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Best Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine journals

146 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 36 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Anaesthesia 14.7 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 British Journal of Anaesthesia 14.5 98th Q1 SCIE No
3 Journal of Headache and Pain 11.9 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
4 Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 11 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
5 Pain 10.7 96th Q1 SCIE No
6 European Journal of Anaesthesiology 9.8 96th Q1 SCIE No
7 Palliative Medicine 8.5 95th Q1 SCIE No
8 Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 7.9 94th Q1 SCIE No
9 Anesthesiology 7.8 94th Q1 SCIE No
10 Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 7.7 93th Q1 SCIE No
11 Neuromodulation 7.3 92th Q1 SCIE No
12 Current Pain and Headache Reports 7 92th Q1 SCIE No
13 Journal of Pain 6.7 91th Q1 SCIE No
14 Pain Medicine (United States) 6.6 90th Q1 SCIE No
15 Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 6.6 90th Q1 SCIE No
16 Pain and Therapy 6.6 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
17 Anesthesia and Analgesia 6.5 88th Q1 SCIE No
18 Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine 6.3 88th Q1 SCIE No
19 European Journal of Pain 6.3 87th Q1 SCIE No
20 Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 6.1 86th Q1 SCIE No
21 Neurobiology of Pain 5.9 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
22 Korean Journal of Pain 5.9 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
23 Pain Research and Management 5.8 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
24 Clinical Journal of Pain 5.7 84th Q1 SCIE No
25 Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 5.6 83th Q1 SCIE No
26 Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 5.5 82th Q1 SCIE No
27 Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care 5.4 81th Q1 ESCI Yes
28 Pain Physician 5.4 81th Q1 SCIE No
29 Journal of Anesthesia 5.3 80th Q1 SCIE No
30 Pain Practice 5.2 79th Q1 SCIE No
31 Molecular Pain 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
32 Frontiers in Pain Research 5 77th Q1 ESCI Yes
33 Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology 5 77th Q1 SCIE No
34 Canadian Journal of Pain 4.9 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
35 Medical Gas Research 4.8 75th Q1 ESCI No
36 Minerva Anestesiologica 4.8 75th Q1 SCIE No
37 Pain Reports 4.7 74th Q2 ESCI Yes
38 BJA Education 4.6 73th Q2 ESCI No
39 Patient Safety in Surgery 4.6 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
40 BMC Anesthesiology 4.4 72th Q2 SCIE Yes
41 Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition) 4.4 71th Q2 SCIE Yes
42 Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 4.4 71th Q2 SCIE No
43 Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 4.3 70th Q2 SCIE No
44 Journal of Pain Research 4.2 69th Q2 SCIE Yes
45 Paediatric Anaesthesia 4.2 69th Q2 SCIE No
46 British Journal of Pain 4.1 68th Q2 ESCI No
47 Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 4.1 67th Q2 ESCI Yes
48 Scandinavian Journal of Pain 3.9 67th Q2 ESCI Yes
49 Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 3.8 66th Q2 SCIE No
50 Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy 3.7 65th Q2 ESCI Yes
51 Anesthesiology Clinics 3.5 64th Q2 No
52 BJA Open 3.4 64th Q2 ESCI Yes
53 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia 3.3 63th Q2 ESCI Yes
54 Journal of Palliative Medicine 3.2 62th Q2 SCIE No
55 International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 3.1 62th Q2 SCIE No
56 Critical Care and Resuscitation 2.9 61th Q2 SCIE No
57 Advances in Anesthesia 2.8 60th Q2 No
58 Current Anesthesiology Reports 2.7 60th Q2 ESCI No
59 Local and Regional Anesthesia 2.7 59th Q2 ESCI Yes
60 Pain Management 2.7 58th Q2 ESCI No
61 Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 2.7 58th Q2 ESCI No
62 Anesthesiology Research and Practice 2.5 57th Q2 ESCI Yes
63 Precision Cancer Medicine 2.5 56th Q2 No
64 Journal of Oral and Facial Pain and Headache 2.4 56th Q2 SCIE No
65 Innovations in Acupuncture and Medicine 2.4 55th Q2 ESCI No
66 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia 2.3 54th Q2 ESCI Yes
67 Open Pain Journal 2.3 54th Q2 No
68 Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management 2.3 53th Q2 SCIE No
69 Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 2.3 52th Q2 No
70 Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia 2.2 52th Q2 ESCI Yes
71 Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi 2.1 51th Q2 SCIE No
72 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2.1 50th Q2 SCIE No
73 European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care 2.1 50th Q2 Yes
74 Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology 2 49th Q3 ESCI Yes
75 Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2 48th Q3 ESCI No
76 Interventional Pain Medicine 1.9 47th Q3 No
77 Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 1.9 47th Q3 ESCI No
78 Anaesthesiologie 1.9 46th Q3 SCIE No
79 JA Clinical Reports 1.8 45th Q3 ESCI Yes
80 Palliative Medicine Reports 1.8 45th Q3 ESCI Yes
81 Annals of Critical Care 1.7 44th Q3 Yes
82 Agri 1.7 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
83 Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation 1.7 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
84 Journal of Perioperative Practice 1.6 42th Q3 ESCI No
85 International Anesthesiology Clinics 1.6 41th Q3 ESCI No
86 JMIR XR and Spatial Computing 1.6 41th Q3 ESCI Yes
87 Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care 1.5 40th Q3 ESCI No
88 Anaesthesia Reports 1.5 39th Q3 ESCI No
89 Schmerz 1.5 39th Q3 SCIE No
90 Revista Espanola de Anestesiologia y Reanimacion 1.3 38th Q3 ESCI No
91 Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia 1.2 37th Q3 ESCI Yes
92 Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 1.2 37th Q3 ESCI No
93 Russian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology /Anesteziologiya i Reanimatologiya 1.2 36th Q3 No
94 Case Reports in Anesthesiology 1.1 35th Q3 Yes
95 Open Anesthesia Journal 1.1 35th Q3 No
96 Frontiers in Anesthesiology 1.1 34th Q3 ESCI Yes
97 Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 1 33th Q3 No
98 Asian Journal of Anesthesiology 1 32th Q3 No
99 Journal of Anesthesia and Translational Medicine 1 32th Q3 No
100 Journal of Opioid Management 1 31th Q3 No

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