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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	European Respiratory Review	22
2	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	16
3	European Respiratory Journal	13
4	Thorax	9
-	American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology	9
6	Journal of Asthma and Allergy	8
-	Lung	8
-	Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	8
9	Respiratory Medicine	7
-	BMJ Open Respiratory Research	7
-	International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	7
-	Clinics in Chest Medicine	7
-	Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine	7
-	European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	7
15	COPD-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	6
-	npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine	6
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	6
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	6
-	BMC Pulmonary Medicine	6
-	Pulmonology	6
21	Thoracic Cancer	5
-	Tuberculosis	5
-	ERJ Open Research	5
-	Heart & Lung	5
-	Respiration	5
-	Annals of Thoracic Surgery	5
-	Canadian Respiratory Journal	5
-	Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine	5
-	Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery	5
-	Respiratory Care	5
31	Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology	4
-	Sleep and Breathing	4
-	Annals of Thoracic Medicine	4
-	Experimental Lung Research	4
-	Translational Lung Cancer Research	4
-	Lung Cancer	4
-	Paediatric Respiratory Reviews	4
-	Pediatric Pulmonology	4
39	Clinical Respiratory Journal	3
-	Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery	3
-	Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	3
-	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease	3
-	Journal of Asthma	3
-	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	3
-	Journal of Thoracic Disease	3
46	Archivos de Bronconeumologia	2
-	Pediatric Allergy Immunology and Pulmonology	2
-	Thoracic Surgery Clinics	2
49	Respiratory Medicine and Research	1
-	Respirology	1

-	Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon	1
-	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases-Journal of the Copd Foundation	1
53	Revue des Maladies Respiratoires	0
-	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	0
-	Chest	0
-	Journal of Cystic Fibrosis	0
-	Journal of Thoracic Oncology	0
-	Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation	0