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Best Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine journals

165 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 41 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 Respiratory Medicine 48.1 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Journal of Thoracic Oncology 33.4 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 European Respiratory Journal 27.2 98th Q1 SCIE No
4 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 25.7 97th Q1 SCIE No
5 Sleep Medicine Reviews 21.1 97th Q1 SCIE No
6 European Respiratory Review 17.5 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
7 Thorax 14.4 96th Q1 SCIE No
8 Respirology 11.6 95th Q1 SCIE No
9 Chest 11.2 94th Q1 SCIE No
10 Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 10.6 94th Q1 SCIE No
11 Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 10.2 93th Q1 SCIE No
12 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 10 93th Q1 SCIE No
13 American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology 9 92th Q1 SCIE No
14 Respiratory Research 8.8 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
15 Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 8.6 91th Q1 SCIE No
16 Annals of Thoracic Surgery 8.3 90th Q1 SCIE No
17 Annals of the American Thoracic Society 8.1 90th Q1 SCIE No
18 Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 8 89th Q1 ESCI No
19 Paediatric Respiratory Reviews 7.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
20 Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses 7.6 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
21 Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Research 7.4 87th Q1 SCIE No
22 Lung Cancer 7.4 86th Q1 SCIE No
23 Pulmonology 7.4 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
24 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine 7.3 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
25 World Allergy Organization Journal 7.2 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
26 Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 7.2 84th Q1 SCIE No
27 Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 7 83th Q1 SCIE No
28 Respiration 6.7 83th Q1 SCIE No
29 Clinical and Translational Allergy 6.7 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
30 Lung 6.6 82th Q1 SCIE No
31 Clinics in Chest Medicine 6.5 81th Q1 SCIE No
32 American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 6.4 80th Q1 SCIE No
33 JTO Clinical and Research Reports 6.3 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
34 Clinical Lung Cancer 6.2 79th Q1 SCIE No
35 Journal of Breath Research 6.2 79th Q1 SCIE No
36 Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 6 78th Q1 SCIE No
37 ERJ Open Research 6 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
38 Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 5.9 77th Q1 SCIE No
39 Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 5.9 76th Q1 SCIE No
40 Journal of Asthma and Allergy 5.8 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
41 Breathe 5.8 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
42 International Journal of COPD 5.6 74th Q2 SCIE Yes
43 Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine 5.3 74th Q2 SCIE No
44 European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 5.3 73th Q2 SCIE No
45 BMJ Open Respiratory Research 5.2 73th Q2 SCIE Yes
46 Thoracic Cancer 5.2 72th Q2 SCIE Yes
47 Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine 5.1 71th Q2 SCIE No
48 Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease 5.1 71th Q2 SCIE Yes
49 International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 5.1 70th Q2 SCIE No
50 Allergy and Asthma Proceedings 5 70th Q2 SCIE No
51 Pulmonary Therapy 4.9 69th Q2 ESCI Yes
52 Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology 4.9 68th Q2 SCIE Yes
53 BMC Pulmonary Medicine 4.9 68th Q2 SCIE Yes
54 Heart and Lung 4.8 67th Q2 SCIE No
55 Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology 4.8 66th Q2 ESCI No
56 Canadian Respiratory Journal 4.7 66th Q2 SCIE Yes
57 Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 4.6 65th Q2 ESCI Yes
58 Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention 4.5 65th Q2 SCIE No
59 Advances in Respiratory Medicine 4.5 64th Q2 ESCI Yes
60 Chronic Respiratory Disease 4.4 63th Q2 SCIE Yes
61 Respiratory Medicine 4.3 63th Q2 SCIE No
62 Clinical Respiratory Journal 4.2 62th Q2 SCIE Yes
63 Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms 4.2 62th Q2 Yes
64 Pulmonary Circulation 4.2 61th Q2 SCIE Yes
65 Annals of Thoracic Medicine 4.1 60th Q2 SCIE Yes
66 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases 4.1 60th Q2 SCIE No
67 Pediatric Pulmonology 4.1 59th Q2 SCIE No
68 Journal of Asthma 4 59th Q2 SCIE No
69 COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 4 58th Q2 SCIE Yes
70 Allergologia et Immunopathologia 3.9 57th Q2 No
71 Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery 3.9 57th Q2 SCIE No
72 Current Sleep Medicine Reports 3.8 56th Q2 ESCI No
73 Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia 3.8 56th Q2 SCIE Yes
74 Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases 3.7 55th Q2 ESCI Yes
75 Archivos de Bronconeumologia 3.7 54th Q2 SCIE No
76 Heart Lung and Circulation 3.7 54th Q2 SCIE No
77 Respiratory Care 3.7 53th Q2 SCIE No
78 Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 3.6 53th Q2 SCIE No
79 Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 3.5 52th Q2 ESCI No
80 Thoracic Surgery Clinics 3.5 52th Q2 SCIE No
81 Journal of Thoracic Imaging 3.4 51th Q2 SCIE No
82 Journal of Cardiac Surgery 3.3 50th Q2 SCIE No
83 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon 3.2 50th Q2 SCIE No
84 Respiratory Medicine and Research 3.2 49th Q3 SCIE No
85 Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 3.1 48th Q3 SCIE Yes
86 Respiratory Investigation 3.1 48th Q3 ESCI No
87 Experimental Lung Research 3.1 47th Q3 SCIE Yes
88 General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2.9 46th Q3 SCIE No
89 Mediastinum 2.9 46th Q3 ESCI No
90 Journal of Thoracic Disease 2.9 45th Q3 SCIE Yes
91 Lifestyle Medicine 2.9 45th Q3 Yes
92 JTCVS Open 2.8 44th Q3 ESCI Yes
93 Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine 2.8 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
94 Therapeutic Advances in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 2.6 43th Q3 ESCI No
95 ATS Scholar 2.5 42th Q3 ESCI Yes
96 Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy 2.5 42th Q3 ESCI Yes
97 Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2.4 41th Q3 SCIE Yes
98 Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2.4 40th Q3 SCIE Yes
99 Pulmonary Medicine 2.4 40th Q3 ESCI Yes
100 European Clinical Respiratory Journal 2.2 39th Q3 ESCI Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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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