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Journal rankings · indicator year 2023

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Subfield ranking · 2023

Hepatology journal rankings 2023

32 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Hepatology has 32 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.71, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are Hepatology, Liver Cancer, and JHEP Reports.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

32
<1% of Medicine
Median OJR

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.

0.71-0.04 vs 2022
This subfieldAll 0.77World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

59%
All fields: 38%
Median listed APC

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.

$2,900
Median positive listed APC: $2,900 among 21 journals. 11 have no known price. All fields: $3,240.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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32 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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APC (list price)
Hepatology ranking, 2023

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.

OJR

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.

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1HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
3.83Q111.18 0.35 down from 20221,07539%$2,900
2Liver CancerOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
3.16Q19.56 2.06 down from 2022176100%$3,590
3JHEP ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.03Q18.97 0.56 up from 2022339100%$4,110
4Journal of GastroenterologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
2.27Q17.50 0.85 up from 202226049%$5,290
5Hepatology InternationalSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
1.85Q15.39 1.06 down from 202243144%$3,090
6Liver InternationalWiley · United Kingdom
1.83Q15.25 1.19 down from 20221,04673%$4,780
7Clinics in Liver DiseaseElsevier BV · United States
1.40Q13.82 0.59 up from 202215412%$3,000
8Journal of Hepatocellular CarcinomaOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.34Q14.57 0.10 down from 2022255100%$2,836
9Hepatology ResearchWiley · Netherlands
1.19Q23.93 0.59 down from 202233854%$3,400
10Hepatic Medicine Evidence and ResearchOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.09Q23.68 1.18 up from 202243100%$2,320
11Clinical Liver DiseaseLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.07Q23.34 0.84 up from 202237599%—
12World Journal of HepatologyOABaishideng Publishing Group · United States
1.04Q23.10 0.09 up from 2022461100%—
13Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and HepatologyOAPulsus Group · United Kingdom
0.99Q23.10 0.15 down from 2022261100%$2,830
14Hepatic OncologyOAFuture Medicine · United Kingdom
0.94Q21.75 3.21 down from 202230100%$1,415
0.91Q22.88 0.64 up from 202241770%$3,150
16International Journal of HepatologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.73Q21.73 0.95 down from 202237100%$1,000
17HepatoBiliary Surgery and NutritionOAAME Publishing Company · Hong Kong SAR China
0.68Q31.95 0.91 down from 2022434100%—
0.67Q32.17 0.09 down from 202261232%$3,260
0.65Q31.84 0.13 up from 2022154100%—
20Current Hepatology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.63Q31.00 0.68 down from 20229024%$3,990
21European Journal of Gastroenterology & HepatologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.62Q31.98 0.03 up from 202280919%—
22Hepatoma ResearchOAUnited States
0.50Q31.60 0.16 down from 2022202100%—
23Case Reports in HepatologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.46Q31.13 0.31 up from 202245100%$790
24Journal of interventional medicineOAElsevier BV · China
0.42Q31.25 0.58 up from 2022123100%$980
25iLiverOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.37Q40.93no 2022 value42100%$1,600—
26Liver Cancer InternationalOAWiley · United States
0.27Q40.71 0.63 down from 202239100%$2,200
27Canadian Liver JournalUniversity of Toronto Press · Canada
0.24Q40.87 0.17 up from 2022109100%—
28GastroHepOAWiley · United Kingdom
0.22Q40.66 0.01 up from 2022122100%$840
29The Open Biomarkers JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
0.13Q40.25 0.01 up from 202237100%—
0.09Q40.00 0.28 down from 202281——
31Digestive Disease InterventionsGeorg Thieme Verlag · United States
0.07Q40.22 0.06 down from 20221378%—
0.05Q40.14 0.01 up from 202237100%—

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 Hepatology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
32
Window papers (baseline)
31,561 +2.3% from indicator year 2020
Median OJR
0.71 -26.4% from indicator year 2020
Rising journals (2025)
2

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals7777799891010121618181921232423262928323028
Window papers (baseline)10,93811,91512,72113,59614,14415,62817,37719,09420,21521,24422,22823,48424,60326,11127,77029,46030,67831,01931,01130,81830,85631,16531,69131,56131,10030,612
Median OJR0.590.580.720.990.9570.830.9291.0411.0990.9071.090.9300.881.020.810.85880.9081.0390.85910.870.9591.1030.750.710.730.67

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.