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Journal rankings · indicator year 2017

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Subfield ranking · 2017

Hematology journal rankings 2017

74 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Hematology has 74 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are Blood, Blood Reviews, and Leukemia.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 score is computed on.

74
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.

0.75+0.03 vs 2016
This subfieldAll 0.84World 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.

36%
All fields: 32%
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.

$3,740
Median positive listed APC: $3,740 among 48 journals. 26 have no known price. All fields: $3,350.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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74 ranked journals

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Hematology ranking, 2017

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 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.

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1BloodElsevier BV · United States
3.43Q19.66 0.96 up from 20163,30715%$5,500
2Blood ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.05Q16.84 0.33 up from 201614634%$5,220
3LeukemiaSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
2.58Q16.42 0.68 down from 20161,07067%$5,190
4The Lancet HaematologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.56Q16.33 1.31 up from 201622939%$7,280
5Seminars in HematologyElsevier BV · United States
2.05Q15.26 0.13 up from 201612822%$4,070
6Therapeutic Advances in HematologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.94Q15.18 1.07 up from 201681100%$2,650
7HaematologicaOAFerrata Storti Foundation · Italy
1.92Q14.84 0.19 up from 20161,039100%$2,157
8Journal of Thrombosis and HaemostasisElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.84Q14.54 0.25 down from 201693696%$3,750
9Transfusion Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United States
1.83Q14.45 3.28 down from 20169410%$3,970
10Blood Cancer JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.74Q14.59 0.18 down from 2016329100%$5,290
11Transplantation and Cellular TherapyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.72Q14.48 0.16 down from 20161,013100%$3,650
12British Journal of HaematologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.65Q13.91 0.37 down from 20161,48358%$5,190
13American Journal of HematologyWiley · United States
1.65Q14.28 0.13 down from 201686187%$5,450
14Journal of Blood MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.49Q13.49 0.13 up from 201686100%$2,320
15Seminars in Thrombosis and HemostasisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.43Q13.92 0.40 up from 201635436%—
16AnemiaOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.42Q12.43 0.81 down from 201640100%$1,100
17HematologyAmerican Society of Hematology · United States
1.39Q13.20 0.37 up from 2016300100%—
18Current Opinion in HematologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.35Q13.36 0.20 down from 201623141%—
19Bone Marrow TransplantationSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.22Q13.12 0.17 up from 201697331%$4,990
20Transfusion Medicine and HemotherapyOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.16Q22.59 0.46 up from 201616278%$1,670
21TransfusionWiley · United States
1.09Q23.10 0.25 down from 20161,27139%$4,100
22Blood AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United States
1.07Q22.59no 2016 value32100%$3,800—
23Pediatric RheumatologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.06Q22.70 0.58 up from 2016232100%$3,090
24Current Hematologic Malignancy ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.06Q23.07 0.67 up from 201616624%$3,790
25Vox SanguinisWiley · United Kingdom
0.99Q22.55 0.22 up from 201629029%$4,150
26European Journal Of HaematologyWiley · United Kingdom
0.95Q22.47 0.04 up from 201651222%$4,650
27Experimental HematologyElsevier BV · United States
0.94Q22.71 0.19 down from 2016365100%$3,250
28PlateletsOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.90Q22.58 0.38 up from 201633644%$2,970
29Leukemia ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.89Q22.34 0.19 down from 201660911%$3,910
30Best Practice & Research Clinical HaematologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.89Q21.95 0.91 down from 20161256%$3,730
31Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & LeukemiaElsevier BV · United States
0.88Q22.34 0.24 up from 20164405%$3,890
0.87Q21.74 0.24 up from 20164613%$3,700
33BMC HematologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
0.85Q21.91 0.57 up from 201664100%$2,170
34Annals of HematologyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.84Q22.14 0.39 down from 201688921%$4,590
35Expert Review of HematologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.84Q22.07 0.09 down from 201628228%—
36International Journal of HematologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
0.79Q22.31 0.47 up from 201662520%$4,390
0.76Q21.64 0.28 down from 2016199100%$647
38Journal of Clinical ApheresisWiley · United States
0.75Q32.33 0.53 up from 201618413%$3,920
0.69Q31.80 0.20 up from 201639123%$3,880
40HaemophiliaWiley · United Kingdom
0.68Q31.94 0.44 down from 201672229%$4,760
41Leukemia & lymphoma/Leukemia and lymphomaTaylor & Francis · Switzerland
0.67Q31.66 0.15 down from 20161,43726%—
42Cytometry Part B Clinical CytometryWiley · United States
0.65Q32.17 0.25 up from 201626776%$3,800
43Transfusion MedicineWiley · United Kingdom
0.64Q31.75 0.23 up from 201623119%$3,700
44Annals of Laboratory MedicineOASeoul National University · South Korea
0.63Q31.46 0.28 down from 2016375100%—
45Transfusion and Apheresis ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.60Q31.91 0.35 up from 20164157%$3,160
46Pediatric Hematology and OncologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.59Q31.24 0.13 down from 201618521%—
0.59Q31.19 0.11 up from 2016141100%—
48Journal of Pediatric Hematology/OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.57Q31.17 0.18 down from 201662312%—
49Hematology ReportsOAPAGEPress (Italy)
0.56Q31.61 0.45 up from 201670100%$1,930
50Leukemia Research ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.55Q31.10 0.32 down from 201666100%$1,180

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.

28 additional Hematology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
74
Window papers (baseline)
36,578 +9.2% from indicator year 2014
Median OJR
0.75 +4.6% from indicator year 2014
Rising journals (2025)
5

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3743474849484851525557596064697170747880798383848378
Window papers (baseline)15,67617,55418,32119,93120,77322,16023,08623,96825,63827,75631,37032,53533,27032,12533,48434,47635,77236,57837,71739,00440,62943,03745,94847,33747,50247,302
Median OJR0.530.570.5890.5930.6410.6460.6770.6500.6400.6630.620.730.7070.7130.72050.7160.71960.750.740.682940.7110.6820.682870.630.5870.658

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.