Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Health journal rankings 2016
52 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 52 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2015 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and Homicide Studies.
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 Social Sciences (22)
52 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 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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1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.34Q1 | 4.37 0.07 up from 2015 | 103 | 53% | $3,900 | ||
2Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 4.04 0.21 up from 2015 | 1,628 | 54% | $3,800 | ||
3Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.82Q1 | 1.49 0.02 up from 2015 | 59 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
4Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.54Q1 | 2.58 0.36 down from 2015 | 114 | 12% | — | ||
5Psychology of ViolenceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.91 0.33 up from 2015 | 137 | 38% | — | ||
6Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.72 0.05 up from 2015 | 104 | 50% | $4,150 | ||
7European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.14Q1 | 1.66 0.34 down from 2015 | 100 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
8Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.66 0.09 up from 2015 | 623 | 58% | — | ||
9Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.46 0.33 down from 2015 | 210 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
10Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.75 0.13 down from 2015 | 262 | 48% | $4,400 | ||
11Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.02Q1 | 1.97 0.04 up from 2015 | 296 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
12Journal of Muslim Mental HealthOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 1.88Q1 | 0.96 0.20 down from 2015 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
13Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 1.75 0.16 down from 2015 | 791 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
14Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 1.77Q2 | 1.44 0.06 down from 2015 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
15Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.75Q2 | 1.52 0.05 up from 2015 | 199 | 12% | — | ||
16Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.74Q2 | 3.12 0.11 up from 2015 | 210 | 65% | $4,790 | ||
17Injury EpidemiologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.50Q2 | 2.17 0.53 up from 2015 | 64 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
18Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 1.47Q2 | —no 2015 value | 51 | — | — | ||
19Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 1.48 0.09 down from 2015 | 290 | 17% | $4,090 | ||
20Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 2.15 0.39 down from 2015 | 38 | 28% | — | ||
21Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 1.71 0.11 down from 2015 | 650 | 25% | $3,130 | ||
22Partner AbuseSpringer Nature · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.37 0.57 down from 2015 | 77 | 24% | — | ||
23The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.22 0.06 up from 2015 | 118 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
24Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 1.02Q2 | 1.58 0.04 up from 2015 | 443 | 94% | $2,600 | ||
25Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q2 | 2.31 0.18 down from 2015 | 1,271 | 100% | $3,175 | ||
26International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.03 0.09 down from 2015 | 76 | 19% | — | ||
27International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.96Q3 | 0.97 0.47 up from 2015 | 62 | 10% | — | ||
28Global Social WelfareSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.93Q3 | 0.88 0.08 down from 2015 | 40 | 18% | $2,290 | ||
29Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & SocietyUniversity of Toronto | 0.92Q3 | 0.96 0.34 up from 2015 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
30Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.90Q3 | 0.94 0.36 up from 2015 | 130 | 43% | — | ||
31Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.89Q3 | 1.02 0.04 down from 2015 | 487 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
32Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at RiskChildren at Risk · United States | 0.81Q3 | 1.02 0.78 up from 2015 | 96 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.76Q3 | 1.11 0.36 up from 2015 | 115 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
34Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.73Q3 | 1.03 0.16 up from 2015 | 48 | 9% | — | ||
35Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.06 0.27 down from 2015 | 52 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
36Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 0.82 0.22 down from 2015 | 164 | 11% | — | ||
37Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.68 0.01 up from 2015 | 69 | 18% | — | ||
38Spirituality in Clinical PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 0.63Q3 | 0.91 0.01 up from 2015 | 86 | 6% | — | ||
39International Journal of Critical Indigenous StudiesOAQueensland University of Technology · Australia | 0.63Q3 | 0.35 0.05 up from 2015 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q4 | 0.63 0.01 up from 2015 | 71 | 9% | — | ||
41Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.49Q4 | 0.47 0.07 up from 2015 | 174 | 17% | $3,090 | ||
42Violence and GenderMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.45Q4 | 0.58 0.04 down from 2015 | 60 | 10% | — | ||
43The Journal of psychology and ChristianityChristian Association for Psychological Studies · United States | 0.39Q4 | 0.40 0.09 up from 2015 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
44Journal of the Egyptian Public Health AssociationOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · Egypt | 0.33Q4 | 0.59 0.30 down from 2015 | 84 | 0% | $2,290 | ||
45Journal for the Study of SpiritualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.24 0.07 up from 2015 | 47 | 14% | — | ||
46Journal of Social InclusionOAGriffith University · Australia | 0.30Q4 | 0.15 0.13 down from 2015 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
47World Journal of VaccinesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.27Q4 | 0.71 0.04 up from 2015 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
48Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.27Q4 | 0.17 0.06 down from 2015 | 119 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
49Current Trauma ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.23Q4 | 0.34 0.34 up from 2015 | 32 | 95% | $4,090 | ||
50Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.13Q4 | 0.15 0.09 up from 2015 | 318 | 3% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,233
- Education677
- Political Science and International Relations308
- Communication68
- Gender Studies63
- Health52
- Public Administration51
- Safety Research51
- Law46
- Transportation46
- Linguistics and Language45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Urban Studies42
- Demography41
- Anthropology40
- Geography, Planning and Development27
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
9 additional Health 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
- 52
- Window papers (baseline)
- 27,537 +33.4% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.96 +3.9% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.