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Journal rankings · indicator year 2015

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Subfield ranking · 2015

Obstetrics and Gynecology journal rankings 2015

61 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynecology has 61 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2014 to 0.73, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Journal of Pregnancy.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 score is computed on.

61
2% of Medicine
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.

0.73-0.12 vs 2014
This subfieldAll 0.88World 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.

41%
All fields: 29%
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.

$3,150
Median positive listed APC: $3,150 among 33 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 27 have no known price. All fields: $3,390.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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61 ranked journals

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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.

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Obstetrics and Gynecology ranking, 2015

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 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.

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1Obstetrics and GynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · Netherlands
2.59Q14.74 0.70 up from 20141,3029%—
2.30Q14.32 0.05 up from 20141,37753%$5,410
3Journal of PregnancyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
2.30Q13.25 1.04 down from 201497100%$1,000
4BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.11Q13.62 0.01 up from 2014855100%$3,290
5Gynecologic OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.11Q14.99 0.79 up from 20141,29013%$4,380
1.90Q13.60 0.13 down from 201495836%$5,190
7Obstetrical & Gynecological SurveyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.77Q13.50 0.16 up from 20141325%—
8International Journal of Women s HealthOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.70Q13.09 0.61 up from 2014280100%$2,836
9PlacentaElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.55Q13.34 0.09 down from 201460714%$3,720
10MidwiferyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.40Q12.63 0.84 up from 201445433%$3,630
11Obstetrics and Gynecology InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.33Q12.75 0.23 up from 2014149100%$1,000
12BirthWiley · United States
1.33Q12.55 0.66 up from 201414738%$4,850
13Journal of Minimally Invasive GynecologyElsevier BV · United States
1.30Q12.83 0.66 up from 20145808%$3,000
1.26Q12.66 0.30 up from 201478686%$3,800
15Journal of Gynecologic OncologyOAKorean Society of Gynecologic Oncology · South Korea
1.24Q12.79 0.17 down from 2014165100%—
16Sexual & Reproductive HealthcareOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.20Q11.89 0.13 up from 20149022%$1,850
1.20Q22.15 0.27 down from 201469341%$3,060
18BrachytherapyElsevier BV · United States
1.19Q22.34 1.00 down from 201428535%$3,000
19Women and BirthElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.16Q22.17 0.31 up from 201414614%$3,613
1.11Q21.82 0.04 up from 20141,01836%$4,480
1.10Q22.12 0.10 up from 201434010%$3,920
22American Journal of PerinatologyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.05Q21.66 0.39 down from 201447819%—
1.04Q22.02 0.05 down from 20141,3039%$3,440
24International Journal of Gynecological PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.02Q21.95 0.08 down from 201424818%—
25Journal of Perinatal MedicineOADe Gruyter · Germany
1.00Q21.79 0.03 down from 201429223%$0 listed
26ISRN Obstetrics and GynecologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt
0.96Q21.80 0.02 up from 2014127——
0.89Q21.72 0.21 up from 201456074%$3,100
28Archives of Gynecology and ObstetricsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.87Q21.91 0.21 up from 20141,33212%$4,590
0.87Q21.60 0.16 down from 20141,69214%—
30Obstetrics & Gynecology ScienceOAIndonesian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology · South Korea
0.73Q21.51 1.08 up from 2014230100%—
0.73Q21.39 0.16 up from 201432415%$3,750
0.73Q31.02 0.10 up from 201472100%—
33MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.63Q30.76 0.23 down from 20141472%—
34Hypertension in PregnancyOAInforma · United States
0.61Q31.22 0.40 down from 201411715%—
35Pregnancy HypertensionElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.57Q31.74 0.83 up from 20141442%$3,150
36Journal of Contemporary BrachytherapyOATermedia Publishing House · Poland
0.56Q32.09 0.35 up from 2014120100%$269
37Gynecological SurgerySpringer Nature · Germany
0.56Q31.06 0.23 down from 201413286%$1,790
38Case Reports in Obstetrics and GynecologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.54Q30.91 0.03 up from 2014369100%$790
39Revista Brasileira Ginecologia e ObstetríciaOAThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Brazil
0.46Q30.76 0.08 up from 2014269100%—
0.45Q30.89 0.06 up from 20144030%—
41Journal of Obstetrics and GynaecologyOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.44Q30.70 0.16 down from 20149808%$2,390
0.43Q30.81 0.31 up from 2014162100%—
0.41Q30.77 0.42 up from 20149714%—
44Ginekologia PolskaOAVia Medica · Poland
0.40Q30.80 0.04 up from 2014215100%$431
45Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & GynecologyOAIMR Press · Hong Kong SAR China
0.33Q30.49no 2014 value17699%$1,500—
46Obstetrics Gynaecology & Reproductive MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.32Q30.51 0.23 up from 20141788%$2,800
47The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of IndiaSpringer Science+Business Media · India
0.31Q40.43 0.04 down from 2014465100%$4,090
48The Obstetrician & GynaecologistWiley · United Kingdom
0.22Q40.45 0.20 down from 201415114%$2,900
49British Journal of MidwiferyMark Allen Group · United Kingdom
0.22Q40.35 0.06 up from 201452514%—
50Open Journal of Obstetrics and GynecologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States
0.17Q40.30 0.09 up from 2014402100%—

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.

17 additional Obstetrics and Gynecology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
61
Window papers (baseline)
26,261 +17.9% from indicator year 2012
Median OJR
0.73 -10.4% from indicator year 2012
Rising journals (2025)
8

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3135363938414144454443485555586164687374798388908581
Window papers (baseline)7,3318,6229,83710,59710,87811,55012,94814,42815,59216,84818,48120,75022,26523,47124,72126,26127,57228,32729,34730,95732,56538,23544,47850,23450,95950,060
Median OJR0.500.510.650.590.5970.6150.640.6570.620.670.8560.8640.8180.8190.850.730.740.760.690.6600.6040.540.5270.5320.560.614

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.