Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging journal rankings 2024
161 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging has 161 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and Radiology.
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
Show all 42 subfields
- 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
161 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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1Medical Image AnalysisElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 15.82 3.46 up from 2023 | 870 | 59% | $4,170 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Medical ImagingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.29Q1 | 10.89 1.47 up from 2023 | 984 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
3RadiologyRadiological Society of North America · United States | 2.69Q1 | 9.28 1.66 up from 2023 | 1,467 | 30% | — | ||
4Radiology Artificial IntelligenceRadiological Society of North America · United States | 2.59Q1 | 12.55 4.25 up from 2023 | 188 | 87% | — | ||
5Journal of Applied BiomedicineElsevier BV · Poland | 2.51Q1 | 8.48 0.81 up from 2023 | 229 | 48% | $3,180 | ||
6Intelligent MedicineOAElsevier BV · China | 2.29Q1 | 7.98 1.74 up from 2023 | 84 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
7Seminars in Nuclear MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 2.19Q1 | 7.17 1.75 up from 2023 | 189 | 58% | $5,090 | ||
8Computerized Medical Imaging and GraphicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.15Q1 | 5.85 1.20 down from 2023 | 303 | 50% | $3,180 | ||
9European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.13Q1 | 6.43 1.00 down from 2023 | 1,307 | 58% | $3,490 | ||
10Computer Methods and Programs in BiomedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 6.14 0.08 up from 2023 | 1,652 | 49% | $3,350 | ||
11Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine UpdateOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 5.71 0.43 up from 2023 | 118 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
12Visual Computing for Industry Biomedicine and ArtOASpringer Nature · China | 2.04Q1 | 8.36 2.99 up from 2023 | 80 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Eye and VisionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 4.83 0.34 down from 2023 | 140 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
14mAbsOALandes Bioscience · United States | 1.91Q1 | 6.91 1.16 up from 2023 | 279 | 100% | $3,575 | ||
15Investigative RadiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.89Q1 | 7.34 0.05 up from 2023 | 300 | 53% | — | ||
16Insights into ImagingOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 5.25 0.02 down from 2023 | 592 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
17Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic ResonanceOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 6.03 1.14 up from 2023 | 286 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
18European RadiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 4.86 0.64 down from 2023 | 2,771 | 47% | $2,890 | ||
19La radiologia medicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.65Q1 | 5.11 4.69 down from 2023 | 428 | 48% | $4,190 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical SciencesInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.63Q1 | 4.44 0.53 down from 2023 | 207 | 50% | $2,645 | ||
21Diagnostic and Interventional ImagingElsevier BV · France | 1.55Q1 | 6.36 1.57 up from 2023 | 287 | 100% | $3,520 | ||
22European Radiology ExperimentalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.50Q1 | 4.26 0.06 down from 2023 | 192 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
23NeurophotonicsOASPIE · United States | 1.49Q1 | 4.27 1.02 down from 2023 | 208 | 100% | $1,675 | ||
24Journal of Imaging Informatics in MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.44Q1 | 5.32 1.31 up from 2023 | 471 | 100% | $4,690 | ||
25BMC Medical ImagingOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 4.03 0.06 up from 2023 | 630 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
26Antibody TherapeuticsOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.42Q1 | 4.40 0.22 up from 2023 | 88 | 100% | $2,822 | ||
27EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and ChemistryOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 3.59 1.50 down from 2023 | 101 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
28DiagnosticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.38Q1 | 4.20 0.40 up from 2023 | 9,297 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
29Health and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 4.97 0.08 down from 2023 | 286 | 37% | $2,490 | ||
30Seminars in Radiation OncologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.34Q1 | 3.67 0.83 up from 2023 | 140 | 52% | $3,330 | ||
31Korean Journal of RadiologyKorean Society of Radiology · South Korea | 1.32Q1 | 4.42 0.03 down from 2023 | 407 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Magnetic Resonance ImagingWiley · United States | 1.31Q1 | 3.67 0.12 up from 2023 | 1,052 | 63% | $3,680 | ||
33Journal of cardiovascular computed tomographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 3.39 0.38 down from 2023 | 228 | 14% | $3,410 | ||
34British Journal of RadiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 2.97 0.04 down from 2023 | 1,063 | 91% | $3,005 | ||
35Japanese Journal of RadiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.17Q1 | 4.41 1.09 up from 2023 | 409 | 62% | $4,090 | ||
36Physics in Medicine and BiologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 3.71 0.21 up from 2023 | 1,524 | 78% | $3,325 | ||
37European Journal of RadiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 3.62 0.03 down from 2023 | 1,374 | 43% | $3,440 | ||
38EJNMMI PhysicsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 3.56 0.15 up from 2023 | 245 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
39PET ClinicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.14Q1 | 2.66 0.62 down from 2023 | 147 | 33% | $3,400 | ||
40EJNMMI ResearchOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.13Q1 | 3.24 0.10 down from 2023 | 308 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
41AntibodiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.12Q1 | 3.27 0.15 down from 2023 | 208 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
42Medical & Biological Engineering & ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 3.64 0.09 up from 2023 | 696 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
43European Journal of Radiology OpenOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 3.73 1.55 up from 2023 | 210 | 100% | $2,610 | ||
44Intelligence-Based MedicineOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 3.76 0.29 down from 2023 | 98 | 100% | $2,420 | ||
45Zeitschrift für Medizinische PhysikOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.05Q2 | 3.32 1.18 up from 2023 | 167 | 100% | $3,086 | ||
46International Journal of Imaging Systems and TechnologyWiley · United States | 1.05Q2 | 3.70 0.53 down from 2023 | 454 | 42% | $3,800 | ||
47Journal of Refractive SurgerySlack Incorporated (United States) · United States | 1.05Q2 | 3.10 0.23 down from 2023 | 339 | 48% | — | ||
48American Journal of RoentgenologyAmerican Roentgen Ray Society · United States | 1.03Q2 | 3.43 0.41 up from 2023 | 925 | 39% | — | ||
49Annals of the ICRPSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 3.78 1.59 up from 2023 | 36 | 68% | $3,900 | ||
50Magnetic Resonance in Medical SciencesOAJapan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · Japan | 1.00Q2 | 3.03 0.60 up from 2023 | 154 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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.
31 additional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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
- 161
- Window papers (baseline)
- 109,840 +15.6% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.725 -5.5% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 17
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 | 61 | 62 | 65 | 69 | 71 | 81 | 86 | 91 | 94 | 99 | 105 | 108 | 112 | 129 | 136 | 138 | 142 | 144 | 146 | 153 | 160 | 170 | 165 | 161 | 161 | 160 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 31,991 | 33,317 | 34,796 | 37,035 | 39,286 | 43,274 | 47,322 | 52,587 | 57,088 | 62,304 | 66,935 | 71,199 | 73,942 | 75,725 | 78,414 | 81,654 | 84,328 | 85,658 | 86,101 | 86,811 | 88,776 | 94,999 | 102,782 | 107,079 | 109,840 | 115,452 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.69 | 0.70 | 0.721 | 0.738 | 0.737 | 0.81 | 0.797 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.92 | 0.890 | 0.90 | 0.720 | 0.785 | 0.799 | 0.7862 | 0.7860 | 0.788 | 0.782 | 0.891 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.722 | 0.725 | 0.71 |
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.