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Journal rankings · indicator year 2014

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Field ranking · 2014

Nursing journal rankings 2014

50 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences

Nursing has 50 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2013 to 1.09, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Research Reviews, and Food Security.

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.

50
1% of Health Sciences
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.

1.09-0.13 vs 2013
This fieldAll 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.

24%
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.

$3,700
Median positive listed APC: $3,700 among 29 journals. 21 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields in Nursing (4)

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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)
Nursing 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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1American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States
3.17Q17.66 0.04 down from 20131,25199%$5,200
2Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
2.82Q15.36 0.90 up from 201364100%$3,550
3Food SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.52Q12.24 0.05 down from 201319836%$2,790
4Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States
2.42Q14.95 0.50 down from 2013913100%$5,200
5Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.41Q15.33 0.13 up from 201327715%—
6Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.36Q12.96 1.28 up from 201335614%$3,970
2.28Q11.53 0.53 down from 20136913%$2,712
8MetallomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.82Q13.86 0.45 down from 201346644%$2,653
1.81Q13.38 0.17 up from 201344918%$4,110
10Journal of Health Population and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.76Q12.66no change189100%$2,790
11Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.75Q14.39 0.77 up from 2013159100%$1,000
12Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States
1.64Q12.80 0.13 up from 201343311%$3,930
1.63Q12.99 0.02 down from 201318915%$3,700
14Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States
1.62Q23.62 0.76 up from 201329011%$3,570
15Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States
1.51Q21.78 0.15 down from 20132063%$3,500
16Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.48Q23.52 0.02 down from 201328240%—
17BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
1.46Q22.84 0.03 down from 201328225%$4,090
18Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.43Q21.88 0.04 down from 201370119%$4,010
19Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary FibreElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.42Q22.33no 2013 value3913%$3,340—
20Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom
1.37Q22.40 0.12 down from 201325497%$4,130
1.37Q23.23 0.03 up from 201323533%$3,790
1.19Q22.47 0.41 up from 20134111%—
23Nursing Research and PracticeOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.15Q21.65 0.09 up from 2013204100%$1,000
24Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States
1.14Q22.12 0.40 down from 201315723%—
1.11Q22.45 0.38 up from 2013217100%—
26Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.08Q32.25 0.27 up from 201390213%$4,290
27Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States
1.06Q31.32 0.17 down from 20133924%—
28Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.04Q31.22 0.11 down from 20139018%—
29LipidsWiley · United States
1.03Q32.21 0.33 down from 201335314%$3,589
1.01Q31.77 0.64 down from 201320448%$4,150
31Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany
0.82Q31.71 0.06 up from 201337218%$4,260
32Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.80Q30.94 0.10 up from 20132064%—
0.74Q30.78 0.69 down from 201311022%—
0.74Q30.92 0.37 up from 20136316%$3,350
35Magnesium ResearchJohn Libbey Eurotext · France
0.67Q30.94 0.55 down from 2013735%—
36Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States
0.60Q31.28 0.09 down from 201322912%$3,750
37Nursing Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States
0.57Q30.76 0.18 up from 20132234%$4,150
38Food and Nutrition SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States
0.53Q30.79 0.01 up from 2013669100%—
39WaterlinesPractical Action Publishing · United Kingdom
0.43Q40.34 0.05 up from 20131065%—
40Journal of Nutritional ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
0.42Q40.85 0.26 down from 201361100%$2,600
0.35Q40.64 0.13 up from 20137610%—
42Journal of Life SciencesOAKamla Raj Enterprises · India
0.35Q40.32 0.11 down from 2013590%—
43Journal of Nutritional Disorders & TherapyOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.34Q40.70 0.31 up from 20136796%—
0.28Q40.54 0.92 down from 2013940%—
45Cereal Foods WorldAmerican Association of Cereal Chemists · United States
0.26Q40.37 0.03 up from 20132051%—
46Journal of Nutrition & Food SciencesOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.24Q40.35 0.01 up from 20133235%—
47Journal of Applied GlycoscienceOAJapanese Society of Applied Glycoscience · Japan
0.19Q40.72 0.49 up from 2013141100%—
48Pediatric Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
0.18Q40.43 0.10 up from 201334100%$2,320
0.15Q40.24 0.03 up from 201360100%—
50Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
0.14Q40.22 0.08 up from 20133788%—

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.

22 additional Nursing 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
50
Window papers (baseline)
52,171 +16.8% from indicator year 2011
Median OJR
1.095 -16.6% from indicator year 2011
Rising journals (2025)
0

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 journals3030303131313232353639424348505556616464686467696560
Window papers (baseline)20,16721,84822,63824,05524,75026,97728,82731,23633,59436,60141,17344,65147,63148,82452,17155,05157,70758,89761,12764,05467,52071,98075,02075,89074,87478,756
Median OJR0.590.6880.6920.720.800.810.921.021.09071.281.3091.3121.291.221.0951.09061.0921.100.9590.980.9641.0010.9410.9390.880.91
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 3.4%50 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 1.077 per 1,00042 journals
Output growthMedian: +0.7%56 journals
Open access shareMedian: 69.5%60 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,56040 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 23.4%59 journals
Review shareMedian: 2.6%60 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.9560 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 23.2%60 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 41.5%60 journals

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.