Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine journal rankings 2021
124 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has 124 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2020 to 0.57, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.25. The top three are British Journal of Sports Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Sports Medicine - Open.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery985
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine362
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health303
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine297
- Oncology239
- Infectious Diseases234
- Epidemiology204
- Neurology172
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging170
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism163
- Physiology163
- Psychiatry and Mental health145
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine124
Show all 42 subfields
- Ophthalmology103
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Dermatology99
- Hematology83
- Obstetrics and Gynecology83
- Rheumatology67
- Nephrology61
- Pharmacology54
- Complementary and alternative medicine50
- Reproductive Medicine49
- Emergency Medicine45
- Geriatrics and Gerontology39
- Rehabilitation37
- Otorhinolaryngology35
- Hepatology29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine26
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine24
- Immunology and Allergy23
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine14
- Urology14
- Gastroenterology6
- Health Informatics5
- Internal Medicine5
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
124 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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1British Journal of Sports MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 11.68 2.85 up from 2020 | 820 | 61% | — | ||
2Sports MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.56Q1 | 12.95 1.92 up from 2020 | 453 | 47% | $5,790 | ||
3Sports Medicine - OpenOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.94Q1 | 8.42 1.64 up from 2020 | 165 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
4Biology of SportOATermedia Publishing House · Poland | 1.93Q1 | 6.04 2.32 up from 2020 | 180 | 100% | $480 | ||
5Medicine & Science in Sports & ExerciseLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.84Q1 | 5.85 0.71 up from 2020 | 972 | 8% | — | ||
6Current Osteoporosis ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.84Q1 | 5.87 0.42 down from 2020 | 217 | 60% | $4,790 | ||
7Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in SportsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 5.06 0.55 up from 2020 | 702 | 64% | $4,550 | ||
8International Journal of Sports Physiology and PerformanceHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.76Q1 | 4.21 0.14 down from 2020 | 559 | 42% | — | ||
9Journal of Sports SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 4.48 0.74 up from 2020 | 897 | 48% | — | ||
10Journal of science and medicine in sportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 4.50 0.27 up from 2020 | 619 | 29% | $3,720 | ||
11SportsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.68Q1 | 4.39 1.12 up from 2020 | 592 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
12European Journal of Sport ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 4.21 0.01 down from 2020 | 600 | 37% | $2,680 | ||
13Open Access Journal of Sports MedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.54Q1 | 3.30 0.11 down from 2020 | 63 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
14Osteoporosis InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 4.60 0.39 down from 2020 | 810 | 54% | $5,090 | ||
15Journal of Human KineticsOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.45Q1 | 3.89 0.93 up from 2020 | 364 | 100% | — | ||
16Research in Sports MedicineTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 3.29 0.99 down from 2020 | 174 | 22% | — | ||
17International Journal of Performance Analysis in SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.42Q1 | 3.13 0.36 up from 2020 | 258 | 34% | — | ||
18Calcified Tissue InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.40Q1 | 4.53 0.03 up from 2020 | 382 | 60% | $3,990 | ||
19Foot and Ankle ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 2.67 0.23 up from 2020 | 151 | 1% | $3,000 | ||
20The Journal of Strength and Conditioning ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.35Q1 | 3.11 0.04 down from 2020 | 1,468 | 19% | — | ||
21Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.34Q1 | 3.24 1.19 up from 2020 | 268 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
22Osteoporosis and SarcopeniaOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.34Q1 | 2.47 1.37 down from 2020 | 88 | 100% | $500 | ||
23BMJ Open Sport & Exercise MedicineOABMJ · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 4.41 0.75 up from 2020 | 397 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
24BoneElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q1 | 4.19 0.39 down from 2020 | 1,131 | 53% | $3,960 | ||
25BMC Sports Science Medicine and RehabilitationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 3.23 0.14 up from 2020 | 132 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
26JBMR PlusOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 4.30 0.09 down from 2020 | 251 | 100% | $2,888 | ||
27Science and Medicine in FootballTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 3.07 0.61 up from 2020 | 157 | 48% | — | ||
28Archives of OsteoporosisSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 3.33 0.18 up from 2020 | 422 | 37% | $3,990 | ||
