Respiratory System: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	European Respiratory Review	21
2	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	18
3	European Respiratory Journal	14
4	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	9
-	Thorax	9
-	American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology	9
7	Journal of Asthma and Allergy	7
-	Lung	7
-	npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine	7
10	BMJ Open Respiratory Research	6
-	COPD-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	6
-	International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	6
-	Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	6
-	Respiratory Medicine	6
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	6
-	Clinics in Chest Medicine	6
-	Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine	6
-	European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	6
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	6
20	Tuberculosis	5
-	ERJ Open Research	5
-	Respiration	5
-	Translational Lung Cancer Research	5
-	Annals of Thoracic Surgery	5
-	BMC Pulmonary Medicine	5
-	Canadian Respiratory Journal	5
-	Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine	5
-	Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery	5
-	Pulmonology	5
30	Annals of Thoracic Medicine	4
-	Experimental Lung Research	4
-	Heart & Lung	4
-	Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology	4
-	Sleep and Breathing	4
-	Thoracic Cancer	4
-	Paediatric Respiratory Reviews	4
-	Pediatric Pulmonology	4
-	Respiratory Care	4
39	Clinical Respiratory Journal	3
-	Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery	3
-	Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	3
-	Pediatric Allergy Immunology and Pulmonology	3
-	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease	3
-	Journal of Asthma	3
-	Journal of Thoracic Disease	3
-	Lung Cancer	3
47	Archivos de Bronconeumologia	2
-	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	2
-	Thoracic Surgery Clinics	2
50	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases-Journal of the Copd Foundation	1

-	Respiratory Medicine and Research	1
-	Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon	1
53	Chest	0
-	Journal of Cystic Fibrosis	0
-	Journal of Thoracic Oncology	0
-	Revue des Maladies Respiratoires	0
-	Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation	0
-	Respirology	0