Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Occupational Therapy journal rankings 2021
27 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Occupational Therapy has 27 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Journal of Tissue Viability, and Occupational Therapy International.
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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions483
- Occupational Therapy27
- Emergency Medical Services26
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation25
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology15
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
27 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Augmentative and Alternative CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 4.74 1.73 up from 2020 | 77 | 30% | — | ||
2Journal of Tissue ViabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 3.45 0.45 up from 2020 | 144 | 40% | $2,790 | ||
3Occupational Therapy InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 2.40 0.06 up from 2020 | 96 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
4Occupational Therapy In Health CareTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.83 0.01 down from 2020 | 76 | 7% | — | ||
5Scandinavian Journal of Occupational TherapyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.93no change | 184 | 73% | — | ||
6Journal of Occupational ScienceTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.09Q1 | 1.84 0.31 down from 2020 | 166 | 31% | — | ||
7Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 2.40no change | 430 | 40% | — | ||
8Canadian Journal of Occupational TherapySAGE Publishing · Canada | 1.00Q2 | 1.93 0.31 up from 2020 | 122 | 48% | $4,150 | ||
9Australian Occupational Therapy JournalWiley · Australia | 0.99Q2 | 2.07 0.41 up from 2020 | 224 | 39% | $3,470 | ||
10OTJR Occupational Therapy Journal of ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.76 0.18 up from 2020 | 81 | 23% | $4,150 | ||
11American Journal of Occupational TherapyAmerican Occupational Therapy Association · United States | 0.82Q2 | 1.97 0.10 up from 2020 | 467 | 8% | — | ||
12Advances in Skin & Wound CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.82Q2 | 2.17 0.05 up from 2020 | 281 | 11% | — | ||
13Assistive TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.81Q2 | 2.27 0.60 up from 2020 | 127 | 42% | — | ||
14Physiotherapy Theory and PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 1.62 0.21 down from 2020 | 612 | 27% | — | ||
15Occupational Therapy in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.65 0.75 up from 2020 | 59 | 8% | — | ||
16Hong Kong Journal of Occupational TherapyOASAGE Publishing · Netherlands | 0.67Q3 | 2.27 0.36 up from 2020 | 34 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
17Military MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 1.53 0.10 down from 2020 | 1,404 | 63% | $4,748 | ||
18World Federation of Occupational Therapists BulletinManey Publishing | 0.60Q3 | 0.88 0.01 down from 2020 | 60 | 22% | — | ||
19British Journal of Occupational TherapySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 1.08 0.33 down from 2020 | 262 | 81% | $4,150 | ||
20The Open Journal of Occupational TherapyOAWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.96 0.13 up from 2020 | 160 | 100% | $300 | ||
21Journal of Occupational Therapy EducationOAUnited States | 0.49Q3 | 0.94 0.36 up from 2020 | 130 | 100% | — | ||
22Journal of Occupational Therapy Schools & Early InterventionTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.46Q4 | 1.02 0.07 up from 2020 | 105 | 2% | — | ||
23BMJ Military HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 0.35Q4 | 1.17 0.36 down from 2020 | 303 | 23% | — | ||
24Annals of International Occupational TherapyUnited States | 0.28Q4 | 0.47 0.01 up from 2020 | 84 | 7% | — | ||
25The Indian Journal of Occupational TherapyMedknow · India | 0.21Q4 | 0.55 0.40 up from 2020 | 47 | 11% | — | ||
26Pharmaceutical Technology in Hospital PharmacyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.20Q4 | 0.70 0.27 up from 2020 | 52 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
27The AnthropologistOAKamla Raj Enterprises · India | 0.15Q4 | 0.38 0.31 up from 2020 | 73 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Occupational Therapy highlighted.
- General Health Professions483
- Occupational Therapy27
- Emergency Medical Services26
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation25
- Health Information Management17
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology15
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy4
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
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.
4 additional Occupational Therapy 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
- 27
- Window papers (baseline)
- 20,572 +35.8% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.726 -10.6% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 3,170 | 3,403 | 3,595 | 3,852 | 4,017 | 4,445 | 4,804 | 5,348 | 5,860 | 6,431 | 6,901 | 7,452 | 7,898 | 8,809 | 9,714 | 11,196 | 12,456 | 13,848 | 15,146 | 16,658 | 18,378 | 20,572 | 22,586 | 24,173 | 26,335 | 29,176 | |
| Median OJR | 0.54 | 0.48 | 0.66 | 0.51 | 0.60 | 0.53 | 0.63 | 0.64 | 0.737 | 0.736 | 0.837 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.91 | 1.02 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 0.840 | 0.812 | 0.810 | 0.735 | 0.726 | 0.77 | 0.65 | 0.76 | 0.75 |
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.