Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Rheumatology journal rankings 2015
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Rheumatology has 58 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.76. The top three are Arthritis & Rheumatism, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, and Autoimmunity 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 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
- Rheumatology58
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine95
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health85
- Dermatology74
- Ophthalmology74
- Hematology71
- Obstetrics and Gynecology61
- 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
58 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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1Arthritis & RheumatismWiley · United States | 4.03Q1 | 8.25 0.10 down from 2014 | 662 | 0% | — | ||
2Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 8.66 0.71 up from 2014 | 1,510 | 6% | $4,870 | ||
3Autoimmunity ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 10.61 1.38 up from 2014 | 442 | 16% | $4,730 | ||
4Arthritis & RheumatologyWiley · United States | 3.20Q1 | 6.44 1.71 up from 2014 | 517 | 44% | $5,190 | ||
5European Cells and MaterialsOASwitzerland | 2.82Q1 | 5.94 0.28 down from 2014 | 167 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
6Best Practice & Research Clinical RheumatologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 5.31 0.51 up from 2014 | 181 | 19% | $4,180 | ||
7Current Opinion in RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.71Q1 | 5.23 0.73 down from 2014 | 294 | 30% | — | ||
8Arthritis Care & ResearchWiley · United States | 2.68Q1 | 4.17 1.29 down from 2014 | 837 | 55% | $4,640 | ||
9Osteoarthritis and CartilageElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 5.50 0.71 up from 2014 | 766 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
10Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal DiseaseOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 5.90 0.92 up from 2014 | 66 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
11International Journal of RheumatologyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 3.68 0.98 down from 2014 | 93 | 96% | $950 | ||
12Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 2.08Q1 | 3.91 0.08 down from 2014 | 152 | 13% | $3,500 | ||
13Current Rheumatology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.07Q1 | 4.11 0.10 up from 2014 | 239 | 17% | $4,490 | ||
14Lara D. VeekenOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.09 0.02 up from 2014 | 1,166 | 40% | $4,597 | ||
15Arthritis Research & TherapyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 4.78 1.39 up from 2014 | 1,124 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
16Seminars in Arthritis and RheumatismElsevier BV · United States | 1.72Q2 | 5.33 0.95 up from 2014 | 285 | 30% | $4,370 | ||
17ArthritisHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 2.06 1.10 down from 2014 | 65 | 56% | — | ||
18Autoimmune DiseasesOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 3.01 0.26 down from 2014 | 128 | 100% | $950 | ||
19The Open Rheumatology JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 1.88 1.35 down from 2014 | 86 | 89% | — | ||
20The Journal of RheumatologyThe Journal of Rheumatology Publishing Company Limited · Canada | 1.30Q2 | 3.10 0.32 up from 2014 | 1,170 | 89% | — | ||
21LupusSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 2.59 0.58 down from 2014 | 690 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
22Nature Reviews RheumatologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 4.37 0.57 up from 2014 | 660 | 17% | — | ||
23Expert Review of Clinical ImmunologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.70 0.13 up from 2014 | 382 | 30% | — | ||
24Clinical RheumatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Belgium | 1.05Q2 | 2.25 0.02 up from 2014 | 907 | 22% | $4,890 | ||
25Joint Bone SpineElsevier BV · France | 1.04Q2 | 2.48 0.13 up from 2014 | 477 | 4% | $3,020 | ||
26Scandinavian Journal of RheumatologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 2.04 0.20 down from 2014 | 311 | 16% | — | ||
27ISRN RheumatologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.93Q2 | 2.50 0.54 up from 2014 | 33 | — | — | ||
28Rheumatology InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.86Q2 | 1.99 0.25 up from 2014 | 846 | 17% | $4,990 | ||
29International Urogynecology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.04 0.07 down from 2014 | 902 | 24% | $3,790 | ||
30Connective Tissue ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 1.76 0.13 down from 2014 | 195 | 35% | — | ||
31Modern RheumatologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.84Q3 | 1.59 0.52 down from 2014 | 983 | 18% | $3,208 | ||
32Autoimmunity HighlightsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 0.83Q3 | 2.85 1.96 up from 2014 | 37 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
33Musculoskeletal CareWiley · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 1.46 0.14 down from 2014 | 91 | 28% | $3,240 | ||
34UrogynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.76Q3 | 1.53 0.01 up from 2014 | 260 | 18% | — | ||
35JCR Journal of Clinical RheumatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.74Q3 | 1.61 0.35 up from 2014 | 329 | 15% | — | ||
| 0.72Q3 | 3.38 0.22 up from 2014 | 68 | 27% | — | |||
37CartilageSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.66Q3 | 1.47 0.48 up from 2014 | 104 | 98% | $2,650 | ||
38International Journal of Rheumatic DiseasesWiley · Australia | 0.64Q3 | 1.34 0.08 up from 2014 | 570 | 34% | $3,700 | ||
39ReumatismoOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.61Q3 | 1.04 0.19 down from 2014 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
40Revista Brasileira de ReumatologiaOAElsevier BV · Brazil | 0.54Q3 | 0.83 0.50 down from 2014 | 321 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
41Reumatología ClínicaElsevier BV · Spain | 0.48Q3 | 0.92 0.03 up from 2014 | 339 | 7% | $3,180 | ||
42Case Reports in RheumatologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.87 0.09 down from 2014 | 126 | 100% | $790 | ||
43Reumatología Clínica (English Edition)Elsevier BV · Spain | 0.40Q3 | 0.71 0.13 down from 2014 | 311 | 0% | $3,170 | ||
44Rheumatology Current ResearchOMICS Publishing Group | 0.36Q3 | 0.84 0.48 up from 2014 | 86 | 9% | — | ||
45Alexandria Journal of MedicineOAElsevier BV | 0.32Q4 | 0.61 0.04 up from 2014 | 192 | 100% | $750 | ||
46International Journal of Clinical RheumatologyOAOMICS Publishing Group · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.60 0.06 up from 2014 | 195 | 13% | — | ||
47Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia (English Edition)Elsevier BV · Spain | 0.29Q4 | 0.61 0.26 down from 2014 | 195 | 100% | — | ||
48Zeitschrift für RheumatologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.28Q4 | 0.67 0.03 up from 2014 | 346 | 12% | $3,390 | ||
49Journal of ArthritisOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.24Q4 | 0.33 0.10 up from 2014 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
50Current Rheumatology ReviewsBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.20Q4 | 0.57 0.30 up from 2014 | 81 | 15% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Rheumatology 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.
19 additional Rheumatology 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
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 53,341 +10.7% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.847 -3.4% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 30 | 32 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 43 | 49 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 65 | 65 | 67 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 67 | 67 | 70 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 17,821 | 20,685 | 22,377 | 24,459 | 25,269 | 27,867 | 30,643 | 33,672 | 36,348 | 39,439 | 42,988 | 46,086 | 48,179 | 49,400 | 51,214 | 53,341 | 54,578 | 55,366 | 56,123 | 57,306 | 59,410 | 62,541 | 65,720 | 67,501 | 67,701 | 69,555 | |
| Median OJR | 0.91 | 0.782 | 0.862 | 0.81 | 0.884 | 1.05 | 0.855 | 0.803 | 0.92 | 0.891 | 0.7969 | 0.888 | 0.877 | 0.95 | 0.879 | 0.847 | 0.9574 | 0.889 | 0.873 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.9569 | 0.869 | 0.851 | 0.785 | 0.7970 |
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.