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Journal rankings · indicator year 2020

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Subfield ranking · 2020

Reproductive Medicine journal rankings 2020

48 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Reproductive Medicine has 48 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.97, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.39. The top three are Human Reproduction Update, Human Reproduction, and Fertility and Sterility.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

48
1% of Medicine
Median OJR

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.

0.97+0.04 vs 2019
This subfieldAll 0.82World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

40%
All fields: 35%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,190
Median positive listed APC: $3,190 among 26 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 21 have no known price. All fields: $3,300.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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48 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Reproductive Medicine ranking, 2020

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.

OJR

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.

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1Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press · United Kingdom
3.47Q115.41 1.77 up from 201913063%$4,490
2Human ReproductionOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.88Q17.21 1.10 up from 201981967%$4,630
3Fertility and SterilityElsevier BV · United States
2.26Q15.04 0.18 up from 20191,255100%$4,220
4Human Reproduction OpenOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.13Q16.33 2.81 up from 201995100%$2,284
5Reproductive Biology and EndocrinologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.12Q16.38 1.99 up from 2019325100%$3,690
6The World Journal of Men s HealthOAKorean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology · South Korea
1.80Q14.89 1.82 up from 2019155100%—
7Journal of Ovarian ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.70Q15.12 1.19 up from 2019303100%$3,290
8AndrologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.63Q13.98 0.49 up from 201940775%$3,090
1.60Q14.00 0.91 up from 2019169100%$1,850
10Molecular Human ReproductionOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.56Q14.08 0.21 up from 201918650%$4,490
11Reproductive BioMedicine OnlineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.40Q13.57 0.45 up from 201965845%$3,650
12Journal of Assisted Reproduction and GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.39Q13.56 0.83 up from 2019758100%$4,690
13Seminars in Reproductive MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
1.29Q21.90no change15031%—
14Fertility Research and PracticeBioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.27Q22.67 0.93 up from 201940100%$2,490
15Current Opinion in Obstetrics & GynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.26Q22.75 0.26 down from 20192119%—
1.16Q23.10 0.96 up from 201993100%—
17Systems Biology in Reproductive MedicineTaylor & Francis · United States
1.15Q23.13 0.94 up from 201914782%—
18Reproductive BiologyElsevier BV · Poland
1.14Q22.86 0.54 up from 201917310%$2,750
19Reproductive Biomedicine & Society OnlineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.10Q22.13 0.36 up from 201969100%$1,640
20CryobiologyElsevier BV · United States
1.03Q22.69 0.43 up from 201934511%$3,870
1.03Q22.23 0.61 up from 2019158100%—
22Animal Reproduction ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.02Q22.31 0.33 up from 201970319%$3,770
23Reproductive SciencesSpringer Nature · United States
1.00Q22.77 0.53 up from 201943030%$3,090
24BioSocietiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
0.98Q22.20 0.40 up from 201912845%$2,990
25AndrologiaWiley · Germany
0.96Q32.82 0.44 up from 201969675%$2,700
0.95Q31.68 0.75 up from 20196513%—
27Asian Journal of AndrologyOAMedknow · China
0.95Q32.51 0.55 up from 2019320100%$711
28JBRABrazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction · Brazil
0.94Q31.87 0.21 down from 2019202100%—
0.88Q31.99 0.29 up from 201964019%$4,520
30Gynecological EndocrinologyOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.88Q32.30 0.40 up from 201974614%—
31Gynecologic and Obstetric InvestigationKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.86Q32.58 1.05 up from 201914913%—
32Human FertilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.81Q31.97 0.13 up from 201915217%—
33Current Obstetrics and Gynecology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.74Q30.65 0.33 down from 20198130%$4,490
34International Journal of Reproductive BioMedicine (IJRM)OAShahid Sadoghi University of Medical Sciences of Yazd · Iran
0.68Q31.76 0.06 up from 2019277100%$260
35Middle East Fertility Society JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt
0.60Q31.18 0.04 down from 2019163100%$0 listed
36Fertility & ReproductionOAWorld Scientific · Singapore
0.46Q30.84no 2019 value31100%——
0.45Q41.08 0.27 up from 2019140100%—
0.40Q40.81 0.14 up from 201911017%$4,150
0.29Q40.71 0.10 up from 20199611%$2,500
40Global Reproductive HealthWolters Kluwer · United States
0.27Q40.63 0.40 up from 201931100%—
41Advances in Reproductive SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States
0.12Q40.12 0.72 down from 201934100%—
42Reproductive and Developmental MedicineOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · India
0.11Q4—no 2019 value33100%—
0.07Q40.18 0.15 up from 20191160%—
44Indian Journal of Gynecologic OncologySpringer Science+Business Media · India
0.06Q40.18 0.01 up from 20192629%$2,990
0.05Q40.04 0.11 down from 20194989%—
0.05Q40.07 0.02 down from 201947100%—
0.05Q40.12 0.10 up from 201979100%—
48Gynecology & ObstetricsOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States
0.05Q40.08 0.01 down from 2019453100%—

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.

18 additional Reproductive 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
48
Window papers (baseline)
31,299 +6.7% from indicator year 2017
Median OJR
0.97 +17.6% from indicator year 2017
Rising journals (2025)
2

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals1920222225252731323136363740434546505050484954565253
Window papers (baseline)12,08513,37914,42615,32715,56716,16817,31118,82420,01821,75723,57024,84625,04425,01226,01027,27928,54629,32429,77630,28031,29933,12935,07836,10636,66437,232
Median OJR0.7220.7200.710.640.620.700.760.8030.8780.930.8770.960.940.890.830.8660.780.820.8720.920.970.9140.9090.860.80110.8009

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.