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Journal rankings · indicator year 2016

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Subfield ranking · 2016

Hematology journal rankings 2016

70 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Hematology has 70 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.29. The top three are Blood, Leukemia, and Blood Reviews.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

70
2% of Medicine
Median OJR

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.

0.72
This subfieldAll 0.86World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

36%
All fields: 30%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,750
Median positive listed APC: $3,750 among 45 journals. 25 have no known price. All fields: $3,390.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Hematology ranking, 2016

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.

OJR

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.

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1BloodElsevier BV · United States
3.27Q18.70 0.05 up from 20153,70212%$5,500
2LeukemiaSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
2.83Q17.09 0.71 down from 20151,06759%$5,190
3Blood ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.68Q16.51 0.43 down from 201512830%$5,220
4The Lancet HaematologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.27Q15.02 2.21 up from 201512926%$7,280
5Transfusion Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United States
2.27Q17.73 2.86 up from 20157619%$3,970
6Seminars in HematologyElsevier BV · United States
1.96Q15.13 1.07 up from 201513218%$4,070
7Journal of Thrombosis and HaemostasisElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.91Q14.80 0.32 up from 201597096%$3,750
8HaematologicaOAFerrata Storti Foundation · Italy
1.88Q14.65 0.19 down from 20151,004100%$2,157
9Blood Cancer JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.76Q14.76 0.90 up from 2015270100%$5,290
10American Journal of HematologyWiley · United States
1.74Q14.42 0.02 down from 201582281%$5,450
11British Journal of HaematologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.73Q14.29 0.14 down from 20151,41660%$5,190
12Therapeutic Advances in HematologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.66Q14.10 0.43 up from 201569100%$2,650
13HematologyAmerican Society of Hematology · United States
1.62Q12.84 1.62 down from 201530596%—
14Transplantation and Cellular TherapyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.62Q14.64 0.22 up from 2015972100%$3,650
15Current Opinion in HematologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.51Q13.57 0.52 down from 201522836%—
16Seminars in Thrombosis and HemostasisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.50Q13.52 0.20 down from 201535034%—
17Journal of Blood MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.30Q13.36 0.44 up from 201575100%$2,320
18Best Practice & Research Clinical HaematologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.29Q12.86 0.42 down from 20151107%$3,730
19AnemiaOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.28Q23.24 0.27 up from 201542100%$1,100
20TransfusionWiley · United States
1.23Q23.35 0.41 up from 20151,25129%$4,100
21Bone Marrow TransplantationSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.20Q22.95 0.21 up from 201584928%$4,990
22Vox SanguinisWiley · United Kingdom
1.09Q22.33 0.17 down from 201530929%$4,150
23Transfusion Medicine and HemotherapyOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.08Q22.14 0.19 down from 201517693%$1,670
24Current Hematologic Malignancy ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.07Q22.40 0.46 down from 201514525%$3,790
25Experimental HematologyElsevier BV · United States
1.00Q22.90 0.51 up from 201531699%$3,250
26European Journal Of HaematologyWiley · United Kingdom
0.99Q22.43no change59837%$4,650
27Expert Review of HematologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.93Q22.16 0.52 down from 201526329%—
28Annals of HematologyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.92Q22.53 0.32 up from 201589816%$4,590
29Leukemia ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.91Q22.53 0.10 down from 201573120%$3,910
30Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & LeukemiaElsevier BV · United States
0.84Q22.10 0.06 down from 201546010%$3,890
0.79Q21.92 0.02 down from 2015216100%$647
32PlateletsOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.78Q22.20 0.44 up from 201532133%$2,970
33Journal of Clinical ApheresisWiley · United States
0.78Q21.79 0.38 down from 201518220%$3,920
34Annals of Laboratory MedicineOASeoul National University · South Korea
0.75Q21.75 0.14 up from 2015336100%—
35Leukemia & lymphoma/Leukemia and lymphomaTaylor & Francis · Switzerland
0.72Q21.81 0.01 up from 20151,49825%—
36HaemophiliaWiley · United Kingdom
0.72Q32.38 0.30 up from 201572241%$4,760
37International Journal of HematologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
0.70Q31.84 0.12 down from 201561918%$4,390
38Cytometry Part B Clinical CytometryWiley · United States
0.62Q31.92 0.59 down from 201526385%$3,800
39BMC HematologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
0.61Q31.34 0.30 down from 201535100%$2,170
0.60Q31.60 0.13 up from 201538217%$3,880
41Journal of Pediatric Hematology/OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.60Q31.35 0.10 up from 201577911%—
42Pediatric Hematology and OncologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.60Q31.38 0.06 up from 201525517%—
43Transfusion MedicineWiley · United Kingdom
0.60Q31.51 0.34 up from 201522317%$3,700
44Blood Coagulation & FibrinolysisLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom
0.59Q31.34 0.10 up from 201561213%—
45HämostaseologieThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany
0.57Q31.53 0.03 down from 201516815%—
46Transfusion and Apheresis ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.56Q31.56 0.38 up from 20154849%$3,160
0.54Q31.08 0.26 down from 2015158100%—
48HematologyOAManey Publishing · United Kingdom
0.47Q31.33 0.03 up from 2015244100%$2,557
49Blood ResearchOASouth Korea
0.46Q31.03 0.07 down from 2015201100%$2,290
50Acta HaematologicaKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.45Q31.36 0.22 up from 20153108%—

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.

25 additional Hematology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
70
Window papers (baseline)
35,772 +11.4% from indicator year 2013
Median OJR
0.7196 +0.9% from indicator year 2013
Rising journals (2025)
5

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3743474849484851525557596064697170747880798383848378
Window papers (baseline)15,67617,55418,32119,93120,77322,16023,08623,96825,63827,75631,37032,53533,27032,12533,48434,47635,77236,57837,71739,00440,62943,03745,94847,33747,50247,302
Median OJR0.530.570.5890.5930.6410.6460.6770.6500.6400.6630.620.730.7070.7130.72050.7160.71960.750.740.682940.7110.6820.682870.630.5870.658

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.