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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	British Journal of Anaesthesia	48
2	Anesthesiology	37
3	Pain	35
4	Anaesthesia	34
-	Journal of Clinical Anesthesia	34
6	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	31
7	Anesthesia and Analgesia	30
8	BMC Anesthesiology	27
9	European Journal of Pain	26
10	European Journal of Anaesthesiology	25
11	Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine	23
12	Pain Medicine	21
-	Journal of Anesthesia	21
14	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	20
-	Best Practice & Research-Clinical Anaesthesiology	20
16	Korean Journal of Anesthesiology	19
-	Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien d'Anesthesie	19
-	Pain Practice	19
19	Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing	18
-	Pediatric Anesthesia	18
-	Minerva Anestesiologica	18
22	Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica	17
23	Current Opinion in Anesthesiology	15
24	Perioperative Medicine	13
25	International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia	12
-	Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology	12
27	Pain Physician	10
-	Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology	10
29	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
30	Schmerz	7
31	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5