Medicine · 2,169 journals indexed
Best open-access journals for Medicine
The top Medicine journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, 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
- 3Journal of Hematology & Oncology30.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report17.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 5Molecular Neurodegeneration16.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 6Cardiovascular Diabetology15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 7The Lancet Public Health15.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 8The Lancet Digital Health14.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 9Journal of Biomedical Science13.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 10npj Digital Medicine11.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 15Implementation Science10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 17Journal of Clinical Investigation9.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Clinical InvestigationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 18British Journal of Biomedical Science9.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 21European Respiratory Review9.0 cites/paper · Q1 · European Respiratory SocietyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 22Journal of Sport and Health Science9.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 24Alzheimer s Research & Therapy8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25JAMA Network Open8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Medical AssociationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · BMJOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27The Lancet Regional Health - Europe8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 29Antioxidants7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 30npj Precision Oncology7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 31Eurosurveillance7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · European Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 32PLoS Medicine7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of ScienceOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 34Preventing Chronic Disease7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 35Journal of Medical Internet Research7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · JMIR PublicationsOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 36Journal of Translational Medicine7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 38npj Parkinson s Disease7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 40Lipids in Health and Disease7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb 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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