Table 3.
Rankings of journals in which articles mentioning institutionalized racism in the title or abstract were found, number of articles that met search criteria, number of journal citations, and journal impact factor, by category established by 2014 InCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR), 2002-2015
| JCR Category | Journal | No. of Articles That Met Search Criteria | Journal Rank in JCR Category | No. of Journal Citationsa | Journal Impact Factorb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care sciences and services | Health Policy and Planning | 1 | 7 | 2997 | 3.470 |
| Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2 | 8 | 13 886 | 3.449 | |
| Academic Medicine | 1 | 17 | 9436 | 3.060 | |
| Health policy and services | Health Services Research | 1 | 9 | 5334 | 2.781 |
| General and internal medicine | Archives of Internal Medicine | 1 | 6 | 38 021 | 17.333 |
| PLoS Medicine | 1 | 7 | 18 649 | 14.429 | |
| Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2 | 24 | 13 886 | 3.449 | |
| Nursing | Nursing Outlook | 1 | 12 | 898 | 1.588 |
| Western Journal of Nursing Research | 1 | 50 | 1352 | 1.032 | |
| Public, environmental, and occupational health | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1 | 2 | 16 999 | 9.176 |
| Epidemiologic Reviews | 1 | 4 | 3063 | 6.667 | |
| American Journal of Public Health | 7 | 13 | 29 771 | 4.552 | |
| AIDS and Behavior | 1 | 19 | 6376 | 3.728 | |
| Social Science & Medicine | 5 | 38 | 30 874 | 2.890 | |
| Social sciences, biomedical | AIDS and Behavior | 1 | 2 | 6376 | 3.728 |
| Social Science & Medicine | 5 | 4 | 30 874 | 2.890 | |
| Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | 1 | 31 | 165 | 0.747 | |
| Total | 32c | 15d | 228 957 | 4.998d |
aThe total number of times that a journal has been cited by all journals, provided in the 2014 listing by InCites Journal Citation Reports, which calculates the number of total citations for each journal yearly.
bThe journal impact factor provided in this table is from the 2014 listing by InCites Journal Citation Reports, which calculates an impact factor for each journal yearly.
cThe total number of articles that explicitly named “institutionalized racism” was 25. Total includes duplications, because some journals were represented in more than 1 category. Institutionalized racism is the macrolevel systems, social forces, institutions, ideologies, and processes that interact with one another to generate and reinforce inequities among racial/ethnic groups.13
dThese numbers represent the mean rank and mean impact factor across all journals in the table.