Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Emergency Medical Services journal rankings 2018
25 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Emergency Medical Services has 25 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.91. The top three are Human Resources for Health, Operations Research for Health Care, and Health Care Management Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions449
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Occupational Therapy24
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation22
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology12
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
25 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 3.49 0.34 down from 2017 | 260 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
2Operations Research for Health CareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 2.46 0.03 down from 2017 | 89 | 28% | $3,080 | ||
3Health Care Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 2.07 0.10 up from 2017 | 105 | 26% | $2,090 | ||
4Dental TraumatologyWiley · Denmark | 1.36Q1 | 2.33 0.65 up from 2017 | 208 | 23% | $4,330 | ||
5IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.20Q1 | 1.06 0.25 down from 2017 | 36 | — | — | ||
6The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q1 | 1.67 0.28 down from 2017 | 258 | 28% | $3,510 | ||
7Journal of Patient SafetyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.91Q1 | 1.31 0.03 down from 2017 | 302 | 28% | — | ||
8Rural and Remote HealthOADeakin University · Australia | 0.90Q2 | 1.10 0.31 down from 2017 | 243 | 100% | — | ||
9The Journal of Vascular AccessSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.02 0.37 down from 2017 | 480 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
10Prehospital and Disaster MedicineCambridge University Press · United States | 0.76Q2 | 1.06 0.02 down from 2017 | 396 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
11Journal of Infusion NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.74Q2 | 0.87 0.28 down from 2017 | 120 | 15% | — | ||
12Journal of Healthcare Risk ManagementWiley · United States | 0.72Q2 | 0.95 0.01 up from 2017 | 73 | 31% | $3,470 | ||
13Australian Journal of Rural HealthWiley · Australia | 0.70Q2 | 1.02 0.08 up from 2017 | 214 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
14Disaster Medicine and Public Health PreparednessCambridge University Press · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.91 0.18 down from 2017 | 514 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
15International Journal of Risk & Safety in MedicineIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.60Q3 | 1.15 0.11 up from 2017 | 78 | 38% | $3,900 | ||
16American Journal of Disaster MedicineUnited States | 0.54Q3 | 0.56 0.14 down from 2017 | 93 | 4% | — | ||
17Health SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.92 0.28 up from 2017 | 59 | 95% | — | ||
18BMJ Open QualityOABMJ · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.68no 2017 value | 75 | 100% | $1,839 | — | |
19Nursing leadershipLongwoods Publishing · Canada | 0.51Q3 | 0.49 0.07 up from 2017 | 94 | 14% | — | ||
20Safety in HealthBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.41Q4 | 0.73 0.09 up from 2017 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
21Journal of the Association for Vascular AccessAllen Press · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.45 0.12 down from 2017 | 82 | 16% | $2,500 | ||
22IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.47 0.14 up from 2017 | 34 | 9% | — | ||
| 0.31Q4 | 0.42 0.08 up from 2017 | 32 | 100% | $1,500 | |||
24International Journal of Health System and Disaster ManagementMedknow · India | 0.22Q4 | 0.39 0.08 up from 2017 | 67 | — | — | ||
25Emergency Medicine - Open JournalOAOpenventio Publishers · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.18 0.02 up from 2017 | 48 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Emergency Medical Services highlighted.
- General Health Professions449
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Occupational Therapy24
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation22
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology12
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
3 additional Emergency Medical Services journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 25
- Window papers (baseline)
- 22,057 -2.5% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.696 -38.7% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,586 | 6,248 | 6,827 | 7,683 | 8,577 | 9,702 | 11,234 | 13,016 | 14,600 | 16,203 | 17,531 | 19,344 | 20,531 | 21,424 | 22,134 | 22,616 | 22,819 | 22,335 | 22,057 | 21,939 | 22,559 | 24,758 | 26,617 | 26,987 | 25,714 | 26,121 | |
| Median OJR | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.41 | 0.44 | 0.47 | 0.49 | 0.55 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.822 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.92 | 0.99 | 1.11 | 1.14 | 0.88 | 0.74 | 0.696 | 0.816 | 0.819 | 0.66 | 0.698 | 0.71 | 0.83 | 0.76 |
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.