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Table 8 Top 20 health-related journals publishing on poverty-related health issues (2005–2015)

From: Bibliometric analysis of medicine-related publications on poverty (2005–2015)

SCRa

Journal

Frequency

%

TC

C/A

IF

1st

Lancet

32

2.02

620

19.38

44.002

2nd

American Journal of Public Health

26

1.64

864

33.23

2.24

3rd

Plos One

25

1.58

207

8.28

3.54

4th

Health and Place

20

1.26

254

12.70

1.74

5th

Social Science and Medicine

19

1.20

530

27.89

2.814

6th

BMC Public Health

18

1.14

216

12.00

2.209

7th

Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases

18

1.14

564

31.33

4.446

7th

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

16

1.01

220

13.75

3.31

9th

BMJ Clinical Research Ed b

15

0.95

17

1.13

17.4

10th

Ciencia E Saude Coletiva

14

0.88

71

5.07

0.50

11th

Bulletin of The World Health Organization

13

0.821

435

33.46

5.089

12th

International Journal for Equity in Health

12

0.758

70

5.83

2.378

13th

Tropical Medicine and International Health

11

0.695

386

35.09

2.519

14th

Journal of Urban Health

10

0.632

154

15.40

2.046

14th

Paediatrics and Child Health

10

0.632

46

4.60

1.477

14th

Pediatrics

10

0.632

320

32.00

5.473

14th

Preventing Chronic Disease

10

0.632

51

5.10

2.170

14th

Salud Publica De Mexico

10

0.632

35

3.50

1.107

19th

International Journal of Health Services

9

0.569

42

4.67

0.782

19th

Journal of Health Care for The Poor and Underserved

9

0.569

52

5.78

0.924

19th

Plos Medicine

9

0.569

225

25.00

14.429

  1. TC total citations, C/A average number of citations per article calculated by dividing the total citation by number of articles for each journal, IF impact factor
  2. a SCR standard competition ranking. Equal countries were given the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
  3. bDiscontinued in 1988. Currently it is known as BMJ (British Medical Journal)