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Table 3 The top 10 journals that published articles on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) research

From: Mapping the situation of research on coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19): a preliminary bibliometric analysis during the early stage of the outbreak

Ranking

Journal

Number of documents

IF a

1st

British Medical Journal

522 (2.74)

30.223

2nd

Journal of Medical Virology

311 (1.63)

2.021

3rd

Lancet

215 (1.13)

60.392

4th

Journal of the American Medical Association

137 (0.72)

45.540

5th

Journal of Infection

135 (0.71)

4.842

6th

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

131 (0.69)

2.849

7th

Medical Hypotheses

129 (0.68)

1.375

8th

Lancet Infectious Diseases

126 (0.66)

24.446

9th

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

125 (0.66)

3.202

10th

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

122 (0.64)

2.938

  1. a Impact factors (IF) based on Clarivate Analytics ‘Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2019 which was published in 2020