Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine journal rankings 2018
115 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has 115 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.18. The top three are British Journal of Sports Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery901
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine349
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health289
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine280
- Oncology224
- Infectious Diseases210
- Epidemiology193
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism162
- Neurology161
- Physiology155
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging146
- Psychiatry and Mental health141
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine115
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- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Ophthalmology95
- Dermatology89
- Hematology78
- Obstetrics and Gynecology73
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology59
- Complementary and alternative medicine54
- Pharmacology51
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Emergency Medicine42
- Geriatrics and Gerontology34
- Rehabilitation34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine30
- Hepatology24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Immunology and Allergy21
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine15
- Urology15
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
115 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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1British Journal of Sports MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 8.41 1.65 up from 2017 | 1,002 | 51% | — | ||
2Sports MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.55Q1 | 9.36 1.71 up from 2017 | 492 | 45% | $5,790 | ||
3Medicine & Science in Sports & ExerciseLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.71 0.35 up from 2017 | 896 | 6% | — | ||
4Current Osteoporosis ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.30Q1 | 5.11 0.59 down from 2017 | 157 | 49% | $4,790 | ||
5Journal of Bone and Mineral ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.29Q1 | 5.66 0.04 down from 2017 | 728 | 79% | $3,780 | ||
6International Journal of Sports Physiology and PerformanceHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.12Q1 | 4.40 1.28 up from 2017 | 576 | 35% | — | ||
7Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in SportsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 3.54 0.25 down from 2017 | 628 | 51% | $4,550 | ||
8BoneElsevier BV · United States | 1.92Q1 | 4.55 0.20 down from 2017 | 893 | 45% | $3,960 | ||
9European Journal of Applied PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.77Q1 | 3.69 0.51 up from 2017 | 678 | 38% | $2,890 | ||
10Journal of science and medicine in sportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.50 0.23 down from 2017 | 555 | 28% | $3,720 | ||
11Osteoporosis InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 4.01 0.02 down from 2017 | 1,049 | 34% | $5,090 | ||
12Journal of Sports SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 3.16 0.23 up from 2017 | 951 | 45% | — | ||
13BMC Sports Science Medicine and RehabilitationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.82 0.50 down from 2017 | 102 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
14European Journal of Sport ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.35 0.60 up from 2017 | 349 | 37% | $2,680 | ||
15Open Access Journal of Sports MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.59Q1 | 3.76 0.98 up from 2017 | 86 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
16Calcified Tissue InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.57Q1 | 3.59 0.21 down from 2017 | 408 | 43% | $3,990 | ||
17Sports Medicine - OpenOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.54Q1 | 3.25 0.71 down from 2017 | 109 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
18Biology of SportOATermedia Publishing House · Poland | 1.52Q1 | 3.01 0.79 up from 2017 | 136 | 100% | $480 | ||
19Archives of OsteoporosisSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.99no change | 194 | 33% | $3,990 | ||
20Research Quarterly for Exercise and SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.49Q1 | 1.98 0.14 up from 2017 | 183 | 36% | — | ||
21Foot & Ankle InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.46Q1 | 2.95 0.22 down from 2017 | 583 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
22The Journal of Strength and Conditioning ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.40Q1 | 2.68 0.10 down from 2017 | 1,594 | 27% | — | ||
23Research in Sports MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 3.90 1.57 up from 2017 | 125 | 26% | — | ||
24Science and Medicine in FootballTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 2.36 1.63 up from 2017 | 64 | 37% | — | ||
25International Journal of Sports MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 1.35Q1 | 2.96 0.54 up from 2017 | 497 | 10% | — | ||
26Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.31Q1 | 2.03 0.01 down from 2017 | 91 | 31% | — | ||
27BMJ Open Sport & Exercise MedicineOABMJ · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 2.97 0.44 up from 2017 | 190 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
28Journal of Human KineticsOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.27Q1 | 2.20 0.28 up from 2017 | 370 | 100% | — | ||
