Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Occupational Therapy journal rankings 2020
29 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Occupational Therapy has 29 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2019 to 0.73, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.02. The top three are Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Journal of Tissue Viability, and Journal of Occupational Science.
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
29 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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1Augmentative and Alternative CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 3.02 0.15 up from 2019 | 80 | 55% | — | ||
2Journal of Tissue ViabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 3.00 0.69 up from 2019 | 114 | 34% | $2,790 | ||
3Journal of Occupational ScienceTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.36Q1 | 2.15 0.57 up from 2019 | 152 | 31% | — | ||
4Scandinavian Journal of Occupational TherapyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.93 0.42 up from 2019 | 165 | 61% | — | ||
5Occupational Therapy InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 2.34 0.91 up from 2019 | 87 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
6Occupational Therapy In Health CareTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.23Q1 | 1.84 0.73 up from 2019 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
7Canadian Journal of Occupational TherapySAGE Publishing · Canada | 1.12Q1 | 1.61 0.49 up from 2019 | 112 | 28% | $4,150 | ||
8OTJR Occupational Therapy Journal of ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.02Q1 | 1.57 0.28 up from 2019 | 86 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
9American Journal of Occupational TherapyAmerican Occupational Therapy Association · United States | 0.99Q2 | 1.88 0.19 down from 2019 | 398 | 6% | — | ||
10Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.40 0.07 down from 2019 | 372 | 29% | — | ||
11Advances in Skin & Wound CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.95Q2 | 2.11 0.53 up from 2019 | 221 | 17% | — | ||
12Australian Occupational Therapy JournalWiley · Australia | 0.81Q2 | 1.66 0.85 up from 2019 | 222 | 30% | $3,470 | ||
13Assistive TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.67 0.14 up from 2019 | 147 | 29% | — | ||
14Physiotherapy Theory and PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.84 0.37 up from 2019 | 586 | 30% | — | ||
15Military MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 1.63 0.34 up from 2019 | 1,262 | 55% | $4,748 | ||
16Hong Kong Journal of Occupational TherapyOASAGE Publishing · Netherlands | 0.73Q3 | 1.92 0.76 up from 2019 | 37 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
17BMJ Military HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.53 0.43 up from 2019 | 99 | 29% | — | ||
18The Open Journal of Occupational TherapyOAWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.67Q3 | 0.83 0.13 up from 2019 | 166 | 100% | $300 | ||
19British Journal of Occupational TherapySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 1.41 0.33 up from 2019 | 258 | 45% | $4,150 | ||
20Occupational Therapy in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.66Q3 | 0.90 0.26 down from 2019 | 78 | 9% | — | ||
21World Federation of Occupational Therapists BulletinManey Publishing | 0.63Q3 | 0.89 0.33 up from 2019 | 41 | 14% | — | ||
22Chronic Wound Care Management and ResearchOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.63Q3 | 0.84 0.56 down from 2019 | 33 | 100% | $1,806 | ||
23Irish Journal of Occupational TherapyOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.46Q4 | 0.79 0.09 up from 2019 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Occupational Therapy Schools & Early InterventionTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.44Q4 | 0.95 0.27 up from 2019 | 114 | 13% | — | ||
25Journal of Occupational Therapy EducationOAUnited States | 0.32Q4 | 0.58 0.05 up from 2019 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
26Annals of International Occupational TherapyUnited States | 0.29Q4 | 0.45 0.01 down from 2019 | 53 | 19% | — | ||
27The AnthropologistOAKamla Raj Enterprises · India | 0.22Q4 | 0.08 0.18 down from 2019 | 137 | 100% | — | ||
28Pharmaceutical Technology in Hospital PharmacyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.20Q4 | 0.43 0.01 down from 2019 | 60 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29The Indian Journal of Occupational TherapyMedknow · India | 0.06Q4 | 0.15 0.15 up from 2019 | 33 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Occupational Therapy 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.
2 additional Occupational Therapy 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
- 29
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,378 +32.7% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.735 -12.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 3,170 | 3,403 | 3,595 | 3,852 | 4,017 | 4,445 | 4,804 | 5,348 | 5,860 | 6,431 | 6,901 | 7,452 | 7,898 | 8,809 | 9,714 | 11,196 | 12,456 | 13,848 | 15,146 | 16,658 | 18,378 | 20,572 | 22,586 | 24,173 | 26,335 | 29,176 | |
| Median OJR | 0.54 | 0.48 | 0.66 | 0.51 | 0.60 | 0.53 | 0.63 | 0.64 | 0.737 | 0.736 | 0.837 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.91 | 1.02 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 0.840 | 0.812 | 0.810 | 0.735 | 0.726 | 0.77 | 0.65 | 0.76 | 0.75 |
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.