Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Health Professions journal rankings 2023
609 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Health Professions has 609 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.77, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are The Lancet, Implementation Science, and BMJ.
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 in Health Professions (11)
Up to Health Sciences- 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
609 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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1The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.34Q1 | 32.77 18.89 down from 2022 | 2,713 | 55% | $7,890 | ||
2Implementation ScienceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 11.86 2.56 up from 2022 | 280 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
3BMJPublisher not listed | 3.84Q1 | 10.63 2.11 down from 2022 | 5,379 | 40% | — | ||
4Milbank QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.67Q1 | 7.61 0.87 down from 2022 | 130 | 95% | $4,430 | ||
5Physical Education and Sport PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 4.27 0.48 down from 2022 | 212 | 62% | — | ||
6Human Resources for HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 5.84 0.63 down from 2022 | 333 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
7European Physical Education ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 4.47 0.38 up from 2022 | 147 | 77% | $3,650 | ||
8Journal of Aging & Social PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.03Q1 | 2.13 6.32 down from 2022 | 163 | 42% | — | ||
9Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOAJMIR Publications · Germany | 2.99Q1 | 8.06 2.29 down from 2022 | 3,285 | 100% | $2,950 | ||
10Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.91Q1 | 6.44 0.46 up from 2022 | 99 | 37% | — | ||
11Work and OccupationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.82Q1 | 5.16 1.45 up from 2022 | 51 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
12JMIR mhealth and uhealthOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 2.77Q1 | 7.56 0.38 up from 2022 | 1,057 | 100% | $2,850 | ||
13Safety ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 6.52 0.88 down from 2022 | 1,137 | 52% | $4,360 | ||
14NAM PerspectivesUnited States | 2.67Q1 | 6.64 1.90 up from 2022 | 93 | 71% | — | ||
15Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOAWorld Health Organization | 2.65Q1 | 7.03 1.76 down from 2022 | 336 | 100% | — | ||
16Annual Review of Public HealthAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.63Q1 | 21.52 1.63 up from 2022 | 92 | 97% | — | ||
17Health Research Policy and SystemsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 4.78 0.61 down from 2022 | 424 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
18International Journal for Equity in HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 6.01 0.17 down from 2022 | 654 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
19Journal of Participatory Research MethodsOAUnited States | 2.40Q1 | 1.92 1.37 down from 2022 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
20Journal of research in nursingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 2.25 1.71 down from 2022 | 137 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
21Journal of Nursing ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 5.11 2.17 down from 2022 | 908 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
22Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 5.43 3.04 down from 2022 | 835 | 100% | $4,332 | ||
23International Nursing ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 5.33 1.00 down from 2022 | 228 | 65% | $3,400 | ||
24Nursing EthicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 4.08 2.22 down from 2022 | 305 | 60% | $3,900 | ||
25Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.28 0.23 down from 2022 | 72 | 77% | — | ||
26Family Medicine and Community HealthOABMJ · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 2.52 4.50 down from 2022 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
27Research Involvement and EngagementOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 4.66 0.03 up from 2022 | 229 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
28BMC NursingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 4.95 0.02 up from 2022 | 750 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
29Sport Education and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 3.05 0.42 down from 2022 | 255 | 63% | — | ||
30Journal of Community HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 5.49 4.45 down from 2022 | 392 | 50% | $4,990 | ||
31International Journal of Medical InformaticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 5.50 1.11 down from 2022 | 625 | 51% | $3,150 | ||
32Journal of Healthcare LeadershipOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.23Q1 | 5.50 0.60 down from 2022 | 63 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
33International Journal of Nursing StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 8.70 0.11 up from 2022 | 548 | 49% | $5,840 | ||
34PLOS Digital HealthOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 2.17Q1 | 5.88no 2022 value | 119 | 100% | $3,043 | — | |
35The Interpreter and Translator TrainerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.76 0.29 up from 2022 | 78 | 38% | — | ||
36BioethicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 3.99 0.26 up from 2022 | 124 | 52% | $4,550 | ||
37Public health reviewsOASpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.00Q1 | 3.89 3.89 down from 2022 | 101 | 100% | $2,389 | ||
38The GerontologistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 4.01 1.83 down from 2022 | 549 | 82% | $4,408 | ||
39Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & HealthOANordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · Finland | 1.99Q1 | 5.09 0.71 down from 2022 | 174 | 100% | $2,480 | ||
40Nursing OutlookElsevier BV · United States | 1.99Q1 | 4.32 0.01 down from 2022 | 336 | 50% | $4,260 | ||
41International Journal of Nursing Studies AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 4.55 3.37 down from 2022 | 97 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
42BMC Public HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 5.11 0.91 down from 2022 | 6,572 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
43JMIR NursingOACanada | 1.96Q1 | 4.28 0.06 down from 2022 | 57 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
44Preventing Chronic DiseaseOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 1.96Q1 | 4.87 0.79 down from 2022 | 355 | 100% | — | ||
45American Journal of Public HealthAmerican Public Health Association · United States | 1.95Q1 | 3.81 1.47 down from 2022 | 1,357 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Medical SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.94Q1 | 4.87 1.83 down from 2022 | 366 | 60% | $4,990 | ||
47Digital HealthOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.31 1.71 down from 2022 | 520 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
48International Quarterly of Community Health EducationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 1.00 1.15 down from 2022 | 53 | — | $4,150 | ||
49HLRP Health Literacy Research and PracticeOAUnited States | 1.89Q1 | 2.20 1.72 down from 2022 | 100 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
50Health Policy and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 4.07 2.39 down from 2022 | 254 | 49% | $3,000 |
Subfields of Health Professions, compared.
- 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.
107 additional Health Professions 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
- 609
- Window papers (baseline)
- 357,796 +18.9% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.77 -6.1% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 38Comparison-group list (38)
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 | 253 | 271 | 295 | 302 | 318 | 330 | 346 | 367 | 390 | 401 | 415 | 428 | 449 | 473 | 492 | 507 | 527 | 551 | 566 | 585 | 601 | 612 | 616 | 609 | 600 | 586 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 66,020 | 72,769 | 79,195 | 86,335 | 92,515 | 102,597 | 113,331 | 125,469 | 137,977 | 152,092 | 168,072 | 183,124 | 195,764 | 208,179 | 223,186 | 242,061 | 257,124 | 268,029 | 276,391 | 287,165 | 300,893 | 324,777 | 346,759 | 357,796 | 362,286 | 380,673 | |
| Median OJR | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.8428 | 0.8435 | 0.838 | 0.90 | 0.834 | 0.816 | 0.80 | 0.8210 | 0.8207 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.830 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.6% | 405 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.694 per 1,000 | 396 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.1% | 554 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 74.5% | 586 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,290 | 259 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 19.6% | 558 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.8% | 586 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.86 | 581 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 41.6% | 586 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 47.9% | 585 journals |
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.