Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine journal rankings 2020
123 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has 123 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are British Journal of Sports Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Current Osteoporosis Reports.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery962
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine353
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health301
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine294
- Oncology238
- Infectious Diseases222
- Epidemiology196
- Neurology170
- Physiology163
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism161
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging160
- Psychiatry and Mental health140
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine123
Show all 42 subfields
- Ophthalmology100
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health100
- Dermatology93
- Hematology79
- Obstetrics and Gynecology79
- Rheumatology69
- Nephrology58
- Pharmacology53
- Complementary and alternative medicine51
- Reproductive Medicine48
- Emergency Medicine44
- Geriatrics and Gerontology39
- Otorhinolaryngology37
- Rehabilitation34
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine30
- Hepatology26
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine24
- Genetics22
- Immunology and Allergy22
- Urology14
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine13
- Gastroenterology8
- Health Informatics5
- Internal Medicine5
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
123 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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1British Journal of Sports MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 8.84 1.03 up from 2019 | 908 | 62% | — | ||
2Sports MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.57Q1 | 11.03 0.60 up from 2019 | 482 | 55% | $5,790 | ||
3Current Osteoporosis ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.22Q1 | 6.29 0.93 up from 2019 | 205 | 58% | $4,790 | ||
4Journal of Bone and Mineral ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 2.10Q1 | 6.56 0.70 up from 2019 | 714 | 77% | $3,780 | ||
5International Journal of Sports Physiology and PerformanceHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.97Q1 | 4.35 0.75 up from 2019 | 546 | 42% | — | ||
6Medicine & Science in Sports & ExerciseLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.92Q1 | 5.14 0.82 up from 2019 | 994 | 5% | — | ||
7Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in SportsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 4.51 0.82 up from 2019 | 643 | 50% | $4,550 | ||
8Osteoporosis InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 4.99 0.59 up from 2019 | 864 | 46% | $5,090 | ||
9Journal of science and medicine in sportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 4.23 0.55 up from 2019 | 690 | 54% | $3,720 | ||
10European Journal of Sport ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 4.22 0.94 up from 2019 | 525 | 36% | $2,680 | ||
11BoneElsevier BV · United States | 1.62Q1 | 4.58 0.14 up from 2019 | 946 | 52% | $3,960 | ||
12Calcified Tissue InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.55Q1 | 4.50 0.68 up from 2019 | 398 | 45% | $3,990 | ||
13Research Quarterly for Exercise and SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.73no change | 226 | 29% | — | ||
14Journal of Sports SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.74 0.55 up from 2019 | 781 | 44% | — | ||
15Archives of OsteoporosisSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 3.15 0.43 up from 2019 | 349 | 31% | $3,990 | ||
16Sports Medicine - OpenOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.47Q1 | 6.78 2.45 up from 2019 | 153 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
17SportsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.45Q1 | 3.27 0.80 up from 2019 | 519 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
18Foot & Ankle InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.44Q1 | 3.09 0.10 down from 2019 | 654 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
19Open Access Journal of Sports MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.43Q1 | 3.41 0.85 down from 2019 | 76 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
20Bone ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 4.25 0.70 up from 2019 | 148 | 100% | $2,540 | ||
21Journal of Human KineticsOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.41Q1 | 2.96 0.57 up from 2019 | 366 | 100% | — | ||
22Biology of SportOATermedia Publishing House · Poland | 1.41Q1 | 3.72 1.10 up from 2019 | 148 | 100% | $480 | ||
23European Journal of Applied PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 3.38 0.32 up from 2019 | 746 | 49% | $2,890 | ||
24BMC Sports Science Medicine and RehabilitationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 3.08 0.40 down from 2019 | 84 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
25JBMR PlusOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 4.40 1.86 up from 2019 | 177 | 100% | $2,888 | ||
26The Journal of Strength and Conditioning ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.34Q1 | 3.15 0.60 up from 2019 | 1,617 | 23% | — | ||
27Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and MedicineOAMontenegrin Sports Academy · Montenegro | 1.34Q1 | 2.70 0.73 up from 2019 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
28Research in Sports MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 4.27 1.37 up from 2019 | 157 | 38% | — | ||
