Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Medicine journal rankings 2017
4,122 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Medicine has 4,122 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Microbiology Reviews.
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 Medicine (42)
Up to Health Sciences- Surgery852
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine324
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health270
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine266
- Oncology213
- Infectious Diseases198
- Epidemiology185
- Neurology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism156
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging144
- Physiology143
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine107
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health97
- Ophthalmology87
- Dermatology83
- Hematology74
- Obstetrics and Gynecology68
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology58
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Complementary and alternative medicine47
- Pharmacology46
- Emergency Medicine38
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology23
- Genetics21
- Immunology and Allergy20
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
4,122 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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 82.50Q1 | 261.76 75.78 up from 2016 | 79 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 17.13Q1 | 35.35 0.20 down from 2016 | 2,778 | 35% | — | ||
3Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.72Q1 | 24.63 2.60 down from 2016 | 115 | 89% | — | ||
4Integrative Medicine InternationalOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 9.37Q1 | 25.90 8.50 up from 2016 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
5European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.89Q1 | 20.11 1.38 up from 2016 | 1,090 | 36% | $5,922 | ||
6Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 7.70Q1 | 22.65 5.17 up from 2016 | 912 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
7Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.62Q1 | 13.38 3.23 down from 2016 | 85 | 86% | $3,750 | ||
8The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.43Q1 | 18.19 0.12 up from 2016 | 1,158 | 31% | $7,280 | ||
9MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 7.36Q1 | 12.92 2.18 up from 2016 | 537 | 100% | — | ||
10The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.82Q1 | 14.68 0.98 down from 2016 | 612 | 50% | $7,280 | ||
11Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.42Q1 | 16.33 1.65 up from 2016 | 2,083 | 5% | — | ||
12Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 6.26Q1 | 16.12 3.52 down from 2016 | 578 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
13CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.07Q1 | 11.43 1.64 down from 2016 | 2,117 | 15% | — | ||
14Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.67Q1 | 15.96 3.97 up from 2016 | 396 | 65% | $4,990 | ||
15Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.63Q1 | 13.42 0.69 up from 2016 | 112 | 56% | $6,710 | ||
16Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 5.55Q1 | 10.47 2.15 down from 2016 | 2,090 | 100% | $7,166 | ||
17Breast CareKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 5.42Q1 | 23.27 21.73 up from 2016 | 213 | 91% | — | ||
18PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 5.38Q1 | 11.65 0.41 up from 2016 | 579 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
19Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 5.08Q1 | 12.39 1.63 up from 2016 | 237 | 18% | — | ||
20European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 4.89Q1 | 11.84 0.95 up from 2016 | 1,060 | 17% | $5,250 | ||
21GerontologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.65Q1 | 14.45 6.74 down from 2016 | 220 | 47% | — | ||
22Alzheimer s & DementiaWiley · United States | 4.63Q1 | 10.72 1.16 up from 2016 | 492 | 32% | $4,200 | ||
23Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 4.61Q1 | 10.14 0.18 up from 2016 | 1,401 | 53% | — | ||
24AutophagyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.46Q1 | 10.38 1.92 up from 2016 | 483 | 96% | — | ||
25The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.37Q1 | 10.43 0.40 up from 2016 | 1,018 | 53% | $7,280 | ||
26The Lancet Diabetes & EndocrinologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.33Q1 | 8.49 0.81 down from 2016 | 567 | 46% | $7,280 | ||
27The Lancet Respiratory MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.28Q1 | 9.50 0.24 up from 2016 | 553 | 46% | $7,280 | ||
28Virus EvolutionOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 9.16 0.58 up from 2016 | 57 | 100% | $3,304 | ||
29Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 13.42 1.00 up from 2016 | 159 | 89% | $4,490 | ||
30GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.17Q1 | 9.77 0.49 up from 2016 | 1,530 | 11% | $4,180 | ||
31The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.16Q1 | 7.28 0.17 up from 2016 | 1,162 | 15% | $4,400 | ||
