Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Emergency Medical Services journal rankings 2023
25 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Emergency Medical Services has 25 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.71, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.90. The top three are Human Resources for Health, Dental Traumatology, and Health Care Management Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Rehabilitation26
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
25 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 5.84 0.63 down from 2022 | 333 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
2Dental TraumatologyWiley · Denmark | 1.79Q1 | 2.77 1.34 down from 2022 | 241 | 63% | $4,330 | ||
3Health Care Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 2.64 1.22 down from 2022 | 113 | 59% | $2,090 | ||
4Operations Research for Health CareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q1 | 2.11 0.28 down from 2022 | 40 | 38% | $3,080 | ||
5Rural and Remote HealthOADeakin University · Australia | 0.96Q1 | 1.83 0.29 down from 2022 | 236 | 100% | — | ||
6BMJ Open QualityOABMJ · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 1.86 0.09 down from 2022 | 621 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
7IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.90Q1 | 2.08 0.33 up from 2022 | 74 | 24% | — | ||
8Journal of Patient SafetyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.98 0.32 up from 2022 | 471 | 44% | — | ||
9The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 1.94 0.07 down from 2022 | 315 | 21% | $3,510 | ||
10Disaster Medicine and Public Health PreparednessCambridge University Press · United States | 0.80Q2 | 2.00 0.94 down from 2022 | 1,098 | 66% | $3,550 | ||
11Australian Journal of Rural HealthWiley · Australia | 0.73Q2 | 1.79 0.03 up from 2022 | 334 | 88% | $3,570 | ||
12Prehospital and Disaster MedicineCambridge University Press · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.75 0.31 down from 2022 | 430 | 89% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of Patient Safety and Risk ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.24 0.07 down from 2022 | 95 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
14The Journal of Vascular AccessSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 1.36 0.33 down from 2022 | 722 | 26% | $4,150 | ||
15Health SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 1.63 0.28 up from 2022 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
16Nursing leadershipLongwoods Publishing · Canada | 0.60Q3 | 1.26 0.10 down from 2022 | 85 | 13% | — | ||
17Journal of Healthcare Risk ManagementWiley · United States | 0.54Q3 | 1.12 0.21 down from 2022 | 48 | 55% | $3,470 | ||
18International Journal of Risk & Safety in MedicineIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.47Q3 | 1.12 0.44 down from 2022 | 110 | 54% | $3,900 | ||
19Journal of Infusion NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.88 0.10 down from 2022 | 95 | 19% | — | ||
20Global Journal on Quality and Safety in HealthcareOAMedknow · United States | 0.35Q4 | 1.08 0.36 up from 2022 | 66 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
21Canadian Journal of Rural MedicineMedknow · Canada | 0.26Q4 | 0.73 0.07 up from 2022 | 66 | 62% | — | ||
22American Journal of Disaster MedicineUnited States | 0.25Q4 | 0.42 0.10 down from 2022 | 95 | 6% | — | ||
23Patient SafetyOAUnited States | 0.17Q4 | 0.37 0.06 down from 2022 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of the Association for Vascular AccessAllen Press · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.25 0.06 down from 2022 | 72 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
25Journal of Regional Medical CampusesOAUniversity of Minnesota · United States | 0.08Q4 | 0.27 0.12 up from 2022 | 44 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Emergency Medical Services highlighted.
- General Health Professions484
- Occupational Therapy27
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation26
- Emergency Medical Services25
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology13
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
4 additional Emergency Medical Services journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 25
- Window papers (baseline)
- 26,987 +19.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.71 -12.7% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 5,586 | 6,248 | 6,827 | 7,683 | 8,577 | 9,702 | 11,234 | 13,016 | 14,600 | 16,203 | 17,531 | 19,344 | 20,531 | 21,424 | 22,134 | 22,616 | 22,819 | 22,335 | 22,057 | 21,939 | 22,559 | 24,758 | 26,617 | 26,987 | 25,714 | 26,121 | |
| Median OJR | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.41 | 0.44 | 0.47 | 0.49 | 0.55 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.822 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.92 | 0.99 | 1.11 | 1.14 | 0.88 | 0.74 | 0.696 | 0.816 | 0.819 | 0.66 | 0.698 | 0.71 | 0.83 | 0.76 |
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.