What are the best journals for Epidemiology?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Epidemiology journals include Clinical Microbiology Reviews, The Lancet Public Health, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology, British Journal of Biomedical Science. The top 40 of 402 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Epidemiology journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Epidemiology come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Epidemiology — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Epidemiology — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (2 of the 402 journals ranked here are below that floor; none of them is among the 40 shown). Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Epidemiology journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Epidemiology paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Epidemiology · 402 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Epidemiology

The top 40 of 402 Epidemiology journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Epidemiology is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 18 October 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

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Clinical Microbiology Reviews
17.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
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2
The Lancet Public Health
16.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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3
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
15.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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4
The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
12.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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5
British Journal of Biomedical Science
11.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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6
International Journal of Stroke
8.7 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
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7
Eurosurveillance
8.1 cites/paper · Q1 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
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8
Autophagy
7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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9
Journal of Infection
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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10
Clinical Infectious Diseases
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
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11
PLoS Pathogens
5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of Science
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12
Expert Review of Vaccines
5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Informa
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13
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · JMIR Publications
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14
Journal of Virology
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
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15
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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16
Antiviral Research
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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17
Annals of Medicine
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Informa
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18
Virology Journal
4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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19
Harm Reduction Journal
4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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20
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
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21
Clinical Epidemiology
4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Dove Medical Press
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22
Infection
4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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23
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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24
Addiction
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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25
Mycoses
3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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26
Medical Mycology
3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
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27
Addictive Behaviors
3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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28
International Journal of Drug Policy
3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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29
The Italian Journal of Pediatrics
3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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30
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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31
International Breastfeeding Journal
3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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32
Journal of Clinical Virology
3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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33
Journal of Medical Virology
3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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34
Journal of General Virology
3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Microbiology Society
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35
Vaccine
3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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36
Mycopathologia
3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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37
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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38
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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39
International Journal of Health Geographics
3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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40
Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
3.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.