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What Scientific Journals Rank the Highest in Being Cited?

Scientific journals are ranked in different ways, and sometimes research is judged on the basis of the rank of the journal it is published in. Publishing in a high-ranking journal is also a matter of academic pride. One common measure is the number of times research from that journal has been cited. Citation data is taken from databases such as Thomson-Reuters and Scopus. The idea is that when scientists publish research, they cite previous work they believe to be of high quality and importance. So, if research in a particular journal is cited often, that journal is perceived to be of high quality and importance.

  1. Science Watch Top 10

    • According to Science Watch, the 10 most cited journals based on 1999-2009 totals are: "Journal of Biological Chemistry" (1.65 million), "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science" (1.4 million), "Nature" (1.2 million), "Science" (1.1 million), "Physical Review Letters" (884,911), "Journal of the American Chemical Society" (881,457), "Physical Review B" (612,337), "Astrophysical Journal" (581,299), "New England Journal of Medicine" (568,698) and "Applied Physics Letters" (549,224). Science Watch uses the Thomson-Reuters citation index.

    SCImago Top 10

    • Based on 20010-2012 data, SCImago Journal and Country Rank’s top 10 are: "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science" (119,356), "Nature" (104,068), "PLoS One" (103,109), "Journal of the American Chemical Society" (102,432), "Science" (88,919), "New England Journal of Medicine" (65,891), "Physical Review Letters" (65,309), "Journal of Biological Chemistry" (62,587), "Angewandte Chemie -- International Edition" (59,703) and "Physical Review B -- Condensed Matter and Materials Physics" (58,343). SCImago uses the Scopus citation index.

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