Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2023
Health journal rankings 2023
55 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 55 ranked journals in 2023. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.06 against 1.00, down 0.02 on 2022. A journal needs OJR 1.40 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association.
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 Social Sciences (22)
55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.50Q1 | 7.93 1.98 up from 2022 | 122 | 63% | $3,900 | ||
2Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 6.03 0.51 down from 2022 | 2,195 | 68% | $3,800 | ||
3Journal of the Egyptian Public Health AssociationOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · Egypt | 2.28Q1 | 5.21 0.13 down from 2022 | 92 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
4SSM - Population HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 4.74 0.99 down from 2022 | 785 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
5Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.13Q1 | 5.07 2.93 down from 2022 | 266 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
6Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 5.18 1.94 down from 2022 | 506 | 65% | — | ||
7European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 4.76 0.36 up from 2022 | 188 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
8Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.77Q1 | 2.71 2.45 down from 2022 | 70 | 83% | — | ||
9Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 1.75Q1 | 4.33 1.44 down from 2022 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
10Psychology of ViolenceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.46Q1 | 3.21 0.74 up from 2022 | 141 | 39% | — | ||
11Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 4.29 1.59 down from 2022 | 1,049 | 53% | $3,130 | ||
12Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.44Q1 | 4.75 1.02 down from 2022 | 1,479 | 100% | $3,175 | ||
13Health Promotion PerspectivesOATabriz University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 1.42Q1 | 3.26 2.52 down from 2022 | 175 | 100% | — | ||
14Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 3.28 2.28 down from 2022 | 348 | 60% | $4,090 | ||
15Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 3.23 0.88 down from 2022 | 742 | 41% | $3,290 | ||
16International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 1.34Q2 | 1.81 1.08 down from 2022 | 62 | 25% | — | ||
17Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 2.38 0.70 down from 2022 | 164 | 59% | $4,150 | ||
18Therapeutic Advances in Vaccines and ImmunotherapyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 4.65 0.88 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
19Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.28Q2 | 2.46 0.20 up from 2022 | 156 | 39% | — | ||
20Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 2.82 0.24 up from 2022 | 1,494 | 53% | $3,900 | ||
21Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.26Q2 | 3.44 0.14 down from 2022 | 246 | 63% | $4,790 | ||
22Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.24Q2 | 2.45 0.01 up from 2022 | 470 | 61% | $3,650 | ||
23Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 1.24Q2 | 2.76 0.61 down from 2022 | 533 | 100% | — | ||
24Vaccine XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 3.37 0.87 down from 2022 | 178 | 100% | $2,440 | ||
25Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.15Q2 | 2.58 0.48 down from 2022 | 300 | 65% | $4,400 | ||
26Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 1.13Q2 | 2.76 0.20 down from 2022 | 349 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
27Public Health ChallengesOAWiley · United States | 1.12Q2 | 2.57no 2022 value | 37 | 100% | $2,650 | — | |
28Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.84 0.21 up from 2022 | 50 | 33% | $3,650 | ||
29Global Social WelfareSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.00Q3 | 1.90 0.49 down from 2022 | 84 | 22% | $2,290 | ||
30Injury EpidemiologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 0.95Q3 | 2.76 0.25 down from 2022 | 181 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
31The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.93Q3 | 1.53 0.25 down from 2022 | 157 | 49% | $3,650 | ||
32International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.91Q3 | 2.14 0.67 up from 2022 | 40 | 27% | — | ||
33BMC ProceedingsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 2.19 0.01 down from 2022 | 43 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
34Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.74Q3 | 1.61 0.61 down from 2022 | 83 | 48% | $3,650 | ||
35Violence and GenderMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.74Q3 | 1.83 0.85 down from 2022 | 80 | 15% | — | ||
36Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.77no change | 232 | 37% | — | ||
37Current Trauma ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.66Q3 | 1.76 1.96 down from 2022 | 65 | 39% | $4,090 | ||
38Spirituality in Clinical PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.58 0.05 down from 2022 | 84 | 28% | — | ||
39Health and Social Care ChaplaincyEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.97 0.66 down from 2022 | 75 | 59% | — | ||
40Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.35 0.28 down from 2022 | 135 | 22% | — | ||
41Journal for the Study of SpiritualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.68 1.01 down from 2022 | 47 | 29% | — | ||
42Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 1.10 0.11 up from 2022 | 147 | 40% | $3,090 | ||
43Journal of Muslim Mental HealthOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.83 0.31 down from 2022 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.48Q4 | 1.32 0.96 down from 2022 | 85 | 29% | — | ||
45Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.48Q4 | 1.09 0.45 down from 2022 | 51 | 25% | — | ||
46International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public HealthGlobal Health and Education Projects, Inc. · United States | 0.41Q4 | 1.03 0.44 down from 2022 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.40Q4 | 0.72 0.27 down from 2022 | 90 | 48% | — | ||
48Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.40Q4 | 0.83 1.63 down from 2022 | 152 | 35% | $3,650 | ||
49Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.93 0.10 down from 2022 | 70 | 41% | — | ||
50Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.52 0.65 down from 2022 | 95 | 21% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
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.
12 additional Health 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
- 55
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,188 +54.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.057 +1.7% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 52 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 53 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,122 | 8,015 | 8,583 | 9,226 | 9,628 | 10,256 | 10,891 | 11,827 | 12,973 | 14,517 | 15,820 | 17,136 | 18,694 | 20,642 | 22,973 | 25,184 | 27,537 | 29,507 | 31,138 | 32,975 | 35,666 | 40,811 | 49,073 | 55,188 | 57,921 | 56,328 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.5185 | 0.5180 | 0.38 | 0.59 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 1.09 | 0.9995 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.067 | 0.96 | 1.064 | 1.111 | 1.060 | 1.04 | 1.074 | 1.080 | 1.057 | 1.079 | 1.113 |
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.