29Science and Medicine in FootballTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 2.46 0.04 down from 2019 | 147 | 38% | — | ||
30Osteoporosis and SarcopeniaOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.26Q1 | 3.83 1.89 up from 2019 | 84 | 100% | $500 | ||
31BMJ Open Sport & Exercise MedicineOABMJ · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 3.66 0.93 up from 2019 | 354 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
32International Journal of Sports MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 1.22Q2 | 2.59 0.58 down from 2019 | 396 | 30% | — | ||
33International Journal of Performance Analysis in SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.77 0.61 up from 2019 | 254 | 18% | — | ||
34Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolismOACIC Edizioni Internazionali · Italy | 1.21Q2 | —no 2019 value | 66 | — | — | ||
35Foot and Ankle ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.20Q2 | 2.44 0.36 up from 2019 | 156 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
36Journal of Bone MetabolismThe Korean Society for Bone and Mineral Research · South Korea | 1.18Q2 | 3.52 0.59 up from 2019 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
37Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.18Q2 | 3.02 1.05 up from 2019 | 93 | 21% | — | ||
38International Journal of Sports Science & CoachingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 2.52 0.76 up from 2019 | 282 | 33% | $3,650 | ||
39German Journal of Exercise and Sport ResearchSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.15Q2 | 1.59 0.37 up from 2019 | 186 | 64% | $2,590 | ||
40Strength and conditioning journalLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.60 0.71 up from 2019 | 236 | 10% | — | ||
41Journal of Clinical DensitometryElsevier BV · United States | 1.13Q2 | 3.04 1.00 up from 2019 | 240 | 16% | $3,000 | ||
42Pediatric Exercise ScienceHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.13 0.35 down from 2019 | 165 | 38% | — | ||
43Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.03Q2 | 2.05no 2019 value | 63 | 100% | $2,353 | — | |
44Physical Therapy in SportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.84 0.73 up from 2019 | 333 | 22% | $2,990 | ||
45Sports Medicine International OpenOAGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 2.15 0.35 up from 2019 | 75 | 100% | $1,833 | ||
46Sports BiomechanicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 2.35 0.62 up from 2019 | 280 | 25% | — | ||
47KinesiologyOAUniversity of Zagreb · Croatia | 0.93Q2 | 1.61 0.36 down from 2019 | 96 | 100% | — | ||
48Foot and Ankle SurgeryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.50 0.58 up from 2019 | 388 | 17% | $4,300 | ||
49The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical FitnessEdizioni Minerva Medica · Italy | 0.91Q2 | 2.04 0.21 up from 2019 | 739 | 14% | — | ||
50Journal of Bone and Mineral MetabolismSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.87Q2 | 2.75 0.68 up from 2019 | 240 | 17% | $3,790 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Orthopedics and Sports Medicine highlighted.
- Surgery962
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine353
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health301
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine294
- Oncology238
- Infectious Diseases222
- Epidemiology196
- Neurology170
- Physiology163
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism161
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging160
- Psychiatry and Mental health140
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine123
- Ophthalmology100
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health100
- Dermatology93
- Hematology79
- Obstetrics and Gynecology79
- Rheumatology69
- Nephrology58
- Pharmacology53
- Complementary and alternative medicine51
- Reproductive Medicine48
- Emergency Medicine44
- Geriatrics and Gerontology39
- Otorhinolaryngology37
- Rehabilitation34
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine30
- Hepatology26
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine24
- Genetics22
- Immunology and Allergy22
- Urology14
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine13
- Gastroenterology8
- Health Informatics5
- Internal Medicine5
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
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.
23 additional Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 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
- 123
- Window papers (baseline)
- 33,837 +17.3% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.63 +11.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
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 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 47 | 51 | 54 | 54 | 60 | 60 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 85 | 88 | 89 | 95 | 102 | 107 | 115 | 120 | 123 | 124 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 121 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,949 | 8,737 | 9,282 | 9,896 | 10,548 | 11,907 | 13,366 | 14,821 | 15,878 | 17,676 | 19,144 | 20,968 | 22,242 | 23,741 | 25,227 | 26,663 | 27,721 | 28,850 | 30,205 | 32,070 | 33,837 | 36,063 | 38,759 | 40,063 | 40,334 | 40,972 | |
| Median OJR | 0.283 | 0.279 | 0.38 | 0.4313 | 0.4315 | 0.42 | 0.4931 | 0.47 | 0.571 | 0.53 | 0.51 | 0.553 | 0.546 | 0.59 | 0.572 | 0.574 | 0.4933 | 0.563 | 0.566 | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.569 | 0.62 | 0.61 | 0.565 | 0.558 |
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.