32Skin Pharmacology and PhysiologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.06Q1 | 11.63 8.24 up from 2016 | 101 | 24% | — | ||
33Journal of HepatologyElsevier BV · Denmark | 4.04Q1 | 12.05 2.56 up from 2016 | 1,226 | 10% | $5,500 | ||
34Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 3.99Q1 | 9.76 0.39 up from 2016 | 630 | 48% | $4,700 | ||
35Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 8.78 0.36 up from 2016 | 1,149 | 87% | $4,870 | ||
36OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.97Q1 | 7.11 0.11 down from 2016 | 1,113 | 50% | $4,990 | ||
37Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 3.96Q1 | 7.99 0.14 down from 2016 | 1,268 | 12% | — | ||
38The Lancet Global HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.86Q1 | 6.18 0.16 down from 2016 | 650 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
39Annals of OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 10.37 0.18 up from 2016 | 1,376 | 100% | $5,080 | ||
40Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.87 0.15 down from 2016 | 3,662 | 99% | $5,100 | ||
41BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 9.21 0.90 up from 2016 | 1,075 | 83% | $5,570 | ||
42JAMA OncologyAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.73Q1 | 8.35 0.21 up from 2016 | 778 | 52% | — | ||
43Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.72Q1 | 6.32 0.38 up from 2016 | 862 | 45% | — | ||
44GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 11.45 3.36 up from 2016 | 1,074 | 56% | — | ||
45Autoimmunity ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 8.96 1.36 down from 2016 | 454 | 34% | $4,730 | ||
46IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.58Q1 | 8.04 3.06 up from 2016 | 671 | 37% | $2,645 | ||
47EurosurveillanceOAEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · Sweden | 3.54Q1 | 7.87 1.02 down from 2016 | 676 | 100% | — | ||
48Alcohol researchOANational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · United States | 3.53Q1 | 8.00 4.03 up from 2016 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
49Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 6.48 0.97 up from 2016 | 359 | 63% | $4,170 | ||
50BMC MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 9.74 1.13 up from 2016 | 762 | 100% | $4,190 |
Subfields of Medicine, compared.
- Surgery852
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine324
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health270
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine266
- Oncology213
- Infectious Diseases198
- Epidemiology185
- Neurology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism156
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging144
- Physiology143
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine107
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health97
- Ophthalmology87
- Dermatology83
- Hematology74
- Obstetrics and Gynecology68
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology58
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Complementary and alternative medicine47
- Pharmacology46
- Emergency Medicine38
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology23
- Genetics21
- Immunology and Allergy20
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
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.
1,459 additional Medicine 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
- 4,122
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,185,378 +10.2% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.717 -4.3% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 404Comparison-group list (404)
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 | 1,634 | 1,746 | 1,853 | 1,933 | 2,023 | 2,148 | 2,258 | 2,390 | 2,497 | 2,616 | 2,755 | 2,949 | 3,131 | 3,412 | 3,611 | 3,760 | 3,936 | 4,122 | 4,350 | 4,487 | 4,543 | 4,639 | 4,671 | 4,692 | 4,640 | 4,521 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 709,310 | 795,253 | 851,873 | 918,177 | 953,693 | 1,044,918 | 1,146,485 | 1,266,791 | 1,370,140 | 1,505,784 | 1,634,063 | 1,757,108 | 1,828,247 | 1,889,231 | 1,983,210 | 2,073,801 | 2,149,396 | 2,185,378 | 2,236,129 | 2,298,903 | 2,395,179 | 2,590,856 | 2,809,142 | 2,949,143 | 2,961,797 | 2,982,923 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.704 | 0.724 | 0.739 | 0.756 | 0.748 | 0.760 | 0.730 | 0.749 | 0.741 | 0.725 | 0.717 | 0.701 | 0.702 | 0.715 | 0.663 | 0.655 | 0.661 | 0.660 | 0.67 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.2% | 3,512 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.465 per 1,000 | 3,472 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.9% | 4,166 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 4,521 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,046 | 2,526 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.0% | 4,393 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.8% | 4,521 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.69 | 4,492 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.6% | 4,521 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.3% | 4,514 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.