Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine journal rankings 2017
324 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine has 324 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are European Urology, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and Cochrane Database of Systematic 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 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
324 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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1European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 4.89Q1 | 11.84 0.95 up from 2016 | 1,060 | 17% | $5,250 | ||
2The Lancet Respiratory MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.28Q1 | 9.50 0.24 up from 2016 | 553 | 46% | $7,280 | ||
3Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.87 0.15 down from 2016 | 3,662 | 99% | $5,100 | ||
4American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 3.10Q1 | 7.33 0.48 up from 2016 | 1,669 | 44% | — | ||
5Journal of Thoracic OncologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.06Q1 | 7.95 2.00 up from 2016 | 987 | 100% | $4,100 | ||
6Seminars in PerinatologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.04Q1 | 4.38 0.18 up from 2016 | 229 | 15% | $4,370 | ||
7Modern PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.96Q1 | 7.46 1.10 up from 2016 | 431 | 99% | $4,480 | ||
8Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 4.57 0.60 up from 2016 | 163 | 25% | $4,590 | ||
9Therapeutic Advances in Chronic DiseaseOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 5.78 0.62 up from 2016 | 69 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
10European Respiratory JournalEuropean Respiratory Society | 2.58Q1 | 6.60 0.67 up from 2016 | 1,482 | 89% | — | ||
11DrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 2.56Q1 | 5.81 0.24 down from 2016 | 472 | 26% | $5,990 | ||
12Annals of Intensive CareOASpringer Nature · France | 2.49Q1 | 5.11 0.01 down from 2016 | 215 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
13European Respiratory ReviewOAEuropean Respiratory Society · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 5.58 0.79 up from 2016 | 195 | 100% | — | ||
14Clinics in Chest MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.32 0.06 down from 2016 | 183 | 19% | $3,350 | ||
15ThoraxBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 5.02 0.13 up from 2016 | 853 | 95% | — | ||
16Intensive Care MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.18Q1 | 5.08 0.29 up from 2016 | 1,235 | 48% | $5,190 | ||
17The Journal of UrologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.17Q1 | 4.50 0.26 up from 2016 | 1,802 | 24% | $3,000 | ||
18Respiratory ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 4.42 0.24 down from 2016 | 467 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
19Gastric CancerSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.97Q1 | 4.95 0.74 up from 2016 | 344 | 95% | $3,590 | ||
20Current Opinion in Critical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.93Q1 | 3.89 0.37 down from 2016 | 263 | 24% | — | ||
21International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.55 0.32 up from 2016 | 1,672 | 51% | $4,130 | ||
22Therapeutic Advances in UrologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 3.91 0.71 up from 2016 | 92 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
23CHEST JournalElsevier BV · United States | 1.90Q1 | 3.94 0.42 up from 2016 | 2,050 | 24% | $4,160 | ||
24Lung CancerElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 4.90 0.31 up from 2016 | 750 | 14% | $3,390 | ||
25Radiotherapy and OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 4.65 0.12 up from 2016 | 1,078 | 83% | $3,770 | ||
26Annals of the American Thoracic SocietyAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 1.85Q1 | 3.61 0.13 down from 2016 | 1,042 | 36% | — | ||
27Annals of Cardiothoracic SurgeryOAAME Publishing Company · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.83Q1 | 3.37 3.37 up from 2016 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
28Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 1.81Q1 | 4.15 0.42 up from 2016 | 237 | 24% | — | ||
29British Journal of UrologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 3.72 0.15 up from 2016 | 996 | 31% | $4,770 | ||
30Urologic Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.75Q1 | 3.29 0.27 up from 2016 | 151 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
31American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular PhysiologyAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.74Q1 | 4.35 0.49 down from 2016 | 681 | 77% | — | ||
32Critical CareOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 5.04 1.72 up from 2016 | 2,101 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
33Fibrogenesis & Tissue RepairBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.70 1.55 down from 2016 | 40 | — | — | ||
34Occupational and Environmental MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.15 0.12 down from 2016 | 473 | 57% | — | ||
35Clinical Sarcoma ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 4.20 1.32 up from 2016 | 62 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
36Prostate Cancer and Prostatic DiseasesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 4.86 0.56 up from 2016 | 179 | 43% | $5,190 | ||
37Respiratory MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 3.68 0.15 down from 2016 | 634 | 86% | $3,630 | ||
38World Journal of Critical Care MedicineOAUnited States | 1.68Q1 | 3.93 0.53 up from 2016 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
39European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic SurgeryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.12 0.62 down from 2016 | 1,312 | 75% | $3,699 | ||
40Gastrointestinal EndoscopyElsevier BV · United States | 1.67Q1 | 4.46 0.23 up from 2016 | 1,191 | 9% | $3,450 | ||
41Drugs in ContextOABioExcel Publishing Ltd · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 3.37 0.76 down from 2016 | 43 | 100% | $1,901 | ||
42International Journal of COPDOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.61Q1 | 3.63 0.40 down from 2016 | 746 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
43Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug DeliveryMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.61Q1 | 3.66 0.92 up from 2016 | 145 | 34% | — | ||
44Advances in TherapyAdis, Springer Healthcare · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.47 0.26 down from 2016 | 352 | 73% | $4,790 | ||
45Journal of Vascular SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q1 | 3.35 0.11 down from 2016 | 1,476 | 100% | $4,010 | ||
46Frontiers in MedicineOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.55Q1 | 3.93 0.46 up from 2016 | 208 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
47American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular BiologyAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 1.55Q1 | 3.75 0.07 up from 2016 | 502 | 74% | — | ||
48BMC Pulmonary MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 3.42 0.12 up from 2016 | 545 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
49Medical Devices Evidence and ResearchOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.54Q1 | 2.74 0.01 up from 2016 | 159 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
50BMJ Open Respiratory ResearchOABMJ · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 3.02 0.22 down from 2016 | 99 | 100% | $2,085 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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.
122 additional Pulmonary and Respiratory 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
- 324
- Window papers (baseline)
- 158,971 +8.6% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.6662 -11.3% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
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 | 116 | 128 | 133 | 140 | 152 | 172 | 181 | 194 | 199 | 212 | 221 | 236 | 245 | 266 | 283 | 297 | 315 | 324 | 349 | 347 | 353 | 362 | 367 | 367 | 364 | 352 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 51,191 | 58,101 | 61,730 | 66,053 | 67,282 | 74,504 | 82,746 | 93,558 | 102,120 | 113,728 | 123,057 | 131,093 | 135,018 | 138,763 | 146,389 | 152,077 | 157,160 | 158,971 | 164,168 | 168,770 | 175,931 | 189,625 | 206,647 | 218,275 | 218,995 | 219,470 | |
| Median OJR | 0.56 | 0.57 | 0.55 | 0.628 | 0.671 | 0.663 | 0.713 | 0.664 | 0.693 | 0.70 | 0.767 | 0.80 | 0.84 | 0.768 | 0.75 | 0.731 | 0.689 | 0.6662 | 0.68 | 0.710 | 0.730 | 0.6663 | 0.665 | 0.687 | 0.64 | 0.633 |
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.