Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · 177 journals ranked · top 40 listed
Best open-access journals for Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
The top 40 of 177 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journals, open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).
Data as of — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.
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- 2International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 3Globalization and Health7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4Infectious Diseases of Poverty6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 5Nutrients6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 6Medical Education Online5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 9Clinical and Translational Science4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 11Food & Nutrition Research4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Swedish Nutrition FoundationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 12Biology of Sex Differences4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 13Frontiers in Nutrition4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 17Perspectives on Medical Education4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Bohn Stafleu van LoghumOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 18PLoS neglected tropical diseases3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of ScienceOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 20Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 23Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 24Archives of Public Health3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology3.0 cites/paper · Q1 · InformaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Public Health Nutrition2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Cambridge University PressOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27Preventive Medicine Reports2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 28Epidemiology and Health2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Korean Society of EpidemiologyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 29Animal Reproduction2.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Colégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA)Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 30Journal of Epidemiology2.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Japan Epidemiological AssociationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 31Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare1.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 32Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B1.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Institute of Mathematical SciencesOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 33Journal of Reproduction and Development1.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Japanese Society of Animal ReproductionOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 34Current Developments in Nutrition0.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 35Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 36Journal of Ovarian Research4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 38Reproductive Medicine and Biology4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 39Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.
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