Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Pharmacology journal rankings 2012
38 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pharmacology has 38 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2011 to 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.52. The top three are Natural Product Reports, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, and Journal of Pain.
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
- Pharmacology38
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine85
- Ophthalmology67
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health67
- Dermatology64
- Hematology60
- Obstetrics and Gynecology55
- Rheumatology53
- Nephrology40
- 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
38 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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1Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 11.11 0.85 up from 2011 | 230 | 15% | — | ||
2Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 3.39Q1 | 8.27 2.05 up from 2011 | 177 | 12% | $4,990 | ||
3Journal of PainElsevier BV · United States | 2.66Q1 | 4.48 1.76 down from 2011 | 445 | 100% | $4,180 | ||
4Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical TherapyAmerican Physical Therapy Association · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.83 0.33 down from 2011 | 259 | 13% | — | ||
5Pain MedicineOxford University Press · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.18 0.11 up from 2011 | 665 | 33% | $5,036 | ||
6Physical TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.37 0.31 down from 2011 | 509 | 31% | $4,035 | ||
7Experimental and Clinical PsychopharmacologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.70Q1 | 3.23 0.07 down from 2011 | 168 | 55% | — | ||
8Journal of Natural ProductsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.66 0.23 up from 2011 | 1,225 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
9Manual TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.26 0.30 up from 2011 | 276 | 12% | — | ||
10Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug TherapyWiley · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.29 0.49 down from 2011 | 426 | 13% | $4,030 | ||
11BMC Clinical PharmacologyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 2.41 1.13 down from 2011 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
12European Journal of PainWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.98 0.27 down from 2011 | 481 | 34% | $4,310 | ||
13Pain Research and TreatmentHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 2.15 1.90 up from 2011 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
14Therapeutic Drug MonitoringLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.30Q2 | 2.83 0.08 down from 2011 | 337 | 15% | — | ||
15Chiropractic & Manual TherapiesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.68 0.64 up from 2011 | 74 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
16Journal of Manipulative and Physiological TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.39 0.02 up from 2011 | 287 | 28% | $2,900 | ||
17Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 2.63 0.57 down from 2011 | 87 | 16% | — | ||
18Brazilian Journal of Physical TherapyElsevier BV · Brazil | 1.08Q2 | 1.78 0.67 up from 2011 | 224 | 87% | $3,000 | ||
19Current Drug SafetyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 1.82 0.08 down from 2011 | 106 | 7% | — | ||
20The Journal of AntibioticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.98Q3 | 2.35 0.27 up from 2011 | 416 | 14% | $4,590 | ||
21Australian Journal of PhysiotherapyElsevier BV · Australia | 0.93Q3 | —no 2011 value | 74 | — | — | ||
22Journal of physiotherapyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.86Q3 | 1.95 0.62 up from 2011 | 107 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
23WorkIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.82Q3 | 0.78 0.35 down from 2011 | 347 | 85% | $4,150 | ||
24Ozone Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.77Q3 | 1.12 0.07 up from 2011 | 148 | 0% | — | ||
25Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and TherapeuticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 1.22 0.07 up from 2011 | 306 | 17% | $4,520 | ||
26Journal of Manual & Manipulative TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 1.22 0.35 down from 2011 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
27Der SchmerzSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.64Q3 | 1.32 0.11 up from 2011 | 211 | 12% | $3,390 | ||
28International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and SimulationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.57 0.34 up from 2011 | 30 | 9% | — | ||
29International journal of osteopathic medicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 1.31 0.90 up from 2011 | 65 | 24% | $2,740 | ||
30International journal of medicinal mushroomsBegell House · United States | 0.47Q4 | 0.70 0.04 up from 2011 | 158 | 2% | — | ||
31Journal of Caffeine ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.45Q4 | 1.03no 2011 value | 31 | 27% | — | — | |
32Current Enzyme InhibitionBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.29Q4 | 0.68 0.20 down from 2011 | 52 | 11% | — | ||
33Advances in PhysiotherapyInforma · United Kingdom | 0.28Q4 | 0.44 0.01 up from 2011 | 65 | 8% | — | ||
34Journal of Chiropractic MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.62 0.18 up from 2011 | 120 | 57% | $3,300 | ||
35Scandinavian Journal of PainOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.16Q4 | 0.52 0.02 up from 2011 | 103 | 10% | $2,260 | ||
36International Musculoskeletal MedicineManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.04Q4 | 0.10 0.19 down from 2011 | 86 | 14% | — | ||
37AMA guides newsletterPublisher not listed | 0.04Q4 | 0.27 0.18 up from 2011 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
38Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy - An International JournalInstitute of Medico-legal Publications Private Limited · India | 0.03Q4 | 0.05 0.01 up from 2011 | 290 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pharmacology 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.
13 additional Pharmacology 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
- 38
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,359 +19.8% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.001 +25.8% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 29 | 33 | 32 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 51 | 54 | 53 | 54 | 51 | 52 | 49 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 19,603 | 22,467 | 24,630 | 27,412 | 29,324 | 32,358 | 35,691 | 39,107 | 42,145 | 45,380 | 48,527 | 52,153 | 54,359 | 55,921 | 57,834 | 58,910 | 59,488 | 58,462 | 57,882 | 58,590 | 61,076 | 65,359 | 69,176 | 70,919 | 70,967 | 72,738 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.672 | 0.51 | 0.62 | 0.715 | 0.667 | 0.7235 | 0.80 | 0.892 | 0.91 | 1.001 | 0.891 | 0.7936 | 0.7943 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.65 | 0.644 | 0.642 | 0.662 | 0.75 | 0.659 | 0.7243 | 0.73 |
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.