Best journals by field
Ranked lists for 10 disciplines and 60 narrower fields, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Each lists up to its top 40 by Scimago quartile and OpenAlex cites/paper, with the journals a field is mainly about ahead of those that list it as a sideline; predatory venues excluded.
Disciplines
Narrower fields
Sociology and Political Science1975Political Science and International Relations1071Education1020Surgery944Molecular Biology910Plant Science672Ecology634Electrical and Electronic Engineering604Economics and Econometrics579Mechanical Engineering526Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine520Clinical Psychology450Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health450Literature and Literary Theory422Materials Chemistry412Epidemiology402Artificial Intelligence376Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine337Civil and Structural Engineering329Biomedical Engineering325Information Systems324History296Global and Planetary Change289Strategy and Management286Philosophy273Genetics272Cognitive Neuroscience266Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics266Law266Oncology263Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health263Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging260Computer Networks and Communications242Language and Linguistics234Social Psychology232Mechanics of Materials229Physiology217Organic Chemistry209Infectious Diseases202Anthropology191Archeology191Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics188Accounting186Control and Systems Engineering182Aerospace Engineering180Computational Mechanics180Food Science179Atmospheric Science176Computational Theory and Mathematics174Neurology172Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management158Geophysics153Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis146Oral Surgery145Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism133Immunology132Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience131Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition128Water Science and Technology123Transportation106
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