Journal Rankings

The first CiteLink ranking (metric year 2025) over the whole catalogue — filter by subject, country and access model, with per-subject C1–C4 quartiles.

How this ranking works. The table below orders journals by h-index (OpenAlex, CC0); the quartile column shows each journal's official CiteLink C1–C4 — its best quartile across research subfields, computed from the share of its articles in the world's top-10% most cited (field-year-type normalized, methodology open and versioned). Use the Official subfield ranking panel to see the top 200 of any ranking pool. There are 245 pools across 239 subfield names — six names appear twice under different OpenAlex ids and are ranked separately. Country and access-model filters narrow the list but never change a journal's quartile.
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Methodology

The CLV sums five criterion groups — Editorial Standards & Ethics (25), Publication Stability (10, up to −6 penalty), Digitalization & Technical Infrastructure (35), Internationalization (15), Transparency & Verifiability (15). It does not feed the quartiles alongside it.

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CiteLink Metrics 2025

Official subfield ranking (C1–C4)

Pick a subfield to see its top 200 by quartile — ranked by top-10% share, with confidence intervals and boundary-sensitivity flags. 47,623 rankings across 245 pools (239 subfield names).

Journal Ranking

⇄ Publisher Country Access Quartile

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