Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Nursing journal rankings 2023
69 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Nursing has 69 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.19. The top three are Food Security, Grain & Oil Science and Technology, and Nurse Education in Practice.
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 Nursing (4)
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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 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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1Food SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.06Q1 | 7.80 1.78 down from 2022 | 305 | 67% | $2,790 | ||
2Grain & Oil Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 2.14Q1 | 7.81 4.07 up from 2022 | 66 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 5.03 0.67 up from 2022 | 632 | 42% | $3,970 | ||
4Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 5.14 0.13 down from 2022 | 1,069 | 40% | $4,010 | ||
5American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 2.03Q1 | 6.02 0.72 down from 2022 | 1,057 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
6Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 5.38 1.14 down from 2022 | 84 | 77% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States | 1.78Q1 | 3.95 0.41 up from 2022 | 392 | 21% | $3,500 | ||
8Frontiers in NutritionOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.72Q1 | 4.76 1.25 down from 2022 | 4,637 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
9Water SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 4.84 1.98 down from 2022 | 68 | 46% | $3,534 | ||
10Nursing Research and PracticeOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 3.58 0.92 up from 2022 | 44 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
11Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 4.18 0.28 down from 2022 | 574 | 23% | $3,930 | ||
12Journal of Health Population and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 3.81 1.06 up from 2022 | 125 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
13Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.81 0.56 down from 2022 | 499 | 100% | $4,130 | ||
14BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 4.79 0.97 up from 2022 | 242 | 36% | $4,090 | ||
15Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary FibreElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 4.00 0.01 up from 2022 | 112 | 14% | $3,340 | ||
16Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.20Q1 | 3.55 0.22 down from 2022 | 1,123 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
17International Journal of Nursing KnowledgeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 2.18 0.26 up from 2022 | 110 | 43% | $3,350 | ||
18Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.19Q1 | 3.52 0.21 down from 2022 | 175 | 37% | — | ||
19Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 1.19Q2 | 2.72 0.04 up from 2022 | 135 | 59% | $4,150 | ||
20Current Developments in NutritionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.18Q2 | 2.73 0.77 down from 2022 | 396 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
21BMC NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 2.73 0.03 up from 2022 | 322 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
22Journal of Nutritional ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 2.82no change | 270 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
23Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.14Q2 | 4.03 0.18 up from 2022 | 582 | 22% | $3,700 | ||
24Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 3.69 0.61 up from 2022 | 206 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
25Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.12Q2 | 4.02 0.47 down from 2022 | 1,429 | 21% | $4,290 | ||
26Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.11Q2 | 3.15 0.31 down from 2022 | 212 | 32% | — | ||
27Journal of the American College of NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.36 1.52 down from 2022 | 104 | — | — | ||
28Environmental Health InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.06Q2 | 3.33 0.26 up from 2022 | 195 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
29Pediatric Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.06Q2 | 2.93 0.43 up from 2022 | 147 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
30PLOS WaterOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 1.06Q2 | 3.25no 2022 value | 48 | 100% | $2,496 | — | |
31Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.03Q2 | 3.32 0.02 down from 2022 | 551 | 63% | $4,110 | ||
32Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 1.03Q2 | 2.71 0.72 down from 2022 | 379 | 60% | $3,570 | ||
33Nutrition and Metabolic InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.99Q2 | 3.09 0.76 up from 2022 | 71 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
34Nutrition Research and PracticeOASouth Korea | 0.97Q2 | 2.70 0.06 down from 2022 | 184 | 100% | — | ||
35Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 2.39 0.23 up from 2022 | 112 | 33% | — | ||
36Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 2.98 0.46 down from 2022 | 189 | 52% | $3,790 | ||
37Human Nutrition & MetabolismOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.91Q3 | 2.64 1.10 up from 2022 | 68 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
38MetallomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.89Q3 | 3.21 0.45 down from 2022 | 326 | 75% | $2,653 | ||
39Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.89Q3 | 1.90 0.32 down from 2022 | 379 | 8% | — | ||
40Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.85Q3 | 2.44 0.01 down from 2022 | 356 | 59% | $3,750 | ||
41International Journal of Nursing Education ScholarshipDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.84Q3 | 1.76 0.08 up from 2022 | 105 | 35% | $2,712 | ||
42Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.79Q3 | 2.89 0.37 up from 2022 | 487 | 56% | $4,260 | ||
43Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 0.78Q3 | 1.51 0.33 down from 2022 | 537 | 27% | — | ||
44Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for DevelopmentOAIWA Publishing | 0.65Q3 | 2.12 0.14 up from 2022 | 271 | 100% | — | ||
45Nutrition and Dietary SupplementsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.61Q3 | 1.81no change | 45 | 100% | $1,806 | ||
46International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition ResearchOAHogrefe Verlag · Switzerland | 0.60Q3 | 2.27 0.12 down from 2022 | 149 | 57% | — | ||
47LipidsWiley · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.89 0.22 down from 2022 | 132 | 57% | $3,589 | ||
48Nursing Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.06 0.14 down from 2022 | 221 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
49Cereal Foods WorldAmerican Association of Cereal Chemists · United States | 0.53Q3 | —no 2022 value | 65 | — | — | ||
50World Food PolicyWiley · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.07 0.07 up from 2022 | 38 | 36% | $3,140 |
Subfields of Nursing, compared.
- Nutrition and Dietetics60
- Research and Theory7
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
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.
11 additional Nursing 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
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 75,890 +12.4% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.939 -2.7% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 64 | 64 | 68 | 64 | 67 | 69 | 65 | 60 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,167 | 21,848 | 22,638 | 24,055 | 24,750 | 26,977 | 28,827 | 31,236 | 33,594 | 36,601 | 41,173 | 44,651 | 47,631 | 48,824 | 52,171 | 55,051 | 57,707 | 58,897 | 61,127 | 64,054 | 67,520 | 71,980 | 75,020 | 75,890 | 74,874 | 78,756 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.688 | 0.692 | 0.72 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 1.0907 | 1.28 | 1.309 | 1.312 | 1.29 | 1.22 | 1.095 | 1.0906 | 1.092 | 1.10 | 0.959 | 0.98 | 0.964 | 1.001 | 0.941 | 0.939 | 0.88 | 0.91 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.4% | 50 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.077 per 1,000 | 42 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +0.7% | 56 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 69.5% | 60 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,560 | 40 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 23.4% | 59 journals |
| Review share | Median: 2.6% | 60 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.95 | 60 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 23.2% | 60 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.5% | 60 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.