Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Otorhinolaryngology journal rankings 2021
35 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Otorhinolaryngology has 35 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Rhinology Journal, International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, and Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.
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
- Otorhinolaryngology35
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- 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
- 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
35 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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1Rhinology JournalEuropean Rhinologic Society | 2.49Q1 | 10.26 6.23 up from 2020 | 244 | 87% | — | ||
2International Forum of Allergy & RhinologyWiley · United States | 1.72Q1 | 5.76 1.69 up from 2020 | 605 | 34% | $4,100 | ||
3Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck SurgeryOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 6.10 3.03 up from 2020 | 225 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
4OtolaryngologyWiley · United States | 1.55Q1 | 5.30 1.63 up from 2020 | 1,194 | 24% | $3,600 | ||
5Oral OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 4.26 0.10 down from 2020 | 1,112 | 15% | $4,720 | ||
6Head & NeckWiley · United States | 1.28Q1 | 4.15 0.77 up from 2020 | 1,322 | 29% | $4,760 | ||
7JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck SurgeryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 1.24Q1 | 3.79 0.95 up from 2020 | 856 | 58% | — | ||
8European Archives of Oto-Rhino-LaryngologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.15Q1 | 3.80 1.01 up from 2020 | 1,546 | 42% | $2,890 | ||
9Laryngoscope Investigative OtolaryngologyOAWiley · United States | 1.08Q1 | 2.98 0.07 down from 2020 | 352 | 100% | $2,900 | ||
10Acta Otorhinolaryngologica ItalicaOAPacini Editore Medicina · Italy | 0.99Q2 | 3.66 1.11 up from 2020 | 213 | 100% | $323 | ||
11American Journal of OtolaryngologyOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.88Q2 | 3.21 1.23 up from 2020 | 770 | 24% | $3,630 | ||
12American Journal of Rhinology and AllergySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.84Q2 | 2.48 0.27 down from 2020 | 349 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
13Clinical and Experimental OtorhinolaryngologyOAKorean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · South Korea | 0.82Q2 | 2.75 0.64 down from 2020 | 199 | 100% | $300 | ||
14Clinical Medicine Insights Ear Nose and ThroatOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.82Q2 | 2.95 1.08 up from 2020 | 32 | — | — | ||
15ORLKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.81Q2 | 2.25 0.54 up from 2020 | 117 | 25% | — | ||
16OTO OpenOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.80Q2 | 2.41 1.01 up from 2020 | 121 | 100% | $1,430 | ||
17Annals of Otology Rhinology & LaryngologySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.77Q2 | 2.14 0.04 up from 2020 | 596 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
18The Journal of Laryngology & OtologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 2.38 0.89 up from 2020 | 624 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
19Auris Nasus LarynxElsevier BV · Japan | 0.68Q3 | 1.76 0.27 down from 2020 | 493 | 32% | $3,520 | ||
20Clinical OtolaryngologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 1.99 0.34 up from 2020 | 589 | 26% | $4,520 | ||
21Brazilian Journal of OtorhinolaryngologyOAElsevier BV · Brazil | 0.63Q3 | 1.94 0.34 up from 2020 | 396 | 100% | $2,070 | ||
22International Journal of Pediatric OtorhinolaryngologyElsevier BV · Ireland | 0.61Q3 | 1.88 0.12 down from 2020 | 1,588 | 17% | $3,490 | ||
23Allergy & RhinologyOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.57Q3 | 1.71 0.36 up from 2020 | 74 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
24International Journal of OtolaryngologyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 1.96 0.60 up from 2020 | 49 | 100% | $800 | ||
25Acta Oto-LaryngologicaTaylor & Francis · Norway | 0.54Q3 | 1.67 0.02 up from 2020 | 534 | 24% | — | ||
26International Archives of OtorhinolaryngologyOAThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Brazil | 0.53Q3 | 1.58 0.04 up from 2020 | 254 | 100% | — | ||
27HNOSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.36Q3 | 1.22 0.12 up from 2020 | 450 | 50% | $2,390 | ||
28Rhinology onlineOANetherlands | 0.30Q4 | 0.89 0.03 up from 2020 | 83 | 100% | $754 | ||
29Otolaryngologia PolskaIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 0.28Q4 | 0.70 0.33 down from 2020 | 61 | 11% | — | ||
30Acta Otorrinolaringologica (English Edition)Elsevier BV · Spain | 0.25Q4 | 0.78 0.18 up from 2020 | 170 | 1% | $2,680 | ||
31Australian Journal of OtolaryngologyOAAME Publishing Company · Hong Kong SAR China | 0.24Q4 | 0.75 0.06 down from 2020 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
32Laryngo-Rhino-OtologieThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.18Q4 | 0.80 0.51 up from 2020 | 410 | 80% | — | ||
33Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.41 0.10 down from 2020 | 137 | 11% | $2,580 | ||
34Indian Journal of OtologyMedknow · India | 0.16Q4 | 0.41 0.06 up from 2020 | 99 | 4% | — | ||
| 0.02Q4 | 0.00 0.02 down from 2020 | 51 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Otorhinolaryngology 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.
8 additional Otorhinolaryngology 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
- 35
- Window papers (baseline)
- 17,029 +17.5% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.699 -3.0% 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 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 37 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 32 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 3,913 | 4,525 | 4,875 | 5,319 | 5,378 | 6,078 | 6,811 | 7,640 | 8,181 | 8,795 | 9,455 | 10,365 | 10,845 | 11,427 | 11,830 | 12,577 | 13,128 | 13,811 | 14,493 | 15,092 | 15,713 | 17,029 | 18,349 | 18,900 | 18,587 | 18,411 | |
| Median OJR | 0.466 | 0.43 | 0.472 | 0.544 | 0.52 | 0.538 | 0.56 | 0.58 | 0.627 | 0.686 | 0.647 | 0.625 | 0.650 | 0.68 | 0.719 | 0.705 | 0.704 | 0.696 | 0.721 | 0.688 | 0.698 | 0.699 | 0.66 | 0.648 | 0.57 | 0.61 |
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.