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Journal rankings · indicator year 2012

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Subfield ranking · 2012

Parasitology journal rankings 2012

24 ranked journals · Subfield in Immunology and Microbiology

Parasitology has 24 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.15 on 2011 to 1.07, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are International Journal for Parasitology, Infection and Immunity, and Parasites & Vectors.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

24
21% of Immunology and Microbiology
Median OJR

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.

1.07-0.15 vs 2011
This subfieldAll 0.94World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

33%
All fields: 24%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,460
Median positive listed APC: $3,460 among 15 journals. 9 have no known price. All fields: $3,413.

Subfields of Immunology and Microbiology (5)

24 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Parasitology ranking, 2012

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.

OJR

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.

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2.20Q14.29 0.44 up from 201144124%$2,880
2Infection and ImmunityOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States
2.12Q14.77 0.14 up from 20111,67399%—
3Parasites & VectorsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.91Q14.46 1.10 up from 2011425100%$3,090
4Parasite ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.58Q12.57 0.28 down from 201125423%$4,220
5Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesOAElsevier BV · Germany
1.55Q12.84 1.06 up from 20118914%$3,010
1.44Q12.37 0.01 up from 201125132%$4,880
7Molecular and Biochemical ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.41Q22.75 0.58 down from 201136339%$3,460
8Vector-Borne and Zoonotic DiseasesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States
1.38Q22.59 0.29 up from 201149739%—
9Experimental ParasitologyElsevier BV · United States
1.32Q22.36 0.10 down from 201165725%$3,470
10Parasitology ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.21Q22.68 0.09 up from 20111,44912%$4,590
11Journal of Parasitology ResearchOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.19Q21.82no change68100%$1,000
12Experimental and Applied AcarologySpringer Science+Business Media
1.16Q22.25 0.34 up from 201127726%$2,390
13Journal of Wildlife DiseasesWildlife Disease Association · United States
0.98Q31.73 0.08 up from 201147955%—
0.92Q31.76no change11614%$3,550
15ParasiteOAEDP Sciences · France
0.78Q31.53 0.52 up from 2011146100%$1,695
16Korean Journal of ParasitologyOAKorean Society for Parasitology · South Korea
0.76Q31.36 0.02 up from 2011213100%—
17Veterinary Research CommunicationsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.76Q31.38 0.28 up from 201129719%$4,590
18Acta ParasitologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.64Q31.07 0.01 down from 2011171100%$3,090
19Journal of Parasitic DiseasesSpringer Nature · India
0.47Q40.80 0.33 up from 201195100%$3,890
0.43Q40.55 0.04 up from 20111472%—
0.39Q40.67 0.17 up from 20113758%—
22Tropical parasitologyMedknow · India
0.21Q40.41 0.27 up from 20113497%—
23Journal of Bacteriology & ParasitologyOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.16Q40.52 0.48 down from 20113188%—
24Turkish Journal of ParasitologyOAGalenos Yayinevi · Türkiye
0.12Q40.27 0.11 up from 2011150100%—

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.

6 additional Parasitology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
24
Window papers (baseline)
15,942 +22.6% from indicator year 2009
Median OJR
1.07 -4.8% from indicator year 2009
Rising journals (2025)
6

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals1617171717181818181818222424232424262829302930313231
Window papers (baseline)7,5418,3238,7799,3099,2739,75110,22611,24311,88312,99813,97015,34515,94216,40916,89818,02118,79919,31219,32919,44219,88421,06122,08922,22621,62321,580
Median OJR0.510.570.490.620.550.710.7220.850.881.121.151.221.071.0621.051.101.111.0590.970.8930.8900.7840.770.7200.7760.84

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.