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Best Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine journals

145 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 36 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Anaesthesia 14.7 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 British Journal of Anaesthesia 14.5 98th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Journal of Headache and Pain 11.9 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
4 Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 11 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
5 Pain 10.7 96th Q1 SCIE – No
6 European Journal of Anaesthesiology 9.8 96th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Palliative Medicine 8.5 95th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 7.9 94th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Anesthesiology 7.8 94th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 7.7 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
11 Neuromodulation 7.3 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
12 Current Pain and Headache Reports 7 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
13 Journal of Pain 6.7 91st Q1 SCIE – No
14 Pain Medicine (United States) 6.6 90th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 6.6 90th Q1 SCIE – No
16 Pain and Therapy 6.6 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
17 Anesthesia and Analgesia 6.5 88th Q1 SCIE – No
18 Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine 6.3 88th Q1 SCIE – No
19 European Journal of Pain 6.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
20 Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 6.1 86th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Neurobiology of Pain 5.9 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
22 Korean Journal of Pain 5.9 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
23 Pain Research and Management 5.8 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
24 Clinical Journal of Pain 5.7 84th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 5.6 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
26 Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 5.5 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
27 Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care 5.4 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
28 Pain Physician 5.4 81st Q1 SCIE – No
29 Journal of Anesthesia 5.3 80th Q1 SCIE – No
30 Pain Practice 5.2 79th Q1 SCIE – No
31 Molecular Pain 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
32 Frontiers in Pain Research 5 77th Q1 ESCI – Yes
33 Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology 5 77th Q1 SCIE – No
34 Canadian Journal of Pain 4.9 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
35 Medical Gas Research 4.8 75th Q1 ESCI – No
36 Minerva Anestesiologica 4.8 75th Q1 SCIE – No
37 Pain Reports 4.7 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
38 BJA Education 4.6 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
39 Patient Safety in Surgery 4.6 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
40 BMC Anesthesiology 4.4 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
41 Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition) 4.4 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
42 Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 4.4 71st Q2 SCIE – No
43 Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 4.3 70th Q2 SCIE – No
44 Journal of Pain Research 4.2 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
45 Paediatric Anaesthesia 4.2 69th Q2 SCIE – No
46 British Journal of Pain 4.1 68th Q2 ESCI – No
47 Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 4.1 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
48 Scandinavian Journal of Pain 3.9 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
49 Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 3.8 66th Q2 SCIE – No
50 Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy 3.7 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
51 Anesthesiology Clinics 3.5 64th Q2 – – No
52 BJA Open 3.4 64th Q2 ESCI – Yes
53 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia 3.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
54 Journal of Palliative Medicine 3.2 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
55 International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 3.1 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
56 Critical Care and Resuscitation 2.9 61st Q2 SCIE – No
57 Advances in Anesthesia 2.8 60th Q2 – – No
58 Current Anesthesiology Reports 2.7 60th Q2 ESCI – No
59 Local and Regional Anesthesia 2.7 59th Q2 ESCI – Yes
60 Pain Management 2.7 58th Q2 ESCI – No
61 Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 2.7 58th Q2 ESCI – No
62 Anesthesiology Research and Practice 2.5 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
63 Precision Cancer Medicine 2.5 56th Q2 – – No
64 Journal of Oral and Facial Pain and Headache 2.4 56th Q2 SCIE – No
65 Innovations in Acupuncture and Medicine 2.4 55th Q2 ESCI – No
66 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia 2.3 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
67 Open Pain Journal 2.3 54th Q2 – – No
68 Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management 2.3 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
