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Journal rankings · indicator year 2018

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Subfield ranking · 2018

Reproductive Medicine journal rankings 2018

50 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Reproductive Medicine has 50 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2017 to 0.87, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are Human Reproduction Update, Human Reproduction, and Fertility and Sterility.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

50
1% of Medicine
Median OJR

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.

0.87+0.05 vs 2017
This subfieldAll 0.83World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

36%
All fields: 33%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,290
Median positive listed APC: $3,290 among 25 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 24 have no known price. All fields: $3,330.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Reproductive Medicine ranking, 2018

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.

OJR

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.

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1Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom
4.48Q113.47 0.05 up from 201714171%$4,490
2Human ReproductionOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.99Q16.27 0.79 up from 201796378%$4,630
3Fertility and SterilityElsevier BV · United States
2.33Q14.90 0.51 up from 20171,464100%$4,220
4Reproductive Biology and EndocrinologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.84Q13.28 0.54 down from 2017307100%$3,690
5Reproductive BioMedicine OnlineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.73Q13.70 0.72 up from 201755726%$3,650
6Seminars in Reproductive MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.70Q12.68 0.01 down from 201719810%—
7AndrologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.65Q13.64 0.23 up from 201744358%$3,090
8Molecular Human ReproductionOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.54Q13.31 0.50 down from 201721754%$4,490
9Current Opinion in Obstetrics & GynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.53Q12.66 0.75 down from 201722111%—
10Journal of Assisted Reproduction and GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.51Q13.13 0.16 down from 2017655100%$4,690
11Reproductive Biomedicine & Society OnlineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.49Q12.28 1.32 up from 20176096%$1,640
12Journal of Ovarian ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.29Q13.04 0.14 down from 2017236100%$3,290
13The World Journal of Men s HealthOAKorean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology · South Korea
1.27Q12.68 0.59 down from 201792100%—
14Asian Journal of AndrologyOAMedknow · China
1.25Q22.42 0.29 down from 2017445100%$711
1.18Q22.71 1.84 up from 2017103100%$1,850
16Animal Reproduction ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.16Q21.96 0.03 up from 201759922%$3,770
17CryobiologyElsevier BV · United States
1.15Q22.61 0.45 up from 20173407%$3,870
1.13Q21.60 0.29 down from 2017132100%—
19Reproductive SciencesSpringer Nature · United States
1.04Q22.34 0.02 up from 201759527%$3,090
20Reproductive BiologyElsevier BV · Poland
1.03Q22.10 0.17 up from 201712816%$2,750
21Systems Biology in Reproductive MedicineTaylor & Francis · United States
1.00Q22.02 0.36 up from 201713886%—
22Fertility Research and PracticeBioMed Central · United Kingdom
0.97Q21.61 0.43 up from 201749100%$2,490
0.93Q21.60 0.23 up from 201758320%$4,520
24Human FertilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.91Q21.77 0.33 up from 201713529%—
0.89Q21.78 0.16 down from 201799100%—
26BioSocietiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
0.85Q31.48 0.21 up from 201712752%$2,990
27International Journal of Reproductive BioMedicine (IJRM)OAShahid Sadoghi University of Medical Sciences of Yazd · Iran
0.82Q31.84 0.38 up from 2017211100%$260
28AndrologiaWiley · Germany
0.81Q31.87 0.14 up from 201750468%$2,700
29Gynecological EndocrinologyOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.76Q31.53 0.20 down from 20177508%—
30JBRABrazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction · Brazil
0.63Q31.50 0.57 up from 2017153100%—
31Gynecologic and Obstetric InvestigationKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.60Q31.37 0.09 up from 201730712%—
0.56Q30.87 0.03 up from 2017215100%—
33Middle East Fertility Society JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt
0.54Q31.09 0.52 up from 2017174100%$0 listed
34Current Obstetrics and Gynecology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.50Q31.02no change12214%$4,490
0.39Q30.47 0.08 down from 2017704%—
36Advances in Reproductive SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States
0.33Q30.43 0.07 down from 201733100%—
0.31Q30.47 0.18 down from 201710611%$4,150
0.28Q30.56 0.13 down from 2017286——
0.25Q40.46 0.08 up from 201747——
0.19Q40.26 0.18 down from 201765100%—
0.13Q40.38 0.05 up from 2017856%$2,500
42Andrology-Open AccessOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.11Q40.26 0.06 down from 201770100%—
43Gynecology & ObstetricsOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.11Q40.21 0.03 up from 20174681%—
0.10Q40.14 0.04 down from 20171450%—
45IVF LiteMedknow · India
0.10Q40.20 0.05 up from 201733——
46Reproductive and Developmental MedicineOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · India
0.09Q40.18no 2017 value33100%——
47Indian Journal of Gynecologic OncologySpringer Science+Business Media · India
0.07Q40.14 0.06 up from 20171633%$2,990
0.06Q40.13 0.09 up from 20177379%—
0.05Q40.06 0.05 down from 201756100%—
50Andrology & Gynecology Current ResearchOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.05Q40.08 0.42 down from 2017390%—

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.

16 additional Reproductive 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
50
Window papers (baseline)
29,776 +9.2% from indicator year 2015
Median OJR
0.872 +0.7% from indicator year 2015
Rising journals (2025)
2

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals1920222225252731323136363740434546505050484954565253
Window papers (baseline)12,08513,37914,42615,32715,56716,16817,31118,82420,01821,75723,57024,84625,04425,01226,01027,27928,54629,32429,77630,28031,29933,12935,07836,10636,66437,232
Median OJR0.7220.7200.710.640.620.700.760.8030.8780.930.8770.960.940.890.830.8660.780.820.8720.920.970.9140.9090.860.80110.8009

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.