Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Health journal rankings 2017
53 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 53 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2016 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.66. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and Psychology of Violence.
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 of Social Sciences (22)
53 ranked journals
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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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1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.95Q1 | 4.17 0.20 down from 2016 | 100 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
2Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 3.87 0.17 down from 2016 | 1,707 | 55% | $3,800 | ||
3Psychology of ViolenceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.64Q1 | 2.58 0.33 down from 2016 | 181 | 52% | — | ||
4Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 1.75 0.04 up from 2016 | 120 | 32% | $4,150 | ||
5Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 3.72 0.06 up from 2016 | 616 | 62% | — | ||
6Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.42 0.04 down from 2016 | 220 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
7Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.89 0.09 down from 2016 | 343 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
8Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.94 0.22 down from 2016 | 43 | 12% | — | ||
9Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.93Q1 | 1.67 0.91 down from 2016 | 139 | 13% | — | ||
10Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.86Q1 | 3.27 0.15 up from 2016 | 252 | 63% | $4,790 | ||
11Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.75Q1 | 1.91 0.84 down from 2016 | 286 | 53% | $4,400 | ||
12Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.70 0.06 down from 2016 | 911 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
13Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.67Q1 | 1.15 0.34 down from 2016 | 47 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
14Injury EpidemiologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 2.53 0.36 up from 2016 | 95 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
15European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.57Q2 | 1.89 0.23 up from 2016 | 99 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
16Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.36 0.16 down from 2016 | 199 | 22% | — | ||
17SSM - Population HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 1.67 0.24 up from 2016 | 131 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
18Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 1.41Q2 | 1.59 0.15 up from 2016 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
19Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 1.55 0.08 up from 2016 | 330 | 29% | $4,090 | ||
20Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.34Q2 | 2.02 1.07 up from 2016 | 103 | 48% | — | ||
21The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.14 0.08 down from 2016 | 151 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
22Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & SocietyUniversity of Toronto | 1.16Q2 | 0.71 0.25 down from 2016 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
23Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.86 0.15 up from 2016 | 782 | 25% | $3,130 | ||
24Journal of Muslim Mental HealthOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 1.13Q2 | 0.86 0.10 down from 2016 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
25International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.61 0.59 up from 2016 | 51 | 24% | — | ||
26Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at RiskChildren at Risk · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.08 0.06 up from 2016 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
27Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 1.06Q2 | 2.05 0.47 up from 2016 | 437 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
28Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.05Q3 | 2.56 0.25 up from 2016 | 1,189 | 100% | $3,175 | ||
29Partner AbuseSpringer Nature · United States | 0.99Q3 | 1.41 0.04 up from 2016 | 69 | 5% | — | ||
30Spirituality in Clinical PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 0.91Q3 | 1.35 0.44 up from 2016 | 109 | 16% | — | ||
31Global Social WelfareSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.85Q3 | 0.55 0.32 down from 2016 | 80 | 19% | $2,290 | ||
32Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.85Q3 | 1.13 0.10 up from 2016 | 529 | 14% | $3,290 | ||
33Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 0.63 0.48 down from 2016 | 104 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
34Violence and GenderMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.79Q3 | 0.90 0.32 up from 2016 | 94 | 19% | — | ||
35Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q3 | 0.96 0.07 down from 2016 | 65 | 20% | — | ||
36Health Promotion PerspectivesOATabriz University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 0.78Q3 | 1.45 0.60 up from 2016 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
37Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.82 0.23 down from 2016 | 51 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
38Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 0.75 0.06 down from 2016 | 199 | 18% | — | ||
39International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.51 0.46 down from 2016 | 66 | 21% | — | ||
40Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.48Q3 | 0.66 0.03 up from 2016 | 72 | 19% | — | ||
41The Journal of psychology and ChristianityChristian Association for Psychological Studies · United States | 0.47Q4 | 0.59 0.18 up from 2016 | 96 | 0% | — | ||
42Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.46Q4 | 0.41 0.06 down from 2016 | 153 | 15% | $3,090 | ||
43Journal of the Egyptian Public Health AssociationOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · Egypt | 0.42Q4 | 0.79 0.20 up from 2016 | 81 | 64% | $2,290 | ||
44Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.30 0.38 down from 2016 | 79 | 18% | — | ||
45Journal for the Study of SpiritualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.32 0.07 up from 2016 | 53 | 11% | — | ||
46World Journal of VaccinesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.24Q4 | 0.38 0.34 down from 2016 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.30 0.13 up from 2016 | 130 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
48Current Trauma ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.22Q4 | 0.38 0.04 up from 2016 | 68 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
49Journal of Social InclusionOAGriffith University · Australia | 0.22Q4 | 0.23 0.08 up from 2016 | 90 | 100% | — | ||
50BMC ProceedingsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.15Q4 | 0.48 0.15 up from 2016 | 654 | 100% | $2,290 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,300
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations318
- Communication71
- Gender Studies63
- Health53
- Safety Research52
- Public Administration51
- Transportation48
- Linguistics and Language47
- Law46
- Urban Studies45
- Anthropology41
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Geography, Planning and Development28
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
10 additional Health 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
- 53
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,507 +28.4% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.064 -3.5% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.