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Journal rankings · indicator year 2014

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Subfield ranking · 2014

Hepatology journal rankings 2014

18 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Hepatology has 18 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.21 on 2013 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are Liver Cancer, Hepatology, and Clinics in Liver Disease.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 score is computed on.

18
<1% 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.

0.81-0.21 vs 2013
This subfieldAll 0.90World 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.

33%
All fields: 27%
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.

$3,205
Median positive listed APC: $3,205 among 12 journals. 6 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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18 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
Hepatology ranking, 2014

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 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
1Liver CancerOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
3.64Q111.71 9.12 up from 201352100%$3,590
2HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
3.28Q18.29 0.32 down from 20131,80562%$2,900
3Clinics in Liver DiseaseElsevier BV · United States
1.87Q14.79 1.18 up from 20131569%$3,000
4Journal of GastroenterologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
1.86Q14.51 0.32 up from 201354338%$5,290
5Liver InternationalWiley · United Kingdom
1.57Q13.72 0.55 down from 201388634%$4,780
6World Journal of HepatologyOABaishideng Publishing Group · United States
1.44Q23.41 0.64 up from 201321299%—
7European Journal of Gastroenterology & HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.26Q22.74 0.26 up from 20136519%—
8International Journal of HepatologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.23Q23.41 0.12 up from 2013179100%$1,000
9Hepatology ResearchWiley · Netherlands
0.84Q22.25 0.24 down from 201362414%$3,400
10The Korean Journal of HepatologyOAKorean Association for the Study of the Liver · South Korea
0.79Q32.87 1.01 up from 201372——
11Hepatology InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
0.74Q31.89 0.38 down from 201325833%$3,090
12Hepatitis Research and TreatmentHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt
0.72Q31.33 0.43 down from 201339100%—
0.65Q31.54 0.20 down from 20135257%$3,260
14Current Hepatology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.22Q30.37 0.29 down from 201310513%$3,990
0.21Q40.72 0.13 up from 201317952%$3,150
16Clinical Liver DiseaseLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.20Q40.47 0.04 up from 201315287%—
17Case Reports in HepatologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.18Q40.31 0.11 up from 201348100%$790
0.08Q40.20 0.08 up from 201316930%—

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.

6 additional Hepatology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
18
Window papers (baseline)
27,770 +18.3% from indicator year 2011
Median OJR
0.81 -12.4% from indicator year 2011
Rising journals (2025)
2

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals7777799891010121618181921232423262928323028
Window papers (baseline)10,93811,91512,72113,59614,14415,62817,37719,09420,21521,24422,22823,48424,60326,11127,77029,46030,67831,01931,01130,81830,85631,16531,69131,56131,10030,612
Median OJR0.590.580.720.990.9570.830.9291.0411.0990.9071.090.9300.881.020.810.85880.9081.0390.85910.870.9591.1030.750.710.730.67

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.