Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Emergency Medical Services journal rankings 2020
25 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Emergency Medical Services has 25 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are Human Resources for Health, Health Care Management Science, and Operations Research for Health Care.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions472
- Occupational Therapy29
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation23
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology17
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
25 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 4.51 0.22 up from 2019 | 259 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
2Health Care Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 3.44 0.65 up from 2019 | 92 | 44% | $2,090 | ||
3Operations Research for Health CareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 2.19 0.40 down from 2019 | 92 | 41% | $3,080 | ||
4Dental TraumatologyWiley · Denmark | 1.32Q1 | 3.31 0.57 up from 2019 | 194 | 26% | $4,330 | ||
5The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 2.34 0.37 up from 2019 | 301 | 28% | $3,510 | ||
6Health SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 1.83 0.29 up from 2019 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
7Safety in HealthBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.11Q1 | 2.43 0.96 up from 2019 | 30 | — | — | ||
8Rural and Remote HealthOADeakin University · Australia | 0.98Q2 | 1.94 0.62 up from 2019 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
9Disaster Medicine and Public Health PreparednessCambridge University Press · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.54 0.46 up from 2019 | 448 | 75% | $3,550 | ||
10Prehospital and Disaster MedicineCambridge University Press · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.55 0.30 up from 2019 | 417 | 51% | $3,550 | ||
11Journal of Patient SafetyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.85Q2 | 1.92 0.53 up from 2019 | 319 | 39% | — | ||
12BMJ Open QualityOABMJ · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.71 0.15 up from 2019 | 371 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
13International Journal of Risk & Safety in MedicineIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.82Q2 | 2.14 0.86 down from 2019 | 41 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
14Journal of Patient Safety and Risk ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 1.33 0.28 up from 2019 | 69 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
15Journal of Infusion NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.76Q3 | 1.49 0.40 up from 2019 | 118 | 15% | — | ||
16Australian Journal of Rural HealthWiley · Australia | 0.71Q3 | 1.35 0.04 down from 2019 | 202 | 40% | $3,570 | ||
17The Journal of Vascular AccessSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.54 0.26 up from 2019 | 524 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
18IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.36 0.48 up from 2019 | 89 | 9% | — | ||
19Journal of Healthcare Risk ManagementWiley · United States | 0.62Q3 | 0.84 0.26 down from 2019 | 65 | 25% | $3,470 | ||
20Journal of the Association for Vascular AccessAllen Press · United States | 0.60Q4 | 1.17 0.55 up from 2019 | 75 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
21Nursing leadershipLongwoods Publishing · Canada | 0.59Q4 | 0.87 0.50 up from 2019 | 112 | 22% | — | ||
22American Journal of Disaster MedicineUnited States | 0.48Q4 | 0.63 0.05 up from 2019 | 93 | 3% | — | ||
| 0.18Q4 | 0.19 0.03 up from 2019 | 38 | 100% | $1,500 | |||
24Global Journal on Quality and Safety in HealthcareOAMedknow · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.45 0.14 up from 2019 | 31 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
25Journal of Regional Medical CampusesOAUniversity of Minnesota · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.24 0.13 down from 2019 | 79 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Emergency Medical Services highlighted.
- General Health Professions472
- Occupational Therapy29
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation23
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology17
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology1
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
5 additional Emergency Medical Services journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 25
- Window papers (baseline)
- 22,559 +1.0% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.819 +10.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,586 | 6,248 | 6,827 | 7,683 | 8,577 | 9,702 | 11,234 | 13,016 | 14,600 | 16,203 | 17,531 | 19,344 | 20,531 | 21,424 | 22,134 | 22,616 | 22,819 | 22,335 | 22,057 | 21,939 | 22,559 | 24,758 | 26,617 | 26,987 | 25,714 | 26,121 | |
| Median OJR | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.41 | 0.44 | 0.47 | 0.49 | 0.55 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.822 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.92 | 0.99 | 1.11 | 1.14 | 0.88 | 0.74 | 0.696 | 0.816 | 0.819 | 0.66 | 0.698 | 0.71 | 0.83 | 0.76 |
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.