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Best Medicine (all) journals

667 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Medicine (all). The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 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 The Lancet 92.4 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Nature Reviews Methods Primers 88.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 New England Journal of Medicine 74.8 99th Q1 SCIE No
4 Nature Medicine 73.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
5 Nature Reviews Disease Primers 71.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
6 MMWR supplements 45.5 99th Q1 No
7 Annual Review of Medicine 43 99th Q1 SCIE No
8 Military Medical Research 36.1 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
9 The Lancet Global Health 29.4 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
10 JAMA 26 98th Q1 SCIE No
11 Science Translational Medicine 25.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
12 Molecular Aspects of Medicine 21.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
13 eBioMedicine 19.1 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
14 National Center for Health Statistics Data Brief 18.2 97th Q1 No
15 Health systems in transition 18 97th Q1 No
16 eClinicalMedicine 17.3 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
17 Journal of Clinical Investigation 17.3 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
18 PLOS Medicine 16.4 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
19 JMIR Medical Education 16 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
20 Cell Reports Medicine 15.9 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
21 Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine 15.9 96th Q1 SCIE No
22 Med 15.1 96th Q1 ESCI No
23 JAMA Network Open 14.3 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
24 Bioengineering and Translational Medicine 13.9 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
25 BMC Medicine 13.1 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
26 Clinical Science 11.7 96th Q1 SCIE No
27 Biomedical Journal 11.6 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 British Medical Bulletin 11.4 95th Q1 SCIE No
29 Journal of Translational Medicine 11.3 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
30 Chinese Medical Journal 10.9 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
31 Mayo Clinic Proceedings 10.9 95th Q1 SCIE No
32 BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 10.8 95th Q1 SCIE No
33 JCI Insight 10.8 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine 10.2 94th Q1 SCIE Yes
35 Journal of Materials Chemistry B 10 94th Q1 SCIE No
36 Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy 10 94th Q1 SCIE No
37 Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 9.9 94th Q1 ESCI No
38 Global Health Journal 9.9 94th Q1 Yes
39 BMJ 8.9 94th Q1 SCIE No
40 Precision Clinical Medicine 8.7 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
41 Journal of Sleep Research 8.7 93th Q1 SCIE No
42 Journal of Zhejiang University: Science B 8.3 93th Q1 SCIE No
43 Medical Review 8.2 93th Q1 Yes
44 Medical Clinics of North America 8.1 93th Q1 SCIE No
45 BioScience Trends 8 93th Q1 SCIE No
46 JBI Evidence Synthesis 8 93th Q1 ESCI No
47 MedScience 8 93th Q1 SCIE No
48 Zoological Research 8 92th Q1 SCIE No
49 European Journal of Clinical Investigation 7.9 92th Q1 SCIE No
50 Medical Education 7.7 92th Q1 SCIE No
51 Biological Research 7.5 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
52 Medical Teacher 7.4 92th Q1 SCIE No
53 Perspectives on Medical Education 7.4 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
54 Advances in Health Sciences Education 7.2 92th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
55 Medical Journal of Australia 7 91th Q1 SCIE No
56 Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 7 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
57 Academic Medicine 6.8 91th Q1 SCIE No
58 Clinical and Experimental Medicine 6.7 91th Q1 SCIE No
59 Medical Education Online 6.6 91th Q1 SSCI Yes
60 Scientific World Journal 6.6 91th Q1 Yes
61 Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 6.4 90th Q1 No
62 Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions 6.4 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
63 Postgraduate Medical Journal 6.4 90th Q1 SCIE No
64 Annals of Medicine 6.3 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
65 Journal of the Formosan Medical Association 6.3 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
66 Archives of Medical Research 6.2 90th Q1 SCIE No
67 Patient Education and Counseling 6.2 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
68 Annals of Global Health 6.1 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
69 Life Medicine 6.1 89th Q1 ESCI Yes
70 Perspectives in Health Information Management 6.1 89th Q1 No
71 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 6.1 89th Q1 SCIE No
72 Photochemistry and Photobiology 6 89th Q1 SCIE No
73 American Journal of Medicine 5.9 89th Q1 SCIE No
74 Sleep Medicine 5.9 89th Q1 SCIE No
75 Dental and Medical Problems 5.8 88th Q1 ESCI Yes
76 Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences 5.7 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
77 Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality and Outcomes 5.7 88th Q1 ESCI Yes
78 Journal of Tropical Medicine 5.6 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
79 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 5.6 88th Q1 Yes
80 Yonsei Medical Journal 5.6 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
81 Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research 5.5 87th Q1 Yes
82 Disease-a-Month 5.5 87th Q1 SCIE No
83 Journal of Interprofessional Care 5.5 87th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
84 Clinical and Translational Science 5.4 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
85 Frontiers in Medicine 5.4 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
86 Teaching and Learning in Medicine 5.4 87th Q1 SCIE No
87 Postgraduate Medicine 5.3 87th Q1 SCIE No
88 BMC Medical Education 5.3 86th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
89 Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 5.3 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
90 Research Involvement and Engagement 5.3 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
91 Journal of Clinical Medicine 5.2 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
92 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 5.2 86th Q1 SCIE No
93 Journal of Investigative Medicine 5.1 86th Q1 SCIE No
94 Drugs in Context 5 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
95 Balkan Medical Journal 5 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
96 Journal of Korean Medical Science 5 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
97 BMC Palliative Care 4.9 85th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
98 International Journal of Medical Sciences 4.9 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
99 Medical Principles and Practice 4.9 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
100 PeerJ 4.9 85th Q1 SCIE Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Medicine (all) 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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