Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Nursing journal rankings 2018
64 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Nursing has 64 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2017 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.50. The top three are Nutrition Research Reviews, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Food Security.
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 in Nursing (4)
Up to Health Sciences64 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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1Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 5.85 1.22 up from 2017 | 66 | 96% | $3,550 | ||
2American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.96Q1 | 7.09 0.31 up from 2017 | 1,121 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
3Food SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 2.63 0.81 down from 2017 | 307 | 49% | $2,790 | ||
4Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.47Q1 | 5.40 0.08 up from 2017 | 907 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
5Frontiers in NutritionOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.21Q1 | 5.05 1.32 up from 2017 | 156 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
6Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 2.10Q1 | 2.37 3.70 down from 2017 | 364 | 51% | — | ||
7Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.05Q1 | 4.33 0.46 down from 2017 | 244 | 25% | — | ||
8Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 1.97 0.10 up from 2017 | 217 | 4% | $3,500 | ||
9Nursing Research and PracticeOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 1.70 0.13 up from 2017 | 76 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
10Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.04 0.38 up from 2017 | 839 | 31% | $4,010 | ||
11MetallomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 3.91 0.27 down from 2017 | 402 | 29% | $2,653 | ||
12Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.17 0.07 down from 2017 | 409 | 31% | $3,970 | ||
13Journal of Health Population and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 2.65 0.01 up from 2017 | 125 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
14Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.56Q1 | 4.08 0.54 up from 2017 | 433 | 29% | $4,110 | ||
15Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 3.51 0.22 up from 2017 | 375 | 22% | $3,700 | ||
16Journal of Nutritional ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.89 0.02 down from 2017 | 151 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
17Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.50Q2 | 2.69 0.28 down from 2017 | 574 | 27% | $3,930 | ||
18Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary FibreElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.20 1.17 down from 2017 | 79 | 8% | $3,340 | ||
19Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 3.50 0.16 up from 2017 | 373 | 91% | $4,130 | ||
20Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.64 0.17 down from 2017 | 101 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
21Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 1.37Q2 | 2.83 0.14 up from 2017 | 313 | 23% | $3,570 | ||
22Nutrition and Metabolic InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.37Q2 | 3.10 0.40 up from 2017 | 31 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
23International Journal of Nursing Education ScholarshipDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.37Q2 | 1.25 0.54 down from 2017 | 52 | 15% | $2,712 | ||
24Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 3.10 0.40 up from 2017 | 245 | 35% | $3,790 | ||
25Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.47 0.23 down from 2017 | 98 | 19% | — | ||
26Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.69 0.09 down from 2017 | 261 | 13% | — | ||
27Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 1.12Q2 | 2.01 0.63 down from 2017 | 177 | 59% | $4,150 | ||
28Environmental Health InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.96 0.13 up from 2017 | 68 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
29Nutrition Research and PracticeOASouth Korea | 1.08Q2 | 2.21 0.15 up from 2017 | 231 | 98% | — | ||
30BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.87 0.06 up from 2017 | 241 | 28% | $4,090 | ||
31Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.99Q2 | 2.43 0.05 down from 2017 | 965 | 14% | $4,290 | ||
32Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 0.98Q2 | 1.25 0.19 down from 2017 | 454 | 4% | — | ||
33LipidsWiley · United States | 0.94Q3 | 2.06 0.11 down from 2017 | 345 | 21% | $3,589 | ||
34Current Developments in NutritionOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q3 | 1.96no 2017 value | 57 | 100% | $5,000 | — | |
35International Journal of Nursing KnowledgeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 0.76 0.08 down from 2017 | 98 | 17% | $3,350 | ||
36BMC NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.92Q3 | 2.00 0.55 up from 2017 | 203 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
37Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.85Q3 | 1.12 0.04 up from 2017 | 321 | 4% | — | ||
38Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary MetabolismOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.83Q3 | 2.00 0.27 up from 2017 | 55 | 100% | $1,850 | ||
39WaterlinesPractical Action Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 1.44 0.05 down from 2017 | 81 | 23% | — | ||
40Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.78Q3 | 1.90 0.08 down from 2017 | 430 | 26% | $4,260 | ||
41Magnesium ResearchJohn Libbey Eurotext · France | 0.75Q3 | 1.58 0.67 up from 2017 | 48 | 36% | — | ||
42Clinical Nutrition ExperimentalOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.56 0.12 down from 2017 | 48 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
43Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.59 0.42 up from 2017 | 304 | 19% | $3,750 | ||
44NutrireSpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.62Q3 | 1.47 0.61 up from 2017 | 60 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
45Pediatric Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.56Q3 | 1.42 0.89 up from 2017 | 53 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
46Nursing Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.75 0.11 up from 2017 | 204 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
47Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for DevelopmentOAIWA Publishing | 0.47Q3 | 0.93 0.16 down from 2017 | 196 | 47% | — | ||
48Food and Nutrition SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.58 0.21 down from 2017 | 381 | 100% | — | ||
49Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.44Q4 | 0.94 0.17 down from 2017 | 211 | 10% | — | ||
50Nutrition and Dietary SupplementsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.42Q4 | 0.40 0.50 down from 2017 | 31 | 100% | $1,806 |
Subfields of Nursing, compared.
- Nutrition and Dietetics55
- Research and Theory7
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
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.
18 additional Nursing 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
- 64
- Window papers (baseline)
- 61,127 +11.0% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.959 -12.0% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 64 | 64 | 68 | 64 | 67 | 69 | 65 | 60 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,167 | 21,848 | 22,638 | 24,055 | 24,750 | 26,977 | 28,827 | 31,236 | 33,594 | 36,601 | 41,173 | 44,651 | 47,631 | 48,824 | 52,171 | 55,051 | 57,707 | 58,897 | 61,127 | 64,054 | 67,520 | 71,980 | 75,020 | 75,890 | 74,874 | 78,756 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.688 | 0.692 | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 1.0907 | 1.28 | 1.309 | 1.312 | 1.29 | 1.22 | 1.095 | 1.0906 | 1.092 | 1.10 | 0.959 | 0.98 | 0.964 | 1.001 | 0.941 | 0.939 | 0.88 | 0.91 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.4% | 50 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.077 per 1,000 | 42 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +0.7% | 56 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 69.5% | 60 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,560 | 40 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 23.4% | 59 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.6% | 60 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.95 | 60 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 23.2% | 60 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.5% | 60 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.