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Journal rankings · indicator year 2013

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Ophthalmology journal rankings 2013

70 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Ophthalmology has 70 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Ophthalmology, and American Journal of Ophthalmology.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 score is computed on.

70
2% of Medicine
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.

0.62-0.01 vs 2012
This subfieldAll 0.92World 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.

31%
All fields: 26%
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.

$3,160
Median positive listed APC: $3,160 among 30 journals. 40 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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70 ranked journals

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Ophthalmology ranking, 2013

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 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.

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1Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands
5.12Q111.08 1.34 up from 20129545%$6,710
2OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States
2.86Q15.33 0.48 up from 20121,60440%$4,990
3American Journal of OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States
2.17Q13.95 0.38 up from 20121,04120%$4,300
4Current Opinion in OphthalmologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.09Q13.55 0.05 up from 20122415%—
5Survey of OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States
2.07Q13.70 0.15 down from 201214411%$4,620
6Archives of OphthalmologyAmerican Medical Association · United States
1.82Q12.96 0.33 down from 2012968——
7Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual ScienceOACadmus Press · United States
1.77Q14.06 0.18 up from 20123,3589%$1,850
8RetinaLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.76Q13.54 0.28 up from 201299610%—
9British Journal of OphthalmologyBMJ · United Kingdom
1.54Q12.92 0.30 up from 20121,08921%—
10Journal of OphthalmologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.49Q12.62 0.48 up from 2012153100%$3,040
11Experimental Eye ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.36Q12.94 0.02 up from 201257947%$4,010
12Seminars in OphthalmologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.30Q12.13 0.07 down from 20121568%—
13Journal of Cataract & Refractive SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.30Q12.81 0.31 up from 20121,2994%$3,000
14EyeSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.12Q11.98 0.35 up from 2012839100%$3,590
15Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental OphthalmologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.11Q12.07 0.06 down from 201292019%$2,990
16Journal of GlaucomaLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.09Q11.62 0.17 down from 20124329%—
17Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and TherapeuticsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States
1.09Q11.86no change34530%—
18The Open Ophthalmology JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
1.08Q11.64 0.10 up from 201263100%—
19Current Eye ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States
1.08Q22.04 0.04 down from 201248416%—
20Ocular Immunology and InflammationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.07Q22.02 0.18 up from 201228044%—
21Ophthalmic EpidemiologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.05Q21.83 0.67 down from 201214824%—
22BMC OphthalmologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.03Q21.73 0.58 down from 2012137100%$2,990
23Acta OphthalmologicaWiley · United Kingdom
1.00Q21.99 0.22 up from 201275818%$4,990
24Clinical ophthalmologyOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
0.99Q21.82 0.33 up from 2012834100%$2,320
25Ophthalmic ResearchOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.98Q21.84 0.04 up from 201219326%—
0.96Q21.81 0.62 up from 201277100%$2,290
0.91Q21.48 0.01 down from 201263918%$4,150
28Japanese Journal of OphthalmologySpringer Science+Business Media
0.84Q21.92 0.41 up from 201239514%$3,790
29European Journal of OphthalmologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.77Q21.44 0.19 up from 20125958%$4,150
0.72Q21.41 0.33 up from 201248923%$3,330
0.67Q21.21 0.20 up from 2012448100%—
32Korean Journal of OphthalmologyOAKorean Ophthalmological Society · South Korea
0.66Q21.06no change261100%$250
33Cutaneous and Ocular ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States
0.64Q21.12 0.03 down from 20122135%—
34International OphthalmologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.63Q21.02 0.06 down from 20123547%$3,790
0.63Q21.18 0.19 up from 20125497%—
0.60Q31.04 0.07 up from 201223099%—
37Canadian Journal of OphthalmologyElsevier BV · Canada
0.57Q31.09 0.21 up from 201244727%$3,220
38International Ophthalmology ClinicsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.56Q30.73 0.58 down from 20121453%—
39Veterinary OphthalmologyWiley · United Kingdom
0.53Q31.28 0.10 up from 201232914%$3,860
40Case Reports in OphthalmologyOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.48Q30.92 0.22 up from 2012178100%$1,030
41OptometryElsevier BV · United States
0.48Q30.88 0.20 up from 2012197——
42Case Reports in Ophthalmological MedicineOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.34Q30.61 0.55 up from 201295100%$790
43Expert Review of OphthalmologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.34Q30.53no change20518%—
44Oman Journal of OphthalmologyOAMedknow · India
0.34Q30.61 0.06 down from 2012139100%—
45Arquivos Brasileiros de OftalmologiaOAConselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia · Brazil
0.32Q30.57 0.07 down from 2012312100%—
46Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology & StrabismusSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States
0.30Q30.57no change3164%—
47Clinical and Experimental OptometryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.30Q31.18 0.89 up from 20129958%$2,900
0.26Q30.32 0.04 down from 201255100%—
49Journal Français d OphtalmologieElsevier BV · France
0.25Q30.41 0.16 down from 20124351%$3,100
50Evidence-Based OphthalmologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.23Q30.26 0.01 down from 2012110——

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.

22 additional Ophthalmology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
70
Window papers (baseline)
29,131 +19.3% from indicator year 2010
Median OJR
0.619 -10.1% from indicator year 2010
Rising journals (2025)
10

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals404342414346485155596062677075748087959810010310310510096
Window papers (baseline)10,47311,37812,22614,05215,09417,13618,46720,62121,85123,33624,41227,88428,46229,13128,55830,79333,05634,53335,76836,39037,17341,08945,52548,38846,94645,419
Median OJR0.440.530.5910.6040.5950.660.710.700.720.5730.6880.6010.6250.6190.670.6950.650.6140.5890.6150.6120.580.5930.5710.630.68

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.