Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Domain ranking · 2019
Health Sciences journal rankings 2019
5,390 ranked journals · Domain
Health Sciences has 5,390 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, MMWR Surveillance Summaries, and New England Journal of Medicine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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.
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 105.99Q1 | 337.61 97.35 up from 2018 | 81 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2MMWR Surveillance SummariesOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 29.78Q1 | 56.13 8.74 up from 2018 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
3New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 14.08Q1 | 29.25 0.76 up from 2018 | 3,095 | 38% | — | ||
4The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.74Q1 | 21.60 0.38 up from 2018 | 2,976 | 58% | $7,890 | ||
5Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 10.80Q1 | 23.37 3.54 up from 2018 | 104 | 96% | — | ||
6Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 9.21Q1 | 26.46 5.24 up from 2018 | 828 | 50% | $12,690 | ||
7European Heart JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.90Q1 | 19.29 1.36 down from 2018 | 1,084 | 9% | $5,922 | ||
8Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.84Q1 | 8.12 0.73 up from 2018 | 120 | 35% | — | ||
9Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 6.83Q1 | 15.96 3.67 up from 2018 | 122 | 81% | $3,750 | ||
10Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom | 6.81Q1 | 8.69 0.53 down from 2018 | 110 | 29% | $4,430 | ||
11The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.76Q1 | 17.39 1.32 down from 2018 | 1,131 | 31% | $7,280 | ||
12Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.44Q1 | 14.88 2.95 up from 2018 | 370 | 63% | $4,170 | ||
13The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.42Q1 | 15.28 1.34 up from 2018 | 602 | 48% | $7,280 | ||
14Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.39Q1 | 17.35 1.45 up from 2018 | 1,725 | 5% | — | ||
15Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 6.38Q1 | 20.90 3.59 up from 2018 | 561 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
16Acta NeuropathologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.25Q1 | 13.31 3.86 down from 2018 | 397 | 81% | $4,990 | ||
17npj Digital MedicineOANature Portfolio · United States | 6.18Q1 | 12.46 7.31 up from 2018 | 70 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
18Nature Reviews Disease PrimersNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.17Q1 | 44.45 9.08 up from 2018 | 156 | 22% | — | ||
19Progress in Retinal and Eye ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.77Q1 | 15.54 2.64 up from 2018 | 137 | 55% | $6,710 | ||
20CirculationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 5.59Q1 | 13.33 0.07 down from 2018 | 2,125 | 19% | — | ||
21Diabetes CareAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 5.57Q1 | 13.90 1.68 up from 2018 | 1,216 | 62% | — | ||
22MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 5.51Q1 | 12.99 1.68 up from 2018 | 973 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of the American College of CardiologyElsevier BV · United States | 5.45Q1 | 13.41 1.55 up from 2018 | 2,229 | 100% | $7,166 | ||
24Kidney International SupplementsElsevier BV · United States | 5.36Q1 | 14.38 7.58 up from 2018 | 33 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
25PLoS MedicineOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 5.33Q1 | 11.51 0.19 up from 2018 | 736 | 100% | $6,460 | ||
26Journal of Chiropractic MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 5.27Q1 | 1.57 6.83 down from 2018 | 129 | 76% | $3,300 | ||
27Breast CareKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 5.19Q1 | 1.51 20.33 down from 2018 | 237 | 92% | — | ||
28The Lancet Diabetes & EndocrinologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.19Q1 | 13.65 2.81 up from 2018 | 525 | 45% | $7,280 | ||
29The Ocular SurfaceElsevier BV · United States | 5.10Q1 | 11.80 0.46 up from 2018 | 178 | 41% | $5,330 | ||
30Alzheimer s & DementiaWiley · United States | 5.05Q1 | 13.60 2.82 up from 2018 | 484 | 55% | $4,200 | ||
31Journal of HepatologyElsevier BV · Denmark | 5.00Q1 | 14.20 1.59 up from 2018 | 1,087 | 12% | $5,500 | ||
32IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.96Q1 | 9.33 0.15 down from 2018 | 740 | 66% | $2,645 | ||
33NeonatologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.89Q1 | 13.11 2.87 up from 2018 | 330 | 35% | — | ||
34Regional Anesthesia & Pain MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 8.08 4.16 up from 2018 | 438 | 15% | — | ||
35GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 4.78Q1 | 12.76 1.99 up from 2018 | 847 | 53% | — | ||
36Obesity FactsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.77Q1 | 11.40 2.00 down from 2018 | 148 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
37Advances in Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.53Q1 | 5.55 7.67 down from 2018 | 38 | 67% | $3,900 | ||
38European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 4.52Q1 | 9.51 2.27 down from 2018 | 905 | 20% | $5,250 | ||
39The Lancet Respiratory MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.51Q1 | 10.93 1.37 up from 2018 | 561 | 55% | $7,280 | ||
40BJA EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 6.10 4.85 up from 2018 | 168 | 100% | $3,630 | ||
41Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.36Q1 | 4.58 1.68 up from 2018 | 48 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
42The Lancet Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.35Q1 | 11.03 0.65 up from 2018 | 1,086 | 54% | $7,280 | ||
43AutophagyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.24Q1 | 8.92 0.92 down from 2018 | 451 | 100% | — | ||
44American Journal of NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.23Q1 | 13.95 1.38 up from 2018 | 377 | 44% | — | ||
45Natural Product ReportsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 10.02 0.45 up from 2018 | 230 | 27% | — | ||
46OphthalmologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.15Q1 | 8.19 0.60 up from 2018 | 878 | 54% | $4,990 | ||
47JAMA OncologyAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.15Q1 | 10.52 1.15 up from 2018 | 1,214 | 52% | — | ||
48The Lancet Global HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.13Q1 | 9.12 2.80 up from 2018 | 807 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
49Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer NetworkNational Comprehensive Cancer | 4.02Q1 | 11.15 2.17 up from 2018 | 439 | 51% | — | ||
50Physical Education and Sport PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 4.29 1.54 up from 2018 | 99 | 48% | — |
Fields of Health Sciences, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,473 additional Health Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 5,390
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,728,712 +7.7% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.725 -1.6% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 464
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 | 2,007 | 2,150 | 2,285 | 2,374 | 2,486 | 2,626 | 2,757 | 2,922 | 3,062 | 3,193 | 3,364 | 3,591 | 3,809 | 4,129 | 4,361 | 4,544 | 4,757 | 4,979 | 5,239 | 5,390 | 5,462 | 5,563 | 5,606 | 5,618 | 5,549 | 5,406 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 813,419 | 909,304 | 974,228 | 1,051,248 | 1,094,845 | 1,200,886 | 1,317,521 | 1,455,690 | 1,577,275 | 1,733,757 | 1,887,930 | 2,035,231 | 2,126,669 | 2,204,628 | 2,320,572 | 2,437,477 | 2,534,543 | 2,585,157 | 2,649,222 | 2,728,712 | 2,846,138 | 3,078,764 | 3,332,730 | 3,490,788 | 3,507,496 | 3,550,948 | |
| Median OJR | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.61 | 0.63 | 0.6778 | 0.70 | 0.726 | 0.748 | 0.767 | 0.773 | 0.78 | 0.741 | 0.76 | 0.750 | 0.737 | 0.727 | 0.71 | 0.725 | 0.735 | 0.680 | 0.67 | 0.6776 | 0.681 | 0.69 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.3% | 4,151 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.372 per 1,000 | 4,101 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.3% | 5,009 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 5,406 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,090 | 2,959 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.2% | 5,241 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.70 | 5,372 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 37.7% | 5,406 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 46.2% | 5,398 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.