Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Medicine journal rankings 2013
3,412 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Medicine has 3,412 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.29. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.
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 Medicine (42)
Up to Health Sciences- Surgery675
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine266
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health227
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine218
- Oncology170
- Infectious Diseases162
- Epidemiology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism132
- Neurology132
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging129
- Physiology120
- Psychiatry and Mental health119
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine88
- Dermatology73
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health73
- Ophthalmology70
- Hematology64
- Rheumatology56
- Obstetrics and Gynecology55
- Nephrology46
- Pharmacology40
- Reproductive Medicine40
- Complementary and alternative medicine39
- Geriatrics and Gerontology36
- Emergency Medicine34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Rehabilitation24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine22
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine22
- Hepatology18
- Genetics17
- Immunology and Allergy17
- Urology11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine10
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine5
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
3,412 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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 73.88Q1 | 210.23 13.30 up from 2012 | 68 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 14.07Q1 | 27.60 1.18 up from 2012 | 2,855 | 38% | — | ||
3Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 12.58Q1 | 23.05 2.01 down from 2012 | 95 | 98% | — | ||
4Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 8.42Q1 | 14.43 1.18 down from 2012 | 461 | 0% | — | ||
5Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.95Q1 | 15.86 1.41 up from 2012 | 107 | 51% | $3,750 | ||
6Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 7.42Q1 | 20.03 0.05 down from 2012 | 495 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
7European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.92Q1 | 16.30 1.86 up from 2012 | 1,066 | 36% | $5,922 | ||
8The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.82Q1 | 15.26 1.30 down from 2012 | 514 | 43% | $7,280 | ||
9The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.24Q1 | 15.89 1.80 up from 2012 | 807 | 16% | $7,280 | ||
10CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.21Q1 | 13.43 1.41 down from 2012 | 2,734 | 19% | — | ||
11Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 5.81Q1 | 13.43 0.70 up from 2012 | 2,108 | 99% | $7,166 | ||
12PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 5.77Q1 | 12.09 0.18 down from 2012 | 603 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
13Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.55Q1 | 13.09 0.59 down from 2012 | 2,937 | 8% | — | ||
14Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 5.15Q1 | 12.68 2.27 up from 2012 | 1,433 | 34% | $12,690 | ||
15Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 5.15Q1 | 11.32 0.22 up from 2012 | 234 | 12% | — | ||
16Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.12Q1 | 11.08 1.34 up from 2012 | 95 | 45% | $6,710 | ||
17Alzheimer s & DementiaWiley · United States | 4.89Q1 | 12.15 0.51 down from 2012 | 345 | 24% | $4,200 | ||
18European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 4.78Q1 | 10.01 0.12 down from 2012 | 1,000 | 11% | $5,250 | ||
19BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | 11.37 0.72 up from 2012 | 970 | 53% | $5,570 | ||
20Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 4.64Q1 | 10.86 0.36 up from 2012 | 757 | 38% | $4,700 | ||
21Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 4.47Q1 | 9.06 0.42 down from 2012 | 1,852 | 96% | — | ||
22Seminars in Liver DiseaseThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 4.33Q1 | 7.51 2.25 down from 2012 | 114 | 27% | — | ||
23PLoS PathogensOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.17Q1 | 9.81 0.15 down from 2012 | 1,729 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
24The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.08Q1 | 6.98 0.29 up from 2012 | 923 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
25JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 3.99Q1 | 11.52 0.67 up from 2012 | 643 | 50% | $5,436 | ||
26AutophagyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.93Q1 | 9.31 0.12 up from 2012 | 320 | 99% | — | ||
27Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 7.73 1.03 up from 2012 | 1,805 | 48% | $5,100 | ||
28GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.91Q1 | 8.41 0.34 down from 2012 | 1,771 | 38% | $4,180 | ||
29BMC MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 8.83 2.23 down from 2012 | 398 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
30American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.81Q1 | 7.99 0.11 up from 2012 | 1,573 | 33% | — | ||
31JACC: Cardiovascular InterventionsElsevier BV · United States | 3.77Q1 | 7.40 1.07 up from 2012 | 617 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
32Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.74Q1 | 11.15 1.33 up from 2012 | 411 | 60% | $4,990 | ||
33Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 8.38 1.06 down from 2012 | 1,339 | 12% | $4,870 | ||
34Sports MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 3.69Q1 | 6.22 1.00 down from 2012 | 236 | 20% | $5,790 | ||
35Seminars in Cancer BiologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.69Q1 | 11.09 1.95 up from 2012 | 170 | 30% | $6,060 | ||
36PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 3.69Q1 | 6.73 0.37 down from 2012 | 2,510 | 19% | — | ||
37The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 9.62 2.92 down from 2012 | 564 | 39% | $7,280 | ||
38Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 5.35 0.12 up from 2012 | 246 | 50% | $4,170 | ||
39Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.61Q1 | 8.56 1.42 up from 2012 | 1,324 | 11% | — | ||
40Advances in NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.61Q1 | 6.42 1.30 up from 2012 | 166 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
41Clinical Infectious DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 3.55Q1 | 8.61 0.77 up from 2012 | 2,124 | 44% | $4,763 | ||
42DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 3.54Q1 | 7.87 0.45 down from 2012 | 1,299 | 95% | — | ||
43Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology | 3.51Q1 | 9.08 0.54 up from 2012 | 803 | 87% | — | ||
44Clinical Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 3.51Q1 | 9.78 0.60 up from 2012 | 2,303 | 48% | — | ||
45International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 6.71 0.81 up from 2012 | 387 | 100% | $3,177 | ||
46Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.48Q1 | 5.22 0.77 down from 2012 | 1,510 | — | — | ||
47Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 6.84 0.48 down from 2012 | 227 | 20% | $4,450 | ||
48Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 3.47Q1 | 7.76 0.19 up from 2012 | 1,509 | 33% | — | ||
49Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.45Q1 | 7.16 0.75 up from 2012 | 1,276 | 17% | — | ||
50RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 3.45Q1 | 7.02 0.43 up from 2012 | 1,484 | 18% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, compared.
- Surgery675
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine266
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health227
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine218
- Oncology170
- Infectious Diseases162
- Epidemiology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism132
- Neurology132
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging129
- Physiology120
- Psychiatry and Mental health119
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine88
- Dermatology73
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health73
- Ophthalmology70
- Hematology64
- Rheumatology56
- Obstetrics and Gynecology55
- Nephrology46
- Pharmacology40
- Reproductive Medicine40
- Complementary and alternative medicine39
- Geriatrics and Gerontology36
- Emergency Medicine34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Rehabilitation24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine22
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine22
- Hepatology18
- Genetics17
- Immunology and Allergy17
- Urology11
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine10
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine5
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
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.
1,043 additional Medicine 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
- 3,412
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,889,231 +15.6% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.730 -3.4% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 404Comparison-group list (404)
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 | 1,634 | 1,746 | 1,853 | 1,933 | 2,023 | 2,148 | 2,258 | 2,390 | 2,497 | 2,616 | 2,755 | 2,949 | 3,131 | 3,412 | 3,611 | 3,760 | 3,936 | 4,122 | 4,350 | 4,487 | 4,543 | 4,639 | 4,671 | 4,692 | 4,640 | 4,521 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 709,310 | 795,253 | 851,873 | 918,177 | 953,693 | 1,044,918 | 1,146,485 | 1,266,791 | 1,370,140 | 1,505,784 | 1,634,063 | 1,757,108 | 1,828,247 | 1,889,231 | 1,983,210 | 2,073,801 | 2,149,396 | 2,185,378 | 2,236,129 | 2,298,903 | 2,395,179 | 2,590,856 | 2,809,142 | 2,949,143 | 2,961,797 | 2,982,923 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.704 | 0.724 | 0.739 | 0.756 | 0.748 | 0.760 | 0.730 | 0.749 | 0.741 | 0.725 | 0.717 | 0.701 | 0.702 | 0.715 | 0.663 | 0.655 | 0.661 | 0.660 | 0.67 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.2% | 3,512 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.465 per 1,000 | 3,472 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.9% | 4,166 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 4,521 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,046 | 2,526 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 4,393 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.8% | 4,521 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.69 | 4,492 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.6% | 4,521 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.3% | 4,514 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.