29Sports BiomechanicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 2.37 0.64 up from 2017 | 178 | 23% | — | ||
30Journal of Clinical DensitometryElsevier BV · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.04 0.35 down from 2017 | 263 | 16% | $3,000 | ||
31Pediatric Exercise ScienceHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.03 0.45 up from 2017 | 197 | 27% | — | ||
32Journal of Bone MetabolismThe Korean Society for Bone and Mineral Research · South Korea | 1.08Q2 | 2.55 0.37 up from 2017 | 96 | 100% | — | ||
33The Physician and SportsmedicineTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.26no change | 216 | 24% | — | ||
34Bone ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 2.78 1.62 up from 2017 | 129 | 100% | $2,540 | ||
35International Journal of Sports Science & CoachingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.47 0.23 up from 2017 | 300 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
36The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical FitnessEdizioni Minerva Medica · Italy | 1.01Q2 | 1.56 1.31 up from 2017 | 257 | 10% | — | ||
37Journal of OsteoporosisOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 2.11 0.10 down from 2017 | 30 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
37International Journal of Performance Analysis in SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.81 0.18 down from 2017 | 218 | 24% | — | ||
39Foot and Ankle ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.77 0.37 up from 2017 | 151 | 3% | $3,000 | ||
40Journal of Bone and Mineral MetabolismSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.93Q2 | 2.32 0.08 down from 2017 | 246 | 19% | $3,790 | ||
41Physical Therapy in SportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.31 0.67 up from 2017 | 211 | 22% | $2,990 | ||
42Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral MetabolismSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.84Q2 | 2.34 0.81 up from 2017 | 58 | 50% | $4,490 | ||
43SportsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.81Q2 | 1.84 0.71 up from 2017 | 180 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
44KinesiologyOAUniversity of Zagreb · Croatia | 0.80Q2 | 1.40 0.33 up from 2017 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
45Asian Journal of Sports MedicineOAIran | 0.79Q2 | 1.40 0.19 down from 2017 | 167 | 100% | — | ||
46Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolismOACIC Edizioni Internazionali · Italy | 0.77Q2 | 1.41 0.22 down from 2017 | 182 | — | — | ||
47Sports EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 1.59 0.14 up from 2017 | 92 | 42% | $3,990 | ||
48Seminars in Musculoskeletal RadiologyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 0.75Q2 | 1.14 1.08 down from 2017 | 173 | 9% | — | ||
49International journal of exercise scienceOABerkeley Electronic Press · United States | 0.70Q2 | 1.24 0.45 up from 2017 | 182 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Sport RehabilitationHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.69Q2 | 1.35 0.16 up from 2017 | 302 | 35% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Orthopedics and Sports Medicine highlighted.
- Surgery901
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine349
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health289
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine280
- Oncology224
- Infectious Diseases210
- Epidemiology193
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism162
- Neurology161
- Physiology155
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging146
- Psychiatry and Mental health141
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine115
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Ophthalmology95
- Dermatology89
- Hematology78
- Obstetrics and Gynecology73
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology59
- Complementary and alternative medicine54
- Pharmacology51
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Emergency Medicine42
- Geriatrics and Gerontology34
- Rehabilitation34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine30
- Hepatology24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Immunology and Allergy21
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine15
- Urology15
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
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.
27 additional Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 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
- 115
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,205 +13.3% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.566 -1.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
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 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 47 | 51 | 54 | 54 | 60 | 60 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 85 | 88 | 89 | 95 | 102 | 107 | 115 | 120 | 123 | 124 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 121 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,949 | 8,737 | 9,282 | 9,896 | 10,548 | 11,907 | 13,366 | 14,821 | 15,878 | 17,676 | 19,144 | 20,968 | 22,242 | 23,741 | 25,227 | 26,663 | 27,721 | 28,850 | 30,205 | 32,070 | 33,837 | 36,063 | 38,759 | 40,063 | 40,334 | 40,972 | |
| Median OJR | 0.283 | 0.279 | 0.38 | 0.4313 | 0.4315 | 0.42 | 0.4931 | 0.47 | 0.571 | 0.53 | 0.51 | 0.553 | 0.546 | 0.59 | 0.572 | 0.574 | 0.4933 | 0.563 | 0.566 | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.569 | 0.62 | 0.61 | 0.565 | 0.558 |
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.