Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Global ranking · 2014
Journal rankings 2014
18,331 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 18,331 journals for 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 1.61. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Review of Educational Research. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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.
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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields18,331 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 73.87Q1 | 135.08 75.15 down from 2013 | 74 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 23.10Q1 | 34.63 12.27 down from 2013 | 134 | 79% | — | ||
3Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 23.09Q1 | 10.42 3.49 down from 2013 | 55 | 19% | $2,500 | ||
4The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 21.95Q1 | 12.57 0.54 up from 2013 | 153 | 34% | $7,619 | ||
5ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 20.89Q1 | 4.34 24.74 down from 2013 | 207 | 2% | — | ||
6The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 16.77Q1 | 10.81 3.14 up from 2013 | 153 | 56% | — | ||
7IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 16.71Q1 | 19.61 6.31 up from 2013 | 212 | 37% | $2,645 | ||
8ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 16.64Q1 | 13.39 3.64 down from 2013 | 139 | 22% | — | ||
9Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 15.66Q1 | 6.60 2.97 down from 2013 | 124 | 6% | — | ||
10MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 15.60Q1 | 10.53 2.18 up from 2013 | 280 | 28% | — | ||
11Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.55Q1 | 28.73 4.16 up from 2013 | 76 | 32% | $6,040 | ||
12Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.36Q1 | 22.65 1.21 up from 2013 | 63 | 15% | $6,990 | ||
13The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 14.75Q1 | 7.25 1.24 up from 2013 | 100 | 9% | $4,120 | ||
14American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.53Q1 | 10.57 2.19 up from 2013 | 816 | 44% | — | ||
15American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 14.36Q1 | 5.65 0.54 down from 2013 | 169 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
16New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 14.34Q1 | 28.92 1.32 up from 2013 | 2,879 | 39% | — | ||
17Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 14.22Q1 | 11.13 0.20 up from 2013 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
18Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.05Q1 | 24.75 3.89 down from 2013 | 178 | 14% | $6,500 | ||
19Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 13.89Q1 | 9.50 1.30 up from 2013 | 275 | 23% | — | ||
20Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.84Q1 | 4.89 1.36 up from 2013 | 100 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 13.78Q1 | 3.48 0.09 up from 2013 | 103 | 0% | $3,830 | ||
22Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.70Q1 | 5.50 2.68 up from 2013 | 33 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
23American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.57Q1 | 7.73 0.20 up from 2013 | 137 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
24Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.61Q1 | 20.99 1.48 down from 2013 | 133 | 55% | $6,240 | ||
25Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.42Q1 | 6.64 1.72 up from 2013 | 105 | 12% | $4,170 | ||
26Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 12.32Q1 | 8.33 0.10 up from 2013 | 209 | 23% | — | ||
27American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 12.16Q1 | 5.34 0.81 down from 2013 | 124 | 6% | — | ||
28American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.09Q1 | 5.13 1.02 up from 2013 | 117 | 3% | $2,500 | ||
29Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.98Q1 | 24.92 1.87 up from 2013 | 97 | 98% | — | ||
30International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 11.86Q1 | 4.72 1.12 up from 2013 | 83 | 32% | — | ||
31American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 11.78Q1 | 4.64 0.61 up from 2013 | 227 | 21% | $4,100 | ||
32Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 11.54Q1 | 8.95 0.05 up from 2013 | 55 | 18% | — | ||
33Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.50Q1 | 6.59 1.20 up from 2013 | 122 | 25% | $4,130 | ||
34The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.40Q1 | 6.14 0.02 up from 2013 | 268 | 25% | $4,430 | ||
35Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 11.39Q1 | 5.01 0.65 down from 2013 | 154 | 33% | $4,668 | ||
36Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.36Q1 | 7.49 0.10 down from 2013 | 149 | 32% | $4,790 | ||
37Annual Review of Applied LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.34Q1 | 7.55 4.15 up from 2013 | 51 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
38IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 11.24Q1 | 3.93 1.49 down from 2013 | 130 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
39Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 11.22Q1 | 5.97 1.47 up from 2013 | 212 | 11% | $4,360 | ||
40Reports on Progress in PhysicsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.12Q1 | 25.72 5.15 up from 2013 | 182 | 77% | $4,680 | ||
41The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.02Q1 | 6.19 2.94 down from 2013 | 183 | 27% | — | ||
42Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.61Q1 | 5.09 0.39 down from 2013 | 177 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
43Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.61Q1 | 4.61 0.74 up from 2013 | 193 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
44American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.59Q1 | 6.13 0.79 up from 2013 | 133 | 54% | — | ||
45Accounts of Chemical ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 10.54Q1 | 23.48 0.30 up from 2013 | 674 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
46Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.53Q1 | 5.71 5.59 down from 2013 | 103 | 2% | $3,690 | ||
47Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.50Q1 | 6.93 0.12 down from 2013 | 251 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
48American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.47Q1 | 6.27 2.14 up from 2013 | 112 | 27% | — | ||
49Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.36Q1 | 4.20 1.02 up from 2013 | 81 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
50Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 10.33Q1 | 5.06 0.72 down from 2013 | 123 | 14% | $4,790 |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences3,611
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences2,662
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences2,001
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences1,217
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences1,007
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences999
- PsychologySocial Sciences872
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences816
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences766
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences654
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences529
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences492
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences422
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences395
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences385
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences321
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences295
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences221
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences174
- DentistryHealth Sciences152
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences117
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences69
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences56
- NursingHealth Sciences50
- EnergyPhysical Sciences36
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences12
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
5,931 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 18,331
- Window papers (baseline)
- 12,852,915 +14.6% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.90 -4.3% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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 | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.