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Table 2 Top ten active journals in publishing health–related research articles on fragile states

From: Health-related publications on people living in fragile states in the alert zone: a bibliometric analysis

Rank

Journal

Frequency

% (N = 2299)

Subject area

Journal rank

Country of the journal

1

Pan African medical journal

104

4.5

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Q3

Kenya

2

BMC public health

93

4.0

Medicine (Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health)

Q1

UK

3

BMC Pregnancy and childbirth

71

3.1

Medicine (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

Q1

UK

4

BMC infectious diseases

67

2.9

Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Q1

UK

5

Journal of the Pakistan medical association

64

2.8

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Q3

Pakistan

6

Plos neglected tropical diseases

57

2.5

Medicine (Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health)

Q1

USA

7

Ethiopian journal of health sciences

53

2.3

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Q3

Ethiopia

8

BMC health services research

48

2.1

Medicine (Health Policy)

Q1

UK

9

BMJ open

46

2.0

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Q1

UK

10

African health sciences

39

1.7

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Q2

Uganda

  1. Q = quartile. Q1 is the highest and Q4 is the lowest rank. The rank was obtained from Scimago Journal Rank (https://www.scimagojr.com/)