Anesthesiology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	British Journal of Anaesthesia	56
2	Anaesthesia	41
3	Anesthesiology	38
4	Pain	35
5	Journal of Clinical Anesthesia	33
6	Anesthesia and Analgesia	32
7	BMC Anesthesiology	29
8	European Journal of Anaesthesiology	28
-	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	28
10	European Journal of Pain	26
11	Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine	25
12	Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien d'Anesthesie	22
13	Pain Medicine	21
-	Pain Practice	21
-	Korean Journal of Anesthesiology	21
16	Current Opinion in Anesthesiology	20
17	Journal of Anesthesia	19
-	Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing	19
19	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	17
-	Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica	17
21	Minerva Anestesiologica	16
-	Perioperative Medicine	16
-	Pain Physician	16
24	Pediatric Anesthesia	15
25	Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology	13
-	International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia	13
27	Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology	10
28	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	9
29	Schmerz	7
30	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5