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Medical Journal Rankings

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What are the best Medical journals?

The are many ways of evaluating what the top Medical journals are including Impact Factor, SJR, SNIP, CiteScore, Citation Percentage, H Index, Self-Citation Percentage, Acceptance Rates, and Number of Submissions. Our interactive table below provides an intuitive and user-friendly way to explore and compare each journal's performance across these key metrics.

Importantly, the PJIP does not advocate for any particular way of ranking nor does the project assume to have any particular authority on the matter. The information presented here is solely to help researchers make informed decisions when assessing which journals are appropriate venues for their manuscripts.

For more information about each metric, see our comprehensive guide to ranking metrics or check out our FAQ section for answers to common questions and additional support.

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Sub-Fields

General Medical Journals Aging Journals AIDS and STDs Journals Alzheimer's Journals Anaesthesiology Journals Bone and Joint Journals Cardiology Journals Critical Care Journals Dentistry Journals Dermatology and Venereology Journals Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism Journals Emergency Medicine Journals Epilepsy Journals Family Medicine Journals Gastroenterology and Hepatology Journals Pain Journals Hematology Journals Immunology Journals Infectious Diseases Journals Nephrology Journals Neurology Journals Nursing Journals Obstetrics and Gynecology Journals Occupational Therapy Journals Oncology Journals Occupational and Environmental Medicine Journals Ophthalmology Journals Orthopaedics Journals Palliative Care Journals Pathology Journals Pediatrics Journals Pharmacology Journals Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Journals Preventive Medicine Journals Public Health Journals Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Journals Radiology Journals Sexual and Reproductive Health Journals Rheumatology Journals Sleep Medicine Journals Toxicology Journals Pharmacology and Toxicology Journals Tropical Medicine Journals Urology Journals Wound Care Journals

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Rank	Journal	Area	APPY	Location	Open Access	Book Reviews	Discussions	SJR	SNIP	IPP	CiSc	Hdex	CTE%	SC%	Acpt	Subs

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Rankings Key

Area Column:
GNRL = General Medical
AGE = Aging
AaST = AIDS and STDs
ALZH = Alzheimer's
ANAE = Anaesthesiology
BaJ = Bone and Joint
CARD = Cardiology
CrCa = Critical Care
DNTL = Dentistry
DaV = Dermatology and Venereology
DEaM = Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism
EmMe = Emergency Medicine
EPIL = Epilepsy
FaMe = Family Medicine
GaH = Gastroenterology and Hepatology
PAIN = Pain
HEMA = Hematology
IMMY = Immunology
INFC = Infectious Diseases
NEPH = Nephrology
NEUY = Neurology
NURS = Nursing
OaGY = Obstetrics and Gynecology
OCCT = Occupational Therapy
ONCO = Oncology
OaEM = Occupational and Environmental Medicine
OPHT = Ophthalmology
ORTH = Orthopaedics
PALC = Palliative Care
PTHG = Pathology
PDTC = Pediatrics
PHRM = Pharmacology
PTaS = Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
PRME = Preventive Medicine
PUBH = Public Health
PaRM = Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
RDGY = Radiology
SaRH = Sexual and Reproductive Health
RHEM = Rheumatology
SLME = Sleep Medicine
TOXG = Toxicology
PaTX = Pharmacology and Toxicology
TRME = Tropical Medicine
UROY = Urology 
WOUC = Wound Care

APPY: the average number of papers published by the journal per year 
SJR: SCImago Journal Rank Indicator
SNIP:  Source normalized impact per paper
IPP: Impact per publication (impact factor)
CiSc: Elsevier's CiteScore
Hdex: Journal H-index
​CTE%: Percentage of journal publications that have received at least one citation
SC%: Percentage of citations from the same journal
Acpt: Journal acceptance rate calculated as total submissions / number accepted.
Subs: Total number of manuscripts submitted to the journal (in previous year)

Colour Codes (relative to journals in the same subject):

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For Filters (if applicable)
Location: country where the journal is based/published.
Open Access: open access status.
DAO = Diamond open access (no fees for authors or readers)
PTOA = Open access but fees applicable for publication
HYBD = hybrid with the option to publish open access by paying fees
​NTOA = no option to publish open-access
Book Reviews: if the journal publishes book reviews.
NBKR = does not publish book reviews
Inv. = publishes book reviews by invitation only
YBRK = publishes book reviews
Discussions: if the journal publishes discussion pieces.
NDIS = does not publish discussions.
RTJA = publishes discussions that reply to journal articles.
YDIS = publishes discussions

The Sub-Fields selector above the directory can be applied to isolate particular subject subdisciplines. If the PJIP also possesses directory information for this subject, Filters below the index can be applied to show journals of a certain type such as only Generalist journals, or only Open Access Journals, or only journals published in a particular country, etc. Crtl click multiple filters for further refinement such as showing only Open Access Generalist journals. ​
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Citation based rankings sourced from SCImago, (n.d.). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Retrieved from http://www.scimagojr.com & Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), (n.d.). SNIP Journal Indicators. Retrieved from https://www.journalindicators.com/downloads