from 2011 | 149 | 23% | — | ||
20Current Eye ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.05Q2 | 2.08 0.35 up from 2011 | 446 | 11% | — | ||
21EyeSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.63 0.05 up from 2011 | 899 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
22Acta OphthalmologicaWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.77 0.16 up from 2011 | 870 | 15% | $4,990 | ||
23Clinical ophthalmologyOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.93Q2 | 1.49 0.03 up from 2011 | 601 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
24Clinical and Experimental OphthalmologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.49 0.18 down from 2011 | 637 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
25European Journal of OphthalmologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.25 0.01 down from 2011 | 668 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
26Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and InfectionOASpringer Nature · Germany | 0.80Q2 | 1.19 1.19 up from 2011 | 48 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
27The Open Ophthalmology JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 1.54 0.75 up from 2011 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
28International Ophthalmology ClinicsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.31 0.14 up from 2011 | 139 | 6% | — | ||
29International OphthalmologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.74Q2 | 1.08 0.01 up from 2011 | 211 | 8% | $3,790 | ||
30Japanese Journal of OphthalmologySpringer Science+Business Media | 0.74Q2 | 1.51 0.47 up from 2011 | 425 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
31Cutaneous and Ocular ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.71Q2 | 1.15 0.12 up from 2011 | 191 | 10% | — | ||
32Indian Journal of OphthalmologyOAMedknow · India | 0.68Q2 | 1.00 0.05 up from 2011 | 436 | 100% | — | ||
33Korean Journal of OphthalmologyOAKorean Ophthalmological Society · South Korea | 0.66Q2 | 1.05 0.12 up from 2011 | 243 | 100% | $250 | ||
34Ophthalmic surgery, lasers & imaging retinaUnited States | 0.62Q2 | 0.99 0.20 up from 2011 | 544 | 6% | — | ||
35Veterinary OphthalmologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.18 0.12 down from 2011 | 294 | 15% | $3,860 | ||
36Middle East African Journal of OphthalmologyMedknow · India | 0.59Q3 | 0.97 0.27 up from 2011 | 183 | 98% | — | ||
37Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and StrabismusElsevier BV · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.08 0.10 down from 2011 | 482 | 14% | $3,330 | ||
38OptometryElsevier BV · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.68 0.01 up from 2011 | 283 | 0% | — | ||
39Canadian Journal of OphthalmologyElsevier BV · Canada | 0.50Q3 | 0.88 0.02 down from 2011 | 508 | 20% | $3,220 | ||
40Case Reports in OphthalmologyOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.43Q3 | 0.70 0.48 up from 2011 | 98 | 100% | $1,030 | ||
41Journal of ocular biology, diseases, and informaticsHumana Press · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.36 0.62 down from 2011 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
42Arquivos Brasileiros de OftalmologiaOAConselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia · Brazil | 0.33Q3 | 0.64 0.09 up from 2011 | 371 | 100% | — | ||
43Oman Journal of OphthalmologyOAMedknow · India | 0.33Q3 | 0.67 0.36 up from 2011 | 110 | 100% | — | ||
44Clinical and Experimental OptometryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.32Q3 | 0.28 0.08 up from 2011 | 969 | 4% | $2,900 | ||
45Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology & StrabismusSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 0.28Q3 | 0.56 0.06 up from 2011 | 391 | 5% | — | ||
46Expert Review of OphthalmologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.28Q3 | 0.54 0.14 up from 2011 | 198 | 31% | — | ||
47Yearbook of OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.23Q3 | 0.35 0.13 down from 2011 | 491 | 0% | — | ||
48Journal Français d OphtalmologieElsevier BV · France | 0.23Q3 | 0.56 0.09 up from 2011 | 476 | 2% | $3,100 | ||
49Evidence-Based OphthalmologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.22Q3 | 0.26 0.10 down from 2011 | 179 | — | — | ||
50Ophthalmic ResearchOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.19Q3 | 1.81 1.43 up from 2011 | 1,816 | 28% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Ophthalmology highlighted.
- Surgery610
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine245
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health213
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine209
- Oncology153
- Epidemiology147
- Infectious Diseases144
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism124
- Neurology120
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging112
- Physiology110
- Psychiatry and Mental health109
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine85
- Ophthalmology67
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health67
- Dermatology64
- Hematology60
- Obstetrics and Gynecology55
- Rheumatology53
- Nephrology40
- Pharmacology38
- Complementary and alternative medicine37
- Reproductive Medicine37
- Geriatrics and Gerontology34
- Emergency Medicine32
- Otorhinolaryngology28
- Rehabilitation21
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine20
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine20
- Hepatology16
- Genetics14
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine10
- Urology10
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
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.
19 additional Ophthalmology 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
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 28,462 +22.0% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.625 +9.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
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 | 40 | 43 | 42 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 48 | 51 | 55 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 67 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 80 | 87 | 95 | 98 | 100 | 103 | 103 | 105 | 100 | 96 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,473 | 11,378 | 12,226 | 14,052 | 15,094 | 17,136 | 18,467 | 20,621 | 21,851 | 23,336 | 24,412 | 27,884 | 28,462 | 29,131 | 28,558 | 30,793 | 33,056 | 34,533 | 35,768 | 36,390 | 37,173 | 41,089 | 45,525 | 48,388 | 46,946 | 45,419 | |
| Median OJR | 0.44 | 0.53 | 0.591 | 0.604 | 0.595 | 0.66 | 0.71 | 0.70 | 0.72 | 0.573 | 0.688 | 0.601 | 0.625 | 0.619 | 0.67 | 0.695 | 0.65 | 0.614 | 0.589 | 0.615 | 0.612 | 0.58 | 0.593 | 0.571 | 0.63 | 0.68 |
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.