Respiratory System: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The 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	TQCC
1	European Respiratory Review	21
2	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	14
3	European Respiratory Journal	13
4	American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology	9
5	Lung	8
-	npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine	8
-	Thorax	8
-	Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine	8
9	International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	7
-	Journal of Asthma and Allergy	7
-	Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	7
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	7
-	Clinics in Chest Medicine	7
-	Pulmonology	7
15	BMJ Open Respiratory Research	6
-	COPD-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	6
-	BMC Pulmonary Medicine	6
-	Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery	6
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	6
20	Annals of Thoracic Medicine	5
-	ERJ Open Research	5
-	Experimental Lung Research	5
-	Heart & Lung	5
-	Respiration	5
-	Respiratory Medicine	5
-	Sleep and Breathing	5
-	Thoracic Cancer	5
-	Tuberculosis	5
-	Annals of Thoracic Surgery	5
-	European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	5
-	Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine	5
-	Respiratory Care	5
33	Clinical Respiratory Journal	4
-	Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery	4
-	Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	4
-	Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology	4
-	Canadian Respiratory Journal	4
-	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease	4
-	Lung Cancer	4
-	Paediatric Respiratory Reviews	4
-	Pediatric Pulmonology	4
-	Respirology	4
-	Translational Lung Cancer Research	4
44	Archivos de Bronconeumologia	3
-	Journal of Asthma	3
-	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	3
-	Journal of Thoracic Disease	3
48	Pediatric Allergy Immunology and Pulmonology	2
-	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases-Journal of the Copd Foundation	2
-	Thoracic Surgery Clinics	2

51	Respiratory Medicine and Research	1
52	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	0
-	Chest	0
-	Journal of Cystic Fibrosis	0
-	Journal of Thoracic Oncology	0
-	Revue des Maladies Respiratoires	0
-	Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation	0
-	Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon	0