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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Lancet Respiratory Medicine	95
2	American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	69
3	Journal of Thoracic Oncology	65
4	European Respiratory Journal	62
5	Chest	54
6	European Respiratory Review	43
7	Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery	40
8	Annals of Thoracic Surgery	37
-	Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation	37
10	Thorax	36
11	Journal of Cystic Fibrosis	35
12	Respiratory Medicine	33
13	Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia	32
-	Lung Cancer	32
15	BMC Pulmonary Medicine	29
-	Respirology	29
17	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	28
18	International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	27
19	ERJ Open Research	26
-	Journal of Asthma and Allergy	26
21	American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology	25
-	Pediatric Pulmonology	25
23	Journal of Thoracic Disease	24
-	Pulmonology	24
-	Translational Lung Cancer Research	24
26	BMJ Open Respiratory Research	23
-	Thoracic Cancer	23
28	European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	22
29	Archivos de Bronconeumologia	21
-	Heart & Lung	21
-	Respiratory Care	21
32	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease	20
33	Lung	19
-	Respiration	19
-	Sleep and Breathing	19
36	Clinics in Chest Medicine	18
-	Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine	18
-	Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine	18
39	npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine	17
-	Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	17
41	Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology	16
-	Tuberculosis	16
-	Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine	16
44	Clinical Respiratory Journal	15
45	COPD-Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	14
-	Paediatric Respiratory Reviews	14
47	Journal of Asthma	13
48	Annals of Thoracic Medicine	12
49	Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery	11
-	Canadian Respiratory Journal	11

51	Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery	10
-	Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon	10
-	Thoracic Surgery Clinics	10
54	Experimental Lung Research	8
55	Revue des Maladies Respiratoires	7
-	Respiratory Medicine and Research	7
57	Pediatric Allergy Immunology and Pulmonology	6
58	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases-Journal of the Copd Foundation	4