Top journals from Ireland
All 30 ranked journals whose publisher is in Ireland, ordered by the ITS Journal Score (2021–2025, open OpenAlex data).
Ireland in numbers
Ireland has 30 journals with an ITS Journal Score, #80 of 148 countries by number of ranked journals. Together they published 13,253 papers in 2021–2025, and 41% of these papers are open access. 11 of the journals (37%) are listed in DOAJ. The most common fields are Arts and Humanities (7), Medicine (7), Social Sciences (5) journals.
Country here is the publisher's country as recorded in OpenAlex. A journal's editors and authors may be based elsewhere.
Ranked journals
| Rank in country | Global rank | Journal | Field | Score | Papers 2021–2025 | h-index | Open access | DOAJ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #1,169 | Chemico-Biological Interactions Elsevier BV | Medicine | 83.4 | 1,903 | 186 | 20% | — |
| 2 | #3,122 | Neuroscience Letters Elsevier BV | Medicine | 77.4 | 2,042 | 268 | 26% | — |
| 3 | #4,737 | Clinical Neurophysiology Elsevier BV | Neuroscience | 73.8 | 3,609 | 249 | 24% | — |
| 4 | #6,016 | International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology Elsevier BV | Medicine | 71.4 | 1,572 | 129 | 20% | — |
| 5 | #7,665 | The Open Journal of Astrophysics Maynooth Academic Publishing | Physics and Astronomy | 68.5 | 422 | 29 | 100% | Yes |
| 6 | #8,294 | Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology Elsevier BV | Medicine | 67.5 | 769 | 48 | 100% | Yes |
| 7 | #8,897 | BIO Integration Compuscript (Ireland) | Engineering | 66.5 | 150 | 23 | 100% | Yes |
| 8 | #13,580 | Zoonoses Compuscript (Ireland) | Medicine | 58.9 | 181 | 17 | 100% | Yes |
| 9 | #16,024 | Irish Political Studies Routledge | Social Sciences | 55.1 | 162 | 45 | 50% | — |
| 10 | #16,089 | Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research De Gruyter Open | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 55.0 | 82 | 30 | 100% | Yes |
| 11 | #16,621 | Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications Compuscript | Medicine | 54.2 | 257 | 12 | 100% | Yes |
| 12 | #19,593 | Biology & Environment Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Royal Irish Academy | Environmental Science | 49.9 | 89 | 28 | 34% | — |
| 13 | #20,164 | Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning Irish Learning Technology Association | Computer Science | 49.1 | 58 | 14 | 100% | Yes |
| 14 | #21,272 | Administration De Gruyter Open | Social Sciences | 47.7 | 152 | 17 | 100% | Yes |
| 15 | #26,153 | Irish Studies in International Affairs Royal Irish Academy | Social Sciences | 42.1 | 328 | 19 | 54% | — |
| 16 | #26,504 | Irish Geography Taylor & Francis | Social Sciences | 41.8 | 58 | 36 | 100% | — |
| 17 | #26,971 | The Irish Journal of Management De Gruyter | Business, Management and Accounting | 41.3 | 60 | 14 | 100% | — |
| 18 | #27,713 | AISHE-J | Social Sciences | 40.6 | 104 | 17 | 94% | — |
| 19 | #30,067 | Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin Irish Mathematical Society | Mathematics | 38.4 | 215 | 22 | 54% | — |
| 20 | #33,378 | Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media University College Cork | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 35.6 | 214 | 11 | 100% | Yes |
| 21 | #34,768 | Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Archaeology Culture History Literature Royal Irish Academy | Arts and Humanities | 34.4 | 102 | 21 | 52% | — |
| 22 | #35,480 | Irish Journal of Earth Sciences Royal Irish Academy | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 33.8 | 77 | 10 | 32% | — |
| 23 | #36,155 | Journal of the Irish Dental Association | Dentistry | 33.3 | 102 | 5 | 100% | — |
| 24 | #38,471 | Scenario A journal for performative teaching learning research University College Cork | Arts and Humanities | 31.5 | 136 | 12 | 100% | Yes |
| 25 | #44,237 | Eighteenth-Century Ireland Liverpool University Press | Arts and Humanities | 27.0 | 52 | 33 | 0% | — |
| 26 | #47,981 | TEANGA the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics | Arts and Humanities | 24.1 | 58 | 6 | 100% | Yes |
| 27 | #50,547 | ÉRIU Royal Irish Academy | Arts and Humanities | 21.9 | 82 | 11 | 40% | — |
| 28 | #55,870 | Pakistan Journal of Nuclear Medicine | Medicine | 16.8 | 68 | 3 | 0% | — |
| 29 | #57,547 | Celtica Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies | Arts and Humanities | 14.8 | 87 | 3 | 43% | — |
| 30 | #58,370 | Irish Journal of French Studies | Arts and Humanities | 13.6 | 62 | 5 | 6% | — |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.