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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine · 203 journals indexed

Best open-access journals for Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The top Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, drawn from an17,538-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.

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  1. 1
    European Respiratory Review
    8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · European Respiratory Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Respiratory Research
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Chinese Journal of Cancer Research
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · AME Publishing Company
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Chinese Medical Journal
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    International Journal of COPD
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Dove Medical Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    International braz j urol
    2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Radiation Oncology
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Breathe
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · European Respiratory Society
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
    2.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    BMJ Open Respiratory Research
    2.4 cites/paper · Q1 · BMJ
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Investigative and Clinical Urology
    2.2 cites/paper · Q1 · The Korean Urological Association
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    World Journal of Surgical Oncology
    2.1 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Jornal de Pediatria
    2.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
    1.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    ERJ Open Research
    1.9 cites/paper · Q1 · European Respiratory Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Advances in Radiation Oncology
    1.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    European Urology Open Science
    0.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Advances in respiratory medicine
    2.5 cites/paper · Q2
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    BMC Pulmonary Medicine
    2.5 cites/paper · Q2 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Tuberculosis & respiratory diseases
    2.4 cites/paper · Q2 · The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment
    2.4 cites/paper · Q2 · SAGE Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
    2.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Informa
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Frontiers in Oncology
    2.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    Radiology and Oncology
    2.0 cites/paper · Q2 · De Gruyter Open
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Yonsei Medical Journal
    2.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Yonsei University College of Medicine
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Thoracic Cancer
    2.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    BMC Urology
    2.0 cites/paper · Q2 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Scandinavian Journal of Urology
    1.9 cites/paper · Q2 · Informa
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Translational Lung Cancer Research
    1.9 cites/paper · Q2 · AME Publishing Company
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Journal of Thoracic Disease
    1.8 cites/paper · Q2 · AME Publishing Company
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    The Clinical Respiratory Journal
    1.6 cites/paper · Q2 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Medicine
    1.5 cites/paper · Q2 · Wolters Kluwer
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Pulmonary Circulation
    1.5 cites/paper · Q2 · SAGE Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
    1.5 cites/paper · Q2 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    La Medicina del lavoro
    1.5 cites/paper · Q2 · Italian Society of Occupational Medicine
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Experimental Lung Research
    1.5 cites/paper · Q2 · Informa
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Translational Andrology and Urology
    1.5 cites/paper · Q2 · AME Publishing Company
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
    1.5 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    In Vivo
    1.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Stanford University Highwire Press
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    Cancer Treatment and Research Communications
    1.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Elsevier BV
    Open 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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