Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
General Health Professions journal rankings 2022
484 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
General Health Professions has 484 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are The Lancet, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, and BMJ.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 Professions484
- Occupational Therapy27
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation27
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Health Information Management18
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology16
- Speech and Hearing11
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
484 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.17Q1 | 51.66 5.95 down from 2021 | 3,000 | 50% | $7,890 | ||
2Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.02Q1 | 8.45 2.12 down from 2021 | 138 | 34% | — | ||
3BMJPublisher not listed | 3.76Q1 | 12.74 2.15 up from 2021 | 5,450 | 45% | — | ||
4Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 9.30 1.01 down from 2021 | 309 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
5Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.33Q1 | 8.49 3.13 up from 2021 | 154 | 90% | $4,430 | ||
6Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.30Q1 | 5.99 0.59 down from 2021 | 94 | 35% | — | ||
7Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 3.23Q1 | 10.35 0.98 down from 2021 | 3,210 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
8International Journal of Nursing Studies AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 7.93 1.54 down from 2021 | 55 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
9Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.85Q1 | 8.80 1.70 down from 2021 | 352 | 100% | — | ||
10Annual Review of Public HealthAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.80Q1 | 19.89 3.65 down from 2021 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
11JMIR mhealth and uhealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 2.75Q1 | 7.18 0.52 down from 2021 | 1,276 | 100% | $2,850 | ||
12Nursing EthicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 6.30 2.09 up from 2021 | 282 | 54% | $3,900 | ||
13Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.71Q1 | 3.70 0.84 up from 2021 | 44 | 62% | $3,900 | ||
14Research Involvement and EngagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 4.64 0.60 down from 2021 | 198 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
15Family Medicine and Community HealthOABMJ · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 7.01 0.17 up from 2021 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
16Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 5.39 0.04 up from 2021 | 389 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
17Journal of Nursing ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 7.28 1.55 up from 2021 | 762 | 71% | $2,700 | ||
18Journal of Community HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 9.94 3.12 up from 2021 | 430 | 70% | $4,990 | ||
19International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 6.18 0.02 down from 2021 | 680 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
20Digital HealthOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 6.02 0.88 down from 2021 | 221 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
21International Nursing ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 6.32 1.81 up from 2021 | 219 | 46% | $3,400 | ||
22BMC NursingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 4.92 0.05 up from 2021 | 446 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
23International Journal of Nursing StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 8.60 1.14 up from 2021 | 621 | 42% | $5,840 | ||
24Public health reviewsOASpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.29Q1 | 7.77 1.19 up from 2021 | 58 | 100% | $2,389 | ||
25HLRP Health Literacy Research and PracticeOAUnited States | 2.28Q1 | 3.92 0.24 up from 2021 | 108 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
26Frontiers in Public HealthOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.23Q1 | 7.20 1.68 down from 2021 | 3,505 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
27The Interpreter and Translator TrainerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.47 0.26 up from 2021 | 84 | 30% | — | ||
28Journal of Healthcare LeadershipOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.20Q1 | 6.10 2.46 up from 2021 | 50 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
29Journal of Medical SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.18Q1 | 6.70 0.79 down from 2021 | 633 | 61% | $4,990 | ||
30Health Education & BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.11Q1 | 5.60no change | 356 | 43% | $4,400 | ||
31Safety and Health at WorkOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 2.08Q1 | 5.02 0.40 up from 2021 | 209 | 100% | $1,750 | ||
32BMJ Quality & SafetyBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 4.91 0.16 down from 2021 | 438 | 71% | — | ||
33Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyWiley · United States | 2.06Q1 | 5.39 1.36 down from 2021 | 1,423 | 65% | $4,760 | ||
34Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 2.04Q1 | 4.33 0.51 up from 2021 | 315 | 43% | $4,260 | ||
35American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 2.02Q1 | 5.28 0.01 up from 2021 | 1,358 | 98% | — | ||
36The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 5.84 0.58 up from 2021 | 559 | 62% | $4,408 | ||
37Public Health Research & PracticeOASax Institute · Australia | 1.98Q1 | 6.19 0.61 up from 2021 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
38Revista Latino-Americana de EnfermagemOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.97Q1 | 4.79 0.49 up from 2021 | 402 | 100% | — | ||
39BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 6.02 0.27 up from 2021 | 5,925 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
40Health Services ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 3.06 0.81 down from 2021 | 431 | 95% | $3,750 | ||
41Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.85 0.26 down from 2021 | 41 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
42Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationElsevier BV · United States | 1.94Q1 | 6.32 0.32 up from 2021 | 1,266 | 50% | $4,370 | ||
43Innovation in AgingOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 3.75 0.26 down from 2021 | 159 | 100% | $3,977 | ||
44Health PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 4.87 1.29 up from 2021 | 514 | 73% | $4,220 | ||
45Journal of Clinical NursingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 5.53 0.15 down from 2021 | 1,358 | 51% | $5,450 | ||
46Health Policy and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 6.46 0.52 up from 2021 | 241 | 56% | $3,000 | ||
47NAM PerspectivesUnited States | 1.87Q1 | 4.74 0.75 up from 2021 | 91 | 66% | — | ||
48American Journal of Community PsychologyWiley · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 3.57 1.18 down from 2021 | 261 | 55% | $3,620 | ||
49Qualitative Health ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.75 0.88 down from 2021 | 491 | 55% | $4,400 | ||
50Canadian Public PolicyUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada | 1.84Q1 | 4.35 0.25 down from 2021 | 116 | 46% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with General Health Professions highlighted.
- General Health Professions484
- Occupational Therapy27
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation27
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Health Information Management18
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology16
- Speech and Hearing11
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
77 additional General Health Professions journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 484
- Window papers (baseline)
- 186,208 +17.0% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.78 -8.1% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 27
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 | 204 | 215 | 234 | 238 | 250 | 260 | 271 | 289 | 305 | 314 | 327 | 334 | 351 | 371 | 387 | 398 | 417 | 437 | 449 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 484 | 484 | 478 | 466 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 38,240 | 42,047 | 45,752 | 49,898 | 53,367 | 58,843 | 64,217 | 70,320 | 76,474 | 83,408 | 92,174 | 100,149 | 106,727 | 112,937 | 120,774 | 132,312 | 141,342 | 148,496 | 153,280 | 159,194 | 164,940 | 176,625 | 186,208 | 190,820 | 188,939 | 194,090 | |
| Median OJR | 0.550 | 0.56 | 0.552 | 0.61 | 0.69 | 0.6706 | 0.6705 | 0.72 | 0.77 | 0.835 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.840 | 0.91 | 0.848 | 0.838 | 0.82 | 0.845 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.810 | 0.814 | 0.855 |
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.