Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Global ranking · 2017
Journal rankings 2017
20,381 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 20,381 journals for 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.54. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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.
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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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 82.50Q1 | 261.76 75.78 up from 2016 | 79 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.58Q1 | 12.19 2.55 up from 2016 | 157 | 53% | $7,619 | ||
3Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 18.56Q1 | 38.16 1.25 down from 2016 | 118 | 86% | — | ||
4The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 18.42Q1 | 9.39 1.63 down from 2016 | 147 | 60% | — | ||
5Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 17.82Q1 | 13.08 6.50 up from 2016 | 32 | 58% | $4,290 | ||
6New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 17.13Q1 | 35.35 0.20 down from 2016 | 2,778 | 35% | — | ||
7IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 17.12Q1 | 27.51 2.33 up from 2016 | 324 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
8Therapeutic Recreation JournalUnited States | 15.84Q1 | 0.45 32.42 down from 2016 | 77 | 10% | — | ||
9American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 15.79Q1 | 4.60 0.64 down from 2016 | 197 | 23% | $4,100 | ||
10Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.33Q1 | 5.52 3.68 down from 2016 | 66 | 29% | $5,400 | ||
11Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 15.02Q1 | 11.29 0.98 up from 2016 | 87 | 33% | — | ||
12Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.96Q1 | 23.56 10.77 down from 2016 | 37 | 5% | $6,150 | ||
13Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 14.60Q1 | 25.48 10.53 up from 2016 | 293 | 100% | — | ||
14IMF staff discussion noteInternational Monetary Fund | 13.91Q1 | 8.55 2.72 down from 2016 | 46 | 83% | — | ||
15Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.67Q1 | 7.13 2.62 down from 2016 | 141 | 15% | $2,500 | ||
16Granular ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 13.64Q1 | 20.22 17.03 down from 2016 | 32 | 45% | $2,390 | ||
17Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 13.57Q1 | 3.00 2.78 down from 2016 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
18Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.36Q1 | 18.10 4.71 down from 2016 | 67 | 42% | $6,990 | ||
19American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.34Q1 | 8.07 1.31 up from 2016 | 149 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
20The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 13.28Q1 | 10.35 1.93 up from 2016 | 97 | 31% | $4,120 | ||
21Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 12.89Q1 | 28.54 0.09 down from 2016 | 93 | 40% | $6,040 | ||
22Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.52Q1 | 10.60 3.73 up from 2016 | 137 | 18% | $5,400 | ||
23American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.40Q1 | 8.45 1.58 up from 2016 | 112 | 42% | — | ||
24Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 12.37Q1 | 13.46 3.34 up from 2016 | 58 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
25Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 12.28Q1 | 9.83 2.19 up from 2016 | 137 | 35% | $4,790 | ||
26Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 12.19Q1 | 6.88 0.97 up from 2016 | 228 | 31% | $4,360 | ||
27ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.99Q1 | 11.85 3.04 down from 2016 | 234 | 40% | — | ||
28MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 11.98Q1 | 8.95 0.72 down from 2016 | 179 | 14% | — | ||
29South European Society & PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.84Q1 | 2.95 1.05 down from 2016 | 96 | 44% | — | ||
30Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.73Q1 | 7.17 1.46 down from 2016 | 172 | 47% | $4,790 | ||
31Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.72Q1 | 24.63 2.60 down from 2016 | 115 | 89% | — | ||
32Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.71Q1 | 7.74 0.29 up from 2016 | 140 | 34% | — | ||
33Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.63Q1 | 4.30 1.21 down from 2016 | 94 | 10% | $2,500 | ||
34Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 11.56Q1 | 7.27 0.70 down from 2016 | 269 | 30% | — | ||
35The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 10.83Q1 | 5.39 1.05 down from 2016 | 273 | 30% | $4,430 | ||
36Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 10.72Q1 | 3.58 1.88 down from 2016 | 112 | 23% | — | ||
37Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 10.66Q1 | 24.51no 2016 value | 220 | 37% | $12,690 | — | |
38Translation SpacesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 10.54Q1 | 6.23 4.44 up from 2016 | 39 | 30% | — | ||
39Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.53Q1 | 21.73 2.70 up from 2016 | 160 | 87% | $6,240 | ||
40Big Data & SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.44Q1 | 4.94 3.41 down from 2016 | 132 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
41Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.42Q1 | 4.33 0.79 down from 2016 | 123 | 29% | $4,170 | ||
42International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.37Q1 | 4.58 1.24 up from 2016 | 75 | 19% | — | ||
43Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 10.37Q1 | 29.25 0.40 up from 2016 | 1,020 | 24% | — | ||
44European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 10.35Q1 | 3.91 1.12 up from 2016 | 138 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
45Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.29Q1 | 7.96 1.40 up from 2016 | 93 | 41% | $4,130 | ||
46Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.27Q1 | 16.30 0.02 down from 2016 | 74 | 56% | $3,880 | ||
47The Interpreter and Translator TrainerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.23Q1 | 1.31 0.33 up from 2016 | 74 | 6% | — | ||
48Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.22Q1 | 6.09 0.23 up from 2016 | 645 | 30% | $4,690 | ||
49American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 10.14Q1 | 4.27 0.58 up from 2016 | 178 | 36% | $3,550 | ||
50Nature MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 10.09Q1 | 22.56 0.30 up from 2016 | 943 | 48% | $12,690 |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences4,122
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences2,959
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences2,239
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences1,339
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences1,119
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences1,072
- PsychologySocial Sciences976
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences894
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences834
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences723
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences584
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences551
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences472
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences442
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences405
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences343
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences319
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences232
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences191
- DentistryHealth Sciences180
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences135
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences71
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences65
- NursingHealth Sciences61
- EnergyPhysical Sciences41
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences12
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6,303 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 20,381
- Window papers (baseline)
- 13,759,987 +7.1% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.843 -6.4% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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 | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.