Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Global ranking · 2015
Journal rankings 2015
19,108 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 19,108 journals for 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.59. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Therapeutic Recreation Journal, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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.
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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields19,108 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 52.59Q1 | 139.43 4.35 up from 2014 | 76 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2Therapeutic Recreation JournalUnited States | 23.40Q1 | 39.33 39.10 up from 2014 | 72 | 4% | — | ||
3The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 21.43Q1 | 9.84 2.73 down from 2014 | 157 | 36% | $7,619 | ||
4Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 19.43Q1 | 14.08 2.95 up from 2014 | 75 | 18% | — | ||
5Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 19.40Q1 | 37.02 2.40 up from 2014 | 127 | 63% | — | ||
6The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 18.90Q1 | 10.45 0.36 down from 2014 | 149 | 43% | — | ||
7IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 17.71Q1 | 21.27 1.66 up from 2014 | 268 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
8Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 17.32Q1 | 30.98 2.25 up from 2014 | 69 | 25% | $6,040 | ||
9MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 16.39Q1 | 11.53 1.00 up from 2014 | 249 | 25% | — | ||
10ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 16.20Q1 | 14.15 0.76 up from 2014 | 169 | 29% | — | ||
11Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.60Q1 | 6.52 1.02 up from 2014 | 38 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
12New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 15.60Q1 | 31.40 2.48 up from 2014 | 2,796 | 38% | — | ||
13Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 15.22Q1 | 20.30 2.35 down from 2014 | 65 | 27% | $6,990 | ||
14American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 14.99Q1 | 6.10 1.47 up from 2014 | 228 | 31% | $4,100 | ||
15American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.84Q1 | 8.88 1.69 down from 2014 | 792 | 40% | — | ||
16Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.77Q1 | 9.83 3.22 up from 2014 | 61 | 25% | $5,400 | ||
17Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 14.56Q1 | 6.20 0.23 up from 2014 | 215 | 25% | $4,360 | ||
18Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.16Q1 | 8.86 2.27 up from 2014 | 132 | 31% | $4,130 | ||
19American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.87Q1 | 7.08 0.65 down from 2014 | 144 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
20Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.81Q1 | 32.00 14.00 up from 2014 | 32 | 29% | $6,150 | ||
21Progress in Polymer ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.67Q1 | 27.61 2.86 up from 2014 | 176 | 19% | $6,500 | ||
22American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.61Q1 | 5.32 0.19 up from 2014 | 120 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
23Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 13.55Q1 | 6.47 1.02 down from 2014 | 162 | 15% | $4,790 | ||
24Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.34Q1 | 10.22 0.20 down from 2014 | 65 | 13% | $2,500 | ||
25Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.04Q1 | 7.32 1.90 up from 2014 | 155 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
26Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.93Q1 | 5.92 0.72 down from 2014 | 99 | 18% | $4,170 | ||
27Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 12.91Q1 | 6.71 2.79 down from 2014 | 291 | 32% | — | ||
28User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.56Q1 | 5.50 2.78 down from 2014 | 35 | 40% | $3,290 | ||
29Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 12.52Q1 | 6.19 1.71 up from 2014 | 87 | 21% | — | ||
30American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 12.36Q1 | 4.38 1.27 down from 2014 | 172 | 34% | $3,550 | ||
31IMF staff discussion noteInternational Monetary Fund | 12.30Q1 | 10.04 5.00 up from 2014 | 36 | 63% | — | ||
32IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 11.88Q1 | 7.70 1.42 up from 2014 | 105 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
33CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 11.80Q1 | 8.21 2.62 up from 2014 | 91 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
34Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 11.61Q1 | 5.70 1.26 down from 2014 | 161 | 31% | $4,150 | ||
35Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 11.46Q1 | 7.10 1.46 up from 2014 | 132 | 67% | $0 listed | ||
36Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.45Q1 | 21.92 3.00 down from 2014 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
37American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.42Q1 | 4.38 0.96 down from 2014 | 117 | 8% | — | ||
38Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 11.41Q1 | 3.29 0.91 down from 2014 | 85 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
39Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 11.41Q1 | 16.33 1.28 down from 2014 | 59 | 74% | $3,880 | ||
40The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.38Q1 | 5.11 1.08 down from 2014 | 208 | 25% | — | ||
41Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 11.33Q1 | 12.16 3.21 up from 2014 | 54 | 12% | — | ||
42The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 11.28Q1 | 7.08 0.17 down from 2014 | 84 | 21% | $4,120 | ||
43Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.19Q1 | 17.90 3.09 down from 2014 | 156 | 64% | $6,240 | ||
44Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.05Q1 | 4.40 0.26 up from 2014 | 130 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
45Research on Language and Social InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 11.02Q1 | 2.64 2.53 down from 2014 | 66 | 16% | — | ||
46The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 10.90Q1 | 6.74 0.60 up from 2014 | 283 | 24% | $4,430 | ||
47Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 10.86Q1 | 6.49 1.84 down from 2014 | 158 | 25% | — | ||
48European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 10.84Q1 | 3.64 1.15 up from 2014 | 106 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
49International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 10.73Q1 | 6.57 0.09 up from 2014 | 73 | 30% | $4,220 | ||
50Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.66Q1 | 5.72 0.88 down from 2014 | 121 | 7% | — |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences3,760
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences2,755
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences2,106
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences1,271
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences1,066
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences1,030
- PsychologySocial Sciences914
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences854
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences798
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences679
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences555
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences507
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences443
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences419
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences393
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences324
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences306
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences228
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences180
- DentistryHealth Sciences164
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences124
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences71
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences58
- NursingHealth Sciences55
- EnergyPhysical Sciences36
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences12
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6,097 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 19,108
- Window papers (baseline)
- 13,340,497 +12.8% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.88 -5.9% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.