Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal rankings 2018
289 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health has 289 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.30. The top three are MMWR Surveillance Summaries, The Ocular Surface, and International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.
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
Show all 42 subfields
- 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
289 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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1MMWR Surveillance SummariesOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 26.05Q1 | 47.39 9.24 down from 2017 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
2The Ocular SurfaceElsevier BV · United States | 4.68Q1 | 11.34 5.20 up from 2017 | 148 | 32% | $5,330 | ||
3International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 8.90 0.71 up from 2017 | 470 | 100% | $3,177 | ||
4BMC MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 9.25 0.49 down from 2017 | 718 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
5Advances in NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.90Q1 | 8.63 1.08 up from 2017 | 282 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
6Substance Abuse and RehabilitationOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.87Q1 | 6.67 2.44 up from 2017 | 39 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
7Obesity ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 8.77 1.76 down from 2017 | 361 | 45% | $5,450 | ||
8One HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 4.93 1.57 up from 2017 | 58 | 100% | $3,080 | ||
9PLoS neglected tropical diseasesOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 2.40Q1 | 5.43 0.01 down from 2017 | 2,589 | 100% | $2,670 | ||
10Academic MedicineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.17 0.53 down from 2017 | 1,099 | 26% | — | ||
11BMJ Global HealthOABMJ · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 3.81 1.17 up from 2017 | 247 | 100% | $3,679 | ||
12Interactive Journal of Medical ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 2.30Q1 | 2.98 1.13 down from 2017 | 71 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
13BMC Medical EthicsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.83 0.60 up from 2017 | 239 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
14Nutrition JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 4.60 0.27 down from 2017 | 304 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
15Life Sciences Society and PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.06Q1 | 4.54 1.82 up from 2017 | 42 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
16Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and DieteticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 3.74 0.18 up from 2017 | 625 | 19% | $3,740 | ||
17International Journal of Telemedicine and ApplicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 1.42 1.95 down from 2017 | 33 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
18Palliative MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.31 0.47 up from 2017 | 348 | 58% | $4,400 | ||
19Revista de Saúde PúblicaOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.92Q1 | 2.86 0.21 down from 2017 | 374 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
20British Journal Of NutritionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 3.48 0.35 down from 2017 | 1,398 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
21BMC Medical EducationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 3.06 0.27 up from 2017 | 808 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
22Drug and Alcohol DependenceElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.85Q1 | 4.26 0.02 down from 2017 | 1,318 | 66% | $4,380 | ||
23BMC Palliative CareOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.89 0.36 up from 2017 | 256 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
24Advances in Health Sciences EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 2.90 0.16 up from 2017 | 212 | 49% | $3,290 | ||
25ReproductionBioscientifica · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.70 0.40 up from 2017 | 491 | 54% | — | ||
26Infectious Diseases of PovertyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.78 0.34 up from 2017 | 331 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
27Childhood ObesityMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.76Q1 | 3.34 0.11 up from 2017 | 220 | 59% | — | ||
28Journal of Biomedical EducationHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 1.92 0.54 up from 2017 | 37 | 80% | — | ||
29Journal of ObesityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.61 0.31 up from 2017 | 123 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
30Medical EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.73 0.15 down from 2017 | 700 | 27% | $5,250 | ||
31European Journal of NutritionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 3.90 0.19 up from 2017 | 681 | 50% | $2,890 | ||
32Pediatric ObesityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 3.80 0.90 up from 2017 | 245 | 61% | $4,880 | ||
33Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive HealthWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 3.83 2.64 up from 2017 | 125 | 30% | $3,120 | ||
34Injury PreventionBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 1.70 1.33 down from 2017 | 311 | 52% | — | ||
35Teaching and Learning in MedicineTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.65 0.37 up from 2017 | 173 | 15% | — | ||
36Archives of Women s Mental HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.60Q1 | 2.88 0.07 down from 2017 | 296 | 40% | $3,990 | ||
37BMC Women s HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.62 0.27 down from 2017 | 327 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
38Contemporary Clinical TrialsElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q1 | 2.70 0.57 down from 2017 | 556 | 69% | $3,140 | ||
39Malaria JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 3.60 0.16 up from 2017 | 1,599 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
40Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.27 0.55 down from 2017 | 147 | 18% | $3,000 | ||
41Medical Education OnlineOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.35 0.20 up from 2017 | 224 | 100% | $2,189 | ||
42Telemedicine Journal and e-HealthMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.81 0.06 down from 2017 | 435 | 24% | — | ||
43Perspectives in Clinical ResearchOAMedknow · India | 1.53Q1 | 2.65 0.07 up from 2017 | 116 | 100% | — | ||
44Food & Nutrition ResearchOASwedish Nutrition Foundation · Sweden | 1.51Q1 | 3.50 0.82 up from 2017 | 289 | 100% | $2,103 | ||
45Molecular Reproduction and DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.66 0.62 down from 2017 | 327 | 40% | $4,260 | ||
46Current Opinion in PediatricsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.68 0.68 down from 2017 | 331 | 23% | — | ||
47Journal of Pain and Symptom ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.98 0.18 down from 2017 | 792 | 99% | $4,760 | ||
48Journal of Substance Abuse TreatmentElsevier BV · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.97 0.10 up from 2017 | 409 | 66% | $3,340 | ||
49Acta TropicaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 2.97 0.12 up from 2017 | 1,010 | 26% | $3,160 | ||
50BMC ObesitySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 2.56 0.35 down from 2017 | 143 | 100% | $1,570 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 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.
97 additional Public Health, Environmental and Occupational 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
- 289
- Window papers (baseline)
- 179,525 +15.8% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.785 -10.2% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
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 | 113 | 118 | 125 | 128 | 137 | 145 | 154 | 163 | 173 | 180 | 184 | 192 | 213 | 227 | 244 | 252 | 256 | 270 | 289 | 299 | 301 | 303 | 310 | 313 | 316 | 311 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 45,485 | 51,457 | 56,588 | 61,745 | 66,349 | 73,948 | 81,670 | 89,534 | 96,332 | 104,749 | 115,108 | 127,177 | 134,355 | 139,830 | 144,930 | 155,079 | 163,320 | 172,532 | 179,525 | 187,104 | 193,221 | 205,612 | 217,218 | 220,811 | 216,889 | 216,291 | |
| Median OJR | 0.54 | 0.56 | 0.64 | 0.718 | 0.722 | 0.74 | 0.80 | 0.900 | 0.859 | 0.8525 | 0.92 | 0.93 | 0.862 | 0.897 | 0.84 | 0.874 | 0.8522 | 0.810 | 0.785 | 0.83 | 0.872 | 0.781 | 0.806 | 0.778 | 0.82 | 0.79 |
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.