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Best Epidemiology journals

173 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Epidemiology. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 43 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 MMWR Recommendations and Reports 131.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 MMWR Surveillance Summaries 93.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 35.2 98th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Clinical Microbiology Reviews 28.9 97th Q1 SCIE – No
5 The Lancet HIV 18.9 97th Q1 SCIE – No
6 European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 16.1 96th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Emerging Microbes and Infections 14.1 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Alzheimer's and Dementia 13.9 95th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Eurosurveillance 13.6 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
10 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 12.9 94th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 11.7 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
12 International Journal of Epidemiology 11.5 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
13 European Journal of Epidemiology 11.2 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
14 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 10 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
15 Emerging Infectious Diseases 9.5 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
16 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 9.4 91st Q1 SCIE – No
17 Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 9.3 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
18 Global Health Research and Policy 8.4 89th Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Journal of Health Monitoring 8.4 89th Q1 – – Yes
20 American Journal of Preventive Medicine 8 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
21 Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 7.7 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
22 Communications Medicine 7.7 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
23 Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses 7.6 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
24 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 7.5 86th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
25 GeoHealth 7.3 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
26 Preventive Medicine 7.2 85th Q1 SCIE – No
27 American Journal of Epidemiology 7.1 84th Q1 SCIE – No
28 Microbial Genomics 7.1 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
29 Journal of Epidemiology 7 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 Epidemiologic Reviews 7 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
31 Epidemiology 6.8 82nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
32 Clinical Epidemiology 6.7 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
33 Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances 6.7 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
34 Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 6.7 80th Q1 SCIE – No
35 Neuroepidemiology 6.6 80th Q1 SCIE – No
36 BMC Medical Research Methodology 6.6 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
37 Health Care Science 6.6 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
38 Global Heart 6.3 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
39 Microbial Risk Analysis 6.1 77th Q1 SCIE – No
40 Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 5.8 77th Q1 SCIE – No
41 Food and Waterborne Parasitology 5.7 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
42 Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice 5.6 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
43 Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology 5.5 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
44 Genetic Epidemiology 5.5 74th Q2 SCIE – No
45 Infectious Agents and Cancer 5.4 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
46 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 5.4 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
47 Environmental Epidemiology 5.4 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
48 Zoonoses and Public Health 5.3 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
49 American Journal of Infection Control 5.2 71st Q2 SCIE – No
50 Epidemics 5.2 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
51 Food and Environmental Virology 5.2 70th Q2 SCIE – No
52 Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 5.2 70th Q2 SSCI – No
53 Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 5 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
54 European Journal of Cancer Prevention 4.7 69th Q2 SCIE – No
55 Cancer Epidemiology 4.6 68th Q2 SCIE – No
56 Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 4.6 67th Q2 – – No
57 Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 4.6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
58 Epidemiology and Infection 4.6 66th Q2 SCIE – Yes
59 Innovation Medicine 4.5 66th Q2 – – Yes
60 Parasite Epidemiology and Control 4.5 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
61 China CDC Weekly 4.4 65th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
62 Epidemiology and Health 4.3 64th Q2 SCIE – Yes
63 Frontiers in Reproductive Health 4.2 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
64 Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 4.2 63rd Q2 – – No
65 Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 4.2 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
66 Ophthalmic Epidemiology 4.1 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
67 Sleep Epidemiology 4 61st Q2 – – Yes
68 Frontiers in Drug Safety and Regulation 4 60th Q2 – – Yes
69 Annals of Epidemiology 3.9 60th Q2 SCIE – No
70 Journal of Physical Activity and Health 3.9 59th Q2 SSCI – No
71 Simulation in Healthcare 3.9 59th Q2 SCIE – No
72 HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice 3.8 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
73 Maternal and Child Health Journal 3.8 58th Q2 SSCI – No
74 Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 3.8 57th Q2 SCIE – No
75 Epidemiologia 3.7 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
76 Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors 3.6 56th Q2 ESCI – No
77 HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care 3.6 55th Q2 ESCI – Yes
78 Journal of Virus Eradication 3.6 55th Q2 SCIE – Yes