29Foot & Ankle InternationalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.29Q1 | 3.12 0.03 up from 2020 | 691 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
30Journal of Bone and Mineral ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 1.28Q1 | 3.30 3.26 down from 2020 | 1,152 | 46% | $3,780 | ||
31Research Quarterly for Exercise and SportTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.25Q1 | 2.53 0.20 down from 2020 | 309 | 32% | — | ||
32International Journal of Sports Science & CoachingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 2.50 0.02 down from 2020 | 296 | 32% | $3,650 | ||
33European Journal of Applied PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.20Q2 | 3.71 0.33 up from 2020 | 745 | 53% | $2,890 | ||
34International Journal of Sports MedicineThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 3.03 0.44 up from 2020 | 423 | 38% | — | ||
35Physical Therapy in SportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.98 0.14 up from 2020 | 439 | 38% | $2,990 | ||
36Bone ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 2.98 1.27 down from 2020 | 200 | 100% | $2,540 | ||
37Journal of Bone MetabolismThe Korean Society for Bone and Mineral Research · South Korea | 1.04Q2 | 3.13 0.39 down from 2020 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
38Strength and conditioning journalLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.02Q2 | 2.72 0.12 up from 2020 | 236 | 16% | — | ||
39Journal of Bone and Mineral MetabolismSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.01Q2 | 3.45 0.70 up from 2020 | 263 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
40Sports Medicine International OpenOAGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany | 0.99Q2 | 1.82 0.33 down from 2020 | 54 | 100% | $1,833 | ||
41Journal of Clinical DensitometryElsevier BV · United States | 0.97Q2 | 3.05no change | 212 | 32% | $3,000 | ||
42Foot and Ankle SurgeryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 2.24 0.26 down from 2020 | 390 | 21% | $4,300 | ||
43Women in Sport and Physical Activity JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.41 0.75 up from 2020 | 49 | 40% | — | ||
44Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and MedicineOAMontenegrin Sports Academy · Montenegro | 0.93Q2 | 2.14 0.56 down from 2020 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
45Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral MetabolismSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.62 0.92 up from 2020 | 35 | 60% | $4,490 | ||
46Sports BiomechanicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.43 0.08 up from 2020 | 319 | 45% | — | ||
47Journal of Functional Morphology and KinesiologyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.90Q2 | 3.10 1.29 up from 2020 | 226 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
48The Physician and SportsmedicineTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.89Q2 | 2.51 0.47 up from 2020 | 254 | 18% | — | ||
49Pediatric Exercise ScienceHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.86Q2 | 2.05 0.08 down from 2020 | 138 | 30% | — | ||
50Seminars in Musculoskeletal RadiologyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States | 0.85Q2 | 2.38 0.49 up from 2020 | 191 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Orthopedics and Sports Medicine highlighted.
- Surgery985
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine362
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health303
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine297
- Oncology239
- Infectious Diseases234
- Epidemiology204
- Neurology172
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging170
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism163
- Physiology163
- Psychiatry and Mental health145
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine124
- Ophthalmology103
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Dermatology99
- Hematology83
- Obstetrics and Gynecology83
- Rheumatology67
- Nephrology61
- Pharmacology54
- Complementary and alternative medicine50
- Reproductive Medicine49
- Emergency Medicine45
- Geriatrics and Gerontology39
- Rehabilitation37
- Otorhinolaryngology35
- Hepatology29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine26
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine24
- Immunology and Allergy23
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine14
- Urology14
- Gastroenterology6
- Health Informatics5
- Internal Medicine5
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Microbiology0
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.
24 additional Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 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
- 124
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,063 +19.4% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.569 +0.4% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
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 | 45 | 44 | 47 | 47 | 51 | 54 | 54 | 60 | 60 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 85 | 88 | 89 | 95 | 102 | 107 | 115 | 120 | 123 | 124 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 121 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,949 | 8,737 | 9,282 | 9,896 | 10,548 | 11,907 | 13,366 | 14,821 | 15,878 | 17,676 | 19,144 | 20,968 | 22,242 | 23,741 | 25,227 | 26,663 | 27,721 | 28,850 | 30,205 | 32,070 | 33,837 | 36,063 | 38,759 | 40,063 | 40,334 | 40,972 | |
| Median OJR | 0.283 | 0.279 | 0.38 | 0.4313 | 0.4315 | 0.42 | 0.4931 | 0.47 | 0.571 | 0.53 | 0.51 | 0.553 | 0.546 | 0.59 | 0.572 | 0.574 | 0.4933 | 0.563 | 0.566 | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.569 | 0.62 | 0.61 | 0.565 | 0.558 |
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.