Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Neurology journal rankings 2019
164 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Neurology has 164 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, and Brain.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery936
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine347
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health299
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine290
- Oncology234
- Infectious Diseases217
- Epidemiology198
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism168
- Neurology164
- Physiology160
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging153
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine120
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health103
- Ophthalmology98
- Dermatology96
- Hematology80
- Obstetrics and Gynecology74
- Rheumatology67
- Nephrology58
- Complementary and alternative medicine54
- Pharmacology54
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Emergency Medicine44
- Geriatrics and Gerontology38
- Otorhinolaryngology35
- Rehabilitation34
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine31
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine24
- Genetics24
- Hepatology23
- Immunology and Allergy22
- Urology14
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine13
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine5
- Health Informatics4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
164 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 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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1The Lancet NeurologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.42Q1 | 15.28 1.34 up from 2018 | 602 | 48% | $7,280 | ||
2Annals of NeurologyWiley · United States | 3.74Q1 | 9.48 0.94 up from 2018 | 606 | 56% | $4,700 | ||
3BrainOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 9.47 0.15 up from 2018 | 976 | 88% | $5,570 | ||
4npj Parkinson s DiseaseOANature Portfolio · United States | 2.98Q1 | 7.80 1.58 up from 2018 | 89 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
5JAMA NeurologyAmerican Medical Association · United States | 2.77Q1 | 7.12 1.56 up from 2018 | 977 | 63% | — | ||
6NeurotherapeuticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.75Q1 | 7.51 1.21 up from 2018 | 261 | 98% | $3,900 | ||
7Acta Neuropathologica CommunicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 7.25 0.55 up from 2018 | 364 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
8Translational NeurodegenerationOABioMed Central · China | 2.55Q1 | 7.68 0.75 up from 2018 | 92 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
9Movement DisordersWiley · United States | 2.23Q1 | 5.96 0.26 up from 2018 | 961 | 42% | $4,480 | ||
10Current Neurology and Neuroscience ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.20Q1 | 5.94 1.26 up from 2018 | 304 | 27% | $5,590 | ||
11Therapeutic Advances in Neurological DisordersOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 6.78 2.17 up from 2018 | 145 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
12Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & PsychiatryBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 5.54 0.04 up from 2018 | 698 | 34% | — | ||
13Current Opinion in NeurologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.16Q1 | 5.46 0.13 up from 2018 | 306 | 28% | — | ||
14NeurologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.13Q1 | 5.09 0.09 up from 2018 | 3,258 | 19% | — | ||
15Nature Reviews NeurologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 9.30 2.18 up from 2018 | 537 | 14% | — | ||
16Neurobiology of DiseaseOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.05Q1 | 5.54 0.31 up from 2018 | 682 | 97% | $4,180 | ||
17Journal of Parkinson s DiseaseOAIOS Press · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 5.18 0.45 up from 2018 | 252 | 100% | — | ||
18Neurosurgical FOCUSOAAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeons · United States | 2.00Q1 | 4.92 0.59 up from 2018 | 468 | 100% | — | ||
19Frontiers in Aging NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.98Q1 | 5.58 0.95 up from 2018 | 1,175 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
20Current Treatment Options in NeurologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.51 0.14 down from 2018 | 153 | 19% | $4,190 | ||
21Neurology Neuroimmunology & NeuroinflammationOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 1.91Q1 | 4.86 0.49 down from 2018 | 327 | 100% | $3,450 | ||
22Stereotactic and Functional NeurosurgeryKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.90Q1 | 4.22 0.46 down from 2018 | 182 | 38% | — | ||
23Annals of Clinical and Translational NeurologyOAWiley · United States | 1.90Q1 | 4.39 0.94 down from 2018 | 361 | 100% | $4,100 | ||
24Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & MetabolismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 4.73 0.07 down from 2018 | 719 | 98% | $4,200 | ||
25Translational Stroke ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.58 0.02 down from 2018 | 233 | 48% | $5,490 | ||
26Journal of neurosurgeryAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeons · United States | 1.67Q1 | 4.33 0.22 up from 2018 | 1,335 | 27% | — | ||
27Neurosurgery Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.71 0.29 down from 2018 | 165 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
