Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
General Health Professions journal rankings 2014
387 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
General Health Professions has 387 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2013 to 0.84, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.46. The top three are The Lancet, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Work and Occupations.
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.
Subfields of Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions387
- Occupational Therapy22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation20
- Emergency Medical Services19
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology12
- Speech and Hearing9
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
387 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 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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1The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.35Q1 | 16.26 1.66 up from 2013 | 3,444 | 47% | $7,890 | ||
2Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.55Q1 | 5.89 0.89 up from 2013 | 113 | 17% | — | ||
3Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.22Q1 | 2.56 1.48 down from 2013 | 52 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
4Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 5.09Q1 | 5.58 0.91 down from 2013 | 80 | 94% | $4,430 | ||
5Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.30Q1 | 3.40 0.08 up from 2013 | 78 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.83Q1 | 6.90 1.12 down from 2013 | 581 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
7American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 3.56 0.72 up from 2013 | 205 | 37% | $3,620 | ||
8Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.26Q1 | 3.10 0.13 up from 2013 | 118 | 24% | $4,400 | ||
9BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 4.81 0.21 up from 2013 | 562 | 57% | — | ||
10Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 6.06 0.04 up from 2013 | 396 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
11Translation and Interpreting StudiesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · United States | 3.05Q1 | 1.16 0.70 up from 2013 | 45 | 19% | — | ||
12The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 3.03Q1 | 4.92 1.05 up from 2013 | 312 | 100% | — | ||
13American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.02Q1 | 4.44 0.53 up from 2013 | 1,645 | 98% | — | ||
14International journal of doctoral studiesOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.94Q1 | 2.71 0.81 up from 2013 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
15Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.90Q1 | 4.72 0.44 down from 2013 | 426 | 100% | — | ||
16Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 3.54 0.01 down from 2013 | 370 | 94% | $3,750 | ||
17The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 3.03 0.12 down from 2013 | 383 | 46% | $4,408 | ||
18Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.71Q1 | 3.83 0.36 up from 2013 | 585 | 38% | — | ||
19Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.51Q1 | 2.25 0.03 up from 2013 | 135 | 17% | — | ||
20Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.44 0.12 up from 2013 | 270 | 67% | $4,330 | ||
21OJIN The Online Journal of Issues in NursingUnited States | 2.37Q1 | 1.83 0.09 up from 2013 | 104 | 25% | — | ||
22Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.37Q1 | 1.38 0.22 down from 2013 | 75 | 5% | — | ||
23Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 2.98 0.09 down from 2013 | 495 | 23% | $4,220 | ||
24International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.13 0.31 up from 2013 | 239 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
25Journal of Health Organization and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.19 0.77 up from 2013 | 127 | 23% | — | ||
26Culture Health & SexualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.61 0.29 up from 2013 | 288 | 29% | — | ||
27Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.18Q1 | 3.02 0.86 up from 2013 | 137 | 14% | — | ||
28BMJPublisher not listed | 2.17Q1 | 3.36 0.47 up from 2013 | 3,880 | 14% | — | ||
29Health Education & BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.15Q1 | 3.18 0.51 up from 2013 | 243 | 36% | $4,400 | ||
30Nurse ResearcherRoyal College of Nursing · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 1.36 0.07 up from 2013 | 182 | 10% | — | ||
31Journal of the Society for Social Work and ResearchUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.14Q1 | 1.49 0.42 up from 2013 | 54 | 4% | — | ||
32Journal of Medical SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.59 1.50 up from 2013 | 345 | 9% | $4,990 | ||
33Health Promotion InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 1.85 0.25 down from 2013 | 259 | 75% | $5,123 | ||
34BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.79 0.02 up from 2013 | 3,390 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
35Health Services Management ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 1.80 0.74 up from 2013 | 67 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
36Economics & Human BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 2.00 0.73 down from 2013 | 146 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
37Health Policy and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 2.05 0.74 up from 2013 | 59 | 2% | $3,000 | ||
38Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.74 0.26 down from 2013 | 121 | 35% | $3,650 | ||
39Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.03 0.88 down from 2013 | 167 | 11% | $3,640 | ||
40Preventing Chronic DiseaseOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.34 0.77 up from 2013 | 366 | 100% | — | ||
41INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and FinancingOASAGE Publishing · United States | 2.03Q1 | 0.98 0.08 up from 2013 | 82 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
42Social Theory & HealthPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 1.83 0.14 up from 2013 | 70 | 41% | $3,090 | ||
43International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.43 0.11 up from 2013 | 258 | 41% | $3,686 | ||
44Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.35 0.01 down from 2013 | 379 | 26% | $4,400 | ||
45International Journal of Nursing StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.55 0.10 up from 2013 | 535 | 31% | $5,840 | ||
46BMC Health Services ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 3.08 0.26 up from 2013 | 1,413 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
47JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.93Q1 | 2.13 0.19 down from 2013 | 305 | 2% | — | ||
48Public health reviewsOASpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.93Q1 | 1.75 0.83 up from 2013 | 79 | 0% | $2,389 | ||
49Health Informatics JournalOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 2.02 0.10 up from 2013 | 79 | 32% | $2,000 | ||
50Families Systems & HealthAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.13 0.08 down from 2013 | 83 | 10% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with General Health Professions highlighted.
- General Health Professions387
- Occupational Therapy22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation20
- Emergency Medical Services19
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology12
- Speech and Hearing9
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
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.
106 additional General Health Professions 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
- 387
- Window papers (baseline)
- 120,774 +20.6% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.840 -9.8% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
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 | 204 | 215 | 234 | 238 | 250 | 260 | 271 | 289 | 305 | 314 | 327 | 334 | 351 | 371 | 387 | 398 | 417 | 437 | 449 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 484 | 484 | 478 | 466 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 38,240 | 42,047 | 45,752 | 49,898 | 53,367 | 58,843 | 64,217 | 70,320 | 76,474 | 83,408 | 92,174 | 100,149 | 106,727 | 112,937 | 120,774 | 132,312 | 141,342 | 148,496 | 153,280 | 159,194 | 164,940 | 176,625 | 186,208 | 190,820 | 188,939 | 194,090 | |
| Median OJR | 0.550 | 0.56 | 0.552 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.6706 | 0.6705 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.835 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.848 | 0.838 | 0.82 | 0.845 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.810 | 0.814 | 0.855 |
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.