Respiratory System: 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	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	90
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	69
3	Journal of Thoracic Oncology	61
4	European Respiratory Journal	60
5	Chest	54
6	European Respiratory Review	43
7	Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	40
8	Journal of Cystic Fibrosis	38
-	Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation	38
-	Annals of Thoracic Surgery	38
11	Thorax	37
12	Lung Cancer	33
13	BMC Pulmonary Medicine	31
14	Respiratory Medicine	30
-	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	30
16	Respirology	29
17	International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	28
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	28
19	ERJ Open Research	26
20	Pulmonology	25
21	Journal of Asthma and Allergy	24
-	Archivos de Bronconeumologia	24
-	Pediatric Pulmonology	24
24	BMJ Open Respiratory Research	23
-	Journal of Thoracic Disease	23
-	American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology	23
27	Heart & Lung	22
-	Thoracic Cancer	22
-	Translational Lung Cancer Research	22
30	European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	21
31	Lung	20
32	Respiration	19
-	Respiratory Care	19
-	Clinics in Chest Medicine	19
35	Sleep and Breathing	18
-	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease	18
37	npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
-	Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine	17
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	17
41	Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	16
-	Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine	16
43	Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology	15
-	Clinical Respiratory Journal	15
-	Paediatric Respiratory Reviews	15
46	Journal of Asthma	14
47	COPD-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	13
48	Annals of Thoracic Medicine	12
49	Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery	11
-	Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery	11

-	Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon	11
-	Thoracic Surgery Clinics	11
-	Canadian Respiratory Journal	11
54	Revue des Maladies Respiratoires	8
-	Respiratory Medicine and Research	8
56	Experimental Lung Research	7
57	Pediatric Allergy Immunology and Pulmonology	6
-	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases-Journal of the Copd Foundation	6