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Journal rankings · indicator year 2014

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Subfield ranking · 2014

Immunology journal rankings 2014

83 ranked journals · Subfield in Immunology and Microbiology

Immunology has 83 ranked journals in 2014. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.08 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2013. A journal needs OJR 1.61 to reach Q1. The top three are Immunity, Nature Immunology, and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

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.

83
71% of Immunology and Microbiology
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.

1.08+0.04 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.

27%
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.

$3,795
Median positive listed APC: $3,795 among 56 journals. 27 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Immunology and Microbiology (5)

83 ranked journals

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Immunology 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.

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1ImmunityCell Press · United States
6.19Q119.12 1.47 up from 2013698100%$10,400
2Nature ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United States
4.99Q112.41 3.12 down from 201375745%$12,690
3The Journal of Experimental MedicineRockefeller University Press · United States
4.94Q114.06 0.66 down from 201371798%—
4Annual Review of ImmunologyAnnual Reviews · United States
3.58Q144.09 4.95 down from 20137968%—
5Seminars in ImmunopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
3.46Q18.15 0.25 down from 201316053%$3,790
6Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States
3.15Q18.13 0.19 up from 20131,68553%$4,900
7Journal of AutoimmunityElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.91Q19.87 2.30 up from 201327427%$5,420
8Mucosal ImmunologyOAElsevier BV · United States
2.83Q17.14 0.15 up from 2013311100%$4,370
9Seminars in ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States
2.50Q16.98 1.05 down from 201317050%$4,370
10Nature reviews. ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.42Q113.27 0.07 down from 201366114%—
11Journal of Innate ImmunityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
2.26Q16.25 1.44 up from 201321391%$3,590
12Clinical Reviews in Allergy & ImmunologySpringer Nature · United States
2.24Q16.07 1.10 up from 201316418%$5,490
13International Reviews of ImmunologyTaylor & Francis · United States
2.17Q14.17 2.40 down from 201310319%—
14The AAPS JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
2.06Q14.51 0.02 up from 2013312100%$5,090
15The Journal of ImmunologyAmerican Association of Immunologists · United States
2.03Q15.66 0.55 down from 20134,15526%$3,500
16International Journal of InflammationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
2.01Q13.61 0.45 down from 2013110100%$1,000
17Critical Reviews in ImmunologyBegell House · United States
1.79Q15.09 0.25 down from 20137034%—
18Journal of Leukocyte BiologyOxford University Press · United States
1.78Q14.96 0.09 up from 201364245%$3,800
19Clinical and Developmental ImmunologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.71Q14.00 0.13 down from 2013711—$2,100
20Expert Opinion on Biological TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.65Q14.31 0.19 up from 201348122%—
21Immunity & AgeingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.61Q14.30 0.15 up from 201382100%$3,190
22Immunologic ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.57Q23.94 0.24 down from 201326635%$2,890
23ISRN InflammationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt
1.50Q23.44 3.28 up from 201332100%—
24Immunology and Cell BiologyWiley · Australia
1.50Q23.94 0.69 down from 201331550%$3,750
25Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.43Q23.94 0.22 down from 201346534%$4,400
1.42Q23.85 0.57 down from 20131,20275%$4,550
27Clinical & Experimental ImmunologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.38Q23.54 0.16 down from 201362096%$3,816
28Journal of Reproductive ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.37Q23.47 0.57 up from 20132596%$3,690
29Cellular and Molecular ImmunologySpringer Nature · China
1.33Q23.90 0.09 up from 2013221100%$5,190
30Genes and ImmunitySpringer Nature · United States
1.32Q23.19 1.30 down from 201323156%$3,190
31ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.26Q23.45 0.16 up from 201354981%$5,330
32ImmunobiologyOAElsevier BV · Germany
1.24Q23.19 0.14 up from 201344236%$2,840
33Molecular ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.23Q23.46 0.51 up from 201369723%$3,340
34Frontiers in ImmunologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland
1.21Q23.35 1.17 down from 20131,670100%$3,801
35Journal of Clinical ImmunologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.21Q23.50 0.66 up from 201346329%$4,990
36Inflammation & Allergy - Drug TargetsBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
1.20Q22.42 0.55 down from 201315724%—
37CytokineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.15Q22.94 0.05 down from 201397711%$3,220
1.14Q23.00 0.07 up from 201340436%$4,460
39Developmental & Comparative ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.12Q23.22 0.79 down from 201353918%$3,340
40Innate ImmunityOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.11Q22.65 0.44 down from 201322539%$2,650
41BMC ImmunologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.09Q22.90 0.05 down from 2013210100%$3,090
42BioDrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland
1.08Q23.00 0.74 up from 201318124%$5,190
43Immunology LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.06Q32.91 0.05 down from 201339922%$3,290
44Journal of ImmunotoxicologyOAInforma · United States
1.03Q32.43 0.31 up from 2013181100%$2,306
45Journal of Interferon & Cytokine ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States
1.00Q31.99 1.50 down from 201326659%—
46Trends in ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.99Q312.83 1.59 down from 201324654%$7,030
47Immunological ReviewsWiley · United States
0.99Q311.63 3.07 down from 201332761%$5,000
48Toxicologic PathologySAGE Publishing · United States
0.99Q32.30 0.10 down from 201337641%$4,150
49Inflammation ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
0.90Q32.59 0.37 up from 201340024%$4,790
50Journal of Immunological MethodsElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.90Q32.17 0.06 down from 201355939%$2,970

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.

33 additional Immunology 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
83
Window papers (baseline)
70,684 +7.8% from indicator year 2011
Median OJR
1.08 -1.0% from indicator year 2011
Rising journals (2025)
5

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 journals5659636562646872717476798186838890969490928788888886
Window papers (baseline)33,67335,81137,96340,36242,06544,84947,60050,96053,92357,72663,07265,59667,60167,57970,68472,62473,35472,79072,09872,44774,04577,36281,61583,77984,35384,391
Median OJR0.720.780.8340.820.8300.880.890.9591.0021.151.1001.091.0961.041.081.061.050.950.9210.9700.9310.9320.9670.9560.9220.87

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.