Respiratory System: 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	104
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	85
3	European Respiratory Journal	80
4	Chest	67
-	Journal of Thoracic Oncology	67
6	Thorax	45
7	Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	41
8	Annals of Thoracic Surgery	40
9	Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation	39
10	Respiratory Medicine	37
11	European Respiratory Review	36
12	Journal of Cystic Fibrosis	35
-	Lung Cancer	35
14	American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology	33
-	Pediatric Pulmonology	33
16	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	32
-	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	32
18	Translational Lung Cancer Research	30
19	ERJ Open Research	29
-	Respirology	29
21	Journal of Thoracic Disease	28
22	BMC Pulmonary Medicine	27
-	European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	27
-	Pulmonology	27
25	BMJ Open Respiratory Research	26
26	Archivos de Bronconeumologia	25
-	Thoracic Cancer	25
28	Heart & Lung	24
-	International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	24
30	Journal of Asthma and Allergy	23
-	Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine	23
32	Lung	22
-	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease	22
34	Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology	20
35	Respiratory Care	19
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	19
37	Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	18
-	Respiration	18
-	Sleep and Breathing	18
-	Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine	18
41	Tuberculosis	17
-	Clinics in Chest Medicine	17
43	Clinical Respiratory Journal	16
-	npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine	16
-	Paediatric Respiratory Reviews	16
46	Journal of Asthma	15
47	COPD-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	14
48	Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery	13
-	Thoracic Surgery Clinics	13
50	Canadian Respiratory Journal	12

51	Annals of Thoracic Medicine	9
-	Experimental Lung Research	9
-	Revue des Maladies Respiratoires	9
-	Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon	9
55	Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery	8
56	Pediatric Allergy Immunology and Pulmonology	7
-	Respiratory Medicine and Research	7
58	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases-Journal of the Copd Foundation	6