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Journal rankings · indicator year 2017

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Subfield ranking · 2017

Reproductive Medicine journal rankings 2017

50 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Reproductive Medicine has 50 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are Human Reproduction Update, Human Reproduction, and Fertility and Sterility.

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.

50
1% 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.

0.82+0.04 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.

$3,290
Median positive listed APC: $3,290 among 25 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 24 have no known price. All fields: $3,350.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Reproductive Medicine 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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1Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom
4.23Q113.42 1.00 up from 201615989%$4,490
2Human ReproductionOxford University Press · United Kingdom
3.04Q15.48 0.08 down from 20161,02678%$4,630
3Fertility and SterilityElsevier BV · United States
2.36Q14.39 0.33 up from 20161,677100%$4,220
4SpermatogenesisOATaylor & Francis · United States
2.30Q11.00 1.67 down from 201637——
5Reproductive Biology and EndocrinologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.97Q13.82 0.14 up from 2016343100%$3,690
6Current Opinion in Obstetrics & GynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.75Q13.42 0.51 up from 20162357%—
7Molecular Human ReproductionOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.71Q13.80 0.04 up from 201626255%$4,490
8AndrologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.70Q13.40 0.47 up from 201641469%$3,090
9The World Journal of Men s HealthOAKorean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology · South Korea
1.69Q13.27 0.53 up from 201685100%—
10Seminars in Reproductive MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.50Q12.69 0.27 down from 201620227%—
11Reproductive BioMedicine OnlineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.48Q12.98 0.07 up from 201657660%$3,650
12Journal of Assisted Reproduction and GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.46Q13.29 0.75 up from 2016643100%$4,690
13Asian Journal of AndrologyOAMedknow · China
1.23Q12.71 0.67 up from 2016704100%$711
14Journal of Ovarian ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.20Q23.19 0.55 up from 2016298100%$3,290
15Animal Reproduction ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.19Q21.94 0.19 down from 201662819%$3,770
16Reproductive BiologyElsevier BV · Poland
1.15Q21.93 0.34 up from 201611310%$2,750
1.14Q21.89 0.17 down from 2016140100%—
1.10Q21.94 0.35 up from 201693100%—
19Reproductive SciencesSpringer Nature · United States
1.05Q22.32 0.20 up from 201658926%$3,090
20CryobiologyElsevier BV · United States
1.04Q22.15 0.46 down from 201636218%$3,870
21Human FertilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.92Q21.44 0.09 up from 201613419%—
22BioSocietiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
0.91Q21.27 0.12 down from 201612537%$2,990
23Systems Biology in Reproductive MedicineTaylor & Francis · United States
0.89Q21.66 0.19 up from 2016138100%—
0.87Q21.37 0.32 down from 201657522%$4,520
25AndrologiaWiley · Germany
0.83Q21.73 0.25 up from 201648463%$2,700
26Gynecological EndocrinologyOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.81Q31.73 0.09 up from 201671416%—
27Reproductive Biomedicine & Society OnlineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.72Q30.96 0.03 up from 201646100%$1,640
28Gynecologic and Obstetric InvestigationKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.71Q31.28 0.14 up from 201632918%—
29International Journal of Reproductive BioMedicine (IJRM)OAShahid Sadoghi University of Medical Sciences of Yazd · Iran
0.70Q31.46 1.38 up from 2016168100%$260
30Fertility Research and PracticeBioMed Central · United Kingdom
0.66Q31.18 0.63 up from 201633100%$2,490
0.50Q30.84 0.03 up from 2016216100%—
32Current Obstetrics and Gynecology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.48Q31.02 0.26 up from 201611012%$4,490
0.46Q30.88 0.06 up from 201675100%$1,850
0.45Q30.54 0.14 up from 20168010%—
35JBRABrazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction · Brazil
0.41Q30.92 0.70 up from 2016114100%—
36Middle East Fertility Society JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt
0.38Q30.56 0.16 up from 2016140100%$0 listed
0.35Q30.65 0.10 up from 20168915%$4,150
0.35Q30.69 0.18 up from 2016450——
39Advances in Reproductive SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States
0.26Q40.50 0.15 up from 201635100%—
0.26Q40.44 0.02 down from 201680100%—
41Andrology & Gynecology Current ResearchOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.26Q40.50 0.24 up from 2016428%—
42Andrology-Open AccessOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.21Q40.32 0.24 down from 201667100%—
0.19Q40.38 0.30 down from 201651——
0.12Q40.33 0.06 up from 20168013%$2,500
45IVF LiteMedknow · India
0.12Q40.15 0.13 down from 201651——
0.12Q40.18 0.26 down from 20161000%—
47Gynecology & ObstetricsOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.10Q40.18 0.06 down from 20163412%—
0.07Q40.11 0.11 up from 201636100%—
49Indian Journal of Gynecologic OncologySpringer Science+Business Media · India
0.03Q40.08 0.05 up from 2016863%$2,990
0.02Q40.04 0.04 up from 20167452%—

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.

15 additional Reproductive 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

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

Ranked journals
50
Window papers (baseline)
29,324 +12.7% from indicator year 2014
Median OJR
0.82 -1.5% from indicator year 2014
Rising journals (2025)
2

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 journals1920222225252731323136363740434546505050484954565253
Window papers (baseline)12,08513,37914,42615,32715,56716,16817,31118,82420,01821,75723,57024,84625,04425,01226,01027,27928,54629,32429,77630,28031,29933,12935,07836,10636,66437,232
Median OJR0.7220.7200.710.640.620.700.760.8030.8780.930.8770.960.940.890.830.8660.780.820.8720.920.970.9140.9090.860.80110.8009

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.