Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal rankings 2017
270 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health has 270 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are BMC Medicine, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Advances in Nutrition.
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 Medicine (42)
- 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
270 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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1BMC MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 9.74 1.13 up from 2016 | 762 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
2International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 8.19 1.64 up from 2016 | 454 | 100% | $3,177 | ||
3Advances in NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 7.56 0.97 up from 2016 | 290 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
4Interactive Journal of Medical ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 3.02Q1 | 4.11 0.67 up from 2016 | 62 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
5Obesity ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 10.53 0.26 up from 2016 | 305 | 39% | $5,450 | ||
6Academic MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.70Q1 | 3.70 0.43 down from 2016 | 1,066 | 25% | — | ||
7The Ocular SurfaceElsevier BV · United States | 2.63Q1 | 6.14 2.35 up from 2016 | 119 | 39% | $5,330 | ||
8Substance Abuse and RehabilitationOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.43Q1 | 4.23 0.45 down from 2016 | 44 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
9PLoS neglected tropical diseasesOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 2.40Q1 | 5.44 0.25 up from 2016 | 2,467 | 100% | $2,670 | ||
10Nutrition JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 4.87 0.79 up from 2016 | 343 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
11International Journal of Telemedicine and ApplicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 3.36 0.97 up from 2016 | 41 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
12BMC Medical EducationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.78 0.13 up from 2016 | 840 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
13Archives of Women s Mental HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.95Q1 | 2.95 0.18 down from 2016 | 287 | 45% | $3,990 | ||
14Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.95Q1 | 2.82 0.36 up from 2016 | 137 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
15British Journal Of NutritionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 3.83 0.09 down from 2016 | 1,422 | 95% | $3,550 | ||
16Clinics in Geriatric MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 3.01 0.11 down from 2016 | 160 | 29% | $3,250 | ||
17BMC Medical EthicsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 3.22 0.43 up from 2016 | 251 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
18Drug and Alcohol DependenceElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.91Q1 | 4.28 0.21 up from 2016 | 1,240 | 31% | $4,380 | ||
19Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and DieteticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 3.56 0.29 up from 2016 | 625 | 17% | $3,740 | ||
20Revista de Saúde PúblicaOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.90Q1 | 3.07 0.31 up from 2016 | 319 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
21Palliative MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 3.84 0.21 down from 2016 | 329 | 59% | $4,400 | ||
22Childhood ObesityMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.80Q1 | 3.23 0.38 up from 2016 | 222 | 55% | — | ||
23Injury PreventionBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.03 0.51 up from 2016 | 295 | 31% | — | ||
24Journal of ObesityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.30 0.13 down from 2016 | 163 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
25BMJ Global HealthOABMJ · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 2.64no 2016 value | 86 | 100% | $3,679 | — | |
26ReproductionBioscientifica · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 3.30 0.38 down from 2016 | 480 | 86% | — | ||
27Annals of Global HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.66 0.20 up from 2016 | 188 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
28Medical EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.88 0.03 down from 2016 | 683 | 20% | $5,250 | ||
29Advances in Health Sciences EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 2.74 0.15 up from 2016 | 251 | 62% | $3,290 | ||
30BMC Palliative CareOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.53 0.90 up from 2016 | 230 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
31Contemporary Clinical TrialsElsevier BV · United States | 1.71Q1 | 3.27 0.55 up from 2016 | 516 | 65% | $3,140 | ||
32Pediatric ObesityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.90 0.23 down from 2016 | 266 | 51% | $4,880 | ||
33Life Sciences Society and PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.70Q1 | 2.72 0.33 up from 2016 | 42 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
34Infectious Diseases of PovertyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.44 1.05 down from 2016 | 214 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
35Current Opinion in PediatricsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.67Q1 | 3.36 0.49 up from 2016 | 327 | 25% | — | ||
36Telemedicine Journal and e-HealthMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.87 0.18 up from 2016 | 446 | 22% | — | ||
37Journal of Substance Abuse TreatmentElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.87 0.12 down from 2016 | 371 | 62% | $3,340 | ||
38Annals of EpidemiologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.87 0.31 down from 2016 | 438 | 22% | $3,820 | ||
39One HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 3.36 0.03 down from 2016 | 39 | 100% | $3,080 | ||
40Malaria JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 3.44 0.05 down from 2016 | 1,638 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
41BMC Women s HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.90 0.26 up from 2016 | 350 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
42Journal of Women s HealthMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.78 0.22 up from 2016 | 441 | 51% | — | ||
43European Journal of NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.60Q1 | 3.71 0.52 up from 2016 | 632 | 39% | $2,890 | ||
44Medical Education OnlineOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.60Q1 | 2.16 0.54 up from 2016 | 231 | 100% | $2,189 | ||
45Journal of Pain and Symptom ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.16 0.40 up from 2016 | 690 | 100% | $4,760 | ||
46EcoHealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.38 0.17 down from 2016 | 236 | 40% | $3,790 | ||
47Biology of ReproductionOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 3.20 0.26 down from 2016 | 852 | 54% | $4,605 | ||
48Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health careElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 1.68 0.68 down from 2016 | 117 | 3% | $3,510 | ||
49Medical TeacherTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.31 0.45 up from 2016 | 703 | 26% | — | ||
50Teaching and Learning in MedicineTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.28 0.48 up from 2016 | 179 | 15% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health highlighted.
- 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.
108 additional Public Health, Environmental and Occupational 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
- 270
- Window papers (baseline)
- 172,532 +19.0% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.810 -3.4% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
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 | 113 | 118 | 125 | 128 | 137 | 145 | 154 | 163 | 173 | 180 | 184 | 192 | 213 | 227 | 244 | 252 | 256 | 270 | 289 | 299 | 301 | 303 | 310 | 313 | 316 | 311 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 45,485 | 51,457 | 56,588 | 61,745 | 66,349 | 73,948 | 81,670 | 89,534 | 96,332 | 104,749 | 115,108 | 127,177 | 134,355 | 139,830 | 144,930 | 155,079 | 163,320 | 172,532 | 179,525 | 187,104 | 193,221 | 205,612 | 217,218 | 220,811 | 216,889 | 216,291 | |
| Median OJR | 0.54 | 0.56 | 0.64 | 0.718 | 0.722 | 0.74 | 0.80 | 0.900 | 0.859 | 0.8525 | 0.92 | 0.93 | 0.862 | 0.897 | 0.84 | 0.874 | 0.8522 | 0.810 | 0.785 | 0.83 | 0.872 | 0.781 | 0.806 | 0.778 | 0.82 | 0.79 |
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.