28American Journal of NeuroradiologyAmerican Society of Neuroradiology · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.67 0.30 up from 2018 | 1,108 | 100% | — | ||
29European Journal of NeurologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 3.81 0.14 up from 2018 | 836 | 34% | $3,600 | ||
30Frontiers in NeurologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.49Q1 | 3.92 0.49 up from 2018 | 2,052 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
31Journal of NeurologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 3.96 0.13 up from 2018 | 1,100 | 37% | $4,790 | ||
32Journal of Neural TransmissionSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.46Q1 | 4.45 0.74 up from 2018 | 439 | 34% | $4,690 | ||
33NeurosurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.39Q1 | 3.37 0.15 up from 2018 | 1,278 | 9% | — | ||
34NeuroepidemiologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.35Q1 | 2.74 0.29 down from 2018 | 163 | 32% | — | ||
35CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in NeurologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.34Q1 | 2.50 0.11 up from 2018 | 242 | 6% | — | ||
36Parkinsonism & Related DisordersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 3.20 0.19 down from 2018 | 948 | 35% | $3,460 | ||
37Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental NeurologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.31Q1 | 3.41 0.29 down from 2018 | 318 | 46% | $5,036 | ||
38BMC NeurologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 3.27 0.25 up from 2018 | 691 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
39Neuroimaging Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.30Q1 | 3.01 0.37 up from 2018 | 145 | 14% | $3,000 | ||
40CNS Neuroscience & TherapeuticsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 3.52 0.38 up from 2018 | 401 | 100% | $4,140 | ||
41Acta Neurologica ScandinavicaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 2.79 0.03 down from 2018 | 451 | 74% | $2,490 | ||
42Case Reports in NeurologyOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.25Q2 | 1.83 2.66 down from 2018 | 154 | 100% | $1,030 | ||
43Functional NeurologyOACIC Edizioni Internazionali · Italy | 1.24Q2 | 2.97 0.49 up from 2018 | 63 | — | — | ||
44Journal of NeuroimmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 3.64 0.42 up from 2018 | 602 | 21% | $3,360 | ||
45Neurocritical CareSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.58 0.30 down from 2018 | 409 | 39% | $4,690 | ||
46Parkinson s DiseaseOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.64 0.01 down from 2018 | 198 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
47Journal of Movement DisordersOAKorean Movement Disorders Society · South Korea | 1.17Q2 | 3.06 0.57 up from 2018 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
48Seminars in NeurologyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 1.15Q2 | 2.77 1.08 up from 2018 | 253 | 9% | — | ||
49Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal DegenerationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 3.34 0.48 up from 2018 | 270 | 58% | — | ||
50Neurologia medico-chirurgicaOAJapan Neurological Society · Japan | 1.09Q2 | 2.54 0.53 up from 2018 | 232 | 100% | $75 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Neurology highlighted.
- Surgery936
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine347
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health299
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine290
- Oncology234
- Infectious Diseases217
- Epidemiology198
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism168
- Neurology164
- Physiology160
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging153
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine120
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health103
- Ophthalmology98
- Dermatology96
- Hematology80
- Obstetrics and Gynecology74
- Rheumatology67
- Nephrology58
- Complementary and alternative medicine54
- Pharmacology54
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Emergency Medicine44
- Geriatrics and Gerontology38
- Otorhinolaryngology35
- Rehabilitation34
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine31
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine24
- Genetics24
- Hepatology23
- Immunology and Allergy22
- Urology14
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine13
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine5
- Health Informatics4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
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.
43 additional Neurology 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
- 164
- Window papers (baseline)
- 60,560 +7.9% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.644 -0.8% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 16
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 62 | 63 | 64 | 68 | 68 | 76 | 82 | 86 | 85 | 87 | 95 | 109 | 120 | 132 | 138 | 151 | 151 | 157 | 161 | 164 | 170 | 172 | 176 | 174 | 175 | 168 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,103 | 22,212 | 23,092 | 24,511 | 25,423 | 27,798 | 30,119 | 32,966 | 35,574 | 39,471 | 42,315 | 45,185 | 46,659 | 48,518 | 51,657 | 53,867 | 56,147 | 56,821 | 58,529 | 60,560 | 63,295 | 71,057 | 80,971 | 88,942 | 90,225 | 89,484 | |
| Median OJR | 0.42 | 0.48 | 0.53 | 0.602 | 0.6495 | 0.731 | 0.72 | 0.74 | 0.87 | 0.84 | 0.81 | 0.76 | 0.732 | 0.662 | 0.68 | 0.657 | 0.6492 | 0.639 | 0.67 | 0.644 | 0.661 | 0.57 | 0.598 | 0.601 | 0.59 | 0.62 |
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.