Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Field ranking · 2024
Nursing journal rankings 2024
65 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Nursing has 65 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2023 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.16. The top three are Food Security, Grain & Oil Science and Technology, and Nurse Education Today.
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 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 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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1Food SecuritySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 8.12 0.32 up from 2023 | 266 | 64% | $2,790 | ||
2Grain & Oil Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 2.65Q1 | 9.47 1.66 up from 2023 | 57 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3Nurse Education TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 5.48 0.34 up from 2023 | 1,037 | 53% | $4,010 | ||
4Nurse Education in PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 4.97 0.06 down from 2023 | 693 | 42% | $3,970 | ||
5American Journal of Clinical NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q1 | 5.73 0.29 down from 2023 | 983 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
6Nutrition Research ReviewsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 5.00 0.38 down from 2023 | 82 | 89% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Professional NursingElsevier BV · United States | 1.85Q1 | 3.41 0.53 down from 2023 | 387 | 19% | $3,500 | ||
8Frontiers in NutritionOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.82Q1 | 5.84 1.08 up from 2023 | 6,102 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
9Water SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 5.93 1.09 up from 2023 | 65 | 76% | $3,534 | ||
10Nursing Research and PracticeOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 3.34 0.23 down from 2023 | 50 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
11Journal of Health Population and NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 3.82 0.02 up from 2023 | 252 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
12Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary FibreElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 3.27 0.73 down from 2023 | 119 | 17% | $3,340 | ||
13Journal of Cereal ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q1 | 3.95 0.23 down from 2023 | 533 | 29% | $3,930 | ||
14BioMetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 4.15 0.64 down from 2023 | 281 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
15Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 3.27 0.42 down from 2023 | 143 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
16Journal of NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.22Q1 | 3.62 0.07 up from 2023 | 1,091 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
17Pediatric Health Medicine and TherapeuticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.16Q1 | 2.59 0.34 down from 2023 | 131 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
18Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.16Q2 | 3.72 0.57 up from 2023 | 212 | 33% | — | ||
19International Journal of Nursing KnowledgeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 1.81 0.37 down from 2023 | 123 | 54% | $3,350 | ||
20Environmental Health InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.16Q2 | 4.07 0.74 up from 2023 | 223 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
21Annals of Nutrition and MetabolismKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.15Q2 | 2.71 0.80 down from 2023 | 131 | 54% | — | ||
22Maternal and Child NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 3.19 0.62 down from 2023 | 442 | 100% | $4,130 | ||
23Nutrition and Metabolic InsightsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.12Q2 | 3.00 0.09 down from 2023 | 72 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
24BMC NutritionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 2.87 0.14 up from 2023 | 390 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
25Biological Trace Element ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 4.03 0.02 up from 2023 | 1,443 | 28% | $4,290 | ||
26Journal of Parenteral and Enteral NutritionWiley · United States | 1.04Q2 | 3.44 0.12 up from 2023 | 406 | 56% | $4,110 | ||
27Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and BiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 3.61 0.43 down from 2023 | 617 | 26% | $3,700 | ||
28Journal of Nutritional ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.29 0.52 down from 2023 | 335 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
29Nurse EducatorLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.96Q2 | 2.00 0.10 up from 2023 | 426 | 10% | — | ||
30Current Developments in NutritionOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.58 0.15 down from 2023 | 377 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
31Ecology of Food and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.38 1.02 down from 2023 | 88 | 22% | — | ||
32MetallomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 3.14 0.07 down from 2023 | 248 | 82% | $2,653 | ||
33Food and Nutrition BulletinSAGE Publishing | 0.88Q2 | 1.91 0.81 down from 2023 | 125 | 49% | $4,150 | ||
34Nutrition in Clinical PracticeWiley · United States | 0.88Q3 | 2.59 0.12 down from 2023 | 408 | 53% | $3,570 | ||
35Cereal ChemistryWiley · United States | 0.88Q3 | 2.76 0.32 up from 2023 | 324 | 56% | $3,750 | ||
36Nutrition Research and PracticeOASouth Korea | 0.87Q3 | 2.04 0.67 down from 2023 | 214 | 100% | — | ||
37Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty AcidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 3.16 0.18 up from 2023 | 148 | 60% | $3,790 | ||
38PLOS WaterOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 0.85Q3 | 2.70 0.55 down from 2023 | 142 | 100% | $2,496 | ||
39International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition ResearchOAHogrefe Verlag · Switzerland | 0.84Q3 | 1.55 0.72 down from 2023 | 110 | 100% | — | ||
40International Journal of Nursing Education ScholarshipDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.82Q3 | 1.33 0.43 down from 2023 | 104 | 48% | $2,712 | ||
41Human Nutrition & MetabolismOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.81Q3 | 2.43 0.21 down from 2023 | 115 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
42Starch - StärkeWiley · Germany | 0.81Q3 | 3.04 0.15 up from 2023 | 496 | 47% | $4,260 | ||
43World Food PolicyWiley · United States | 0.76Q3 | 1.88 0.81 up from 2023 | 35 | 75% | $3,140 | ||
44Journal of Nursing EducationSlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 0.72Q3 | 1.62 0.11 up from 2023 | 500 | 34% | — | ||
45Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for DevelopmentOAIWA Publishing | 0.72Q3 | 1.93 0.19 down from 2023 | 247 | 100% | — | ||
46LipidsWiley · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.93 0.03 up from 2023 | 72 | 36% | $3,589 | ||
47Nursing Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.06 0.01 up from 2023 | 229 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
48Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 1.89 0.57 up from 2023 | 241 | 5% | — | ||
49NutrireSpringer Science+Business Media · Brazil | 0.48Q3 | 1.44 0.33 up from 2023 | 110 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
50MOJ Food Processing & TechnologyOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.42Q4 | 0.28 1.43 down from 2023 | 36 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Nursing, compared.
- Nutrition and Dietetics56
- Research and Theory7
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects2
- Leadership and Management0
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.
12 additional Nursing 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
- 65
- Window papers (baseline)
- 74,874 +4.0% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.88 -11.6% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 | 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.