Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Health Professions journal rankings 2013
473 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Health Professions has 473 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.48. 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 in Health Professions (11)
Up to Health Sciences- 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
473 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 Visual LiteracyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.96Q1 | 2.40 1.73 up from 2012 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
7Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.85Q1 | 8.02 1.01 up from 2012 | 375 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
8American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.60Q1 | 2.84 0.28 down from 2012 | 263 | 25% | $3,620 | ||
9International Journal of Medical InformaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.52Q1 | 4.02 0.29 up from 2012 | 325 | 22% | $3,150 | ||
10Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.27Q1 | 2.96 0.01 up from 2012 | 141 | 28% | $4,400 | ||
11Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 3.55 0.60 up from 2012 | 379 | 93% | $3,750 | ||
12Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.17Q1 | 2.22 1.08 down from 2012 | 138 | 12% | — | ||
13American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.12Q1 | 3.91 0.09 down from 2012 | 1,457 | 99% | — | ||
14Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 3.53 0.77 up from 2012 | 50 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
15The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 3.14 0.16 down from 2012 | 320 | 36% | $4,408 | ||
16Occupational Therapy In Health CareTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.97Q1 | 5.34 1.02 up from 2012 | 64 | 11% | — | ||
17Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 5.64 0.39 up from 2012 | 572 | 100% | $4,332 | ||
18Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 6.02 1.83 up from 2012 | 348 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
19Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.84Q1 | 3.47 0.37 down from 2012 | 582 | 41% | — | ||
20INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and FinancingOASAGE Publishing · United States | 2.80Q1 | 0.90no change | 90 | 40% | $2,400 | ||
21DysphagiaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.72Q1 | 2.64 0.37 up from 2012 | 152 | 26% | $4,590 | ||
22Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.41 0.06 down from 2012 | 108 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
23Safety ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.67Q1 | 2.49 0.50 up from 2012 | 630 | 13% | $4,360 | ||
24BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 4.60 1.24 up from 2012 | 650 | 80% | — | ||
25International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.62Q1 | 1.58 0.62 down from 2012 | 128 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
26Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.91 0.96 up from 2012 | 145 | 23% | $3,640 | ||
27The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 2.52Q1 | 3.87 0.83 up from 2012 | 327 | 100% | — | ||
28The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 3.05 0.21 up from 2012 | 221 | 9% | $3,510 | ||
29Families Systems & HealthAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.33Q1 | 2.21 0.85 down from 2012 | 79 | 15% | — | ||
29Economics & Human BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 2.73 0.26 down from 2012 | 149 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
31International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 2.82 0.53 down from 2012 | 172 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
32Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 2.32 0.21 down from 2012 | 282 | 67% | $4,330 | ||
33Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 3.07 0.75 up from 2012 | 499 | 27% | $4,220 | ||
34Sport Education and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 2.09 0.21 up from 2012 | 193 | 38% | — | ||
35Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.85 0.52 down from 2012 | 182 | 32% | $4,260 | ||
36OJIN The Online Journal of Issues in NursingUnited States | 2.20Q1 | 1.74 0.51 up from 2012 | 101 | 17% | — | ||
37Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.36 0.22 down from 2012 | 449 | 25% | $4,400 | ||
38Scandinavian 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 | ||
39Evidence & PolicyPolicy Press · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.68 0.52 up from 2012 | 92 | 33% | — | ||
40Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.11Q1 | 5.15 2.32 up from 2012 | 621 | 100% | — | ||
41BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.76 0.26 up from 2012 | 2,931 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
42Journal of Healthcare ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.50 0.06 down from 2012 | 96 | 6% | — | ||
43International journal of doctoral studiesOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.90 1.10 down from 2012 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · United States | 2.07Q1 | 1.36 0.41 down from 2012 | 210 | 23% | $3,730 | ||
45Health Care Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 1.72 0.14 up from 2012 | 87 | 17% | $2,090 | ||
46Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.70 0.55 down from 2012 | 268 | 10% | — | ||
47Journal of Ambulatory Care ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.97 1.14 up from 2012 | 95 | 2% | — | ||
48NAM PerspectivesUnited States | 2.03Q1 | 1.33 0.67 down from 2012 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
49Journal of Oral RehabilitationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.87 0.45 down from 2012 | 322 | 8% | $4,990 | ||
50Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.00no change | 139 | 16% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Health Professions, compared.
- 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.
134 additional 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
- 473
- Window papers (baseline)
- 208,179 +23.9% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.8435 -0.6% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 38Comparison-group list (38)
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 | 253 | 271 | 295 | 302 | 318 | 330 | 346 | 367 | 390 | 401 | 415 | 428 | 449 | 473 | 492 | 507 | 527 | 551 | 566 | 585 | 601 | 612 | 616 | 609 | 600 | 586 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 66,020 | 72,769 | 79,195 | 86,335 | 92,515 | 102,597 | 113,331 | 125,469 | 137,977 | 152,092 | 168,072 | 183,124 | 195,764 | 208,179 | 223,186 | 242,061 | 257,124 | 268,029 | 276,391 | 287,165 | 300,893 | 324,777 | 346,759 | 357,796 | 362,286 | 380,673 | |
| Median OJR | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.8428 | 0.8435 | 0.838 | 0.90 | 0.834 | 0.816 | 0.80 | 0.8210 | 0.8207 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.830 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.6% | 405 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.694 per 1,000 | 396 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.1% | 554 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 74.5% | 586 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,290 | 259 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 19.6% | 558 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.8% | 586 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.86 | 581 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 41.6% | 586 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 47.9% | 585 journals |
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.