Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine journal rankings 2020
353 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine has 353 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.19. The top three are The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Neonatology, and European Urology.
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
Show all 42 subfields
- 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
353 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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1The Lancet Respiratory MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.83Q1 | 13.20 2.28 up from 2019 | 558 | 78% | $7,280 | ||
2NeonatologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.60Q1 | 4.12 8.99 down from 2019 | 320 | 35% | — | ||
3European UrologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 4.29Q1 | 13.24 3.73 up from 2019 | 792 | 30% | $5,250 | ||
4DrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 3.45Q1 | 10.99 3.08 up from 2019 | 489 | 50% | $5,990 | ||
5Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 8.47 1.04 up from 2019 | 3,176 | 75% | $5,100 | ||
6European Respiratory ReviewOAEuropean Respiratory Society · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 10.32 2.43 up from 2019 | 219 | 100% | — | ||
7American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 2.97Q1 | 8.09 1.37 up from 2019 | 1,800 | 83% | — | ||
8Intensive Care MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.81Q1 | 6.75 0.46 down from 2019 | 987 | 82% | $5,190 | ||
9European Respiratory JournalEuropean Respiratory Society | 2.75Q1 | 8.24 1.42 up from 2019 | 1,690 | 93% | — | ||
10Modern PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.73Q1 | 7.79 1.07 up from 2019 | 597 | 99% | $4,480 | ||
11Critical CareOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 7.74 1.65 up from 2019 | 1,096 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
12Drugs in ContextOABioExcel Publishing Ltd · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 7.52 2.78 up from 2019 | 107 | 100% | $1,901 | ||
13Annals of Intensive CareOASpringer Nature · France | 2.44Q1 | 7.92 2.63 up from 2019 | 380 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
14Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 4.35 1.39 down from 2019 | 186 | 32% | $4,590 | ||
15Gastric CancerSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.40Q1 | 6.85 0.95 up from 2019 | 331 | 94% | $3,590 | ||
16The Journal of UrologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.38Q1 | 6.16 1.27 up from 2019 | 740 | 29% | $3,000 | ||
17Journal of Thoracic OncologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.31Q1 | 7.71 2.13 up from 2019 | 1,029 | 100% | $4,100 | ||
18Seminars in PerinatologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.29Q1 | 3.81 0.23 down from 2019 | 217 | 38% | $4,370 | ||
19Therapeutic Advances in Chronic DiseaseOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 6.00 0.05 up from 2019 | 89 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
20Frontiers in MedicineOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.18Q1 | 6.32 1.20 up from 2019 | 865 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
21Advances in Anatomic PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.26 0.75 down from 2019 | 117 | 9% | — | ||
22ThoraxBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 5.50 0.33 down from 2019 | 593 | 92% | — | ||
23Respiratory ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 6.52 1.74 up from 2019 | 761 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
24Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic SciencesWiley · Japan | 1.96Q1 | 3.56 2.21 down from 2019 | 214 | 24% | $3,700 | ||
25European Urology OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 5.69 2.89 up from 2019 | 266 | 34% | $3,790 | ||
26Radiotherapy and OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 5.84 1.10 up from 2019 | 1,075 | 19% | $3,770 | ||
27Current Opinion in Critical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.87Q1 | 4.43 0.53 up from 2019 | 266 | 20% | — | ||
28Advances in UrologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 4.54 1.81 up from 2019 | 50 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
29BMJ Open Respiratory ResearchOABMJ · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 4.70 0.55 up from 2019 | 188 | 100% | $2,085 | ||
30Annals of the American Thoracic SocietyAmerican Thoracic Society · United States | 1.82Q1 | 4.38 0.29 up from 2019 | 910 | 65% | — | ||
31Advances in TherapyAdis, Springer Healthcare · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 4.21 0.41 down from 2019 | 656 | 73% | $4,790 | ||
32Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 6.67 1.36 up from 2019 | 997 | 18% | $4,110 | ||
33Drugs - Real World OutcomesOAAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 1.74Q1 | 5.69 2.86 up from 2019 | 71 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
34Lung CancerElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 5.46 0.76 up from 2019 | 921 | 16% | $3,390 | ||
35Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & NeonatalBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.95 0.46 down from 2019 | 407 | 43% | — | ||
36American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular PhysiologyAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.70Q1 | 5.06 0.57 up from 2019 | 563 | 81% | — | ||
37CHEST JournalElsevier BV · United States | 1.69Q1 | 4.18 0.28 up from 2019 | 1,639 | 80% | $4,160 | ||
38Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory DiseaseOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.69Q1 | 5.25 1.12 up from 2019 | 122 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
39Medical SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.67Q1 | 4.86 1.13 up from 2019 | 259 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
40Prostate Cancer and Prostatic DiseasesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 5.01 0.85 up from 2019 | 237 | 41% | $5,190 | ||
41Clinics in Chest MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.74 0.56 up from 2019 | 177 | 24% | $3,350 | ||
42Biomedicine HubOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.65Q1 | 0.93 4.49 down from 2019 | 90 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
43Journal of Cystic FibrosisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.64 0.50 up from 2019 | 502 | 100% | $4,370 | ||
44Gastrointestinal EndoscopyElsevier BV · United States | 1.63Q1 | 5.53 0.81 up from 2019 | 1,130 | 64% | $3,450 | ||
45HistopathologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 4.94 1.39 up from 2019 | 701 | 34% | $4,840 | ||
46Cancer ImagingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 4.69 1.64 up from 2019 | 175 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
47Lung Cancer Targets and TherapyOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.62Q1 | 4.93 0.32 up from 2019 | 54 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
48European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular SurgeryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 4.07 0.65 down from 2019 | 834 | 99% | $4,000 | ||
49British Journal of UrologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 4.24 0.67 up from 2019 | 930 | 42% | $4,770 | ||
50Clinical and Translational Radiation OncologyOAElsevier BV · Ireland | 1.57Q1 | 4.92 1.57 up from 2019 | 210 | 100% | $2,430 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pulmonary and Respiratory 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.
99 additional Pulmonary and Respiratory 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
- 353
- Window papers (baseline)
- 175,931 +10.7% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.730 +9.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
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 | 116 | 128 | 133 | 140 | 152 | 172 | 181 | 194 | 199 | 212 | 221 | 236 | 245 | 266 | 283 | 297 | 315 | 324 | 349 | 347 | 353 | 362 | 367 | 367 | 364 | 352 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 51,191 | 58,101 | 61,730 | 66,053 | 67,282 | 74,504 | 82,746 | 93,558 | 102,120 | 113,728 | 123,057 | 131,093 | 135,018 | 138,763 | 146,389 | 152,077 | 157,160 | 158,971 | 164,168 | 168,770 | 175,931 | 189,625 | 206,647 | 218,275 | 218,995 | 219,470 | |
| Median OJR | 0.56 | 0.57 | 0.55 | 0.628 | 0.671 | 0.663 | 0.713 | 0.664 | 0.693 | 0.70 | 0.767 | 0.80 | 0.84 | 0.768 | 0.75 | 0.731 | 0.689 | 0.6662 | 0.68 | 0.710 | 0.730 | 0.6663 | 0.665 | 0.687 | 0.64 | 0.633 |
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.