Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Domain ranking · 2018
Health Sciences journal rankings 2018
5,239 ranked journals · Domain
Health Sciences has 5,239 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.71, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, MMWR Surveillance Summaries, and New England Journal of Medicine.
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.
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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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 87.61Q1 | 240.26 21.50 down from 2017 | 83 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2MMWR Surveillance SummariesOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 26.05Q1 | 47.39 9.24 down from 2017 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
3New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 15.99Q1 | 28.48 6.87 down from 2017 | 2,913 | 34% | — | ||
4Integrative Medicine InternationalOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 12.41Q1 | 0.58 25.32 down from 2017 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
5Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 11.21Q1 | 19.82 4.81 down from 2017 | 114 | 95% | — | ||
6The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.60Q1 | 21.22 3.12 up from 2017 | 3,207 | 47% | $7,890 | ||
7Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 8.67Q1 | 21.22 1.43 down from 2017 | 788 | 56% | $12,690 | ||
8European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.61Q1 | 20.65 0.54 up from 2017 | 1,113 | 28% | $5,922 | ||
9Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.44Q1 | 12.30 1.08 down from 2017 | 88 | 89% | $3,750 | ||
10The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.33Q1 | 18.71 0.52 up from 2017 | 1,158 | 28% | $7,280 | ||
11Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.57Q1 | 15.91 0.43 down from 2017 | 1,933 | 4% | — | ||
12Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.56Q1 | 7.40 2.06 up from 2017 | 131 | 41% | — | ||
13The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.56Q1 | 13.94 0.74 down from 2017 | 605 | 58% | $7,280 | ||
14Obesity FactsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 6.22Q1 | 13.40 5.09 up from 2017 | 137 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
15Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.15Q1 | 17.16 1.21 up from 2017 | 389 | 81% | $4,990 | ||
16CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.05Q1 | 13.39 1.97 up from 2017 | 2,119 | 19% | — | ||
17PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 6.05Q1 | 11.32 0.33 down from 2017 | 653 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
18Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.03Q1 | 12.90 0.51 down from 2017 | 122 | 65% | $6,710 | ||
19Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 6.00Q1 | 17.31 1.19 up from 2017 | 551 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
20MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 5.84Q1 | 11.31 1.61 down from 2017 | 837 | 99% | — | ||
21Breast CareKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 5.77Q1 | 21.84 1.43 down from 2017 | 222 | 81% | — | ||
22Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom | 5.77Q1 | 9.22 1.03 up from 2017 | 127 | 27% | $4,430 | ||
23Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 5.15Q1 | 11.86 1.40 up from 2017 | 2,236 | 100% | $7,166 | ||
24European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 5.06Q1 | 11.77 0.07 down from 2017 | 965 | 22% | $5,250 | ||
25Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 4.96Q1 | 12.22 2.08 up from 2017 | 1,214 | 58% | — | ||
26Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 4.92Q1 | 9.57 2.82 down from 2017 | 213 | 37% | — | ||
27Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 11.94 5.46 up from 2017 | 364 | 61% | $4,170 | ||
28The Lancet Diabetes & EndocrinologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.75Q1 | 10.83 2.34 up from 2017 | 570 | 52% | $7,280 | ||
29The Interpreter and Translator TrainerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 2.62 1.31 up from 2017 | 68 | 35% | — | ||
30The Ocular SurfaceElsevier BV · United States | 4.68Q1 | 11.34 5.20 up from 2017 | 148 | 32% | $5,330 | ||
31Nature Reviews Disease PrimersNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 35.37 16.16 up from 2017 | 147 | 24% | — | ||
32JMIR mhealth and uhealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 4.67Q1 | 7.99 0.02 up from 2017 | 425 | 100% | $2,850 | ||
33Kidney & Blood Pressure ResearchOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.65Q1 | 14.26 10.93 up from 2017 | 283 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
34GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 10.77 0.68 down from 2017 | 894 | 50% | — | ||
35Journal of HepatologyElsevier BV · Denmark | 4.57Q1 | 12.60 0.56 up from 2017 | 1,140 | 12% | $5,500 | ||
36Alzheimer s & DementiaWiley · United States | 4.49Q1 | 10.78 0.06 up from 2017 | 463 | 8% | $4,200 | ||
37Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive DisordersKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.48Q1 | 6.17 3.64 down from 2017 | 185 | 33% | — | ||
38Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 13.47 0.05 up from 2017 | 141 | 71% | $4,490 | ||
39Health Promotion PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.37Q1 | 1.28 6.17 down from 2017 | 317 | 30% | $4,150 | ||
40The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.28Q1 | 10.39 0.04 down from 2017 | 1,101 | 51% | $7,280 | ||
41American Journal of NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.21Q1 | 12.57 9.60 up from 2017 | 394 | 42% | — | ||
42The Lancet Respiratory MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.16Q1 | 9.55 0.05 up from 2017 | 543 | 52% | $7,280 | ||
43NeonatologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.12Q1 | 10.24 7.24 up from 2017 | 338 | 18% | — | ||
44Skin Pharmacology and PhysiologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.12Q1 | 10.50 1.13 down from 2017 | 108 | 29% | — | ||
45AutophagyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.10Q1 | 9.84 0.54 down from 2017 | 483 | 100% | — | ||
46Annals of Internal MedicineAmerican College of Physicians · United States | 4.05Q1 | 7.40 0.59 down from 2017 | 1,297 | 11% | — | ||
47IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.01Q1 | 9.48 1.43 up from 2017 | 674 | 60% | $2,645 | ||
48GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.95Q1 | 8.91 0.86 down from 2017 | 1,708 | 11% | $4,180 | ||
49JAMA OncologyAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.92Q1 | 9.37 1.02 up from 2017 | 1,097 | 53% | — | ||
50Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.92Q1 | 6.05 0.26 down from 2017 | 940 | 57% | — |
Fields of Health Sciences, compared.
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.
1,540 additional Health Sciences 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
- 5,239
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,649,222 +8.7% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.71 -4.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 464
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 2,007 | 2,150 | 2,285 | 2,374 | 2,486 | 2,626 | 2,757 | 2,922 | 3,062 | 3,193 | 3,364 | 3,591 | 3,809 | 4,129 | 4,361 | 4,544 | 4,757 | 4,979 | 5,239 | 5,390 | 5,462 | 5,563 | 5,606 | 5,618 | 5,549 | 5,406 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 813,419 | 909,304 | 974,228 | 1,051,248 | 1,094,845 | 1,200,886 | 1,317,521 | 1,455,690 | 1,577,275 | 1,733,757 | 1,887,930 | 2,035,231 | 2,126,669 | 2,204,628 | 2,320,572 | 2,437,477 | 2,534,543 | 2,585,157 | 2,649,222 | 2,728,712 | 2,846,138 | 3,078,764 | 3,332,730 | 3,490,788 | 3,507,496 | 3,550,948 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.6778 | 0.70 | 0.726 | 0.748 | 0.767 | 0.773 | 0.78 | 0.741 | 0.76 | 0.750 | 0.737 | 0.727 | 0.71 | 0.725 | 0.735 | 0.680 | 0.67 | 0.6776 | 0.681 | 0.69 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.3% | 4,151 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.372 per 1,000 | 4,101 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.3% | 5,009 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 5,406 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 2,959 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.2% | 5,241 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.70 | 5,372 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.2% | 5,398 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.