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Journal rankings · indicator year 2023

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Subfield ranking · 2023

Obstetrics and Gynecology journal rankings 2023

90 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynecology has 90 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.53, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.93. The top three are BMJ Medicine, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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.

90
2% 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.

0.53+0.01 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.

52%
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.

$3,080
Median positive listed APC: $3,080 among 42 journals. Another 2 list $0; 46 have no known price. All fields: $3,240.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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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.

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Obstetrics and Gynecology 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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1BMJ MedicineOABMJ · United Kingdom
2.85Q16.65no 2022 value51100%$3,679—
2.49Q15.50 2.17 down from 20221,64280%$5,410
3Obstetrics and GynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · Netherlands
2.45Q15.04 1.23 down from 20221,18319%—
4Journal of PregnancyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.94Q15.14 0.07 down from 202276100%$1,000
5BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.72Q13.98 0.40 down from 20222,556100%$3,290
1.70Q14.38 1.32 down from 202272177%$5,190
1.70Q13.68 1.90 down from 202269537%$3,550
8Women and BirthElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.62Q14.08 0.47 down from 202239843%$3,613
1.60Q13.73 1.03 down from 2022645100%$3,060
10International Journal of Women s HealthOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.55Q13.50 0.25 up from 2022412100%$2,836
11Gynecologic OncologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.40Q14.45 0.19 down from 20221,22076%$4,380
12Obstetrical & Gynecological SurveyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.40Q13.67 0.61 up from 20221417%—
1.36Q12.98 1.26 down from 20221,43567%$4,480
14MidwiferyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.35Q13.36 0.38 down from 202259159%$3,630
15BirthWiley · United States
1.26Q13.28 0.47 up from 202220678%$4,850
16Obstetrics and Gynecology InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.26Q12.61 0.42 down from 202296100%$1,000
17PlacentaElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.25Q13.28 0.98 down from 202262824%$3,720
1.11Q12.52 1.35 down from 2022968100%$3,800
19Pregnancy HypertensionElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.03Q13.00 0.15 up from 202235312%$3,150
20Journal of Perinatal MedicineOADe Gruyter · Germany
1.03Q12.11 0.78 down from 202254747%$0 listed
1.02Q12.39 0.61 down from 202229562%$3,750
22AJOG Global ReportsOAElsevier BV · United States
1.00Q12.11 0.18 up from 2022145100%$1,980
23Journal of Gynecologic OncologyOAKorean Society of Gynecologic Oncology · South Korea
0.93Q12.69 0.33 down from 2022255100%—
24Archives of Gynecology and ObstetricsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.89Q22.50 0.49 down from 20221,32442%$4,590
25Revista Brasileira Ginecologia e ObstetríciaOAThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Brazil
0.89Q22.12 0.20 up from 2022447100%—
26American Journal of PerinatologyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · United States
0.89Q21.55 1.21 down from 20221,05425%—
27Sexual & Reproductive HealthcareOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.88Q22.04 0.04 down from 202220470%$1,850
0.87Q22.21 0.55 down from 20221,62240%$3,440
29European Journal of MidwiferyOAEU European Publishing · Greece
0.84Q22.14 0.07 up from 2022175100%$1,617
0.81Q21.94 0.33 down from 202266956%$3,360
0.76Q21.93 0.75 down from 202256100%$2,400
32Obstetrics & Gynecology ScienceOAIndonesian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology · South Korea
0.76Q22.34 0.14 up from 2022233100%—
0.75Q21.84 0.14 down from 20221,591100%—
0.75Q21.49 0.28 down from 202246665%$3,920
35Journal of Minimally Invasive GynecologyElsevier BV · United States
0.67Q21.89 0.47 down from 202276816%$3,000
0.67Q21.74 0.20 down from 202210197%—
37International Journal of Gynecological PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.65Q21.67 0.09 down from 202226025%—
38MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
0.64Q21.12 0.83 down from 20222056%—
39Journal of Family & Reproductive HealthOATehran University of Medical Sciences · Iran
0.56Q21.39 0.35 up from 2022126100%—
40Hypertension in PregnancyOAInforma · United States
0.56Q21.60 0.16 down from 2022113100%—
41BrachytherapyElsevier BV · United States
0.55Q21.74 0.02 down from 202237410%$3,000
0.55Q21.52 0.15 up from 202258026%$3,100
43Journal of Obstetrics and GynaecologyOAInforma · United Kingdom
0.55Q21.21 0.13 down from 2022926100%$2,390
44Minerva Obstetrics and GynecologyEdizioni Minerva Medica · Italy
0.55Q21.61 0.14 up from 20223120%—
45Ginekologia PolskaOAVia Medica · Poland
0.54Q21.26 0.16 down from 2022543100%$431
46Gynecologic Oncology ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.53Q31.42 0.02 down from 2022533100%$930
47The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of IndiaSpringer Science+Business Media · India
0.52Q31.05 0.12 down from 2022391100%$4,090
48Case Reports in Women s HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.47Q30.93 0.39 down from 2022295100%$1,080
49Journal of Contemporary BrachytherapyOATermedia Publishing House · Poland
0.47Q31.21 0.31 down from 2022245100%$269
0.46Q31.42 0.22 up from 2022164100%—

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 Obstetrics and Gynecology 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
90
Window papers (baseline)
50,234 +54.3% from indicator year 2020
Median OJR
0.532 -11.9% from indicator year 2020
Rising journals (2025)
8

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 journals3135363938414144454443485555586164687374798388908581
Window papers (baseline)7,3318,6229,83710,59710,87811,55012,94814,42815,59216,84818,48120,75022,26523,47124,72126,26127,57228,32729,34730,95732,56538,23544,47850,23450,95950,060
Median OJR0.500.510.650.590.5970.6150.640.6570.620.670.8560.8640.8180.8190.850.730.740.760.690.6600.6040.540.5270.5320.560.614

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.