LibGuides: Medicine: High impact journals

High impact journals

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).

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.	The Lancet digital health
7.	JAMA internal medicine
8.	Annals of internal medicine
9.	Military medical research
10.	Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Additional categories you can search in the field of BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports:

PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL

Additional categories you can search in the field of CLINICAL MEDICINE in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports:

CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS

ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

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

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.