Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Oncology journal rankings 2022
245 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Oncology has 245 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2021 to 0.77, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Nature Medicine, and The Lancet Oncology.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery1,001
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine367
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health310
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine296
- Oncology245
- Infectious Diseases243
- Epidemiology196
- Neurology176
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging165
- Physiology162
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism159
- Psychiatry and Mental health147
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine123
- Ophthalmology103
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Dermatology97
- Obstetrics and Gynecology88
- Hematology83
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology62
- Reproductive Medicine54
- Complementary and alternative medicine51
- Pharmacology51
- Emergency Medicine43
- Geriatrics and Gerontology38
- Rehabilitation36
- Otorhinolaryngology34
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine29
- Hepatology28
- Immunology and Allergy24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine15
- Urology12
- Gastroenterology8
- Internal Medicine6
- Health Informatics5
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
245 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 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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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 132.78Q1 | 551.34 257.03 up from 2021 | 81 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 12.87Q1 | 58.74 2.16 down from 2021 | 951 | 56% | $12,690 | ||
3The Lancet OncologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.63Q1 | 25.73 0.87 down from 2021 | 1,085 | 32% | $7,280 | ||
4Journal of Clinical OncologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 6.99Q1 | 22.11 0.99 down from 2021 | 1,352 | 7% | — | ||
5Journal of Hematology & OncologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 6.68Q1 | 24.82 1.06 up from 2021 | 499 | 100% | $4,990 | ||
6Cancer CellCell Press · Netherlands | 6.49Q1 | 25.66 1.09 up from 2021 | 527 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
7Annals of OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.97Q1 | 17.12 1.68 down from 2021 | 932 | 100% | $5,080 | ||
8Nature Reviews Clinical OncologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 30.22 9.11 up from 2021 | 399 | 26% | — | ||
9Cancer DiscoveryAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 4.37Q1 | 20.94 5.02 up from 2021 | 703 | 69% | — | ||
10World Journal of OncologyOAElmer Press Inc. · Canada | 4.37Q1 | 6.13 12.87 down from 2021 | 90 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer NetworkNational Comprehensive Cancer | 4.20Q1 | 12.80 0.64 down from 2021 | 580 | 40% | — | ||
12Nature CancerNature Portfolio · United States | 3.80Q1 | 14.85 0.93 down from 2021 | 283 | 53% | $12,690 | ||
13European Journal of EpidemiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 3.67Q1 | 15.02 1.20 up from 2021 | 337 | 81% | $3,690 | ||
14JAMA OncologyAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.57Q1 | 11.09 1.09 down from 2021 | 1,234 | 52% | — | ||
15Seminars in Cancer BiologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.34Q1 | 10.00 2.59 down from 2021 | 629 | 44% | $6,060 | ||
16Cell Reports MedicineOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.28Q1 | 13.42 4.85 down from 2021 | 301 | 100% | $5,620 | ||
17Clinical Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 3.12Q1 | 10.43 1.76 down from 2021 | 2,076 | 68% | — | ||
18Journal for ImmunoTherapy of CancerOABMJ · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 11.19 1.75 down from 2021 | 1,398 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
19Cancer Treatment ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 12.95 1.50 down from 2021 | 277 | 50% | $4,910 | ||
20npj Precision OncologyOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 8.88 2.61 down from 2021 | 163 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
21JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOxford University Press · United States | 2.63Q1 | 9.40 0.99 up from 2021 | 541 | 99% | $5,436 | ||
22Cancer Immunology ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 2.56Q1 | 8.69 3.10 down from 2021 | 435 | 37% | — | ||
23American Society of Clinical Oncology Educational BookAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology · United States | 2.37Q1 | 5.47 2.61 down from 2021 | 222 | 53% | — | ||
24ImmunoTargets and TherapyOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.36Q1 | 8.48 1.22 down from 2021 | 61 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
25British Journal of CancerSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 8.27 0.11 down from 2021 | 1,188 | 100% | $5,190 | ||
26MedElsevier BV · United States | 2.25Q1 | 9.42 15.20 down from 2021 | 150 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
27Breast Cancer ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 8.31 0.88 down from 2021 | 387 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
28European Journal of CancerElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 7.46 1.03 down from 2021 | 1,313 | 48% | $4,270 | ||
