Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine journal rankings 2015
95 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has 95 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.33. The top three are Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Sports Medicine, and British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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 of Medicine (42)
- 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
Show all 42 subfields
- 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
95 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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1Journal of Bone and Mineral ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.81Q1 | 6.47 0.55 down from 2014 | 837 | 81% | $3,780 | ||
2Sports MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.62Q1 | 7.07 0.90 up from 2014 | 380 | 46% | $5,790 | ||
3British Journal of Sports MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 6.32 1.58 up from 2014 | 901 | 45% | — | ||
4Medicine & Science in Sports & ExerciseLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.17Q1 | 3.97 0.41 down from 2014 | 1,030 | 4% | — | ||
5Current Osteoporosis ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.11Q1 | 4.32 0.29 up from 2014 | 156 | 48% | $4,790 | ||
6Physical Therapy in SportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 4.22 0.19 down from 2014 | 141 | 21% | $2,990 | ||
7Osteoporosis InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 4.17 0.27 down from 2014 | 890 | 31% | $5,090 | ||
8BoneElsevier BV · United States | 1.98Q1 | 4.60 0.14 up from 2014 | 1,033 | 45% | $3,960 | ||
9Archives of OsteoporosisSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 3.45 0.43 up from 2014 | 123 | 29% | $3,990 | ||
10Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in SportsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.21 0.37 up from 2014 | 460 | 32% | $4,550 | ||
11Journal of science and medicine in sportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.45 0.32 up from 2014 | 449 | 23% | $3,720 | ||
12Calcified Tissue InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.56 0.45 down from 2014 | 372 | 32% | $3,990 | ||
13International Journal of Sports Physiology and PerformanceHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.78 0.82 down from 2014 | 382 | 36% | — | ||
14Journal of Sports SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 2.58 0.43 down from 2014 | 731 | 27% | — | ||
15European Journal of Sport ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 2.49 0.50 up from 2014 | 295 | 29% | $2,680 | ||
16BMC Sports Science Medicine and RehabilitationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.49no 2014 value | 41 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
17Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolismOACIC Edizioni Internazionali · Italy | 1.50Q1 | 2.54 0.31 down from 2014 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of Bone MetabolismThe Korean Society for Bone and Mineral Research · South Korea | 1.45Q1 | 3.52 2.28 up from 2014 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
19Pediatric Exercise ScienceHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.40Q1 | 2.31 0.23 up from 2014 | 131 | 29% | — | ||
20European Journal of Applied PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 2.49 0.16 down from 2014 | 770 | 26% | $2,890 | ||
21Foot & Ankle InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.54 0.13 down from 2014 | 710 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
22Research Quarterly for Exercise and SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.23 0.16 up from 2014 | 265 | 31% | — | ||
23Journal of Sport RehabilitationHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.33Q1 | 2.03 0.17 down from 2014 | 138 | 14% | — | ||
24International Journal of Sports MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 1.33Q1 | 2.36 0.13 up from 2014 | 565 | 27% | — | ||
25Journal of Clinical DensitometryElsevier BV · United States | 1.28Q2 | 3.23 0.93 up from 2014 | 252 | 11% | $3,000 | ||
26Research in Sports MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 2.11 0.77 down from 2014 | 89 | 14% | — | ||
27The Journal of Strength and Conditioning ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.25Q2 | 2.26 0.25 down from 2014 | 1,338 | 21% | — | ||
28Seminars in Musculoskeletal RadiologyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 1.23Q2 | 2.13 0.20 up from 2014 | 144 | 17% | — | ||
29Foot and Ankle ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.22Q2 | 1.58 0.34 down from 2014 | 146 | 2% | $3,000 | ||
30The Physician and SportsmedicineTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.14Q2 | 1.79 0.18 down from 2014 | 140 | 22% | — | ||
31Journal of Bone and Mineral MetabolismSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.13Q2 | 2.51 0.06 up from 2014 | 283 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
32Journal of Human KineticsOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.11Q2 | 1.63 0.46 down from 2014 | 303 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of OsteoporosisOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 2.41 0.49 down from 2014 | 64 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
34International Journal of Performance Analysis in SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.52 0.55 up from 2014 | 152 | 15% | — | ||
35Sports BiomechanicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.77 0.46 down from 2014 | 98 | 23% | — | ||
36Open Access Journal of Sports MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.93Q2 | 2.11 0.27 up from 2014 | 89 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
37Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.30 0.17 down from 2014 | 64 | 26% | — | ||
38Asian Journal of Sports MedicineOAIran | 0.85Q2 | 1.45 0.08 down from 2014 | 121 | 98% | — | ||
39Biology of SportOATermedia Publishing House · Poland | 0.82Q2 | 1.62 0.38 up from 2014 | 150 | 100% | $480 | ||
40Foot and Ankle SurgeryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.55 0.44 up from 2014 | 203 | 4% | $4,300 | ||
41The Journal of Foot & Ankle SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.36 0.01 down from 2014 | 602 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
42Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.16no change | 133 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
43Sports EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 1.50 0.26 up from 2014 | 81 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
44Journal of Bodywork and Movement TherapiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.46 0.07 up from 2014 | 305 | 16% | $3,070 | ||
45Foot & Ankle SpecialistSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.19 0.01 down from 2014 | 215 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
46International Journal of Sports Science & CoachingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 0.95 0.27 down from 2014 | 233 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
47RICYDE Revista Internacional de Ciencias del DeporteOARamón Cantó Alcaraz · Spain | 0.61Q2 | 0.72 0.36 up from 2014 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
48The FootElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.57Q2 | 0.85 0.38 down from 2014 | 158 | 6% | $3,250 | ||
49The Open Sports Sciences JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.51Q3 | 0.46 0.35 down from 2014 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
50International journal of exercise scienceOABerkeley Electronic Press · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.76 0.20 up from 2014 | 97 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Orthopedics and Sports Medicine highlighted.
- 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.
28 additional Orthopedics and Sports 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
- 95
- Window papers (baseline)
- 26,663 +19.9% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.574 +5.1% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
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 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 47 | 51 | 54 | 54 | 60 | 60 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 85 | 88 | 89 | 95 | 102 | 107 | 115 | 120 | 123 | 124 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 121 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,949 | 8,737 | 9,282 | 9,896 | 10,548 | 11,907 | 13,366 | 14,821 | 15,878 | 17,676 | 19,144 | 20,968 | 22,242 | 23,741 | 25,227 | 26,663 | 27,721 | 28,850 | 30,205 | 32,070 | 33,837 | 36,063 | 38,759 | 40,063 | 40,334 | 40,972 | |
| Median OJR | 0.283 | 0.279 | 0.38 | 0.4313 | 0.4315 | 0.42 | 0.4931 | 0.47 | 0.571 | 0.53 | 0.51 | 0.553 | 0.546 | 0.59 | 0.572 | 0.574 | 0.4933 | 0.563 | 0.566 | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.569 | 0.62 | 0.61 | 0.565 | 0.558 |
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.