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).

  1. 1
    CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
    225.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
    46.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Nature Reviews Disease Primers
    33.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Journal of Hematology & Oncology
    30.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    Cancer Cell
    29.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Nature Medicine
    28.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  7. 7
    New England Journal of Medicine
    28.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Massachusetts Medical Society
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  8. 8
    Cell Metabolism
    26.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
    25.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    Immunity
    21.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Nature reviews. Immunology
    21.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Endocrine Reviews
    19.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
    17.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Cellular and Molecular Immunology
    17.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Molecular Neurodegeneration
    16.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Nature Metabolism
    16.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Nature Reviews Nephrology
    15.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    15.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Ageing Research Reviews
    15.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Nature Reviews Cardiology
    15.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Nature Cancer
    15.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    Cardiovascular Diabetology
    15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    The Lancet Public Health
    15.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
    14.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    The Lancet Digital Health
    14.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Science Immunology
    14.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    The Lancet Neurology
    14.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Periodontology 2000
    14.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Science Translational Medicine
    14.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Drug Resistance Updates
    14.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Nature Reviews Neurology
    14.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Cell Host & Microbe
    14.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    13.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    Seminars in Immunopathology
    13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    Human Reproduction Update
    13.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
    13.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Journal of Biomedical Science
    13.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Nature Immunology
    12.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Nature Reviews Endocrinology
    12.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    Kidney International
    12.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“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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From a 17,786-venue index, the highest-ranked Medicine journals (by Scimago quartile then OpenAlex cites/paper) include CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, Nature Reviews Disease Primers, Journal of Hematology & Oncology, Cancer Cell. Predatory venues are excluded. The full ranked list with open-access and indexing details is on this page; for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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