Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Health Professions journal rankings 2017
551 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Health Professions has 551 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, The Lancet, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
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.
Subfields in Health Professions (11)
Up to Health Sciences- General Health Professions437
- Occupational Therapy24
- Emergency Medical Services22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation22
- Health Information Management15
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
551 ranked journals
Filters
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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1The Interpreter and Translator TrainerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.23Q1 | 1.31 0.33 up from 2016 | 74 | 6% | — | ||
2The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.59Q1 | 18.11 3.20 up from 2016 | 3,387 | 53% | $7,890 | ||
3Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.66Q1 | 5.34 0.69 up from 2016 | 153 | 31% | — | ||
4Interpreting International Journal of Research and Practice in InterpretingJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 5.98Q1 | 6.52 5.02 up from 2016 | 43 | 22% | — | ||
5Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.16Q1 | 2.78 0.32 down from 2016 | 56 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
6JMIR mhealth and uhealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 5.06Q1 | 7.97 1.05 up from 2016 | 287 | 100% | $2,850 | ||
7Burnout ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.96Q1 | 3.46 1.61 down from 2016 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
8Health Promotion PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.39Q1 | 7.45 0.29 up from 2016 | 328 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
9Translation and Interpreting StudiesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · United States | 4.18Q1 | 2.40 0.95 up from 2016 | 59 | 15% | — | ||
10Research Involvement and EngagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 4.00 0.27 down from 2016 | 45 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
11Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.73Q1 | 7.93 0.76 up from 2016 | 893 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
12BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 5.12 0.77 up from 2016 | 474 | 66% | — | ||
13Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 5.42 0.07 up from 2016 | 583 | 99% | $4,332 | ||
14International Journal of Medical InformaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 4.30 0.19 down from 2016 | 367 | 25% | $3,150 | ||
15Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.03Q1 | 3.37 0.37 up from 2016 | 158 | 87% | $4,430 | ||
16Physical Education and Sport PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 2.72 0.59 up from 2016 | 95 | 38% | — | ||
17The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 3.31 0.22 up from 2016 | 518 | 42% | $4,408 | ||
18American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 2.99Q1 | 3.01 0.29 down from 2016 | 228 | 29% | $3,620 | ||
19Safety ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 3.63 0.70 up from 2016 | 774 | 36% | $4,360 | ||
20Journal of Nursing ScholarshipWiley · United States | 2.92Q1 | 4.00 0.46 up from 2016 | 185 | 31% | $3,640 | ||
21Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 5.90 2.31 up from 2016 | 523 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
22Adolescent Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.90Q1 | 5.56 1.90 up from 2016 | 51 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
23Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 3.01 0.19 up from 2016 | 251 | 69% | $4,330 | ||
24Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.79Q1 | 4.74 0.94 up from 2016 | 463 | 100% | — | ||
25Journal of Healthcare ManagementLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.76Q1 | 1.83 0.13 down from 2016 | 86 | 0% | — | ||
26American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 2.75Q1 | 4.17 0.25 up from 2016 | 1,776 | 92% | — | ||
27Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 3.83 0.83 up from 2016 | 257 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
28Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 3.27 0.21 up from 2016 | 512 | 47% | $4,220 | ||
29The Annals of Family MedicineOAAmerican Academy of Family Physicians · United States | 2.68Q1 | 3.50 0.62 down from 2016 | 322 | 100% | — | ||
30Medical Care Research and ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.22 0.11 down from 2016 | 141 | 31% | $4,400 | ||
31Sport Education and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 2.25 0.04 up from 2016 | 200 | 52% | — | ||
32JMIR Human FactorsOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 2.57Q1 | 3.37 1.16 up from 2016 | 47 | 100% | $1,873 | ||
33Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 2.31 0.78 down from 2016 | 432 | 96% | $3,750 | ||
34Health Care Management ReviewLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.42Q1 | 1.60 0.37 down from 2016 | 121 | 26% | — | ||
35International Journal of Health ServicesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q1 | 1.78 0.12 down from 2016 | 148 | 16% | $4,400 | ||
36BMC NursingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 2.87 0.53 up from 2016 | 196 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
37Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.32Q1 | 1.60 0.22 up from 2016 | 70 | 10% | — | ||
38QuestTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.32Q1 | 1.78 0.58 down from 2016 | 123 | 7% | — | ||
39International Journal for Researcher DevelopmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 1.71 0.66 up from 2016 | 33 | — | — | ||
40Psychiatric Rehabilitation JournalAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.26Q1 | 3.12 0.58 up from 2016 | 142 | 35% | — | ||
41Annual Review of Public HealthAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.23Q1 | 11.72 1.05 up from 2016 | 83 | 96% | — | ||
42Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and HeadacheUnited States | 2.22Q1 | 2.06 2.54 down from 2016 | 105 | 14% | — | ||
43Journal of Medical SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.21Q1 | 3.65 0.20 down from 2016 | 653 | 22% | $4,990 | ||
44Translational Behavioral MedicineOxford University Press · United States | 2.20Q1 | 3.27 0.36 up from 2016 | 193 | 99% | $4,253 | ||
45Operations Research for Health CareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.49 0.35 up from 2016 | 74 | 27% | $3,080 | ||
46Medical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.19Q1 | 3.21 0.06 up from 2016 | 597 | 40% | — | ||
47Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.16Q1 | 2.97 0.81 up from 2016 | 546 | 27% | $4,400 | ||
48Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 3.08 0.34 down from 2016 | 233 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
49Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 2.15Q1 | 2.96 1.10 down from 2016 | 175 | 100% | $2,480 | ||
50International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.75 0.04 down from 2016 | 479 | 100% | $3,690 |
Subfields of Health Professions, compared.
- General Health Professions437
- Occupational Therapy24
- Emergency Medical Services22
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation22
- Health Information Management15
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
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.
153 additional Health Professions 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
- 551
- Window papers (baseline)
- 268,029 +20.1% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.816 -2.6% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 38Comparison-group list (38)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 253 | 271 | 295 | 302 | 318 | 330 | 346 | 367 | 390 | 401 | 415 | 428 | 449 | 473 | 492 | 507 | 527 | 551 | 566 | 585 | 601 | 612 | 616 | 609 | 600 | 586 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 66,020 | 72,769 | 79,195 | 86,335 | 92,515 | 102,597 | 113,331 | 125,469 | 137,977 | 152,092 | 168,072 | 183,124 | 195,764 | 208,179 | 223,186 | 242,061 | 257,124 | 268,029 | 276,391 | 287,165 | 300,893 | 324,777 | 346,759 | 357,796 | 362,286 | 380,673 | |
| Median OJR | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.8428 | 0.8435 | 0.838 | 0.90 | 0.834 | 0.816 | 0.80 | 0.8210 | 0.8207 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.830 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.6% | 405 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.694 per 1,000 | 396 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.1% | 554 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 74.5% | 586 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,290 | 259 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 19.6% | 558 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.8% | 586 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.86 | 581 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 41.6% | 586 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 47.9% | 585 journals |
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.