29ESMO OpenOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 7.12 0.49 up from 2021 | 594 | 100% | $3,910 | ||
30Current Oncology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.94Q1 | 5.55 1.47 down from 2021 | 380 | 39% | $5,090 | ||
31Current Treatment Options in OncologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.93Q1 | 5.22 0.79 down from 2021 | 302 | 39% | $4,890 | ||
32CancerWiley · United States | 1.91Q1 | 5.49 0.54 down from 2021 | 1,814 | 49% | $4,790 | ||
33International Journal of CancerWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 6.66 0.72 up from 2021 | 1,588 | 61% | $5,030 | ||
34npj Breast CancerOANature Portfolio · United States | 1.82Q1 | 6.63 3.71 down from 2021 | 262 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
35JNCI MonographsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 3.96 1.14 down from 2021 | 62 | 88% | — | ||
36Expert Opinion on Investigational DrugsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 5.90 0.16 down from 2021 | 327 | 32% | — | ||
37OncoImmunologyOALandes Bioscience · United States | 1.77Q1 | 7.32 0.34 down from 2021 | 660 | 100% | $2,913 | ||
38Clinical Pharmacology & TherapeuticsWiley · United States | 1.70Q1 | 5.53 0.02 up from 2021 | 1,076 | 60% | $4,410 | ||
39The OncologistOAAlphaMed Press · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 5.36 0.52 down from 2021 | 1,114 | 100% | $3,852 | ||
40Seminars in Oncology NursingElsevier BV · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.10 1.14 down from 2021 | 211 | 27% | $3,590 | ||
41JNCI Cancer SpectrumOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 4.87 0.22 down from 2021 | 310 | 100% | $2,050 | ||
42Cancer Biology and MedicineOAChinese Anti-Cancer Association · China | 1.52Q1 | 5.82 0.30 down from 2021 | 296 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
43CancersOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 5.66 1.44 down from 2021 | 12,380 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
44Cancer Immunology ImmunotherapyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.50Q1 | 5.96 0.35 down from 2021 | 787 | 100% | $4,590 | ||
45Seminars in OncologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.48Q1 | 4.68 0.81 down from 2021 | 127 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
46Molecular Cancer TherapeuticsAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 1.48Q1 | 5.54 0.11 down from 2021 | 692 | 90% | — | ||
47JCO Global OncologyOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.45Q1 | 5.09 0.53 down from 2021 | 398 | 100% | $2,472 | ||
48Therapeutic Advances in Medical OncologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 5.46 0.55 down from 2021 | 498 | 100% | $2,800 | ||
49Frontiers in OncologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.45Q1 | 5.13 1.25 down from 2021 | 10,147 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
50JCO Clinical Cancer InformaticsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.43Q1 | 5.09 0.95 down from 2021 | 314 | 78% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Oncology highlighted.
- Surgery1,001
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine367
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health310
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine296
- Oncology245
- Infectious Diseases243
- Epidemiology196
- Neurology176
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging165
- Physiology162
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism159
- Psychiatry and Mental health147
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine123
- Ophthalmology103
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Dermatology97
- Obstetrics and Gynecology88
- Hematology83
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology62
- Reproductive Medicine54
- Complementary and alternative medicine51
- Pharmacology51
- Emergency Medicine43
- Geriatrics and Gerontology38
- Rehabilitation36
- Otorhinolaryngology34
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine29
- Hepatology28
- Immunology and Allergy24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine15
- Urology12
- Gastroenterology8
- Internal Medicine6
- Health Informatics5
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
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.
71 additional Oncology 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
- 245
- Window papers (baseline)
- 156,942 +36.4% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.77 -3.0% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 20
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 82 | 88 | 96 | 103 | 109 | 120 | 120 | 126 | 127 | 134 | 141 | 150 | 153 | 170 | 179 | 188 | 198 | 213 | 224 | 234 | 238 | 239 | 245 | 245 | 243 | 242 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 37,821 | 41,430 | 44,340 | 47,392 | 49,058 | 53,111 | 57,002 | 62,106 | 66,087 | 71,283 | 77,009 | 82,075 | 86,189 | 88,804 | 93,912 | 98,660 | 102,921 | 105,891 | 109,984 | 115,044 | 121,890 | 139,666 | 156,942 | 167,602 | 163,907 | 160,807 | |
| Median OJR | 0.55 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.799 | 0.805 | 0.831 | 0.85 | 0.90 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.010 | 0.95 | 1.006 | 0.974 | 0.972 | 0.967 | 0.832 | 0.84 | 0.82 | 0.79 | 0.829 | 0.830 | 0.77 | 0.750 | 0.73 | 0.748 |
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.