Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Nutrition and Dietetics journal rankings 2020
59 ranked journals · Subfield in Nursing
Nutrition and Dietetics has 59 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.39. The top three are Nutrition Research Reviews, Frontiers in Nutrition, and Water Security.
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 Nursing (4)
59 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 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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1Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 6.22 1.51 down from 2019 | 76 | 62% | $3,550 | ||
2Frontiers in NutritionOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.88Q1 | 8.72 3.93 up from 2019 | 382 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
3Water SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 3.78 3.50 down from 2019 | 43 | 62% | $3,534 | ||
4American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.44Q1 | 7.24 1.08 up from 2019 | 1,018 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
5Food SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 3.64 0.77 up from 2019 | 327 | 67% | $2,790 | ||
6Journal of Health Population and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 3.16 0.07 down from 2019 | 125 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
7Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 4.92 0.47 up from 2019 | 910 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
8Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 4.81 1.92 up from 2019 | 145 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
9Pediatric Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.65Q1 | 3.21 0.75 up from 2019 | 61 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
10Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.58Q1 | 4.28 0.30 up from 2019 | 215 | 31% | — | ||
11Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.55Q1 | 4.12 0.81 up from 2019 | 610 | 24% | $3,930 | ||
12Environmental Health InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.64 0.19 up from 2019 | 50 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
13Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary FibreElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 4.00 1.09 up from 2019 | 73 | 15% | $3,340 | ||
14MetallomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 4.96 0.69 up from 2019 | 471 | 42% | $2,653 | ||
15Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.39Q1 | 5.19 2.66 up from 2019 | 326 | 45% | — | ||
16Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 3.59 0.58 up from 2019 | 474 | 100% | $4,130 | ||
17Current Developments in NutritionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.32Q2 | 3.29 0.23 up from 2019 | 245 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
18Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 3.99 0.32 up from 2019 | 241 | 38% | $3,790 | ||
19Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.25Q2 | 3.90 0.37 up from 2019 | 567 | 27% | $3,700 | ||
20Journal of Nutritional ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 3.76 1.17 up from 2019 | 137 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
21Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.18Q2 | 4.07 1.11 up from 2019 | 391 | 31% | $4,110 | ||
22BMC NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 2.93 0.72 up from 2019 | 200 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
23Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 1.15Q2 | 3.14 0.22 up from 2019 | 356 | 25% | $3,570 | ||
24Grain & Oil Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.08Q2 | 3.03 2.89 up from 2019 | 36 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25WaterlinesPractical Action Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.86 0.91 up from 2019 | 57 | 13% | — | ||
26Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.01Q2 | 3.59 0.88 up from 2019 | 1,035 | 14% | $4,290 | ||
27Nutrition Research and PracticeOASouth Korea | 0.99Q2 | 2.46 0.20 up from 2019 | 182 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q2 | 3.08 0.28 up from 2019 | 303 | 26% | — | ||
29BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 3.47 0.56 up from 2019 | 221 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
30Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 0.94Q2 | 2.30 0.17 up from 2019 | 134 | 52% | $4,150 | ||
31Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 1.71 0.02 up from 2019 | 109 | 30% | — | ||
32Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.79Q3 | 2.56 0.37 up from 2019 | 383 | 21% | $4,260 | ||
33Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary MetabolismOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.78Q3 | 2.23 0.38 up from 2019 | 70 | — | $1,850 | ||
34Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.77Q3 | 2.25 0.66 up from 2019 | 293 | 17% | $3,750 | ||
35Nutrition and Metabolic InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.74Q3 | 2.03 1.03 up from 2019 | 38 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
36Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for DevelopmentOAIWA Publishing | 0.69Q3 | 1.61 0.15 up from 2019 | 224 | 100% | — | ||
37LipidsWiley · United States | 0.68Q3 | 1.67 0.14 down from 2019 | 299 | 27% | $3,589 | ||
38Clinical Nutrition ExperimentalOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.77 0.04 down from 2019 | 96 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
| 0.55Q3 | 0.54 0.43 down from 2019 | 43 | 3% | — | |||
40Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.71 0.46 up from 2019 | 315 | 4% | — | ||
41MOJ Food Processing & TechnologyOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.48 0.67 up from 2019 | 143 | 100% | — | ||
42NutrireSpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.48Q3 | 1.53 0.58 up from 2019 | 71 | 30% | $3,890 | ||
43International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition ResearchOAHogrefe Verlag · Switzerland | 0.46Q3 | 1.45 0.75 up from 2019 | 181 | 22% | — | ||
44Vitamins & MineralsOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.42Q3 | 0.20 0.46 down from 2019 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
45World NutritionOAUnited Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.84 0.34 up from 2019 | 113 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Food Science and Nutrition ResearchOAUnited States | 0.41Q4 | 0.76 0.04 down from 2019 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Applied GlycoscienceOAJapanese Society of Applied Glycoscience · Japan | 0.38Q4 | 1.48 0.72 up from 2019 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
48World Food PolicyWiley · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.56 0.13 up from 2019 | 34 | 0% | $3,140 | ||
| 0.32Q4 | 0.78 0.50 up from 2019 | 39 | 100% | — | |||
50International Journal Of NutritionOAOpen Access Pub · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.87 0.41 up from 2019 | 37 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Nursing, with Nutrition and Dietetics highlighted.
- Nutrition and Dietetics59
- Research and Theory7
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
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.
14 additional Nutrition and Dietetics 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
- 59
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,338 +13.1% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.943 -1.6% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 31 | 34 | 34 | 38 | 41 | 46 | 47 | 52 | 55 | 55 | 59 | 55 | 58 | 60 | 56 | 51 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 16,951 | 18,730 | 19,527 | 20,904 | 21,283 | 23,094 | 24,625 | 26,541 | 28,390 | 30,819 | 34,790 | 37,780 | 40,071 | 40,631 | 43,276 | 45,966 | 48,187 | 48,911 | 50,091 | 52,396 | 55,338 | 59,785 | 63,146 | 64,703 | 64,179 | 67,159 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.66 | 0.69 | 0.73 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.997 | 0.97 | 1.01 | 1.16 | 1.13 | 1.21 | 1.18 | 1.08 | 1.001 | 1.03 | 0.96 | 0.938 | 0.920 | 0.943 | 0.998 | 0.940 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.917 |
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.