Rising Health Professions journals compared with their field
These are the Health Professions journals whose OJR rose faster than the median journal of their field between 2022 and 2025, by +10% or more relative to that median and by at least 2 standard errors. 38 journals qualify.
Between indicator years 2022 and 2025, the median OJR change among 315 eligible Health Professions journals was about -3%, taking the median on a log scale (the group ratio below).
Ordered by the lower bound of the relative-change range at two standard errors, highest first, then higher z (the signed difference in standard errors), then title. How trajectory is calculated (traj-v1)
| Journal | OJR 2022 → 2025 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. | Change relative to Health Professions median (2 SE range) | z (standard errors) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware Journal of Public Health | 0.15 → 0.86 | +507.1% (+224.8% to +1,034.9%) | 5.8 |
| The Permanente Journal | 0.69 → 1.84 | +177.3% (+62.3% to +373.7%) | 3.8 |
| Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA | 0.59 → 2.43 | +328.7% (+54.5% to +1,089.7%) | 2.9 |
| Journal of Occupational Therapy Schools & Early Intervention | 0.36 → 0.75 | +115.3% (+45.2% to +219.4%) | 3.9 |
| BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine | 0.96 → 2.13 | +128.3% (+41.1% to +269.2%) | 3.4 |
| Collegian Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia | 0.74 → 1.26 | +76.0% (+36.1% to +127.8%) | 4.4 |
| Journal of Occupational Therapy Education | 0.26 → 0.53 | +106.9% (+28.1% to +234.3%) | 3.0 |
| Iranian Journal of Public Health | 0.39 → 0.57 | +49.7% (+25.5% to +78.6%) | 4.6 |
| Mental Health Practice | 0.10 → 0.21 | +117.6% (+23.0% to +285.1%) | 2.7 |
| Australian Journal of Rural Health | 0.63 → 0.95 | +55.2% (+20.5% to +100.1%) | 3.5 |
| Australasian Journal on Ageing | 0.68 → 0.96 | +46.2% (+18.1% to +80.9%) | 3.6 |
| Zeitschrift für Evidenz Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen | 0.58 → 1.04 | +85.7% (+17.3% to +193.7%) | 2.7 |
| BMC Health Services Research | 1.63 → 1.98 | +25.4% (+15.7% to +36.0%) | 5.6 |
| Journal of Patient Safety | 0.70 → 0.99 | +46.8% (+14.7% to +87.9%) | 3.1 |
| Journal of Advanced Nursing | 1.38 → 1.75 | +30.7% (+14.2% to +49.6%) | 4.0 |
| BMJ Open Quality | 0.87 → 1.13 | +34.7% (+13.9% to +59.3%) | 3.5 |
| Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology | 0.92 → 1.24 | +38.5% (+13.3% to +69.2%) | 3.3 |
| Prehospital and Disaster Medicine | 0.71 → 1.03 | +50.1% (+12.6% to +99.9%) | 2.8 |
| Journal of Nursing Measurement | 0.32 → 0.49 | +59.5% (+10.0% to +131.4%) | 2.5 |
| Nursing Inquiry | 1.27 → 1.89 | +53.7% (+9.0% to +116.8%) | 2.5 |
| International Journal for Equity in Health | 2.42 → 3.06 | +30.3% (+8.5% to +56.5%) | 2.9 |
| BMC Public Health | 1.96 → 2.20 | +15.7% (+8.2% to +23.7%) | 4.4 |
| Nursing Philosophy | 1.29 → 2.14 | +71.3% (+7.5% to +172.9%) | 2.3 |
| Strategies | 0.25 → 0.43 | +76.7% (+7.5% to +190.5%) | 2.3 |
| BMJ Military Health | 0.34 → 0.46 | +42.4% (+7.3% to +89.0%) | 2.5 |
| The AMA Journal of Ethic | 0.65 → 0.88 | +38.9% (+5.1% to +83.6%) | 2.4 |
| Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine | 0.67 → 1.00 | +53.7% (+4.6% to +125.9%) | 2.2 |
| Western Journal of Nursing Research | 0.86 → 1.13 | +35.1% (+4.4% to +74.9%) | 2.3 |
| Journal of Health Organization and Management | 1.08 → 1.40 | +33.4% (+4.0% to +71.1%) | 2.3 |
| American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings | 0.23 → 0.49 | +122.2% (+3.9% to +375.3%) | 2.1 |
| Nursing Open | 1.36 → 1.60 | +21.8% (+2.5% to +44.7%) | 2.3 |
| Australian Occupational Therapy Journal | 1.11 → 1.51 | +40.1% (+2.3% to +92.0%) | 2.1 |
| Kontakt | 0.21 → 0.32 | +56.2% (+2.2% to +138.8%) | 2.1 |
| Canadian Family Physician | 0.31 → 0.43 | +45.6% (+1.6% to +108.8%) | 2.1 |
| Health & Social Care in the Community | 1.23 → 1.42 | +18.6% (+1.4% to +38.8%) | 2.2 |
| Trends in Urology & Men s Health | 0.17 → 0.30 | +84.5% (+0.4% to +239.1%) | 2.0 |
| Geriatric Nursing | 1.08 → 1.24 | +18.9% (+0.4% to +40.9%) | 2.0 |
| INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing | 1.19 → 1.51 | +30.9% (+0.2% to +70.9%) | 2.0 |
How to read this list
Relative change = journal OJR ratio ÷ median group ratio − 1. The journal ratio is its OJR in 2025 divided by its OJR in 2022. The group ratio is the median of those ratios among eligible journals of the field, taken on a log scale: with an even number of journals, it is the geometric mean of the two middle ratios rather than their average.
Indicator year 2022 counts citations to papers published 2019–2021; indicator year 2025 counts citations to papers published 2022–2024. The two publication cohorts do not overlap.
A journal is listed when it is ranked, its relative change is +10% or more, and the change is at least 2 standard errors above zero (z ≥ 2), so the low end of its two-standard-error range is zero or above.
Large relative changes often start from very low scores: the top journal’s OJR rose from 0.15 to 0.86, still below the world average of 1.00. Relative to the median journal of its field, its change was +507.1%.