Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Neurology journal rankings 2021
20 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Neurology has 20 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.52. The top three are Journal of Neuroinflammation, Glia, and Bioelectronic Medicine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 Neuroscience (8)
20 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Journal of NeuroinflammationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 10.51 1.24 up from 2020 | 991 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
2GliaWiley · United States | 1.95Q1 | 7.29 0.58 up from 2020 | 538 | 62% | $5,450 | ||
3Bioelectronic MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 6.60 2.63 up from 2020 | 55 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
4Tissue BarriersTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.33 1.31 down from 2020 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
5Journal of Neuroimmune PharmacologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q1 | 7.08 2.79 up from 2020 | 188 | 76% | $4,790 | ||
6Brain stimulationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q2 | 5.14 0.98 up from 2020 | 766 | 100% | $4,430 | ||
7Neural PlasticityOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 3.96 0.37 down from 2020 | 526 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
8NeuroMolecular MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.16Q2 | 4.32 0.35 up from 2020 | 158 | 31% | $4,990 | ||
9Restorative Neurology and NeuroscienceIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.93Q2 | 3.27 0.50 up from 2020 | 147 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
10NeuroImmunoModulationOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.73Q2 | 2.19 0.11 down from 2020 | 104 | 18% | — | ||
11Journal of Vestibular ResearchIOS Press · United States | 0.70Q3 | 2.88 0.76 up from 2020 | 114 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
12Journal of OtologyOAElsevier BV · China | 0.66Q3 | 2.08 0.45 up from 2020 | 104 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Neurophysiologie CliniqueElsevier BV · France | 0.66Q3 | 2.66 0.88 up from 2020 | 206 | 29% | $2,760 | ||
14The Journal of International Advanced OtologyOAAVES · Türkiye | 0.52Q3 | 1.80 0.41 up from 2020 | 264 | 100% | — | ||
15Acta Neurobiologiae ExperimentalisOANencki Institute of Experimental Biology · Poland | 0.37Q3 | 0.93 0.16 down from 2020 | 157 | 100% | — | ||
16Matrix Science MedicaOAMedknow · Pakistan | 0.34Q4 | 1.09 0.66 up from 2020 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
17Journal of Medical Imaging and Health InformaticsAmerican Scientific Publishers · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.81 0.03 up from 2020 | 1,182 | 0% | — | ||
18Journal of the History of the NeurosciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.49 0.28 down from 2020 | 93 | 24% | — | ||
19Neurological BulletinOAUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School | 0.06Q4 | 0.20 0.11 up from 2020 | 46 | — | — | ||
20Int J Cerebrovasc DisPublisher not listed | 0.02Q4 | 0.06 0.02 up from 2020 | 287 | — | — |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Neurology highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience270
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience33
- Neurology20
- Sensory Systems8
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems5
- Behavioral Neuroscience4
- Biological Psychiatry4
- Developmental Neuroscience0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6 additional Neurology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 20
- Window papers (baseline)
- 31,104 +20.5% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.716 -14.1% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 21 | 21 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,770 | 8,526 | 9,269 | 10,273 | 11,091 | 12,131 | 13,205 | 14,329 | 15,572 | 17,370 | 18,930 | 20,734 | 21,584 | 22,777 | 24,267 | 25,508 | 26,095 | 25,523 | 25,807 | 26,679 | 28,801 | 31,104 | 33,501 | 35,146 | 36,432 | 38,495 | |
| Median OJR | 0.40 | 0.34 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 0.61 | 0.80 | 0.87 | 0.81 | 0.88 | 1.25 | 1.43 | 1.24 | 0.92 | 0.91 | 0.89 | 1.03 | 0.834 | 0.95 | 0.833 | 0.637 | 0.71 | 0.716 | 0.85 | 0.79 | 0.717 | 0.636 |
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.