Top 20 Medical Journals in the World

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Google Scholar identifies the following as the top 20 medical journals based on citations.  I have published in 3 of these.



1. The New England Journal of Medicine

2. The Lancet

3. Cell

4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

5. Journal of Clinical Oncology

6. Nature Genetics

7. JAMA

8. Circulation

9. Journal of the American College of Cardiology

10. Blood

11. PLoS ONE

12. Nature Medicine

13. Nature Reviews Cancer

14. Neuron

15. British Medical Journal

16. Cancer Research

17. The Journal of Clinical Investigation

18. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

19. Gastroenterology

20. Nature Immunology