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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	British Journal of Anaesthesia	47
2	Anesthesiology	37
3	Pain	35
4	Anaesthesia	34
-	Journal of Clinical Anesthesia	34
6	Anesthesia and Analgesia	30
-	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	30
8	BMC Anesthesiology	27
9	European Journal of Anaesthesiology	25
-	European Journal of Pain	25
11	Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine	24
12	Journal of Anesthesia	21
-	Pain Medicine	21
14	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	20
15	Best Practice & Research-Clinical Anaesthesiology	19
-	Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien d'Anesthesie	19
-	Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing	19
-	Korean Journal of Anesthesiology	19
19	Pediatric Anesthesia	18
-	Pain Practice	18
21	Minerva Anestesiologica	17
-	Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica	17
23	Pain Physician	15
-	Current Opinion in Anesthesiology	15
25	Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology	13
-	Perioperative Medicine	13
27	International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia	12
28	Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology	9
29	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
30	Schmerz	7
31	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5