Medicine · 3,536 journals indexed
Highest-impact journals for Medicine
The top Medicine journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an 88,000-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 free Journal Finder.
- 1CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians222.8 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 2Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy41.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer NatureOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 3Nature Reviews Disease Primers29.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4Nature Reviews Microbiology26.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 5Journal of Hematology & Oncology26.7 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 6Cancer Cell26.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell PressScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 7New England Journal of Medicine25.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Massachusetts Medical SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 8Nature Medicine25.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 9Pharmacological Reviews24.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental TherapeuticsScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 10Cell Metabolism23.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell PressScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 11Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology22.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 12Molecular Cancer22.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 13Nature reviews. Cancer19.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 14Immunity19.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell PressScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 15Nature reviews. Immunology18.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 16Journal of Extracellular Vesicles17.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 17Science16.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 18The Lancet16.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of Science
- 19Endocrine Reviews16.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University PressScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 20MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report15.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 21Nature15.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 22Cell stem cell15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 23Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience15.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Canadian Medical AssociationOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 24Physiological Reviews14.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physiological SocietyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25Clinical Microbiology Reviews14.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for MicrobiologyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Cellular and Molecular Immunology14.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer NatureScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27Molecular Neurodegeneration14.3 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 28Nature Metabolism14.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 29Nature Microbiology13.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 30Periodontology 200013.9 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 31Ageing Research Reviews13.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 32Cardiovascular Diabetology13.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 33Nature Reviews Cardiology13.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 34Nature Cancer13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 35Nature Reviews Nephrology13.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 36Nature Reviews Neurology13.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 37The Lancet Public Health13.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 38International Journal of Oncology13.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Spandidos PublishingScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 39World Psychiatry13.0 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 40The Lancet Neurology12.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb 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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