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The following list of journals are those with the highest Journal Impact Factor (JIF)* in the MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL category in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).  333 titles are listed in this category in JCR and the top 10 of these are listed below:

1. Lancet
2. New England journal of medicine
3. BMJ. British medical journal
4. Nature reviews disease primers 
5. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
6.  Lancet digital health 
7. JAMA internal medicine
8. Annals of internal medicine
9. Military medical research 
10. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

*The JIF is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. Note: these results are based on data from the Web of Science Core collection only. For an in-depth explanation on its calculation and on Clarivate Journal Citation Reports please refer to this page  

Please note that JIF is one metric for assessing the quality of research journals but not the only one.