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Journal rankings · indicator year 2016

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Subfield ranking · 2016

Otorhinolaryngology journal rankings 2016

32 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Otorhinolaryngology has 32 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Oral Oncology, JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, and Head & Neck.

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.

32
<1% 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.

0.70
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.

25%
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.

$3,490
Median positive listed APC: $3,490 among 21 journals. 11 have no known price. All fields: $3,390.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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32 ranked journals

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Quartile

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.

Access
APC (list price)
Otorhinolaryngology 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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1Oral OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.83Q14.87 0.37 up from 201555230%$4,720
2JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck SurgeryAmerican Medical Association · United States
1.37Q12.58 0.18 down from 201565840%—
3Head & NeckWiley · United States
1.36Q12.69 0.02 up from 20151,06225%$4,760
4BMC Ear Nose and Throat DisordersBioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.12Q11.83 0.12 down from 201530100%$2,290
5Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck SurgeryOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.12Q11.99 0.22 down from 2015173100%$2,500
1.11Q12.74 0.14 down from 201550427%$4,100
7OtolaryngologyWiley · United States
1.07Q12.47 0.38 up from 20151,23213%$3,600
8American Journal of Rhinology and AllergySAGE Publishing · United States
1.05Q12.41 0.09 down from 201539818%$4,150
9Annals of Otology Rhinology & LaryngologySAGE Publishing · United States
0.86Q21.74 0.19 up from 20154879%$4,150
10International Journal of OtolaryngologyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.79Q21.35 0.58 down from 201566100%$800
11European Archives of Oto-Rhino-LaryngologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.78Q21.69 0.20 up from 20151,46319%$2,890
12ORLKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.78Q21.68 0.33 up from 201514621%—
13Auris Nasus LarynxElsevier BV · Japan
0.75Q21.43 0.11 up from 201532410%$3,520
0.73Q21.70 0.03 down from 20151,3079%$3,490
15Clinical and Experimental OtorhinolaryngologyOAKorean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · South Korea
0.73Q21.61 0.20 up from 2015189100%$300
16Rhinology JournalEuropean Rhinologic Society
0.72Q21.80 0.01 down from 201533855%—
17Acta Oto-LaryngologicaTaylor & Francis · Norway
0.69Q31.46 0.10 up from 201559912%—
18American Journal of OtolaryngologyOAElsevier BV · United States
0.68Q31.25 0.03 up from 20155337%$3,630
19Allergy & RhinologyOASAGE Publishing · United States
0.68Q31.38 0.13 down from 2015102100%$2,650
20Clinical OtolaryngologyWiley · United Kingdom
0.59Q31.28 0.06 up from 201544016%$4,520
0.53Q31.04 0.04 down from 2015433100%$2,070
0.52Q31.50 0.40 up from 201562——
23International Archives of OtorhinolaryngologyOAThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Brazil
0.51Q31.14 0.79 up from 2015254100%—
24The Journal of Laryngology & OtologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
0.48Q30.90 0.02 down from 201591977%$3,550
25ISRN OtolaryngologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt
0.35Q41.20 0.10 down from 201537——
26HNOSpringer Nature · Germany
0.31Q40.98 0.38 up from 201534711%$2,390
27Otolaryngologia PolskaIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland
0.28Q41.08 0.51 up from 2015890%—
0.24Q40.43 0.15 down from 20152201%$2,680
29Indian Journal of OtologyMedknow · India
0.15Q40.36 0.07 up from 20151456%—
0.15Q40.30 0.04 up from 20151384%$2,580
31Laryngo-Rhino-OtologieThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany
0.12Q40.18 0.01 up from 20155585%—
0.03Q40.04no change17341%—

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.

12 additional Otorhinolaryngology 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
32
Window papers (baseline)
13,128 +14.9% from indicator year 2013
Median OJR
0.704 +3.1% from indicator year 2013
Rising journals (2025)
0

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 journals1818181818171818212125282833343432323335373534343332
Window papers (baseline)3,9134,5254,8755,3195,3786,0786,8117,6408,1818,7959,45510,36510,84511,42711,83012,57713,12813,81114,49315,09215,71317,02918,34918,90018,58718,411
Median OJR0.4660.430.4720.5440.520.5380.560.580.6270.6860.6470.6250.6500.680.7190.7050.7040.6960.7210.6880.6980.6990.660.6480.570.61

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.