Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
General Health Professions journal rankings 2016
417 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
General Health Professions has 417 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2015 to 0.85, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are The Lancet, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Work and Occupations.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions417
- Occupational Therapy23
- Emergency Medical Services21
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation20
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing8
- Complementary and Manual Therapy5
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
417 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.54Q1 | 14.91 0.56 up from 2015 | 3,425 | 45% | $7,890 | ||
2Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.31Q1 | 4.65 0.32 up from 2015 | 140 | 29% | — | ||
3Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.16Q1 | 3.10 1.12 down from 2015 | 60 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
4JMIR mhealth and uhealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 4.99Q1 | 6.93 1.63 up from 2015 | 174 | 100% | $2,850 | ||
5Health Promotion PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.77Q1 | 7.15 5.66 up from 2015 | 292 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
6Interpreting International Journal of Research and Practice in InterpretingJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.35Q1 | 1.50 0.58 up from 2015 | 40 | 17% | — | ||
7Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.80Q1 | 7.16 0.30 down from 2015 | 846 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
8American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 3.70Q1 | 3.29 0.20 up from 2015 | 191 | 43% | $3,620 | ||
9BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 4.35 1.44 down from 2015 | 525 | 54% | — | ||
10Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.26Q1 | 3.00 0.92 down from 2015 | 130 | 91% | $4,430 | ||
11The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 3.17Q1 | 4.12 0.52 down from 2015 | 338 | 100% | — | ||
12Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.12Q1 | 2.33 0.69 down from 2015 | 123 | 36% | $4,400 | ||
13Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 3.09 0.15 down from 2015 | 360 | 96% | $3,750 | ||
14American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.93 0.68 down from 2015 | 1,885 | 93% | — | ||
15The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 3.09 0.72 down from 2015 | 450 | 29% | $4,408 | ||
16Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 3.59 2.00 down from 2015 | 633 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
17Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 2.82 0.30 down from 2015 | 233 | 73% | $4,330 | ||
18Communication & MedicineEquinox Publishing · Germany | 2.70Q1 | 0.65 1.53 down from 2015 | 68 | 22% | — | ||
19Journal of Nursing RegulationElsevier BV · United States | 2.58Q1 | 3.50 1.07 up from 2015 | 99 | 3% | $2,850 | ||
20Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 3.07 0.11 up from 2015 | 537 | 31% | $4,220 | ||
21International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.53Q1 | 1.90 0.40 up from 2015 | 138 | 15% | $4,400 | ||
22Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 3.42 0.24 down from 2015 | 194 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
23Journal of Medical SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.45Q1 | 3.85 1.67 down from 2015 | 504 | 16% | $4,990 | ||
24Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.45Q1 | 3.15 0.09 down from 2015 | 598 | 44% | — | ||
25Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.44Q1 | 3.80 0.86 down from 2015 | 470 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of Mixed Methods ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q1 | 1.88 0.01 down from 2015 | 93 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
27Journal of Interprofessional CareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 3.18 1.32 up from 2015 | 309 | 23% | — | ||
28International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 2.79 0.81 down from 2015 | 376 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
29Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.54 0.32 up from 2015 | 151 | 36% | — | ||
30Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.34Q1 | 1.38 0.84 down from 2015 | 62 | 12% | — | ||
31Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.33Q1 | 3.54 0.02 down from 2015 | 182 | 33% | $3,640 | ||
32Translation and Interpreting StudiesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · United States | 2.28Q1 | 1.44 0.84 up from 2015 | 51 | 16% | — | ||
33Critical Public HealthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 2.34no change | 130 | 40% | — | ||
34Economics & Human BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 2.94 0.27 up from 2015 | 142 | 35% | $3,290 | ||
35Nurse ResearcherRoyal College of Nursing · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 1.09 0.38 down from 2015 | 197 | 16% | — | ||
36Journal of Healthcare ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.20Q1 | 1.96 0.64 up from 2015 | 103 | 3% | — | ||
37Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 2.19Q1 | 4.05 0.16 down from 2015 | 173 | 99% | $2,480 | ||
38International journal of doctoral studiesOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 2.12Q1 | 1.88 0.26 up from 2015 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationElsevier BV · United States | 2.09Q1 | 5.32 0.27 down from 2015 | 655 | 26% | $4,370 | ||
40International Journal of Nursing StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 4.21 0.19 up from 2015 | 491 | 36% | $5,840 | ||
41Policy Politics & Nursing PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.06Q1 | 2.57 1.27 up from 2015 | 40 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
42BMJPublisher not listed | 2.03Q1 | 3.13 0.11 down from 2015 | 6,292 | 16% | — | ||
43Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.03Q1 | 1.98 0.04 down from 2015 | 110 | 24% | — | ||
44Annual Review of Public HealthAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.02Q1 | 10.67 3.44 down from 2015 | 106 | 88% | — | ||
45OJIN The Online Journal of Issues in NursingUnited States | 1.99Q1 | 1.32 0.24 down from 2015 | 114 | 23% | — | ||
46Preventing Chronic DiseaseOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 1.98Q1 | 3.02 0.67 down from 2015 | 627 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Health Organization and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 1.77 0.13 down from 2015 | 155 | 32% | — | ||
48BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 3.40 0.29 down from 2015 | 4,040 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
49Adolescent Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.94Q1 | 3.67 0.32 up from 2015 | 43 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
50Nursing EthicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.00 0.26 up from 2015 | 306 | 22% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Health Professions, with General Health Professions highlighted.
- General Health Professions417
- Occupational Therapy23
- Emergency Medical Services21
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation20
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing8
- Complementary and Manual Therapy5
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
105 additional General Health Professions journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 417
- Window papers (baseline)
- 141,342 +25.2% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.848 -6.2% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 | 204 | 215 | 234 | 238 | 250 | 260 | 271 | 289 | 305 | 314 | 327 | 334 | 351 | 371 | 387 | 398 | 417 | 437 | 449 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 484 | 484 | 478 | 466 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 38,240 | 42,047 | 45,752 | 49,898 | 53,367 | 58,843 | 64,217 | 70,320 | 76,474 | 83,408 | 92,174 | 100,149 | 106,727 | 112,937 | 120,774 | 132,312 | 141,342 | 148,496 | 153,280 | 159,194 | 164,940 | 176,625 | 186,208 | 190,820 | 188,939 | 194,090 | |
| Median OJR | 0.550 | 0.56 | 0.552 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.6706 | 0.6705 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.835 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.848 | 0.838 | 0.82 | 0.845 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.810 | 0.814 | 0.855 |
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.