Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Nursing journal rankings 2021
64 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Nursing has 64 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.33. The top three are Food Security, Frontiers in Nutrition, and Nutrition Research Reviews.
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 in Nursing (4)
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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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1Food SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.56Q1 | 9.22 5.58 up from 2020 | 343 | 66% | $2,790 | ||
2Frontiers in NutritionOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.67Q1 | 8.19 0.53 down from 2020 | 628 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
3Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 6.34 0.12 up from 2020 | 79 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
4American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.13Q1 | 6.89 0.35 down from 2020 | 1,066 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
5Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 4.85 0.74 up from 2020 | 896 | 35% | $4,010 | ||
6Water SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 5.70 1.92 up from 2020 | 57 | 43% | $3,534 | ||
7Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 6.11 0.92 up from 2020 | 201 | 52% | — | ||
8Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 4.51 1.21 up from 2020 | 519 | 34% | $3,970 | ||
9Journal of Health Population and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.03 0.87 up from 2020 | 88 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
10Nursing Research and PracticeOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.95 1.28 down from 2020 | 33 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
11Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.54Q1 | 4.26 0.14 up from 2020 | 577 | 18% | $3,930 | ||
12Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 4.28 0.64 down from 2020 | 1,072 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
13Grain & Oil Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.46Q1 | 5.49 2.46 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary FibreElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 4.29 0.29 up from 2020 | 85 | 11% | $3,340 | ||
15Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 3.89 0.93 down from 2020 | 185 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
16Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 4.28 0.69 up from 2020 | 511 | 100% | $4,130 | ||
17Journal of Nutritional ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 3.22 0.54 down from 2020 | 132 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
18Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.31Q2 | 3.52 0.76 down from 2020 | 215 | 23% | — | ||
19Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States | 1.29Q2 | 2.51 0.37 up from 2020 | 277 | 25% | $3,500 | ||
20Current Developments in NutritionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.27Q2 | 3.59 0.31 up from 2020 | 333 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
21MetallomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 4.08 0.88 down from 2020 | 467 | 41% | $2,653 | ||
22Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.18Q2 | 3.21 0.86 down from 2020 | 524 | 28% | $4,110 | ||
23Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 4.27 0.37 up from 2020 | 611 | 20% | $3,700 | ||
24Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q2 | 4.51 0.92 up from 2020 | 1,200 | 14% | $4,290 | ||
25Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 1.13Q2 | 3.57 0.43 up from 2020 | 381 | 24% | $3,570 | ||
26BMC NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 3.28 0.35 up from 2020 | 191 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
27Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.96 1.02 down from 2020 | 222 | 39% | $3,790 | ||
28Clinical Nutrition ExperimentalOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.84 1.08 up from 2020 | 91 | — | $1,200 | ||
29Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.08Q2 | 3.49 0.41 up from 2020 | 299 | 25% | — | ||
30Pediatric Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.07Q2 | 2.81 0.41 down from 2020 | 106 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
31Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.13 0.41 up from 2020 | 518 | 6% | — | ||
32Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 1.00Q2 | 2.67 0.37 up from 2020 | 131 | 39% | $4,150 | ||
33BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 3.65 0.18 up from 2020 | 187 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
34Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 2.06 0.36 up from 2020 | 118 | 19% | — | ||
35Nutrition Research and PracticeOASouth Korea | 0.91Q3 | 2.51 0.05 up from 2020 | 184 | 100% | — | ||
36International Journal of Nursing KnowledgeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.88Q3 | 1.41 0.22 up from 2020 | 84 | 24% | $3,350 | ||
37Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.87Q3 | 2.61 0.35 up from 2020 | 350 | 18% | $3,750 | ||
38Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.81Q3 | 1.50 0.11 down from 2020 | 326 | 12% | — | ||
39International Journal of Nursing Education ScholarshipDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.80Q3 | 1.35 0.24 down from 2020 | 101 | 18% | $2,712 | ||
40MOJ Food Processing & TechnologyOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.80Q3 | 1.33 0.15 down from 2020 | 116 | 100% | — | ||
41Environmental Health InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.79Q3 | 1.77 0.87 down from 2020 | 70 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
42Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary MetabolismOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.78Q3 | 2.09 0.14 down from 2020 | 52 | — | $1,850 | ||
43Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.72Q3 | 2.52 0.04 down from 2020 | 404 | 11% | $4,260 | ||
44Nutrition and Metabolic InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.72Q3 | 2.22 0.19 up from 2020 | 46 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
45Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for DevelopmentOAIWA Publishing | 0.61Q3 | 2.04 0.43 up from 2020 | 252 | 100% | — | ||
46Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.73 0.02 up from 2020 | 338 | 3% | — | ||
47NutrireSpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.58Q3 | 1.81 0.29 up from 2020 | 59 | 18% | $3,890 | ||
48Nutrition and Dietary SupplementsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.58Q3 | 1.62 1.38 down from 2020 | 39 | 100% | $1,806 | ||
49LipidsWiley · United States | 0.52Q4 | 1.54 0.13 down from 2020 | 260 | 30% | $3,589 | ||
50International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition ResearchOAHogrefe Verlag · Switzerland | 0.49Q4 | 1.84 0.39 up from 2020 | 230 | 22% | — |
Subfields of Nursing, compared.
- Nutrition and Dietetics55
- Research and Theory7
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
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.
19 additional Nursing 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
- 64
- Window papers (baseline)
- 71,980 +17.8% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.001 +4.3% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 64 | 64 | 68 | 64 | 67 | 69 | 65 | 60 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,167 | 21,848 | 22,638 | 24,055 | 24,750 | 26,977 | 28,827 | 31,236 | 33,594 | 36,601 | 41,173 | 44,651 | 47,631 | 48,824 | 52,171 | 55,051 | 57,707 | 58,897 | 61,127 | 64,054 | 67,520 | 71,980 | 75,020 | 75,890 | 74,874 | 78,756 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.688 | 0.692 | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 1.0907 | 1.28 | 1.309 | 1.312 | 1.29 | 1.22 | 1.095 | 1.0906 | 1.092 | 1.10 | 0.959 | 0.98 | 0.964 | 1.001 | 0.941 | 0.939 | 0.88 | 0.91 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.4% | 50 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.077 per 1,000 | 42 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +0.7% | 56 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 69.5% | 60 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,560 | 40 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 23.4% | 59 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.6% | 60 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.95 | 60 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 23.2% | 60 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.5% | 60 journals |
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.