Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Global ranking · 2024
Journal rankings 2024
21,772 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 21,772 journals for 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.77, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, MMWR Surveillance Summaries, and QMiP Bulletin. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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.
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4 domains · 26 fields · 252 subfields21,772 ranked journals
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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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 171.61Q1 | 276.75 417.78 down from 2023 | 83 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2MMWR Surveillance SummariesOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 29.38Q1 | 71.42 16.04 up from 2023 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
3QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 21.96Q1 | 45.58 18.04 up from 2023 | 48 | 12% | — | ||
4Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 17.69Q1 | 44.59 7.13 down from 2023 | 102 | 37% | — | ||
5IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 16.20Q1 | 54.95 6.43 up from 2023 | 252 | 29% | $2,645 | ||
6Nature Reviews Disease PrimersNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 13.63Q1 | 54.45 15.91 down from 2023 | 137 | 25% | — | ||
7International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.98Q1 | 32.50 9.00 up from 2023 | 273 | 61% | $3,990 | ||
8American Journal of Qualitative ResearchOAUnited States | 12.02Q1 | 20.90 2.85 down from 2023 | 122 | 100% | — | ||
9Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 12.00Q1 | 45.55 13.07 up from 2023 | 60 | 76% | $3,880 | ||
10The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.89Q1 | 26.10 6.67 down from 2023 | 2,556 | 33% | $7,890 | ||
11New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 11.78Q1 | 32.11 1.40 down from 2023 | 2,787 | 22% | — | ||
12Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 11.10Q1 | 32.79 8.24 down from 2023 | 1,239 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
13Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical SystemsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.99Q1 | 40.88 27.26 up from 2023 | 63 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 10.69Q1 | 29.98 11.21 up from 2023 | 190 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
15Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 10.60Q1 | 21.46 0.60 down from 2023 | 300 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
16Endocrine ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 10.56Q1 | 26.42 0.93 up from 2023 | 110 | 85% | $3,750 | ||
17Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.33Q1 | 42.14 7.90 up from 2023 | 99 | 66% | $6,990 | ||
18CellCell Press · United States | 10.26Q1 | 33.68 2.09 down from 2023 | 1,358 | 100% | $11,400 | ||
19International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.25Q1 | 8.19 2.25 up from 2023 | 73 | 39% | — | ||
20Computers and Education Artificial IntelligenceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.16Q1 | 38.41 11.80 up from 2023 | 188 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
21American Journal of Applied Mathematics and StatisticsOAUnited States | 9.79Q1 | 0.38 14.66 down from 2023 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
22Qualitative PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.70Q1 | 1.00 12.66 down from 2023 | 88 | 26% | — | ||
23Higher Education for the FutureSAGE Publishing · India | 9.69Q1 | 1.21 32.68 down from 2023 | 42 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
24Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 9.62Q1 | 15.38 5.39 down from 2023 | 63 | 24% | — | ||
25Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.50Q1 | 30.02 4.74 up from 2023 | 152 | 64% | $6,240 | ||
26Contemporary Security PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.43Q1 | 7.23 0.18 down from 2023 | 83 | 65% | — | ||
27Sustainable Operations and ComputersOAElsevier BV · China | 9.36Q1 | 40.05 17.91 up from 2023 | 78 | 100% | $700 | ||
28West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.33Q1 | 5.40 1.87 down from 2023 | 216 | 94% | — | ||
29Signal Transduction and Targeted TherapyOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 9.27Q1 | 33.95 9.73 up from 2023 | 1,271 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
30Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.20Q1 | 41.76 11.69 up from 2023 | 252 | 37% | $6,040 | ||
31Smart Learning EnvironmentsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 9.09Q1 | 24.13 7.71 up from 2023 | 137 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
32Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.04Q1 | 15.58 1.65 up from 2023 | 426 | 31% | $4,690 | ||
33Advances in Optics and PhotonicsOptica Publishing Group · United States | 8.90Q1 | 31.77 0.77 down from 2023 | 37 | 36% | — | ||
34Innovation and Green DevelopmentOAElsevier BV | 8.85Q1 | 18.46 6.08 down from 2023 | 71 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
35ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.66Q1 | 30.81 5.55 up from 2023 | 748 | 61% | — | ||
36Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 8.65Q1 | 16.05 3.39 up from 2023 | 60 | 42% | — | ||
37American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 8.63Q1 | 7.96 0.63 up from 2023 | 228 | 76% | $4,100 | ||
38Molecular CancerOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 8.60Q1 | 35.77 8.04 up from 2023 | 521 | 100% | $5,090 | ||
39Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 8.59Q1 | 6.01 1.13 up from 2023 | 200 | 8% | — | ||
40RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.56Q1 | 9.85 3.18 up from 2023 | 173 | 44% | $3,650 | ||
41Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom | 8.49Q1 | 18.19 1.88 down from 2023 | 166 | 84% | $4,430 | ||
42eLightOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 8.24Q1 | 33.63 5.59 up from 2023 | 55 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
43Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 8.20Q1 | 12.42 0.50 up from 2023 | 226 | 52% | $4,360 | ||
44Journal of Hematology & OncologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 8.20Q1 | 30.21 5.83 up from 2023 | 467 | 100% | $4,990 | ||
45Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 8.20Q1 | 22.69 0.78 up from 2023 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.08Q1 | 13.14 2.98 up from 2023 | 440 | 56% | $4,740 | ||
47Journal of Research in Interactive MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 8.03Q1 | 13.22 1.45 down from 2023 | 167 | 14% | — | ||
48Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.02Q1 | 29.20 4.56 down from 2023 | 72 | 29% | $6,150 | ||
49Satellite NavigationOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 7.90Q1 | 10.78 0.22 down from 2023 | 88 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
50Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 7.89Q1 | 15.19 6.29 down from 2023 | 88 | 100% | $2,000 |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences4,640
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences3,107
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences2,442
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences1,355
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences1,148
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences1,094
- PsychologySocial Sciences1,036
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences992
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences853
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences736
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences614
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences600
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences539
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences508
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences387
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences361
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences360
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences232
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences185
- DentistryHealth Sciences176
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences133
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences72
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences68
- NursingHealth Sciences65
- EnergyPhysical Sciences54
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences15
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
4,694 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 21,772
- Window papers (baseline)
- 15,403,861 +7.5% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.7719 -2.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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 | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
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.