Medicine · 5,944 journals indexed
Best journals for Medicine
The top Medicine journals ranked by Scimago quartile, then cites/paper (OpenAlex, 2-year window), drawn from a 17,786-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. 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).
- 1CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians225.4 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 2Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy46.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer NatureOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 4Journal of Hematology & Oncology30.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 7New England Journal of Medicine28.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Massachusetts Medical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 13MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report17.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 15Molecular Neurodegeneration16.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 18Clinical Microbiology Reviews15.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for MicrobiologyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 22Cardiovascular Diabetology15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 23The Lancet Public Health15.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 25The Lancet Digital Health14.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Science Immunology14.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 29Science Translational Medicine14.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 33Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology13.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 34Seminars in Immunopathology13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 37Journal of Biomedical Science13.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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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.
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