Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Pharmacology journal rankings 2013
40 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pharmacology has 40 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2012 to 0.89, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Natural Product Reports, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, and Journal of Pain.
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 Medicine (42)
- 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
- Pharmacology40
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine88
- Dermatology73
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health73
- Ophthalmology70
- Hematology64
- Rheumatology56
- Obstetrics and Gynecology55
- Nephrology46
- 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
40 ranked journals
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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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1Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 5.15Q1 | 11.32 0.22 up from 2012 | 234 | 12% | — | ||
2Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 3.43Q1 | 5.70 2.57 down from 2012 | 188 | 23% | $4,990 | ||
3Journal of PainElsevier BV · United States | 2.68Q1 | 5.91 1.42 up from 2012 | 431 | 100% | $4,180 | ||
4Physical TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 2.12Q1 | 4.16 0.79 up from 2012 | 515 | 32% | $4,035 | ||
5Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical TherapyAmerican Physical Therapy Association · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.31 0.52 down from 2012 | 279 | 12% | — | ||
6Journal of Natural ProductsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.74Q1 | 4.07 0.41 up from 2012 | 1,132 | 29% | $4,500 | ||
7European Journal of PainWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 3.44 0.46 up from 2012 | 472 | 31% | $4,310 | ||
8Pain MedicineOxford University Press · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.73 0.46 down from 2012 | 706 | 36% | $5,036 | ||
9Experimental and Clinical PsychopharmacologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.38 0.16 up from 2012 | 163 | 61% | — | ||
10BMC Clinical PharmacologyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 3.49 1.08 up from 2012 | 51 | — | — | ||
11Manual TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.39 0.87 down from 2012 | 328 | 11% | — | ||
12Pain Research and TreatmentHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 2.69 0.54 up from 2012 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
13Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug TherapyWiley · United States | 1.32Q2 | 3.14 0.15 down from 2012 | 414 | 19% | $4,030 | ||
14Brazilian Journal of Physical TherapyElsevier BV · Brazil | 1.15Q2 | 2.12 0.34 up from 2012 | 232 | 99% | $3,000 | ||
15Journal of physiotherapyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 2.41 0.46 up from 2012 | 168 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
16Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 2.17 0.46 down from 2012 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
17Therapeutic Drug MonitoringLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.05Q2 | 2.33 0.50 down from 2012 | 349 | 13% | — | ||
18Chiropractic & Manual TherapiesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 2.02 0.67 down from 2012 | 98 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
19The Journal of AntibioticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.02Q2 | 2.15 0.20 down from 2012 | 404 | 20% | $4,590 | ||
20Journal of Manipulative and Physiological TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.36 0.03 down from 2012 | 252 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
21Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and TherapeuticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 1.40 0.18 up from 2012 | 316 | 25% | $4,520 | ||
22Journal of Manual & Manipulative TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.79Q3 | 1.52 0.31 up from 2012 | 93 | 100% | — | ||
23Current Drug SafetyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.78Q3 | 1.50 0.33 down from 2012 | 147 | 9% | — | ||
24Ozone Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.77Q3 | 1.17 0.05 up from 2012 | 165 | 9% | — | ||
25Der SchmerzSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.69Q3 | 1.69 0.36 up from 2012 | 236 | 12% | $3,390 | ||
26WorkIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.56Q3 | 0.43 0.35 down from 2012 | 1,402 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
27International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and SimulationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 0.62 0.05 up from 2012 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
28International journal of medicinal mushroomsBegell House · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.95 0.25 up from 2012 | 168 | 6% | — | ||
29BMC Pharmacology and ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.38Q3 | 0.79no 2012 value | 33 | 100% | $3,090 | — | |
30Hong Kong Physiotherapy JournalOAWorld Scientific · Netherlands | 0.35Q3 | 0.62 0.23 up from 2012 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
31Advances in PhysiotherapyInforma · United Kingdom | 0.33Q4 | 0.45 0.01 up from 2012 | 71 | — | — | ||
32Journal of Chiropractic MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.31Q4 | 0.56 0.06 down from 2012 | 127 | 59% | $3,300 | ||
33International journal of osteopathic medicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.83 0.48 down from 2012 | 75 | 15% | $2,740 | ||
34Current Enzyme InhibitionBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.30Q4 | 0.57 0.11 down from 2012 | 56 | 9% | — | ||
35Journal of Caffeine ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.74 0.29 down from 2012 | 61 | 43% | — | ||
36Scandinavian Journal of PainOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.25Q4 | 0.74 0.22 up from 2012 | 154 | 7% | $2,260 | ||
37Current PsychopharmacologyeBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.16Q4 | 0.32 0.14 down from 2012 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
38International Musculoskeletal MedicineManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.26 0.16 up from 2012 | 87 | 7% | — | ||
39AMA guides newsletterPublisher not listed | 0.05Q4 | 0.18 0.09 down from 2012 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
40Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy - An International JournalInstitute of Medico-legal Publications Private Limited · India | 0.04Q4 | 0.06 0.01 up from 2012 | 391 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pharmacology highlighted.
- 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.
11 additional Pharmacology 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
- 40
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,921 +15.2% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.891 -0.2% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 |
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| 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.