Top journals from North Macedonia
All 31 ranked journals whose publisher is in North Macedonia, ordered by the ITS Journal Score (2021–2025, open OpenAlex data).
North Macedonia in numbers
North Macedonia has 31 journals with an ITS Journal Score, #78 of 148 countries by number of ranked journals. Together they published 11,018 papers in 2021–2025, and 94% of these papers are open access. 9 of the journals (29%) are listed in DOAJ. The most common fields are Social Sciences (13), Medicine (5), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3) 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 | #13,089 | Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje | Medicine | 59.7 | 3,202 | 59 | 100% | — |
| 2 | #14,303 | European Scientific Journal ESJ European Scientific Institute | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 57.8 | 3,150 | 54 | 100% | — |
| 3 | #20,028 | Journal of Liberty and International Affairs Institute for Research and European Studies - Bitola Institute for Research and European Studies | Social Sciences | 49.3 | 306 | 12 | 100% | Yes |
| 4 | #20,205 | PRILOZI De Gruyter | Medicine | 49.1 | 195 | 23 | 100% | — |
| 5 | #20,648 | Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia | Chemistry | 48.5 | 135 | 23 | 100% | Yes |
| 6 | #24,018 | Macedonian Veterinary Review Ss.Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 44.4 | 109 | 16 | 100% | Yes |
| 7 | #25,401 | Advances in Mathematics Scientific Journal Elsevier BV | Decision Sciences | 42.9 | 468 | 18 | 11% | — |
| 8 | #25,635 | Balkan Social Science Review | Social Sciences | 42.6 | 172 | 10 | 100% | — |
| 9 | #26,639 | European Journal of Educational Sciences | Social Sciences | 41.6 | 83 | 15 | 100% | — |
| 10 | #38,469 | South East European Journal of Immunology ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje | Immunology and Microbiology | 31.5 | 94 | 4 | 100% | — |
| 11 | #38,577 | Macedonian Pharmaceutical Bulletin University Ss Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Faculty of Pharmacy and Macedonian Pharmaceutical Association | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 31.5 | 617 | 12 | 100% | Yes |
| 12 | #38,921 | Journal of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies | Engineering | 31.2 | 54 | 4 | 100% | — |
| 13 | #39,677 | Živa Antika Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje | Arts and Humanities | 30.6 | 114 | 5 | 100% | Yes |
| 14 | #44,099 | RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION SPORT AND HEALTH | Medicine | 27.1 | 213 | 5 | 47% | — |
| 15 | #46,109 | Mechanical Engieneering-Scientific Journal | Engineering | 25.6 | 70 | 3 | 100% | — |
| 16 | #46,225 | Economic and Business Trends Shaping the Future | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 25.5 | 155 | 4 | 48% | — |
| 17 | #46,228 | Academic Medical Journal | Medicine | 25.5 | 266 | 3 | 100% | — |
| 18 | #46,700 | Годишен зборник на Филозофскиот факултет/The Annual of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje | Social Sciences | 25.1 | 231 | 4 | 97% | — |
| 19 | #47,084 | Archives of Public Health ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje | Medicine | 24.8 | 118 | 4 | 100% | — |
| 20 | #47,351 | Journal of Balkan Studies Balkan Studies Foundation | Social Sciences | 24.6 | 72 | 3 | 100% | Yes |
| 21 | #51,640 | Математички билтен/BULLETIN MATHÉMATIQUE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES MATHÉMATICIENS DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE MACÉDOINE | Mathematics | 20.9 | 60 | 5 | 87% | — |
| 22 | #51,995 | Security Dialogues /Безбедносни дијалози Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje | Social Sciences | 20.6 | 125 | 4 | 100% | Yes |
| 23 | #52,420 | ЕтноАнтропоЗум/EthnoAnthropoZoom Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje | Social Sciences | 20.2 | 96 | 5 | 100% | Yes |
| 24 | #52,825 | PALIMPSEST/ ПАЛИМПСЕСТ | Arts and Humanities | 19.9 | 238 | 2 | 100% | — |
| 25 | #53,465 | International Journal of Economics Management and Tourism Goce Delcev University | Social Sciences | 19.3 | 94 | 3 | 100% | — |
| 26 | #53,620 | TEMEL Citizens Association Center for Development Organization Research Promotion of Values Education and Promotion of Youth | Business, Management and Accounting | 19.1 | 57 | 3 | 86% | — |
| 27 | #53,998 | Journal of Contemporary Philology Ss Cyril and Methodius University B Koneski Faculty of Philology Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Blaže Koneski Faculty of Philology | Social Sciences | 18.8 | 97 | 3 | 100% | Yes |
| 28 | #54,652 | Religious dialogue and cooperation | Social Sciences | 18.1 | 77 | 2 | 92% | — |
| 29 | #56,680 | Македонски фолклор | Social Sciences | 15.9 | 174 | 1 | 99% | — |
| 30 | #57,483 | PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES | Social Sciences | 14.9 | 122 | 2 | 100% | — |
| 31 | #59,913 | Yearbook - Faculty of Tourism and Business Logistics Goce Delcev University | Social Sciences | 11.0 | 54 | 1 | 100% | — |
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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.