Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Health journal rankings 2018
52 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 52 ranked journals in 2018. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.11 against 1.00, up 0.05 on 2017. A journal needs OJR 1.79 to reach Q1. The top three are Psychology of Violence, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science & 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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
52 ranked journals
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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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1Psychology of ViolenceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.02 0.44 up from 2017 | 190 | 32% | — | ||
2Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.94Q1 | 3.28 0.89 down from 2017 | 107 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
3Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 4.01 0.14 up from 2017 | 1,639 | 49% | $3,800 | ||
4Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.43Q1 | 1.92 0.77 up from 2017 | 34 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
5Injury EpidemiologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 2.29Q1 | 3.48 0.94 up from 2017 | 96 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
6Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.81 0.09 up from 2017 | 555 | 62% | — | ||
7Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.09Q1 | 2.75 0.32 up from 2017 | 252 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
8Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.07Q1 | 3.66 0.39 up from 2017 | 276 | 64% | $4,790 | ||
9European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.06Q1 | 2.53 0.64 up from 2017 | 115 | 98% | $3,190 | ||
10Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.09 0.21 up from 2017 | 293 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
11SSM - Population HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.60 0.93 up from 2017 | 225 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
12Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 1.99 0.23 up from 2017 | 119 | 28% | $4,150 | ||
13Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.79Q1 | 2.61 0.59 up from 2017 | 82 | 30% | — | ||
14Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 1.68Q2 | 2.78 1.18 up from 2017 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
15Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at RiskChildren at Risk · United States | 1.64Q2 | 0.34 0.74 down from 2017 | 67 | 78% | — | ||
16Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.53Q2 | 1.61 0.24 up from 2017 | 208 | 18% | — | ||
17Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.96 0.29 up from 2017 | 136 | 16% | — | ||
18Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 1.48 0.21 down from 2017 | 1,043 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
19The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.42Q2 | 1.42 0.28 up from 2017 | 154 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
20Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.41Q2 | 1.79 0.12 down from 2017 | 281 | 49% | $4,400 | ||
21Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.39Q2 | 1.73 0.17 up from 2017 | 278 | 29% | $4,090 | ||
22Spirituality in Clinical PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.32Q2 | 1.79 0.44 up from 2017 | 94 | 8% | — | ||
23International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 1.26Q2 | 1.54 0.07 down from 2017 | 44 | 43% | — | ||
24Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.14 0.28 up from 2017 | 875 | 27% | $3,130 | ||
25Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 1.21Q2 | 2.11 0.05 up from 2017 | 423 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
26Partner AbuseSpringer Nature · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.27 0.14 down from 2017 | 64 | 17% | — | ||
27Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.06Q3 | 2.80 0.24 up from 2017 | 1,113 | 100% | $3,175 | ||
28Journal of Muslim Mental HealthOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 0.97Q3 | 0.81 0.05 down from 2017 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.95Q3 | 1.45 0.32 up from 2017 | 542 | 20% | $3,290 | ||
30Health Promotion PerspectivesOATabriz University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 0.90Q3 | 1.57 0.12 up from 2017 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
31Violence and GenderMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.78Q3 | 1.05 0.15 up from 2017 | 86 | 20% | — | ||
32Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q3 | 0.87 0.21 up from 2017 | 73 | 24% | — | ||
33Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 1.06 0.87 down from 2017 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
34Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.76 0.01 up from 2017 | 249 | 14% | — | ||
35International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 0.55 0.04 up from 2017 | 74 | 18% | — | ||
36Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.67 0.37 up from 2017 | 69 | 31% | — | ||
37Global Social WelfareSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.52Q3 | 0.41 0.15 down from 2017 | 80 | 52% | $2,290 | ||
38Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.51Q3 | 0.66 0.26 up from 2017 | 154 | 11% | $3,090 | ||
39Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 0.67 0.05 up from 2017 | 82 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
40Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 0.47Q4 | 0.72no 2017 value | 131 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.43Q4 | 0.70 0.26 down from 2017 | 69 | 19% | — | ||
42Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.42Q4 | 0.63 0.19 down from 2017 | 48 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
43Journal for the Study of SpiritualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.41Q4 | 0.70 0.39 up from 2017 | 55 | 27% | — | ||
44Journal of the Egyptian Public Health AssociationOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · Egypt | 0.39Q4 | 0.49 0.29 down from 2017 | 96 | — | $2,290 | ||
45Current Trauma ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.38Q4 | 0.54 0.16 up from 2017 | 106 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
46The Journal of psychology and ChristianityChristian Association for Psychological Studies · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.12 0.47 down from 2017 | 80 | 0% | — | ||
47Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.34Q4 | 0.31 0.01 up from 2017 | 132 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
48Journal of Social InclusionOAGriffith University · Australia | 0.34Q4 | 0.57 0.33 up from 2017 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
49BMC ProceedingsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.92 0.44 up from 2017 | 246 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
50Journal of Christian NursingPublisher not listed | 0.14Q4 | 0.15 0.07 down from 2017 | 309 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,315
- Education714
- Political Science and International Relations321
- Communication74
- Gender Studies61
- Health52
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration50
- Urban Studies49
- Law47
- Linguistics and Language47
- Transportation47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development29
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
12 additional Health 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
- 52
- Window papers (baseline)
- 31,138 +23.6% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.111 +4.2% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.