Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Field ranking · 2015
Health Professions journal rankings 2015
507 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Health Professions has 507 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2014 to 0.90, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. The top three are The Lancet, Work and Occupations, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
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.
Subfields in Health Professions (11)
Up to Health Sciences- General Health Professions398
- Occupational Therapy23
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation21
- Emergency Medical Services20
- Health Information Management15
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing8
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy4
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
507 ranked journals
Filters
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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1The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.20Q1 | 14.35 1.91 down from 2014 | 3,447 | 51% | $7,890 | ||
2Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.01Q1 | 4.22 1.67 up from 2014 | 55 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.94Q1 | 4.33 1.56 down from 2014 | 133 | 30% | — | ||
4JMIR mhealth and uhealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 4.40Q1 | 5.30 2.65 up from 2014 | 80 | 100% | $2,850 | ||
5Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.05Q1 | 3.01 0.08 down from 2014 | 117 | 34% | $4,400 | ||
6Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.86Q1 | 3.92 1.66 down from 2014 | 106 | 87% | $4,430 | ||
7Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.83Q1 | 7.46 0.55 up from 2014 | 747 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
8Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 5.59 0.47 down from 2014 | 448 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
9Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.76Q1 | 1.89 1.51 down from 2014 | 84 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
10American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 3.09 0.47 down from 2014 | 199 | 41% | $3,620 | ||
11BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 5.78 0.98 up from 2014 | 458 | 62% | — | ||
12International Journal of Medical InformaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.38Q1 | 4.46 0.45 up from 2014 | 322 | 25% | $3,150 | ||
13The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 3.81 0.79 up from 2014 | 396 | 27% | $4,408 | ||
14The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 3.24Q1 | 4.63 0.29 down from 2014 | 319 | 100% | — | ||
15American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 3.13Q1 | 4.60 0.17 up from 2014 | 1,805 | 95% | — | ||
16Safety ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.03Q1 | 2.96 0.12 up from 2014 | 643 | 22% | $4,360 | ||
17Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 5.50 0.85 up from 2014 | 625 | 100% | $4,332 | ||
18Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 3.24 0.30 down from 2014 | 363 | 94% | $3,750 | ||
19Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.88Q1 | 4.66 0.05 down from 2014 | 461 | 100% | — | ||
20Operations Research for Health CareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 3.55 0.77 up from 2014 | 46 | 33% | $3,080 | ||
21Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.72Q1 | 3.24 0.59 down from 2014 | 639 | 48% | — | ||
22Journal of Medical SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.70Q1 | 5.53 0.93 up from 2014 | 336 | 16% | $4,990 | ||
23Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.87 0.39 up from 2014 | 200 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
24Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.62Q1 | 2.22 0.85 up from 2014 | 73 | 33% | — | ||
25Journal of Orofacial PainOAUnited States | 2.60Q1 | 4.48 1.33 up from 2014 | 33 | — | — | ||
26Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 3.67 1.11 up from 2014 | 152 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
27Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 2.95 0.03 down from 2014 | 573 | 35% | $4,220 | ||
28Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 3.11 0.67 up from 2014 | 209 | 74% | $4,330 | ||
29International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 3.59 0.47 up from 2014 | 305 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
30Journal of Health Organization and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 1.90 0.30 down from 2014 | 133 | 16% | — | ||
31International journal of doctoral studiesOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.31Q1 | 1.61 1.09 down from 2014 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
32Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.31Q1 | 2.01 0.23 down from 2014 | 135 | 13% | — | ||
33Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.31Q1 | 3.56 0.53 up from 2014 | 164 | 21% | $3,640 | ||
34International Journal for Quality in Health CareOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.88 1.45 up from 2014 | 247 | 34% | $3,686 | ||
35Preventing Chronic DiseaseOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 2.21Q1 | 3.69 0.35 up from 2014 | 540 | 100% | — | ||
36DysphagiaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.76 0.57 down from 2014 | 174 | 18% | $4,590 | ||
37International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.50 0.10 up from 2014 | 118 | 20% | $4,400 | ||
38INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and FinancingOASAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.00 0.02 up from 2014 | 68 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
39International Journal of Nursing StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 4.03 0.47 up from 2014 | 493 | 28% | $5,840 | ||
40Journal of Teaching in Physical EducationHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.16Q1 | 2.14 0.02 down from 2014 | 71 | 11% | — | ||
41Communication & MedicineEquinox Publishing · Germany | 2.14Q1 | 2.19 1.24 up from 2014 | 57 | 18% | — | ||
42Physical Education and Sport PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.79 0.04 down from 2014 | 132 | 41% | — | ||
43Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 1.85 0.14 down from 2014 | 366 | 16% | — | ||
44Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.22 0.80 down from 2014 | 140 | 31% | — | ||
45Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 2.06Q1 | 4.22 0.51 up from 2014 | 178 | 99% | $2,480 | ||
46BMJPublisher not listed | 2.05Q1 | 3.24 0.12 down from 2014 | 5,758 | 15% | — | ||
47Health Education & BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.04Q1 | 2.42 0.76 down from 2014 | 233 | 51% | $4,400 | ||
48Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.07 0.28 down from 2014 | 458 | 30% | $4,400 | ||
49Health Care Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 1.94 0.12 up from 2014 | 113 | 31% | $2,090 | ||
50BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 3.68 0.11 down from 2014 | 3,737 | 100% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Health Professions, compared.
- General Health Professions398
- Occupational Therapy23
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation21
- Emergency Medical Services20
- Health Information Management15
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing8
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy4
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
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.
148 additional Health Professions 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
- 507
- Window papers (baseline)
- 242,061 +23.6% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +6.8% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 38Comparison-group list (38)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 253 | 271 | 295 | 302 | 318 | 330 | 346 | 367 | 390 | 401 | 415 | 428 | 449 | 473 | 492 | 507 | 527 | 551 | 566 | 585 | 601 | 612 | 616 | 609 | 600 | 586 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 66,020 | 72,769 | 79,195 | 86,335 | 92,515 | 102,597 | 113,331 | 125,469 | 137,977 | 152,092 | 168,072 | 183,124 | 195,764 | 208,179 | 223,186 | 242,061 | 257,124 | 268,029 | 276,391 | 287,165 | 300,893 | 324,777 | 346,759 | 357,796 | 362,286 | 380,673 | |
| Median OJR | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.8428 | 0.8435 | 0.838 | 0.90 | 0.834 | 0.816 | 0.80 | 0.8210 | 0.8207 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.830 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.6% | 405 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.694 per 1,000 | 396 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.1% | 554 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 74.5% | 586 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,290 | 259 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 19.6% | 558 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.8% | 586 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.86 | 581 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 41.6% | 586 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 47.9% | 585 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.