Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Occupational Therapy journal rankings 2024
25 ranked journals · Subfield in Health Professions
Occupational Therapy has 25 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2023 to 0.76, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.19. The top three are Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, and Assistive Technology.
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 Health Professions (11)
- General Health Professions478
- Emergency Medical Services26
- Occupational Therapy25
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation25
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology12
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
25 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Augmentative and Alternative CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.16 0.23 down from 2023 | 86 | 50% | — | ||
2Canadian Journal of Occupational TherapySAGE Publishing · Canada | 1.32Q1 | 2.09 0.05 down from 2023 | 118 | 77% | $4,150 | ||
3Assistive TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.30Q1 | 1.99 0.64 down from 2023 | 158 | 43% | — | ||
4Journal of Tissue ViabilityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 3.32 0.43 up from 2023 | 281 | 47% | $2,790 | ||
5Scandinavian Journal of Occupational TherapyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.65 0.47 down from 2023 | 176 | 100% | — | ||
6Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.05 0.89 up from 2023 | 362 | 40% | — | ||
7Journal of Occupational ScienceTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.19Q1 | 2.70 0.21 up from 2023 | 117 | 44% | — | ||
8Australian Occupational Therapy JournalWiley · Australia | 1.06Q2 | 1.98 0.07 up from 2023 | 175 | 87% | $3,470 | ||
9Irish Journal of Occupational TherapyOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 0.89 0.14 up from 2023 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
10World Federation of Occupational Therapists BulletinManey Publishing | 0.91Q2 | 0.78 0.50 down from 2023 | 51 | — | — | ||
11Occupational Therapy InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 1.67 0.37 down from 2023 | 239 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
12Advances in Skin & Wound CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.56 0.08 down from 2023 | 385 | 13% | — | ||
13OTJR Occupational Therapy Journal of ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.76Q2 | 1.58 0.24 down from 2023 | 168 | 60% | $4,150 | ||
14Physiotherapy Theory and PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.68 0.26 up from 2023 | 663 | 35% | — | ||
15Hong Kong Journal of Occupational TherapyOASAGE Publishing · Netherlands | 0.69Q3 | 1.78 0.56 up from 2023 | 46 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Occupational Therapy in Mental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.98 0.22 up from 2023 | 90 | 32% | — | ||
17Occupational Therapy In Health CareTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.11 0.05 down from 2023 | 155 | 20% | — | ||
18Journal of Occupational Therapy Schools & Early InterventionTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.40 0.60 up from 2023 | 138 | 24% | — | ||
19British Journal of Occupational TherapySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.99 0.29 down from 2023 | 227 | 100% | $4,150 | ||
20The Open Journal of Occupational TherapyOAWestern Michigan University · United States | 0.55Q4 | 0.88 0.14 down from 2023 | 179 | 100% | $300 | ||
21Military MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.51Q4 | 1.24 0.03 down from 2023 | 1,495 | 42% | $4,748 | ||
22American Journal of Occupational TherapyAmerican Occupational Therapy Association · United States | 0.50Q4 | 0.92 0.84 down from 2023 | 808 | 11% | — | ||
23BMJ Military HealthBMJ · United Kingdom | 0.48Q4 | 1.28 0.15 up from 2023 | 403 | 39% | — | ||
24Journal of Occupational Therapy EducationOAUnited States | 0.41Q4 | 0.59 0.26 down from 2023 | 195 | 100% | — | ||
25The Indian Journal of Occupational TherapyMedknow · India | 0.09Q4 | 0.20 0.09 down from 2023 | 70 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Health Professions, with Occupational Therapy highlighted.
- General Health Professions478
- Emergency Medical Services26
- Occupational Therapy25
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation25
- Health Information Management16
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology12
- Speech and Hearing10
- Complementary and Manual Therapy3
- Pharmacy3
- Medical Laboratory Technology2
- Medical Terminology0
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.
5 additional Occupational Therapy 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
- 25
- Window papers (baseline)
- 26,335 +28.0% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.76 +4.0% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 25 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 3,170 | 3,403 | 3,595 | 3,852 | 4,017 | 4,445 | 4,804 | 5,348 | 5,860 | 6,431 | 6,901 | 7,452 | 7,898 | 8,809 | 9,714 | 11,196 | 12,456 | 13,848 | 15,146 | 16,658 | 18,378 | 20,572 | 22,586 | 24,173 | 26,335 | 29,176 | |
| Median OJR | 0.54 | 0.48 | 0.66 | 0.51 | 0.60 | 0.53 | 0.63 | 0.64 | 0.737 | 0.736 | 0.837 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.91 | 1.02 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 0.840 | 0.812 | 0.810 | 0.735 | 0.726 | 0.77 | 0.65 | 0.76 | 0.75 |
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.