Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
General Health Professions journal rankings 2013
371 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
General Health Professions has 371 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.52. The top three are The Lancet, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Work and Occupations.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions371
- Occupational Therapy22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation19
- Emergency Medical Services17
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology11
- Speech and Hearing10
- Pharmacy3
- Complementary and Manual Therapy2
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
371 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.95Q1 | 14.59 1.57 up from 2012 | 3,488 | 45% | $7,890 | ||
2Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.08Q1 | 5.00 0.56 down from 2012 | 117 | 10% | — | ||
3Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.68Q1 | 4.03 1.55 up from 2012 | 52 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
4Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 5.52Q1 | 6.49 0.38 up from 2012 | 81 | 90% | $4,430 | ||
5Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.84Q1 | 3.32 0.41 up from 2012 | 68 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.85Q1 | 8.02 1.01 up from 2012 | 375 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
7American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.60Q1 | 2.84 0.28 down from 2012 | 263 | 25% | $3,620 | ||
8Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.27Q1 | 2.96 0.01 up from 2012 | 141 | 28% | $4,400 | ||
9Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 3.55 0.60 up from 2012 | 379 | 93% | $3,750 | ||
10Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.17Q1 | 2.22 1.08 down from 2012 | 138 | 12% | — | ||
11American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.12Q1 | 3.91 0.09 down from 2012 | 1,457 | 99% | — | ||
12Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 3.53 0.77 up from 2012 | 50 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
13The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 3.14 0.16 down from 2012 | 320 | 36% | $4,408 | ||
14Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 6.02 1.83 up from 2012 | 348 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
15Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.84Q1 | 3.47 0.37 down from 2012 | 582 | 41% | — | ||
16INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and FinancingOASAGE Publishing · United States | 2.80Q1 | 0.90no change | 90 | 40% | $2,400 | ||
17BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 4.60 1.24 up from 2012 | 650 | 80% | — | ||
18International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.62Q1 | 1.58 0.62 down from 2012 | 128 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
19Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.91 0.96 up from 2012 | 145 | 23% | $3,640 | ||
20The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 2.52Q1 | 3.87 0.83 up from 2012 | 327 | 100% | — | ||
21Families Systems & HealthAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.33Q1 | 2.21 0.85 down from 2012 | 79 | 15% | — | ||
21Economics & Human BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 2.73 0.26 down from 2012 | 149 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
23International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 2.82 0.53 down from 2012 | 172 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
24Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 2.32 0.21 down from 2012 | 282 | 67% | $4,330 | ||
25Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 3.07 0.75 up from 2012 | 499 | 27% | $4,220 | ||
26Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.85 0.52 down from 2012 | 182 | 32% | $4,260 | ||
27OJIN The Online Journal of Issues in NursingUnited States | 2.20Q1 | 1.74 0.51 up from 2012 | 101 | 17% | — | ||
28Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.36 0.22 down from 2012 | 449 | 25% | $4,400 | ||
29Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 2.13Q1 | 3.89 0.03 down from 2012 | 193 | 97% | $2,480 | ||
30Evidence & PolicyPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.68 0.52 up from 2012 | 92 | 33% | — | ||
31Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.11Q1 | 5.15 2.32 up from 2012 | 621 | 100% | — | ||
32BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.76 0.26 up from 2012 | 2,931 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
33Journal of Healthcare ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.50 0.06 down from 2012 | 96 | 6% | — | ||
34International journal of doctoral studiesOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.90 1.10 down from 2012 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.07Q1 | 1.36 0.41 down from 2012 | 210 | 23% | $3,730 | ||
36Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.70 0.55 down from 2012 | 268 | 10% | — | ||
37Journal of Ambulatory Care ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.97 1.14 up from 2012 | 95 | 2% | — | ||
38NAM PerspectivesUnited States | 2.03Q1 | 1.33 0.67 down from 2012 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
39Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.00no change | 139 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
40Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.10 0.01 up from 2012 | 243 | 66% | $5,123 | ||
41BMC Health Services ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 2.82 0.25 down from 2012 | 1,220 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
42Journal of General Internal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 3.40 0.05 up from 2012 | 925 | 99% | $5,290 | ||
43JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.32 0.20 up from 2012 | 278 | 3% | — | ||
44Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.73 0.40 up from 2012 | 132 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
45Culture Health & SexualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.32 0.21 up from 2012 | 258 | 29% | — | ||
46Public Health EthicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 1.63 0.48 up from 2012 | 94 | 18% | $3,499 | ||
47BMJPublisher not listed | 1.91Q1 | 2.89 2.04 up from 2012 | 1,823 | 12% | — | ||
48Informatics for Health and Social CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 1.52 0.33 down from 2012 | 65 | 23% | — | ||
49Evaluation and Program PlanningElsevier BV · United States | 1.89Q1 | 1.60 0.12 up from 2012 | 164 | 25% | $3,370 | ||
50Nursing EthicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.11 0.07 up from 2012 | 228 | 15% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Health Professions, with General Health Professions highlighted.
- General Health Professions371
- Occupational Therapy22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation19
- Emergency Medical Services17
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology11
- Speech and Hearing10
- Pharmacy3
- Complementary and Manual Therapy2
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
98 additional General Health Professions journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 371
- Window papers (baseline)
- 112,937 +22.5% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +1.3% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 | 204 | 215 | 234 | 238 | 250 | 260 | 271 | 289 | 305 | 314 | 327 | 334 | 351 | 371 | 387 | 398 | 417 | 437 | 449 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 484 | 484 | 478 | 466 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 38,240 | 42,047 | 45,752 | 49,898 | 53,367 | 58,843 | 64,217 | 70,320 | 76,474 | 83,408 | 92,174 | 100,149 | 106,727 | 112,937 | 120,774 | 132,312 | 141,342 | 148,496 | 153,280 | 159,194 | 164,940 | 176,625 | 186,208 | 190,820 | 188,939 | 194,090 | |
| Median OJR | 0.550 | 0.56 | 0.552 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.6706 | 0.6705 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.835 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.848 | 0.838 | 0.82 | 0.845 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.810 | 0.814 | 0.855 |
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.