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Table 1 Most influential journals in Public Health Research

From: Influential journals in health research: a bibliometric study

R

Journal name

TC

TP

H

TC/TP

Year

Volume

IF

IF5

T50

T200

T200*

GR

First year

1

American Journal of Public Health

302196

9203

198

32,84

1991

81

4,229

4,997

15

9

1

3

1911

2

Social Science & Medicine

281663

9656

163

29,17

1990

31

2,558

3,568

17

14

0

4

1967

3

Bulletin of The World Health Organization

80812

2597

110

31,12

1990

68

5,112

6,372

8

7

14

22

1948

4

BMC Public Health

60880

7434

64

8,19

2001

1

2,321

2,781

0

0

0

31

2001

5

Public Health Nutrition

46882

2988

84

15,69

1999

2

2,483

2,798

1

1

0

41

1998

6

Drug Safety

46562

2005

87

23,22

1990

5

2,620

3,424

0

0

0

42

1986

7

Annual Review of Public Health

39592

595

104

66,54

1991

12

6,627

7,984

4

4

1

51

1980

8

Public Health Reports

34617

2064

67

13,29

1990

105

1,644

1,791

1

1

2

61

2001

9

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

22531

2219

54

10,15

1996

20

1,897

1,835

0

0

0

82

1977

10

Canadian Journal of Public Health-Revue Canadienne de Sante Publique

20835

2515

44

8,28

1990

81

1,094

1,325

1

1

0

88

1997

11

European Journal of Public Health

20399

1851

51

11,02

1997

7

2,459

2,743

0

0

0

91

1991

12

Public Health

20393

2488

48

8,2

1990

104

1,475

1,514

0

0

0

92

1888

13

Revista de Saude Publica

18366

2810

41

6,54

1990

24

1,219

1,587

0

0

0

97

1967

14

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

17440

1568

50

11,12

1999

27

3,125

2,570

0

0

0

103

1973

15

Journal of American College Health

15664

1011

57

15,49

1994

43

1,397

2,223

2

1

0

109

1978

16

Journal of Safety Research

13917

1070

47

13,01

1990

21

1,303

1,940

0

0

0

116

1982

17

Public Health Nursing

11167

1373

37

8,13

1990

7

0,886

1,131

0

0

0

137

1984

18

Maternal and Child Health Journal

9992

1434

36

6,97

2004

8

2,015

2,318

0

0

0

143

1997

19

Salud Publica de Mexico

8805

2008

30

4,38

1993

35

1,034

1,221

0

0

0

154

1997

20

Ethnicity & Disease

7952

1285

32

6,19

2004

14

0,921

1,233

0

0

0

160

2003

  1. Abbreviations: TC Total citations, TP Total papers, H Hirsch index, TC/TP Average citations per paper, IF Impact factor, IF5 5-year impact factor, T50 Number of papers among the 50 most cited of the category, T200 and T200* Number of papers among the 200 most cited in all fields of health between 1990–2014 and before 1990, GR Global ranking considering all the journals