Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Immunology journal rankings 2019
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Immunology and Microbiology
Immunology has 90 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.97, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are Immunity, Nature Immunology, and The Journal of Experimental 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.
Subfields of Immunology and Microbiology (5)
90 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 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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1ImmunityCell Press · United States | 5.59Q1 | 16.69 0.06 down from 2018 | 776 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
2Nature ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United States | 4.05Q1 | 12.13 0.37 down from 2018 | 731 | 50% | $12,690 | ||
3The Journal of Experimental MedicineRockefeller University Press · United States | 3.65Q1 | 12.19 1.37 up from 2018 | 706 | 99% | — | ||
4Science ImmunologyAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 3.54Q1 | 10.57 1.12 up from 2018 | 237 | 54% | — | ||
5Seminars in ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.20Q1 | 10.21 2.12 up from 2018 | 169 | 46% | $4,370 | ||
6Nature reviews. ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 16.23 2.33 down from 2018 | 437 | 19% | — | ||
7Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.84Q1 | 7.61 0.76 down from 2018 | 1,750 | 76% | $4,900 | ||
8Clinical Reviews in Allergy & ImmunologySpringer Nature · United States | 2.79Q1 | 8.16 1.98 up from 2018 | 183 | 16% | $5,490 | ||
9Seminars in ImmunopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.67Q1 | 8.06 1.13 up from 2018 | 169 | 44% | $3,790 | ||
10Journal of AutoimmunityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 7.53 0.13 up from 2018 | 376 | 49% | $5,420 | ||
11Mucosal ImmunologyOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.42Q1 | 6.57 0.63 down from 2018 | 378 | 99% | $4,370 | ||
12Annual Review of ImmunologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.27Q1 | 22.51 0.10 down from 2018 | 81 | 58% | — | ||
13Clinical & Translational ImmunologyOAWiley · Australia | 2.20Q1 | 5.79 2.33 down from 2018 | 136 | 100% | $3,070 | ||
14Journal of Innate ImmunityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 2.04Q1 | 4.15 3.56 down from 2018 | 182 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
15Frontiers in ImmunologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.02Q1 | 6.24 0.50 up from 2018 | 5,601 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
16Immunity & AgeingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.98 0.67 down from 2018 | 81 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
17ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 5.27 1.24 up from 2018 | 465 | 17% | $5,330 | ||
18The Journal of ImmunologyAmerican Association of Immunologists · United States | 1.57Q1 | 5.03 0.21 up from 2018 | 2,612 | 17% | $3,500 | ||
19BioDrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 6.22 0.38 up from 2018 | 154 | 49% | $5,190 | ||
20Cellular and Molecular ImmunologySpringer Nature · China | 1.50Q1 | 3.95 0.82 down from 2018 | 352 | 99% | $5,190 | ||
21International Journal of InflammationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 4.12 1.06 up from 2018 | 42 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
22International Reviews of ImmunologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 5.45 1.18 up from 2018 | 70 | 25% | — | ||
23Clinical & Experimental ImmunologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 3.71 0.01 up from 2018 | 456 | 92% | $3,816 | ||
24Journal of Clinical ImmunologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.38Q2 | 5.39 1.45 up from 2018 | 321 | 33% | $4,990 | ||
25The AAPS JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.37Q2 | 4.23 0.35 up from 2018 | 394 | 40% | $5,090 | ||
26Cellular ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 4.42 1.09 up from 2018 | 376 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
27Trends in ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 12.40 1.30 up from 2018 | 281 | 48% | $7,030 | ||
28Immune NetworkOASouth Korea | 1.31Q2 | 4.39 0.75 up from 2018 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of Leukocyte BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.29Q2 | 3.85 0.28 down from 2018 | 689 | 50% | $3,800 | ||
30Expert Opinion on Biological TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 3.52 0.24 down from 2018 | 394 | 31% | — | ||
31Immunological ReviewsWiley · United States | 1.25Q2 | 14.72 2.15 up from 2018 | 303 | 59% | $5,000 | ||
32Psoriasis Targets and TherapyOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.25Q2 | 3.71 1.59 up from 2018 | 36 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
33Molecular ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 3.87 0.60 up from 2018 | 773 | 23% | $3,340 | ||
34Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 3.32 0.06 down from 2018 | 564 | 18% | $4,400 | ||
35Drugs in R&DOAAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 1.14Q2 | 2.71 0.12 up from 2018 | 129 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
36Immunologic ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.12Q2 | 2.97 0.01 up from 2018 | 281 | 18% | $2,890 | ||
37Immunology LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 3.54 0.75 up from 2018 | 462 | 17% | $3,290 | ||
38European Journal of ImmunologyWiley · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 3.22 0.07 down from 2018 | 788 | 76% | $4,550 | ||
39Inflammation ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.09Q2 | 3.36 0.35 up from 2018 | 287 | 22% | $4,790 | ||
40American Journal of Reproductive ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 2.87 0.09 up from 2018 | 456 | 15% | $4,460 | ||
41CytokineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 2.78 0.07 down from 2018 | 952 | 22% | $3,220 | ||
42Immunology and Cell BiologyWiley · Australia | 1.04Q2 | 3.59 0.04 up from 2018 | 345 | 52% | $3,750 | ||
43BMC ImmunologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 3.14 0.43 up from 2018 | 139 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
44Journal of ImmunotoxicologyOAInforma · United States | 0.99Q2 | 3.00 0.84 up from 2018 | 97 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
45Innate ImmunityOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 3.06 0.73 up from 2018 | 174 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
46Genes and ImmunitySpringer Nature · United States | 0.97Q3 | 2.71 0.53 down from 2018 | 120 | 51% | $3,190 | ||
47Current Protocols in ImmunologyWiley · United States | 0.95Q3 | 2.43 0.29 down from 2018 | 67 | 54% | $5,050 | ||
48Developmental & Comparative ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 3.31 0.06 down from 2018 | 788 | 17% | $3,340 | ||
49Fish & Shellfish ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.94Q3 | 4.29 0.48 up from 2018 | 2,075 | 7% | $4,330 | ||
50ImmunobiologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.92Q3 | 2.67 0.14 up from 2018 | 338 | 29% | $2,840 |
Subfields of Immunology and Microbiology, with Immunology highlighted.
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.
35 additional Immunology 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
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,447 -1.2% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.970 -7.7% 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.
| 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 | 56 | 59 | 63 | 65 | 62 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 74 | 76 | 79 | 81 | 86 | 83 | 88 | 90 | 96 | 94 | 90 | 92 | 87 | 88 | 88 | 88 | 86 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 33,673 | 35,811 | 37,963 | 40,362 | 42,065 | 44,849 | 47,600 | 50,960 | 53,923 | 57,726 | 63,072 | 65,596 | 67,601 | 67,579 | 70,684 | 72,624 | 73,354 | 72,790 | 72,098 | 72,447 | 74,045 | 77,362 | 81,615 | 83,779 | 84,353 | 84,391 | |
| Median OJR | 0.72 | 0.78 | 0.834 | 0.82 | 0.830 | 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.959 | 1.002 | 1.15 | 1.100 | 1.09 | 1.096 | 1.04 | 1.08 | 1.06 | 1.05 | 0.95 | 0.921 | 0.970 | 0.931 | 0.932 | 0.967 | 0.956 | 0.922 | 0.87 |
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.