Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Health journal rankings 2024
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Health has 56 ranked journals in 2024. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.08 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2023. A journal needs OJR 1.38 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and SSM - Population Health.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
56 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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1Journal of Health and Social BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.37Q1 | 3.75 4.18 down from 2023 | 133 | 63% | $3,900 | ||
2Social Science & MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 4.87 1.16 down from 2023 | 2,181 | 70% | $3,800 | ||
3SSM - Population HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 3.46 1.29 down from 2023 | 855 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
4Journal of Urban HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.05Q1 | 4.45 0.62 down from 2023 | 282 | 100% | $4,790 | ||
5European Journal of AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 4.30 0.46 down from 2023 | 190 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
6Psychology of ViolenceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.53 0.68 down from 2023 | 127 | 40% | — | ||
7Health Sociology ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.74Q1 | 3.03 0.32 up from 2023 | 52 | 79% | — | ||
8Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 3.69 1.49 down from 2023 | 417 | 71% | — | ||
9Psychosocial InterventionOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 1.67Q1 | 4.38 0.05 up from 2023 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
10Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.53 0.29 down from 2023 | 1,193 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
11Homicide StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.26 0.66 up from 2023 | 86 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
12Public HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.44 0.84 down from 2023 | 1,011 | 55% | $3,130 | ||
13Psychology of Religion and SpiritualityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.40Q1 | 2.45 0.01 down from 2023 | 122 | 25% | — | ||
14Journal of Aging and HealthSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.38Q1 | 2.25 0.32 down from 2023 | 303 | 66% | $4,400 | ||
15Journal of the Egyptian Public Health AssociationOALippincott Williams & Wilkins · Egypt | 1.36Q2 | 3.47 1.74 down from 2023 | 83 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
16Research on AgingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 2.14 0.23 down from 2023 | 134 | 61% | $4,150 | ||
17Injury EpidemiologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.33Q2 | 2.71 0.06 down from 2023 | 183 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
18Violence Against WomenSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.31Q2 | 1.98 0.47 down from 2023 | 567 | 61% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal of Behavioral MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.31Q2 | 3.34 0.10 down from 2023 | 251 | 45% | $4,790 | ||
20Therapeutic Advances in Vaccines and ImmunotherapyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 3.37 1.27 down from 2023 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
21Health Promotion PerspectivesOATabriz University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 1.29Q2 | 3.61 0.35 up from 2023 | 153 | 100% | — | ||
22Current Trauma ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.29Q2 | 2.73 0.97 up from 2023 | 55 | 23% | $4,090 | ||
23Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q2 | 3.97 0.78 down from 2023 | 1,546 | 100% | $3,175 | ||
24Journal of Family ViolenceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 2.47 0.81 down from 2023 | 427 | 53% | $4,090 | ||
25Global Social WelfareSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.16Q2 | 2.18 0.28 up from 2023 | 118 | 16% | $2,290 | ||
26Vaccine XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 2.60 0.77 down from 2023 | 317 | 100% | $2,440 | ||
27International Journal for the Psychology of ReligionRoutledge · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.03 0.22 up from 2023 | 50 | 18% | — | ||
28Journal of Religion and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 2.47 0.76 down from 2023 | 815 | 39% | $3,290 | ||
29Archive for the Psychology of ReligionSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.01Q3 | 2.31 0.47 up from 2023 | 45 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
30Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOAPan American Health Organization | 1.01Q3 | 2.65 0.11 down from 2023 | 524 | 100% | — | ||
31Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthOAElsevier BV · Australia | 0.99Q3 | 2.28 0.48 down from 2023 | 353 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
32The International Journal of Aging and Human DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.97Q3 | 1.91 0.38 up from 2023 | 138 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
33Journal of Health Care ChaplaincyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.91Q3 | 2.49 1.17 up from 2023 | 70 | 50% | — | ||
34Public Health ChallengesOAWiley · United States | 0.91Q3 | 1.86 0.71 down from 2023 | 130 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
35Spirituality in Clinical PracticeAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 0.89Q3 | 1.35 0.22 down from 2023 | 89 | 10% | — | ||
36BMC ProceedingsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 1.57 0.62 down from 2023 | 50 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
37Violence and VictimsSpringer Nature · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.05 0.31 down from 2023 | 119 | 16% | — | ||
38Journal of Muslim Mental HealthOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.23 0.39 up from 2023 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
39Discover Social Science and HealthOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.70Q3 | 1.61 0.38 up from 2023 | 52 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
40Journal of Spirituality in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.13 0.04 up from 2023 | 64 | 19% | — | ||
41Violence and GenderMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.02 0.81 down from 2023 | 82 | 5% | — | ||
42International Journal of Children s SpiritualityRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.09 1.05 down from 2023 | 32 | 29% | — | ||
43Journal for the Study of SpiritualityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q4 | 0.73 0.05 up from 2023 | 43 | 21% | — | ||
44Mental Health Religion & CultureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q4 | 1.12 0.65 down from 2023 | 222 | 41% | — | ||
45Pastoral PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.56Q4 | 1.01 0.09 down from 2023 | 178 | 23% | $3,090 | ||
46Journal of Religion Spirituality & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.55Q4 | 0.96 0.02 up from 2023 | 75 | 18% | — | ||
47Journal of Psychology and TheologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.51Q4 | 0.86 0.34 up from 2023 | 96 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
48Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social ThoughtTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.50Q4 | 0.85 0.13 up from 2023 | 84 | 19% | — | ||
49Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at RiskChildren at Risk · United States | 0.48Q4 | 0.41 0.33 down from 2023 | 40 | 25% | — | ||
50Partner AbuseSpringer Nature · United States | 0.41Q4 | 1.17 0.59 up from 2023 | 68 | 18% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Health highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,402
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication72
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research60
- Health56
- Urban Studies54
- Public Administration51
- Transportation51
- Linguistics and Language48
- Law46
- Demography40
- Library and Information Sciences40
- Anthropology36
- Geography, Planning and Development35
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
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.
8 additional Health 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
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 57,921 +41.9% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.079 +0.4% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 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.