Anesthesiology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	British Journal of Anaesthesia	46
2	Anesthesiology	37
3	Pain	35
4	Anaesthesia	34
5	Journal of Clinical Anesthesia	33
6	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	30
7	Anesthesia and Analgesia	29
8	BMC Anesthesiology	26
9	European Journal of Pain	25
10	European Journal of Anaesthesiology	24
-	Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine	24
12	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	21
-	Journal of Anesthesia	21
-	Pain Medicine	21
15	Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien d'Anesthesie	19
-	Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing	19
-	Korean Journal of Anesthesiology	19
18	Best Practice & Research-Clinical Anaesthesiology	18
-	Pain Practice	18
-	Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica	18
-	Pediatric Anesthesia	18
22	Minerva Anestesiologica	17
23	Current Opinion in Anesthesiology	14
-	Pain Physician	14
25	Perioperative Medicine	13
-	International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia	13
27	Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology	11
28	Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology	9
-	Clinical Journal of Pain	9
30	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
31	Schmerz	7
32	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5