Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Field ranking · 2015
Medicine journal rankings 2015
3,760 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Medicine has 3,760 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.
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 Medicine (42)
Up to Health Sciences- Surgery773
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine297
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health252
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine238
- Oncology188
- Infectious Diseases182
- Epidemiology176
- Neurology151
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism141
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging138
- Physiology129
- Psychiatry and Mental health123
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine95
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health85
- Dermatology74
- Ophthalmology74
- Hematology71
- Obstetrics and Gynecology61
- Rheumatology58
- Nephrology49
- Reproductive Medicine45
- Complementary and alternative medicine42
- Pharmacology42
- Emergency Medicine36
- Geriatrics and Gerontology36
- Otorhinolaryngology34
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine23
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine22
- Genetics19
- Hepatology19
- Immunology and Allergy17
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Urology11
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine5
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
3,760 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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 52.59Q1 | 139.43 4.35 up from 2014 | 76 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 15.60Q1 | 31.40 2.48 up from 2014 | 2,796 | 38% | — | ||
3Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.45Q1 | 21.92 3.00 down from 2014 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
4European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.58Q1 | 18.25 0.36 down from 2014 | 1,036 | 45% | $5,922 | ||
5Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 8.50Q1 | 17.92 2.70 down from 2014 | 90 | 36% | $3,750 | ||
6Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 7.44Q1 | 0.00 15.32 down from 2014 | 129 | — | — | ||
7The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.19Q1 | 16.13 0.19 up from 2014 | 534 | 46% | $7,280 | ||
8Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.96Q1 | 15.43 1.57 up from 2014 | 2,129 | 100% | $7,166 | ||
9The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.96Q1 | 16.72 1.35 up from 2014 | 1,021 | 19% | $7,280 | ||
10Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 6.78Q1 | 17.43 1.20 down from 2014 | 538 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
11Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 6.10Q1 | 15.17 1.48 up from 2014 | 1,280 | 52% | $12,690 | ||
12CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.09Q1 | 13.30 1.09 up from 2014 | 2,514 | 11% | — | ||
13Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.84Q1 | 13.76 0.13 up from 2014 | 2,481 | 7% | — | ||
14PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 5.34Q1 | 12.03 0.34 up from 2014 | 613 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
15Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders ExtraOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 5.22Q1 | 20.07 11.47 up from 2014 | 166 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
16Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 4.99Q1 | 9.89 0.65 down from 2014 | 234 | 26% | — | ||
17Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.92Q1 | 10.93 1.27 up from 2014 | 107 | 50% | $6,710 | ||
18Cerebrovascular Diseases ExtraOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.62Q1 | 12.04 5.82 up from 2014 | 59 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
19European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 4.61Q1 | 10.59 0.20 down from 2014 | 1,095 | 19% | $5,250 | ||
20Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 8.54no change | 2,769 | 62% | $5,100 | ||
21GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.39Q1 | 10.06 0.70 up from 2014 | 1,531 | 16% | $4,180 | ||
22Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 4.39Q1 | 9.52 0.01 up from 2014 | 1,891 | 50% | — | ||
23The Lancet Diabetes & EndocrinologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.36Q1 | 9.36 2.64 up from 2014 | 278 | 41% | $7,280 | ||
24Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 4.33Q1 | 8.31 0.51 down from 2014 | 1,296 | 11% | — | ||
25Alzheimer s & DementiaWiley · United States | 4.32Q1 | 11.24 1.36 up from 2014 | 462 | 24% | $4,200 | ||
26Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 4.22Q1 | 9.51 0.01 up from 2014 | 653 | 50% | $4,700 | ||
27The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.19Q1 | 6.77 0.53 down from 2014 | 1,017 | 15% | $4,400 | ||
28BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 7.99 0.75 down from 2014 | 1,177 | 70% | $5,570 | ||
29Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.12Q1 | 11.39 0.44 up from 2014 | 417 | 67% | $4,990 | ||
30Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 4.03Q1 | 8.25 0.10 down from 2014 | 662 | 0% | — | ||
31The Lancet Respiratory MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.01Q1 | 8.13 2.04 up from 2014 | 344 | 42% | $7,280 | ||
32AutophagyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.93Q1 | 7.74 1.79 down from 2014 | 447 | 99% | — | ||
