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Journal rankings · indicator year 2016

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Subfield ranking · 2016

Obstetrics and Gynecology journal rankings 2016

64 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynecology has 64 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Gynecologic Oncology.

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.

64
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.

0.74+0.01 vs 2015
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.

44%
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.

$3,125
Median positive listed APC: $3,125 among 34 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 29 have no known price. All fields: $3,390.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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64 ranked journals

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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.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Obstetrics and Gynecology 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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1Obstetrics and GynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · Netherlands
2.70Q14.66 0.08 down from 20151,3899%—
2.33Q14.50 0.18 up from 20151,52157%$5,410
3Gynecologic OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.13Q15.13 0.15 up from 20151,25738%$4,380
4BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.95Q13.29 0.34 down from 20151,053100%$3,290
1.87Q13.88 0.28 up from 201592341%$5,190
6International Journal of Women s HealthOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.74Q13.30 0.20 up from 2015304100%$2,836
7Obstetrical & Gynecological SurveyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.72Q12.74 0.76 down from 20151277%—
8Journal of PregnancyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.65Q12.11 1.14 down from 201569100%$1,000
9BirthWiley · United States
1.53Q12.91 0.36 up from 201514835%$4,850
10PlacentaElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.36Q12.99 0.35 down from 201561014%$3,720
11Journal of Gynecologic OncologyOAKorean Society of Gynecologic Oncology · South Korea
1.35Q12.56 0.23 down from 2015193100%—
12MidwiferyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.33Q12.04 0.59 down from 201549136%$3,630
13Women and BirthElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.31Q11.98 0.19 down from 201521827%$3,613
1.29Q12.75 0.09 up from 201578396%$3,800
15Pregnancy HypertensionElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.28Q13.49 1.75 up from 20151166%$3,150
16Obstetrics and Gynecology InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.26Q12.12 0.63 down from 2015133100%$1,000
17Journal of Minimally Invasive GynecologyElsevier BV · United States
1.23Q22.29 0.53 down from 20156882%$3,000
18Sexual & Reproductive HealthcareOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.20Q21.59 0.30 down from 201511031%$1,850
1.18Q22.19 0.03 up from 201567051%$3,060
1.13Q21.77 0.06 down from 20151,04422%$4,480
1.08Q21.82 0.30 down from 201535529%$3,920
22American Journal of PerinatologyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.04Q21.41 0.25 down from 201549418%—
23BrachytherapyElsevier BV · United States
1.03Q22.11 0.23 down from 201533237%$3,000
1.01Q21.85 0.16 down from 20151,29723%$3,440
25Archives of Gynecology and ObstetricsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.94Q21.98 0.07 up from 20151,21417%$4,590
0.93Q21.78 0.05 up from 201554718%$3,100
27ISRN Obstetrics and GynecologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt
0.93Q22.30 0.50 up from 201564——
28Obstetrics & Gynecology ScienceOAIndonesian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology · South Korea
0.83Q21.42 0.09 down from 2015250100%—
0.82Q21.32 0.07 down from 201533529%$3,750
0.80Q21.44 0.16 down from 20151,68110%—
31Journal of Perinatal MedicineOADe Gruyter · Germany
0.78Q21.48 0.31 down from 201533318%$0 listed
32International Journal of Gynecological PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.76Q21.52 0.43 down from 20152779%—
33Hypertension in PregnancyOAInforma · United States
0.72Q31.23 0.01 up from 201512821%—
0.72Q30.98 0.05 down from 201568100%—
35MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.71Q30.93 0.17 up from 20151509%—
36Gynecological SurgerySpringer Nature · Germany
0.70Q31.33 0.26 up from 201512730%$1,790
0.58Q31.11 0.30 up from 2015171100%—
38Gynecologic Oncology ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.56Q30.96 0.65 up from 2015102100%$930
39Journal of Contemporary BrachytherapyOATermedia Publishing House · Poland
0.54Q31.91 0.18 down from 2015161100%$269
0.52Q30.92 0.03 up from 20154340%—
41Revista Brasileira Ginecologia e ObstetríciaOAThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Brazil
0.46Q30.70 0.06 down from 2015294100%—
42Case Reports in Obstetrics and GynecologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.43Q30.77 0.14 down from 2015429100%$790
43Journal of Obstetrics and GynaecologyOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.41Q30.67 0.04 down from 20159046%$2,390
44Ginekologia PolskaOAVia Medica · Poland
0.38Q30.65 0.15 down from 2015324100%$431
45Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & GynecologyOAIMR Press · Hong Kong SAR China
0.38Q30.65 0.15 up from 2015369100%$1,500
46The Obstetrician & GynaecologistWiley · United Kingdom
0.37Q30.67 0.23 up from 201514121%$2,900
47The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of IndiaSpringer Science+Business Media · India
0.32Q30.52 0.09 up from 2015408100%$4,090
0.27Q30.44 0.33 down from 2015709%—
49Open Journal of Obstetrics and GynecologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States
0.21Q40.30no change438100%—
50Obstetrics Gynaecology & Reproductive MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.21Q40.36 0.16 down from 201516814%$2,800

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.

15 additional Obstetrics and Gynecology 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
64
Window papers (baseline)
27,572 +17.5% from indicator year 2013
Median OJR
0.74 -9.8% from indicator year 2013
Rising journals (2025)
8

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 journals3135363938414144454443485555586164687374798388908581
Window papers (baseline)7,3318,6229,83710,59710,87811,55012,94814,42815,59216,84818,48120,75022,26523,47124,72126,26127,57228,32729,34730,95732,56538,23544,47850,23450,95950,060
Median OJR0.500.510.650.590.5970.6150.640.6570.620.670.8560.8640.8180.8190.850.730.740.760.690.6600.6040.540.5270.5320.560.614

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.