Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health journal rankings 2024
100 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health has 100 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Alcohol research, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, and Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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 Medicine (42)
- Surgery980
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine364
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health316
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine289
- Infectious Diseases263
- Oncology243
- Epidemiology187
- Neurology175
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging161
- Physiology159
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism157
- Psychiatry and Mental health144
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health100
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine125
- Ophthalmology100
- Dermatology92
- Obstetrics and Gynecology85
- Hematology83
- Rheumatology67
- Nephrology65
- Complementary and alternative medicine59
- Reproductive Medicine52
- Pharmacology49
- Emergency Medicine42
- Geriatrics and Gerontology37
- Rehabilitation34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Hepatology30
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine29
- Immunology and Allergy26
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Genetics19
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine14
- Urology12
- Health Informatics9
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine6
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
100 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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1Alcohol researchOANational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · United States | 3.81Q1 | 10.47 2.07 up from 2023 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
2The Lancet Child & Adolescent HealthElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 8.03 3.42 down from 2023 | 400 | 39% | $6,680 | ||
3Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent MedicineAmerican Medical Association · United States | 3.32Q1 | 6.54 2.04 down from 2023 | 1,037 | 54% | — | ||
4Reproductive HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 4.33 1.16 down from 2023 | 652 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
5PEDIATRICSAmerican Academy of Pediatrics · United States | 2.32Q1 | 6.01 0.42 up from 2023 | 1,987 | 69% | — | ||
| 2.17Q1 | 3.18 0.44 up from 2023 | 91 | 64% | $3,190 | |||
7Health Policy and PlanningOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 3.39 0.04 down from 2023 | 351 | 100% | $3,195 | ||
8Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyPublisher not listed | 1.82Q1 | 4.15 0.94 up from 2023 | 293 | 43% | $4,560 | ||
9Ultrasound in Obstetrics and GynecologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 3.86 0.43 down from 2023 | 737 | 93% | $4,940 | ||
10Pediatric DrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand | 1.74Q1 | 4.11 0.27 down from 2023 | 168 | 45% | $4,990 | ||
11Paediatric and Neonatal PainOAWiley · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.08 0.10 down from 2023 | 59 | 100% | $3,080 | ||
12Global Health ActionOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 3.41 0.12 up from 2023 | 354 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
13Journal of Global HealthOAEdinburgh University Global Health Society · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 4.54 0.22 up from 2023 | 897 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
14Frontiers in Global Women s HealthOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.53Q1 | 3.15 0.09 down from 2023 | 425 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
15Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology NursingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.85 0.08 down from 2023 | 81 | 42% | — | ||
16Clinics in PerinatologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.83 0.54 down from 2023 | 199 | 32% | $3,340 | ||
17Global Health Science and PracticeOAJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 1.45Q1 | 2.40 0.41 down from 2023 | 329 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of Pediatric PsychologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.35 1.03 down from 2023 | 289 | 76% | $4,332 | ||
19Journal of Pediatric NursingElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 2.71 0.16 up from 2023 | 857 | 19% | $3,730 | ||
20European Journal of PediatricsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.31Q1 | 3.16 0.66 down from 2023 | 1,390 | 57% | $2,990 | ||
21Maternal Health Neonatology and PerinatologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 2.92 0.87 down from 2023 | 39 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
22Pediatric ResearchSpringer Nature · United States | 1.29Q1 | 3.16 0.01 up from 2023 | 1,444 | 53% | $4,390 | ||
23Seminars in Pediatric NeurologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.27Q1 | 2.50 0.55 down from 2023 | 114 | 29% | $3,850 | ||
24Prenatal DiagnosisWiley · United States | 1.24Q1 | 2.90 0.02 down from 2023 | 533 | 66% | $4,640 | ||
25Journal for Specialists in Pediatric NursingWiley · United States | 1.20Q1 | 2.24 0.40 up from 2023 | 69 | 50% | $3,350 | ||
26Journal of PerinatologySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 2.52 0.11 down from 2023 | 904 | 40% | $4,790 | ||
27BMC PediatricsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 2.55 0.27 down from 2023 | 1,950 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
28ChildrenOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.16Q2 | 2.73 0.04 up from 2023 | 5,153 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
29Early Human DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 2.35 0.02 up from 2023 | 343 | 51% | $3,840 | ||
30The Journal of PediatricsElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.37 0.20 down from 2023 | 1,723 | 56% | $4,570 | ||
31Developmental NeuroscienceKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.07Q2 | 2.19 0.43 down from 2023 | 147 | 97% | — | ||
32Neurotoxicology and TeratologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.07Q2 | 3.01 0.08 down from 2023 | 149 | 60% | $3,850 | ||
33Korean Journal of PediatricsOAKorean Pediatric Society · South Korea | 1.05Q2 | 2.43 0.03 down from 2023 | 266 | 100% | — | ||
34Fetal Diagnosis and TherapyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.04Q2 | 1.84 0.42 down from 2023 | 183 | 38% | — | ||
35BMJ Paediatrics OpenOABMJ · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.59 0.02 down from 2023 | 430 | 100% | — | ||
36Advances in Drug and Alcohol ResearchOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 0.98Q2 | 2.55 0.01 down from 2023 | 41 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
37Journal of Child Health CareSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.97Q2 | 2.02 0.47 up from 2023 | 188 | 54% | $3,650 | ||
38Advances in Neonatal CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.45 0.03 up from 2023 | 238 | 10% | — | ||
39Paediatric and Perinatal EpidemiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.96 0.34 down from 2023 | 265 | 83% | $4,770 | ||
40International Journal of Africa Nursing SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 1.98 0.11 up from 2023 | 373 | 100% | $2,130 | ||
41Archives of Disease in ChildhoodBMJ · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.91 0.53 down from 2023 | 811 | 36% | — | ||
42Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 1.69 0.33 down from 2023 | 140 | 12% | $2,670 | ||
43International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDSOAGlobal Health and Education Projects, Inc. · United States | 0.90Q2 | 1.88 0.02 up from 2023 | 56 | 100% | $500 | ||
44Clinical Obstetrics & GynecologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.89Q2 | 1.48 0.37 down from 2023 | 229 | 13% | — | ||
45Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal NursingElsevier BV · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.45 0.34 down from 2023 | 229 | 20% | $3,000 | ||
46International Journal of PediatricsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.89 0.07 up from 2023 | 85 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
47Journal of Biosocial ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.37no change | 164 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
48Acta PaediatricaWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 1.84 0.22 down from 2023 | 1,238 | 79% | $4,480 | ||
49Biodemography and Social BiologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.11 0.50 down from 2023 | 40 | 35% | — | ||
50Global Pediatric HealthOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.69 0.03 down from 2023 | 340 | 100% | $2,500 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health highlighted.
- Surgery980
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine364
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health316
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine289
- Infectious Diseases263
- Oncology243
- Epidemiology187
- Neurology175
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging161
- Physiology159
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism157
- Psychiatry and Mental health144
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine125
- Ophthalmology100
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health100
- Dermatology92
- Obstetrics and Gynecology85
- Hematology83
- Rheumatology67
- Nephrology65
- Complementary and alternative medicine59
- Reproductive Medicine52
- Pharmacology49
- Emergency Medicine42
- Geriatrics and Gerontology37
- Rehabilitation34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Hepatology30
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine29
- Immunology and Allergy26
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Genetics19
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine14
- Urology12
- Health Informatics9
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine6
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
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.
20 additional Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child 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
- 100
- Window papers (baseline)
- 135,472 +32.4% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.78 -8.1% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 | 41 | 44 | 46 | 47 | 49 | 52 | 54 | 57 | 60 | 64 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 73 | 80 | 85 | 91 | 97 | 101 | 103 | 100 | 101 | 101 | 99 | 100 | 95 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 18,430 | 20,600 | 22,004 | 23,512 | 23,841 | 25,610 | 28,134 | 31,303 | 33,955 | 37,443 | 41,115 | 44,607 | 46,754 | 48,527 | 52,649 | 57,489 | 62,678 | 66,863 | 72,175 | 80,124 | 90,471 | 102,318 | 113,840 | 124,530 | 135,472 | 139,748 | |
| Median OJR | 0.76 | 0.73 | 0.791 | 0.8128 | 0.69 | 0.8133 | 0.876 | 0.875 | 0.87 | 0.957 | 1.04 | 1.10 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 1.14 | 0.992 | 0.956 | 0.93 | 0.83 | 0.89 | 0.995 | 0.85 | 0.84 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.794 |
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.