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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	British Journal of Anaesthesia	52
2	Anesthesiology	37
3	Pain	35
4	Anaesthesia	34
5	Journal of Clinical Anesthesia	33
6	Anesthesia and Analgesia	32
7	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	30
8	BMC Anesthesiology	28
9	European Journal of Anaesthesiology	25
-	European Journal of Pain	25
11	Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine	23
12	Journal of Anesthesia	22
13	Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal Canadien d'Anesthesie	20
-	Korean Journal of Anesthesiology	20
-	Pain Medicine	20
16	Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine	18
-	Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing	18
-	Pain Practice	18
19	Best Practice & Research-Clinical Anaesthesiology	17
-	Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica	17
-	Current Opinion in Anesthesiology	17
22	Pediatric Anesthesia	16
-	Minerva Anestesiologica	16
24	Perioperative Medicine	14
25	Pain Physician	12
-	Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology	12
27	International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia	11
28	Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology	10
29	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care	8
30	Schmerz	7
31	Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie	5