69 Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 2.3 52nd Q2 – – No
70 Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia 2.2 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
71 Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi 2.1 51st Q2 SCIE – No
72 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2.1 50th Q2 SCIE – No
73 European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care 2.1 50th Q2 – – Yes
74 Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology 2 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
75 Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2 48th Q3 ESCI – No
76 Interventional Pain Medicine 1.9 47th Q3 – – Yes
77 Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 1.9 47th Q3 ESCI – No
78 Anaesthesiologie 1.9 46th Q3 SCIE – No
79 JA Clinical Reports 1.8 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
80 Palliative Medicine Reports 1.8 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
81 Annals of Critical Care 1.7 44th Q3 – – Yes
82 Agri 1.7 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
83 Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation 1.7 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
84 Journal of Perioperative Practice 1.6 42nd Q3 ESCI – No
85 International Anesthesiology Clinics 1.6 41st Q3 ESCI – No
86 JMIR XR and Spatial Computing 1.6 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
87 Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care 1.5 40th Q3 ESCI – No
88 Anaesthesia Reports 1.5 39th Q3 ESCI – No
89 Schmerz 1.5 39th Q3 SCIE – No
90 Revista Espanola de Anestesiologia y Reanimacion 1.3 38th Q3 ESCI – No
91 Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia 1.2 37th Q3 ESCI – No
92 Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 1.2 37th Q3 ESCI – No
93 Russian Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology /Anesteziologiya i Reanimatologiya 1.2 36th Q3 – – No
94 Case Reports in Anesthesiology 1.1 35th Q3 – – Yes
95 Open Anesthesia Journal 1.1 35th Q3 – – No
96 Frontiers in Anesthesiology 1.1 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
97 Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 1 33rd Q3 – – No
98 Asian Journal of Anesthesiology 1 32nd Q3 – – No
99 Journal of Anesthesia and Translational Medicine 1 32nd Q3 – – No
100 Journal of Opioid Management 1 31st Q3 – – No
101 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine 1 30th Q3 ESCI – No
102 Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS 1 30th Q3 SCIE – No
103 Anesthesia Progress 0.9 29th Q3 – – No
104 Journal of Cellular and Molecular Anesthesia 0.9 28th Q3 – – No
105 Russian Journal of Pain 0.9 28th Q3 – – No
106 Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research 0.9 27th Q3 SCIE – No
107 Messenger of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation 0.9 26th Q3 – – Yes
108 Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology 0.8 25th Q3 – – Yes
109 Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia 0.8 24th Q4 ESCI – Yes
110 Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Anesthesia 0.7 24th Q4 ESCI – No
111 Update in Anaesthesia 0.7 23rd Q4 – – No
112 Anasthesiologie und Intensivmedizin 0.7 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
113 Hirurgia Pozvonochnika 0.6 22nd Q4 – – Yes
114 Ambulatornaya Khirurgiya 0.6 21st Q4 – – Yes
115 Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine 0.6 20th Q4 – – Yes
116 Medecine Palliative 0.6 20th Q4 ESCI – No
117 Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica 0.5 19th Q4 ESCI – No
118 Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care 0.5 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
119 Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management 0.5 18th Q4 – – No
120 Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care 0.5 17th Q4 ESCI – Yes
121 Bali Journal of Anesthesiology 0.5 16th Q4 – – Yes
122 Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care 0.5 15th Q4 ESCI – Yes
123 Revista de la Sociedad Espanola del Dolor 0.5 15th Q4 – – No
124 Douleurs 0.5 14th Q4 – – No
125 Acta Colombiana de Cuidado Intensivo 0.4 13th Q4 – – No
126 Emergency Medicine (Ukraine) 0.4 13th Q4 – – Yes
127 Anestezi Dergisi 0.4 12th Q4 – – No
128 Russian Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care 0.4 11th Q4 – – No
129 Indian Journal of Pain 0.3 11th Q4 – – Yes
130 Medicina Paliativa 0.3 10th Q4 – – No
131 Archives of Anesthesiology and Critical Care 0.3 9th Q4 – – Yes
132 Indian Journal of Respiratory Care 0.3 9th Q4 ESCI – Yes
133 Anesteziologie a Intenzivni Medicina 0.3 8th Q4 ESCI – No
134 Chinese Journal of Anesthesiology 0.2 7th Q4 – – No
135 Revista Mexicana de Anestesiologia 0.2 7th Q4 – – No
136 Douleur et Analgesie 0.2 6th Q4 – – No
137 Revista Chilena de Anestesia 0.2 6th Q4 – – Yes
138 Ambulatory Surgery 0.2 5th Q4 – – No
139 Indian Journal of Clinical Anaesthesia 0.2 4th Q4 – – No
140 Praticien en Anesthesie Reanimation 0.1 3rd Q4 – – No
141 Sri Lankan Journal of Anaesthesiology 0.1 3rd Q4 ESCI – Yes
142 Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
143 DOLOR 0 1st Q4 – – No
144 Journal of Japanese Dental Society of Anesthesiology 0 1st Q4 – – No
145 Advanced Spine Journal 0 0th Q4 – – Yes

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