Top 20 Journals in Health & Medical Sciences Ranked by h5-index (2024)

List of Top Journals in Health & Medical Sciences Ranked by h5-index (2024)

Publication h5-index h5-median
1 The New England Journal of Medicine 439 876
2 The Lancet 368 688
3 Cell 316 503
4 JAMA 286 476
5 Nature Medicine 268 459
6 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 268 394
7 BMJ 218 356
8 International Journal of Molecular Sciences 215 305
9 Journal of Clinical Oncology 213 307
10 PLoS ONE 212 294
11 Frontiers in Immunology 212 286
12 Circulation 206 313
13 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 201 280
14 The Lancet Oncology 198 344
15 Journal of the American College of Cardiology 193 305
16 Nutrients 189 271
17 Nature Genetics 188 305
18 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 186 335
19 The Lancet Infectious Diseases 176 339
20 Gastroenterology 172 268

 

What is h5-index?

The h5-index is a bibliometric indicator created by Google Scholar that measures the number of articles published in the last five years that have at least h citations each. The h is the largest number of articles that have each been cited h times. For example, an h5-index of 60 means that a journal has published 60 articles in the past five years that have 60 or more citations each.

You can find the h5-index on scholar.google.com.

The h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.

Journal Impact in Google Scholar

  • h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For example, a publication with five articles cited by, respectively, 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2, has the h-index of 3.
  • h-core of a publication is a set of top cited h articles from the publication. These are the articles that the h-index is based on. For example, the publication above has the h-core with three articles, those cited by 17, 9, and 6.
  • h-median of a publication is the median of the citation counts in its h-core. For example, the h-median of the publication above is 9. The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the articles in the h-core.

What are h5-index and h5-median

  • h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. For example, h5-index for 2023 is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2018-2022 have at least h citations each.

          For example,

For 2023, h5-index  for Nature of 365 means that 365 articles published in Nature in 2018-2022 have received at least 365 citations each.

  • h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index

Both the H5-index and H5-median are available in Google Scholar Metrics. Journals can be browsed by discipline (more information about disciplines is available in Journal Rankings) or searched by keyword.

 

Last update: 02-May-2024


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