Journal | Papers | Citations | Citations per paper | |
1 | Annual Review of Immunology | 269 | 65,458 | 243.34 |
2 | Science | 289 | 55,801 | 193.08 |
3 | Nature | 298 | 56,570 | 189.83 |
4 | Nature Immunology | 1,183 | 119,063 | 100.64 |
5 | Nature Reviews Immunology | 483 | 39,555 | 81.89 |
6 | Immunity | 1,487 | 120,749 | 81.20 |
7 | Trends in Immunology | 930 | 42,055 | 45.22 |
8 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA | 1,489 | 66,470 | 44.64 |
9 | Current Opinions in Immunology | 979 | 41,965 | 42.87 |
10 | Immunological Reviews | 1,178 | 43,698 | 37.10 |
11 | Seminars in Immunology | 431 | 12,857 | 29.83 |
12 | Journal of Immunology | 18,607 | 543,082 | 29.19 |
13 | AIDS | 3,796 | 89,720 | 23.64 |
14 | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 5,791 | 133,961 | 23.13 |
15 | European Journal of Immunology | 3,850 | 85,058 | 22.09 |
16 | Infection and Immunity | 9,213 | 185,247 | 20.11 |
17 | Journal of Leukocyte Biology | 2,859 | 52,822 | 18.48 |
18 | International Immunology | 1,740 | 29,545 | 16.98 |
19 | Clinical & Experimental Allergy | 2,430 | 39,421 | 16.22 |
20 | JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | 2,535 | 40,652 | 16.04 |
Here, our ranking of journals in immunology is by citations per paper to reveal weighted impact. Essential Science Indicators lists journals ranked in the top 50 per cent for a field over a given period, based on total citations. In immunology, 61 journals are listed, meaning 122 journals in the field were surveyed. Of these, 41 received 10,000 or more citations during the period.
This top 20 should be recognised as distinct from the Thomson Reuters impact-factor rankings, which are presented in the Journal Citation Reports issued each year. The impact factor is calculated as citations in year three to a journal’s contents in years one and two, divided by the number of so-called “citable” items (regular articles and reviews) in years one and two. Thus, the ranking reveals longer-term impact (citations per paper). The data for the multidisciplinary journals listed – Science, Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA – take into account only those articles classified by Thomson Reuters as immunology papers.
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