79 Frontiers in Epidemiology 3.5 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
80 Global Epidemiology 3.5 54th Q2 – – Yes
81 Statistical Methods in Medical Research 3.4 53rd Q2 SCIE B No
82 Statistics in Medicine 3.2 52nd Q2 SCIE A No
83 International Journal of Circumpolar Health 3.2 52nd Q2 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
84 Journal of Community Genetics 3.1 51st Q2 ESCI – No
85 Population Health Metrics 3.1 51st Q2 SSCI – Yes
86 Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 3.1 50th Q2 – – Yes
87 Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health 3.1 50th Q2 ESCI – Yes
88 Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics 3.1 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
89 IJID Regions 3 48th Q3 ESCI – Yes
90 GERMS 2.9 48th Q3 ESCI – No
91 Journal of Research in Health Sciences 2.9 47th Q3 ESCI – No
92 AJPM Focus 2.7 47th Q3 ESCI – Yes
93 Annals of Human Biology 2.5 46th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
94 International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research 2.5 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
95 Journal of epidemiology and population health 2.4 45th Q3 SCIE – No
96 Ethnicity and Disease 2.4 44th Q3 SCIE – No
97 NIHR Open Research 2.3 44th Q3 – – Yes
98 Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology 2.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
99 Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia 2.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
100 Epidemiologia e Prevenzione 2.2 42nd Q3 SCIE, SSCI – No
101 Infectious Microbes and Diseases 2.1 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
102 Frontiers in Environmental Health 2 41st Q3 – – Yes
103 Health Physics 2 40th Q3 SCIE – No
104 Epidemiologic Methods 1.9 40th Q3 – – No
105 Acta Medica Academica 1.9 39th Q3 – – Yes
106 Epidemiologia e Servicos de Saude 1.9 39th Q3 ESCI – Yes
107 Obesities 1.9 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
108 Communicable Diseases Intelligence 1.7 37th Q3 ESCI – No
109 Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad 1.7 37th Q3 – – Yes
110 Population Medicine 1.7 36th Q3 – – Yes
111 Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 1.6 36th Q3 – – Yes
112 Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports 1.5 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
113 Global Biosecurity 1.4 34th Q3 – – Yes
114 Infectious Diseases and Immunity 1.4 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
115 Epidemiologiya i Vaktsinoprofilaktika 1.4 33rd Q3 – – Yes
116 Infektsionnye Bolezni 1.3 33rd Q3 – – No
117 Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 1.3 32nd Q3 – – No
118 Indian Journal of Public Health 1.3 32nd Q3 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
119 Journal of Respiratory Biology and Translational Medicine 1.2 31st Q3 – – No
120 Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine 1.2 30th Q3 – – No
121 Revista Brasileira de Saude Ocupacional 1.2 30th Q3 – – Yes
122 Archives of Breast Cancer 1.1 29th Q3 – – No
123 Kesmas: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat Nasional 1.1 29th Q3 ESCI – Yes
124 Chinese Journal of Disease Control and Prevention 1.1 28th Q3 – – No
125 Problemy Osobo Opasnykh Infektsii 1.1 28th Q3 – – Yes
126 Tobacco Prevention and Cessation 1.1 27th Q3 ESCI – Yes
127 Brazilian Journal of Biometrics 1 26th Q3 – – Yes
128 Kliniceskaa Mikrobiologia i Antimikrobnaa Himioterapia 1 26th Q3 – – Yes
129 International Journal of Microsimulation 1 25th Q3 – – No
130 Epidemiologie, Mikrobiologie, Imunologie 0.9 25th Q3 SCIE – No
131 Modern Preventive Medicine 0.9 24th Q4 – – Yes
132 ESMO Gastrointestinal Oncology 0.9 23rd Q4 ESCI – Yes
133 Journal of Global Health Science 0.9 23rd Q4 – – No
134 International Journal of Medical Parasitology and Epidemiology Sciences 0.9 22nd Q4 – – No
135 Iranian Journal of Health Sciences 0.9 22nd Q4 – – Yes
136 HIV and AIDS Review 0.9 21st Q4 ESCI – Yes
137 Public Health and Life Environment 0.9 21st Q4 – – No
138 Environmental and Occupational Health Practice 0.9 20th Q4 – – Yes
139 Indonesian Journal of Public Health 0.8 19th Q4 – – Yes
140 International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases 0.8 19th Q4 ESCI – Yes
141 Biostatistics and Epidemiology 0.8 18th Q4 – – No
142 Journal of Occupational Health and Epidemiology 0.8 18th Q4 – – Yes
143 National Journal of Community Medicine 0.8 17th Q4 – – Yes
144 Unnes Journal of Public Health 0.8 17th Q4 – – Yes
145 Journal of Preventive Epidemiology 0.8 16th Q4 – – Yes
146 Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology 0.7 15th Q4 – – Yes
147 PLOS Mental Health 0.7 15th Q4 – – Yes
148 Poblacion y Salud en Mesoamerica 0.7 14th Q4 ESCI – Yes
149 Infection, Epidemiology and Microbiology 0.7 13th Q4 – – Yes
150 Journal of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care 0.7 13th Q4 – – No
151 Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Publica 0.7 13th Q4 – – Yes
152 Discover public health 0.6 12th Q4 ESCI – Yes
153 China Preventive Medicine Journal 0.6 11th Q4 – – Yes
154 Iranian Journal of Epidemiology 0.5 11th Q4 – – Yes
155 Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine 0.5 10th Q4 – – Yes
156 Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology 0.5 10th Q4 ESCI – Yes
157 Chinese Journal of Stroke 0.5 9th Q4 – – Yes
158 Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine 0.5 8th Q4 – – Yes
159 Russian Military Medical Academy Reports 0.5 8th Q4 – – No
160 Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia 0.5 7th Q4 – – No
161 Turkish Journal of Public Health 0.5 7th Q4 – – Yes
162 Indonesian Journal of Tropical and Infectious Disease 0.4 6th Q4 – – Yes
163 Journal of Health System Research 0.4 6th Q4 – – Yes
164 Epidemiology and Health System Journal 0.4 5th Q4 – – Yes
165 Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health 0.4 4th Q4 – – Yes
166 Turkish Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 0.4 4th Q4 – – No
167 Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Metabolism 0.4 3rd Q4 – – No
168 Japanese Journal of Health Physics 0.4 3rd Q4 – – No
169 Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine 0.3 2nd Q4 – – No
170 Tumor 0.2 2nd Q4 – – No
171 Anthropological Researches and Studies 0.2 1st Q4 – – Yes
172 Liaquat National Journal of Primary Care 0.2 0th Q4 ESCI – Yes
173 Clinical Infectology and Parasitology 0 0th Q4 – – No

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