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Journal rankings · indicator year 2019

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Subfield ranking · 2019

Hematology journal rankings 2019

80 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Hematology has 80 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2018 to 0.68, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are Blood, The Lancet Haematology, and Leukemia.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 score is computed on.

80
2% 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.

0.68-0.06 vs 2018
This subfieldAll 0.82World 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.

41%
All fields: 34%
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.

$3,730
Median positive listed APC: $3,730 among 49 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 30 have no known price. All fields: $3,310.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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80 ranked journals

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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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Hematology ranking, 2019

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 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.

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1BloodElsevier BV · United States
3.57Q19.63 0.12 down from 20182,6479%$5,500
2The Lancet HaematologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.51Q15.71 0.57 down from 201831447%$7,280
3LeukemiaSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
2.48Q17.55 1.01 up from 20181,03162%$5,190
4Blood ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.40Q16.31 0.04 down from 201813842%$5,220
5Blood AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United States
2.08Q15.60 1.39 up from 2018688100%$3,800
6Blood Cancer JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.97Q15.37 1.25 up from 2018390100%$5,290
7HaematologicaOAFerrata Storti Foundation · Italy
1.73Q14.40 0.21 down from 20181,198100%$2,157
8Journal of Thrombosis and HaemostasisElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.72Q14.27 0.09 up from 201885196%$3,750
9Therapeutic Advances in HematologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.71Q14.71 0.95 up from 201878100%$2,650
10HematologyAmerican Society of Hematology · United States
1.70Q14.14 0.51 up from 201827395%—
11Pediatric RheumatologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.70Q13.57 0.04 up from 2018237100%$3,090
12Transfusion Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United States
1.61Q14.39 0.14 down from 20189233%$3,970
13Seminars in HematologyElsevier BV · United States
1.57Q13.67 0.70 down from 201814210%$4,070
14American Journal of HematologyWiley · United States
1.51Q14.00 0.33 up from 201899585%$5,450
15Current Opinion in HematologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.43Q13.72 0.01 up from 201821434%—
16British Journal of HaematologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.36Q13.35 0.24 down from 20181,50058%$5,190
17Current Hematologic Malignancy ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.30Q13.30 0.41 up from 201819221%$3,790
18Transplantation and Cellular TherapyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.29Q13.78 0.44 up from 20181,077100%$3,650
19Transfusion Medicine and HemotherapyOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.28Q12.18 0.33 down from 201817596%$1,670
20Best Practice & Research Clinical HaematologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.27Q13.65 1.39 up from 201814017%$3,730
1.24Q23.00 1.81 up from 2018152100%$2,250
22Seminars in Thrombosis and HemostasisThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.23Q23.21 0.40 down from 201831939%—
23PlateletsOAInforma · United Kingdom
1.22Q23.23 0.08 up from 201842914%$2,970
24Journal of Blood MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.15Q22.46 1.10 down from 201886100%$2,320
25Expert Review of HematologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.13Q22.98 0.31 up from 201828521%—
26Vox SanguinisWiley · United Kingdom
1.05Q22.81 0.05 down from 201829134%$4,150
1.01Q22.66 0.04 up from 20189130%$3,700
28Experimental HematologyElsevier BV · United States
1.01Q23.06 0.29 up from 201832897%$3,250
29European Journal Of HaematologyWiley · United Kingdom
0.99Q22.53 0.15 up from 201842640%$4,650
30Bone Marrow TransplantationSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
0.98Q22.58 0.23 down from 201899638%$4,990
31BMC HematologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
0.92Q22.54 0.62 up from 201888100%$2,170
32TransfusionWiley · United States
0.90Q22.65 0.29 down from 20181,36828%$4,100
33Leukemia ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.82Q22.21 0.01 down from 201857912%$3,910
34Annals of HematologyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.82Q22.31 0.18 up from 201897420%$4,590
35International Journal of HematologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
0.79Q22.46 0.21 up from 201858815%$4,390
36Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & LeukemiaElsevier BV · United States
0.77Q22.00 0.04 down from 20185767%$3,890
37Journal of Clinical ApheresisWiley · United States
0.77Q21.48 1.04 down from 201820525%$3,920
38Annals of Laboratory MedicineOASeoul National University · South Korea
0.70Q22.08 0.17 up from 2018331100%—
0.69Q22.04 0.33 up from 2018189100%$647
0.69Q21.80 0.04 down from 201844925%$3,880
41Transfusion MedicineWiley · United Kingdom
0.68Q31.88 0.03 down from 201824319%$3,700
42Pediatric Hematology and OncologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.67Q31.59 0.10 up from 201815711%—
43HaemophiliaWiley · United Kingdom
0.67Q32.05 0.39 down from 201870833%$4,760
44Transfusion and Apheresis ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.67Q31.53 0.17 down from 201846421%$3,160
45Leukemia & lymphoma/Leukemia and lymphomaTaylor & Francis · Switzerland
0.66Q31.85 0.14 up from 20181,29822%—
46HematologyOAManey Publishing · United Kingdom
0.62Q31.72 0.19 up from 2018318100%$2,557
47Blood Coagulation & FibrinolysisLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom
0.57Q31.41 0.05 up from 201833015%—
48Cytometry Part B Clinical CytometryWiley · United States
0.57Q32.28 0.17 up from 201822887%$3,800
49Acta HaematologicaKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.53Q31.10 0.19 down from 201823532%—
50Leukemia Research ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.53Q31.25 0.33 down from 201870100%$1,180

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.

24 additional Hematology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
80
Window papers (baseline)
39,004 +9.0% from indicator year 2016
Median OJR
0.68294 -5.1% from indicator year 2016
Rising journals (2025)
5

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3743474849484851525557596064697170747880798383848378
Window papers (baseline)15,67617,55418,32119,93120,77322,16023,08623,96825,63827,75631,37032,53533,27032,12533,48434,47635,77236,57837,71739,00440,62943,03745,94847,33747,50247,302
Median OJR0.530.570.5890.5930.6410.6460.6770.6500.6400.6630.620.730.7070.7130.72050.7160.71960.750.740.682940.7110.6820.682870.630.5870.658

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.