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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine · 221 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best open-access journals for Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The top 40 of 221 Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine journals, open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by whether OpenAlex and Scimago agree on the subject and how central Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), leaving out journals both place in another discipline, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. 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).

Data as of — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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  1. 1
    European Respiratory Review
    10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · European Respiratory Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Respiratory Research
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Chinese Medical Journal
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Breathe
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · European Respiratory Society
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    International Journal of COPD
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Dove Medical Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    BMJ Open Respiratory Research
    2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · BMJ
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Pulmonology
    2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    ERJ Open Research
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · European Respiratory Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    JTCVS Open
    1.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Chinese Journal of Cancer Research
    5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · AME Publishing Company
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Diagnostic Pathology
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery
    3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · AME Publishing Company
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Radiation Oncology
    3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    International braz j urol
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Investigative and Clinical Urology
    2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · The Korean Urological Association
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Acta Oncologica
    2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    World Journal of Surgical Oncology
    2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
    1.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Advances in Radiation Oncology
    1.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    European Urology Open Science
    0.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    Cancer Medicine
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Cancer Research and Treatment
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Korean Cancer Association
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    The Oncologist
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · AlphaMed Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Cancer Control
    3.1 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    ESMO Open
    1.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Critical Care
    7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Annals of Intensive Care
    7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Cancers
    5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
    2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
    1.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    Chronic Respiratory Disease
    3.2 cites/paper · Q2 · SAGE Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Tuberculosis & respiratory diseases
    3.2 cites/paper · Q2 · The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Journal of Korean Medical Science
    2.9 cites/paper · Q2 · Korean Academy of Medical Sciences
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    BMC Pulmonary Medicine
    2.8 cites/paper · Q2 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
    2.8 cites/paper · Q2 · Informa
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    Advances in respiratory medicine
    2.8 cites/paper · Q2
    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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Frequently asked

European Respiratory Review, Respiratory Research, Chinese Medical Journal, Breathe, International Journal of COPD lead this list, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. The top 40 of 221 ranked venues are listed on this page; 34 are Scimago Q1 and 6 Q2. Journals are placed by two independent classifications, OpenAlex's and Scimago's, plus any documented corrections. A journal both place under Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ranks ahead, within its Scimago quartile, of one only OpenAlex places there — because Scimago does not cover it, files it as Multidisciplinary, or files it under a neighbouring subject or only under a broad “(miscellaneous)” category (which counts as agreement when Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is the journal's main OpenAlex subfield). By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, journals both sources place under Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine come first, then venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (1 of the 221 journals ranked here is below that floor; it is not among the 40 shown). Only open-access venues are included. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded. For a match to your specific paper use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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