Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Health journal rankings 2014
45 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 45 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR rose 0.18 on 2013 to 1.10, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.89. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Psychology of Violence, and Social Science & Medicine.
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 Social Sciences (22)
45 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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1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.57Q1 | 4.65 0.20 down from 2013 | 109 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
2Psychology of ViolenceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.53Q1 | 4.01 0.76 up from 2013 | 103 | 32% | — | ||
3Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 4.11 0.19 up from 2013 | 1,528 | 43% | $3,800 | ||
4Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.47Q1 | 1.76 0.26 up from 2013 | 78 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
5Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q1 | 2.25 0.46 up from 2013 | 252 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
6European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.40Q1 | 2.32 0.27 up from 2013 | 122 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
7Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.27Q1 | 2.59 0.13 up from 2013 | 325 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
8Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 3.59 0.33 up from 2013 | 548 | 53% | — | ||
9International Journal of Critical Indigenous StudiesOAQueensland University of Technology · Australia | 2.11Q1 | 2.81 1.76 up from 2013 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
10Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.46 0.47 down from 2013 | 89 | 10% | — | ||
11Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.19 0.57 up from 2013 | 478 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
12Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.89Q1 | 2.56 0.04 up from 2013 | 192 | 48% | $4,400 | ||
13Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.77Q2 | 1.80 0.52 up from 2013 | 180 | 28% | — | ||
14Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.71Q2 | 1.53 0.01 up from 2013 | 122 | 41% | $4,150 | ||
15Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 1.88 0.33 up from 2013 | 210 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
16Partner AbuseSpringer Nature · United States | 1.63Q2 | 3.98 2.48 up from 2013 | 94 | 12% | — | ||
17Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.56Q2 | 2.45 0.43 down from 2013 | 236 | 56% | $4,790 | ||
18International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 1.49Q2 | 1.46 0.04 down from 2013 | 96 | 4% | — | ||
19Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 1.34Q2 | 1.49 0.19 down from 2013 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
20The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.28 0.21 up from 2013 | 107 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
21Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 1.77 0.07 down from 2013 | 558 | 16% | $3,130 | ||
22Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.66 0.15 up from 2013 | 718 | 98% | $3,175 | ||
23Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 1.10Q2 | 1.76 0.67 up from 2013 | 275 | — | — | ||
24Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 1.01Q3 | 1.56 0.14 up from 2013 | 388 | 96% | $2,600 | ||
25Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.90Q3 | 0.68 0.03 up from 2013 | 176 | 9% | — | ||
26International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 0.49 0.20 down from 2013 | 77 | 3% | — | ||
27Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.84Q3 | 1.20 0.23 up from 2013 | 353 | 17% | $3,290 | ||
28Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.76Q3 | 0.91 0.29 down from 2013 | 51 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
29Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 0.72 0.09 down from 2013 | 226 | 12% | — | ||
30Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at RiskChildren at Risk · United States | 0.69Q3 | 0.50 0.14 up from 2013 | 99 | 96% | — | ||
31Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.66Q3 | 0.50 0.11 down from 2013 | 69 | 4% | — | ||
32Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.50 0.08 up from 2013 | 36 | 6% | — | ||
33Journal of the Egyptian Public Health AssociationOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · Egypt | 0.47Q3 | 0.78 0.07 down from 2013 | 68 | 0% | $2,290 | ||
34Journal of Social InclusionOAGriffith University · Australia | 0.45Q3 | 0.50 0.39 up from 2013 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.39Q4 | 0.40 0.67 down from 2013 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
36World Journal of VaccinesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.39Q4 | 0.52 0.15 down from 2013 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
37Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q4 | 0.67 0.29 up from 2013 | 69 | 8% | — | ||
38Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.36Q4 | 0.20 0.31 down from 2013 | 244 | 7% | $3,090 | ||
39The Journal of psychology and ChristianityChristian Association for Psychological Studies · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.33 0.09 up from 2013 | 94 | 0% | — | ||
40Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.29 0.18 down from 2013 | 136 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
41BMC ProceedingsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.27 0.22 down from 2013 | 1,104 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
42Journal for the Study of SpiritualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.15Q4 | 0.17 0.05 down from 2013 | 64 | 17% | — | ||
43Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.17 0.09 up from 2013 | 125 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
44Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.07Q4 | 0.07 0.07 down from 2013 | 308 | 0% | — | ||
45Health and Social Care ChaplaincyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.04Q4 | 0.12 0.12 up from 2013 | 49 | 19% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,140
- Education637
- Political Science and International Relations294
- Communication66
- Gender Studies59
- Public Administration50
- Safety Research50
- Health45
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Linguistics and Language41
- Transportation40
- Urban Studies38
- Anthropology36
- Demography36
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
12 additional Health 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
- 45
- Window papers (baseline)
- 22,973 +34.1% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.10 +10.4% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.