33The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.87Q1 | 9.83 0.12 down from 2014 | 719 | 44% | $7,280 | ||
34Obesity FactsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.87Q1 | 12.65 6.85 up from 2014 | 192 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
35Seminars in Cancer BiologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.85Q1 | 9.76 1.32 down from 2014 | 195 | 47% | $6,060 | ||
36Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 8.66 0.71 up from 2014 | 1,510 | 6% | $4,870 | ||
37American Journal of Preventive MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.74Q1 | 5.73 0.05 down from 2014 | 932 | 64% | $3,300 | ||
38PLoS PathogensOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 3.63Q1 | 8.31 1.07 down from 2014 | 2,065 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
39Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.60Q1 | 6.64 1.09 down from 2014 | 1,379 | 23% | — | ||
40The Lancet Global HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.55Q1 | 5.54 1.22 up from 2014 | 294 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
41Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.54Q1 | 6.15 1.09 up from 2014 | 722 | 43% | — | ||
42American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.53Q1 | 7.24 1.21 down from 2014 | 1,635 | 40% | — | ||
43International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 6.29 0.18 down from 2014 | 453 | 100% | $3,177 | ||
44Advances in NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.49Q1 | 6.22 0.87 down from 2014 | 278 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
45Clinical Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 3.46Q1 | 9.14 0.32 down from 2014 | 2,195 | 40% | — | ||
46Journal of HepatologyElsevier BV · Denmark | 3.46Q1 | 8.40 0.47 down from 2014 | 1,337 | 16% | $5,500 | ||
47PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 3.45Q1 | 6.39 0.19 down from 2014 | 2,655 | 21% | — | ||
48Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology | 3.42Q1 | 8.02 0.68 down from 2014 | 924 | 99% | — | ||
49Journal of Bone and Joint SurgeryWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.41Q1 | 5.48 0.08 down from 2014 | 1,448 | 22% | — | ||
50Schizophrenia BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 7.60 0.69 down from 2014 | 475 | 96% | $4,981 |
Subfields of Medicine, compared.
- Surgery773
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine297
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health252
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine238
- Oncology188
- Infectious Diseases182
- Epidemiology176
- Neurology151
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism141
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging138
- Physiology129
- Psychiatry and Mental health123
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine95
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health85
- Dermatology74
- Ophthalmology74
- Hematology71
- Obstetrics and Gynecology61
- Rheumatology58
- Nephrology49
- Reproductive Medicine45
- Complementary and alternative medicine42
- Pharmacology42
- Emergency Medicine36
- Geriatrics and Gerontology36
- Otorhinolaryngology34
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine23
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine22
- Genetics19
- Hepatology19
- Immunology and Allergy17
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Urology11
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine5
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
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.
1,286 additional Medicine 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
- 3,760
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,073,801 +13.4% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.741 -2.5% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 404Comparison-group list (404)
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 | 1,634 | 1,746 | 1,853 | 1,933 | 2,023 | 2,148 | 2,258 | 2,390 | 2,497 | 2,616 | 2,755 | 2,949 | 3,131 | 3,412 | 3,611 | 3,760 | 3,936 | 4,122 | 4,350 | 4,487 | 4,543 | 4,639 | 4,671 | 4,692 | 4,640 | 4,521 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 709,310 | 795,253 | 851,873 | 918,177 | 953,693 | 1,044,918 | 1,146,485 | 1,266,791 | 1,370,140 | 1,505,784 | 1,634,063 | 1,757,108 | 1,828,247 | 1,889,231 | 1,983,210 | 2,073,801 | 2,149,396 | 2,185,378 | 2,236,129 | 2,298,903 | 2,395,179 | 2,590,856 | 2,809,142 | 2,949,143 | 2,961,797 | 2,982,923 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.704 | 0.724 | 0.739 | 0.756 | 0.748 | 0.760 | 0.730 | 0.749 | 0.741 | 0.725 | 0.717 | 0.701 | 0.702 | 0.715 | 0.663 | 0.655 | 0.661 | 0.660 | 0.67 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.2% | 3,512 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.465 per 1,000 | 3,472 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.9% | 4,166 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 4,521 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,046 | 2,526 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 4,393 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.8% | 4,521 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.69 | 4,492 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.6% | 4,521 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.3% | 4,514 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.