Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Pharmacology journal rankings 2015
42 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pharmacology has 42 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are Natural Product Reports, Journal of Pain, and Clinical Pharmacokinetics.
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
- Pharmacology42
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
- 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
42 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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1Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 4.99Q1 | 9.89 0.65 down from 2014 | 234 | 26% | — | ||
2Journal of PainElsevier BV · United States | 2.66Q1 | 5.39 0.15 up from 2014 | 481 | 100% | $4,180 | ||
3Clinical PharmacokineticsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 2.62Q1 | 5.38 0.48 down from 2014 | 260 | 45% | $4,990 | ||
4Journal of Natural ProductsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.03Q1 | 4.01 0.31 down from 2014 | 1,068 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
5Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical TherapyAmerican Physical Therapy Association · United States | 1.72Q1 | 3.54 0.04 down from 2014 | 294 | 15% | — | ||
6Physical TherapyOxford University Press · United States | 1.62Q1 | 2.93 0.07 up from 2014 | 487 | 49% | $4,035 | ||
7Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug TherapyWiley · United States | 1.48Q1 | 3.40 0.16 up from 2014 | 473 | 19% | $4,030 | ||
8Experimental and Clinical PsychopharmacologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.39Q1 | 2.72 0.94 down from 2014 | 149 | 76% | — | ||
9European Journal of PainWiley · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 2.83 0.12 down from 2014 | 522 | 42% | $4,310 | ||
10Pain Research and TreatmentHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 2.45 0.12 up from 2014 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
11Pain MedicineOxford University Press · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.40 0.16 down from 2014 | 852 | 39% | $5,036 | ||
12Manual TherapyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 2.28 0.26 down from 2014 | 365 | 20% | — | ||
13Journal of physiotherapyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 2.36 0.17 down from 2014 | 208 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
14Therapeutic Drug MonitoringLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.29 0.20 down from 2014 | 410 | 18% | — | ||
15Brazilian Journal of Physical TherapyElsevier BV · Brazil | 1.07Q2 | 1.74 0.15 down from 2014 | 217 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
16The Journal of AntibioticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.04Q2 | 2.27 0.06 up from 2014 | 420 | 18% | $4,590 | ||
17Journal of Manipulative and Physiological TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.99 0.63 down from 2014 | 243 | 30% | $2,900 | ||
18Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal ChemistryBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.99Q2 | 1.76 1.13 down from 2014 | 61 | 5% | — | ||
19BMC Pharmacology and ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.23 0.49 up from 2014 | 224 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
20International journal of medicinal mushroomsBegell House · United States | 0.85Q2 | 1.53 0.03 down from 2014 | 169 | 4% | — | ||
21Chiropractic & Manual TherapiesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 1.38 0.31 down from 2014 | 139 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
22Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and TherapeuticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.79Q3 | 1.51 0.11 up from 2014 | 257 | 11% | $4,520 | ||
23Current Drug SafetyBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.67Q3 | 1.42 0.11 down from 2014 | 155 | 3% | — | ||
24Der SchmerzSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.63Q3 | 1.32 0.02 up from 2014 | 239 | 20% | $3,390 | ||
25WorkIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.63Q3 | 1.15 0.47 up from 2014 | 1,483 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
26Journal of Manual & Manipulative TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 1.10 0.16 up from 2014 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
27Ozone Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.05 0.02 down from 2014 | 191 | 6% | — | ||
28British Journal of PainSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.91 0.36 down from 2014 | 79 | 100% | $4,150 | ||
29Journal of Caffeine ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.91 0.15 down from 2014 | 83 | 27% | — | ||
30Hong Kong Physiotherapy JournalOAWorld Scientific · Netherlands | 0.37Q3 | 0.53 0.20 down from 2014 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
31Scandinavian Journal of PainOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.29Q3 | 0.85 0.19 up from 2014 | 211 | 21% | $2,260 | ||
32European Journal of PhysiotherapyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.27Q3 | 0.49 0.24 up from 2014 | 63 | 24% | — | ||
33International journal of osteopathic medicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.67 0.19 down from 2014 | 117 | 16% | $2,740 | ||
34Journal of Chiropractic MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.66 0.15 down from 2014 | 108 | 59% | $3,300 | ||
35International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and SimulationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.22Q4 | 0.19 0.37 down from 2014 | 37 | 10% | — | ||
36Physiotherapy Practice and ResearchIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.16Q4 | 0.38 0.01 down from 2014 | 39 | 27% | $4,150 | ||
37Current Enzyme InhibitionBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.15Q4 | 0.38 0.04 up from 2014 | 44 | 2% | — | ||
| 0.12Q4 | 0.22 0.01 down from 2014 | 41 | 0% | — | |||
39International Musculoskeletal MedicineManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.26 0.12 up from 2014 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
40Current PsychopharmacologyeBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.09Q4 | 0.12 0.45 down from 2014 | 81 | 7% | — | ||
41Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy - An International JournalInstitute of Medico-legal Publications Private Limited · India | 0.04Q4 | 0.06 0.01 down from 2014 | 553 | 0% | — | ||
42AMA guides newsletterPublisher not listed | 0.01Q4 | 0.05 0.02 up from 2014 | 54 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pharmacology 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.
11 additional Pharmacology 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
- 42
- Window papers (baseline)
- 58,910 +8.4% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.7943 -20.6% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 29 | 33 | 32 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 51 | 54 | 53 | 54 | 51 | 52 | 49 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 19,603 | 22,467 | 24,630 | 27,412 | 29,324 | 32,358 | 35,691 | 39,107 | 42,145 | 45,380 | 48,527 | 52,153 | 54,359 | 55,921 | 57,834 | 58,910 | 59,488 | 58,462 | 57,882 | 58,590 | 61,076 | 65,359 | 69,176 | 70,919 | 70,967 | 72,738 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.672 | 0.51 | 0.62 | 0.715 | 0.667 | 0.7235 | 0.80 | 0.892 | 0.91 | 1.001 | 0.891 | 0.7936 | 0.7943 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.65 | 0.644 | 0.642 | 0.662 | 0.75 | 0.659 | 0.7243 | 0.73 |
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.