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Best Epidemiology journals

173 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Epidemiology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 43 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 MMWR Recommendations and Reports 131.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 MMWR Surveillance Summaries 93.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 35.2 98th Q1 SCIE No
4 Clinical Microbiology Reviews 28.9 97th Q1 SCIE No
5 The Lancet HIV 18.9 97th Q1 SCIE No
6 European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 16.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
7 Emerging Microbes and Infections 14.1 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Alzheimer's and Dementia 13.9 95th Q1 SCIE No
9 Eurosurveillance 13.6 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
10 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 12.9 94th Q1 SCIE No
11 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 11.7 93th Q1 SCIE No
12 International Journal of Epidemiology 11.5 93th Q1 SCIE No
13 European Journal of Epidemiology 11.2 92th Q1 SCIE No
14 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 10 92th Q1 SCIE No
15 Emerging Infectious Diseases 9.5 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
16 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 9.4 91th Q1 SCIE No
17 Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 9.3 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
18 Global Health Research and Policy 8.4 89th Q1 ESCI Yes
19 Journal of Health Monitoring 8.4 89th Q1 Yes
20 American Journal of Preventive Medicine 8 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
21 Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 7.7 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
22 Communications Medicine 7.7 87th Q1 ESCI Yes
23 Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses 7.6 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
24 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 7.5 86th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
25 GeoHealth 7.3 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
26 Preventive Medicine 7.2 85th Q1 SCIE No
27 American Journal of Epidemiology 7.1 84th Q1 SCIE No
28 Microbial Genomics 7.1 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
29 Journal of Epidemiology 7 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
30 Epidemiologic Reviews 7 82th Q1 SCIE No
31 Epidemiology 6.8 82th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
32 Clinical Epidemiology 6.7 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
33 Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances 6.7 81th Q1 ESCI Yes
34 Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 6.7 80th Q1 SCIE No
35 Neuroepidemiology 6.6 80th Q1 SCIE No
36 BMC Medical Research Methodology 6.6 79th Q1 SCIE Yes
37 Health Care Science 6.6 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
38 Global Heart 6.3 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
39 Microbial Risk Analysis 6.1 77th Q1 SCIE No
40 Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 5.8 77th Q1 SCIE No
41 Food and Waterborne Parasitology 5.7 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
42 Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice 5.6 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
43 Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology 5.5 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
44 Genetic Epidemiology 5.5 74th Q2 SCIE No
45 Infectious Agents and Cancer 5.4 74th Q2 SCIE Yes
46 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 5.4 73th Q2 SCIE No
47 Environmental Epidemiology 5.4 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
48 Zoonoses and Public Health 5.3 72th Q2 SCIE No
49 American Journal of Infection Control 5.2 71th Q2 SCIE No
50 Epidemics 5.2 71th Q2 SCIE Yes
51 Food and Environmental Virology 5.2 70th Q2 SCIE No
52 Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 5.2 70th Q2 SSCI No
53 Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 5 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI Yes
54 European Journal of Cancer Prevention 4.7 69th Q2 SCIE No
55 Cancer Epidemiology 4.6 68th Q2 SCIE No
56 Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 4.6 67th Q2 No
57 Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 4.6 67th Q2 SCIE No
58 Epidemiology and Infection 4.6 66th Q2 SCIE Yes
59 Innovation Medicine 4.5 66th Q2 Yes
60 Parasite Epidemiology and Control 4.5 65th Q2 ESCI Yes
61 China CDC Weekly 4.4 65th Q2 SCIE, SSCI No
62 Epidemiology and Health 4.3 64th Q2 SCIE Yes
63 Frontiers in Reproductive Health 4.2 63th Q2 ESCI Yes
64 Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 4.2 63th Q2 Yes
65 Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 4.2 62th Q2 ESCI No
66 Ophthalmic Epidemiology 4.1 62th Q2 SCIE No
67 Sleep Epidemiology 4 61th Q2 Yes
68 Frontiers in Drug Safety and Regulation 4 60th Q2 Yes
69 Annals of Epidemiology 3.9 60th Q2 SCIE No
70 Journal of Physical Activity and Health 3.9 59th Q2 SSCI No
71 Simulation in Healthcare 3.9 59th Q2 SCIE No
72 HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice 3.8 58th Q2 ESCI Yes
73 Maternal and Child Health Journal 3.8 58th Q2 SSCI No
74 Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 3.8 57th Q2 SCIE No
75 Epidemiologia 3.7 56th Q2 ESCI Yes
76 Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors 3.6 56th Q2 ESCI No
77 HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care 3.6 55th Q2 ESCI Yes
78 Journal of Virus Eradication 3.6 55th Q2 SCIE Yes
79 Frontiers in Epidemiology 3.5 54th Q2 ESCI Yes
80 Global Epidemiology 3.5 54th Q2 Yes
81 Statistical Methods in Medical Research 3.4 53th Q2 SCIE B No
82 Statistics in Medicine 3.2 52th Q2 SCIE A No
83 International Journal of Circumpolar Health 3.2 52th Q2 SCIE, SSCI Yes
84 Journal of Community Genetics 3.1 51th Q2 ESCI No
85 Population Health Metrics 3.1 51th Q2 SSCI Yes
86 Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 3.1 50th Q2 Yes
87 Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health 3.1 50th Q2 ESCI Yes
88 Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics 3.1 49th Q3 ESCI Yes
89 IJID Regions 3 48th Q3 ESCI Yes
90 GERMS 2.9 48th Q3 ESCI No
91 Journal of Research in Health Sciences 2.9 47th Q3 ESCI No
92 AJPM Focus 2.7 47th Q3 ESCI Yes
93 Annals of Human Biology 2.5 46th Q3 SCIE, SSCI Yes
94 International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research 2.5 45th Q3 ESCI Yes
95 Journal of epidemiology and population health 2.4 45th Q3 SCIE No
96 Ethnicity and Disease 2.4 44th Q3 SCIE No
97 NIHR Open Research 2.3 44th Q3 Yes
98 Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology 2.3 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
99 Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia 2.3 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
100 Epidemiologia e Prevenzione 2.2 42th Q3 SCIE, SSCI No

Rank and percentile are within the Epidemiology Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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