Top 20 Journals in Pregnancy and Childbirth Ranked by h5-index (2024)

List of Top Journals in Pregnancy and Childbirth Ranked by h5-index (2024)

Publication h5-index h5-median
1 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 84 108
2 The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 58 79
3 Women and Birth 56 82
4 Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition 55 80
5 Maternal & Child Nutrition 54 68
6 Midwifery 49 67
7 Journal of Perinatology 48 66
8 American Journal of Perinatology 45 78
9 International Breastfeeding Journal 44 62
10 Seminars in Perinatology 43 56
11 Maternal and Child Health Journal 40 58
12 Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 36 53
13 Breastfeeding medicine 36 52
14 Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 36 50
15 Birth 36 46
16 Birth Defects Research 35 54
17 Journal of Perinatal Medicine 35 53
18 Journal of Human Lactation 34 58
19 Pregnancy Hypertension 33 42
20 Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health 31 45

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.



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