Medicine papers

Pofolia organises Medicine into 42 subfields: 3504 papers in total (1938–2026), each with a short summary. The subfields come first, then the most-cited work across the whole field.

Subfields

• Emergency Medicine 59 papers
• Family Practice 86 papers
• Anatomy 48 papers
• Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 92 papers
• Biochemistry (Medicine) 109 papers
• Surgery 137 papers
• Dermatology 78 papers
• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 93 papers
• Infectious Diseases 92 papers
• Epidemiology 82 papers
• Pharmacology (Medicine) 98 papers
• Physiology 73 papers
• Gastroenterology 61 papers
• Genetics (Medicine) 92 papers
• Geriatrics and Gerontology 54 papers
• Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 81 papers
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 76 papers
• Hematology 101 papers
• Hepatology 77 papers
• Internal Medicine 60 papers
• Immunology and Allergy 87 papers
• Obstetrics and Gynecology 101 papers
• Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 102 papers
• Otorhinolaryngology 58 papers
• Microbiology 82 papers
• Nephrology 55 papers
• Neurology (Medicine) 89 papers
• Ophthalmology 49 papers
• Oncology 73 papers
• Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 140 papers
• Pathology and Forensic Medicine 76 papers
• Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 87 papers
• Psychiatry and Mental health 106 papers
• Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 90 papers
• Rehabilitation 115 papers
• Rheumatology 89 papers
• Health Informatics 83 papers
• Complementary and alternative medicine 94 papers
• Transplantation 63 papers
• Reproductive Medicine 54 papers
• Urology 62 papers
• Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 100 papers

At a glance

• Most cited: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2013, 114,593 citations).
• The 12 papers listed have 593,877 citations between them.
• 8 of the 10 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 8 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine.
• Published between 2013 and 2024.

Most cited across the field

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

  American Psychiatric Association eBooks · 2013 · FWCI 1023.32 · 114,593 citations

  This project developed an application using web scraping from Instagram, machine learning, and facial analysis to detect potential depression symptoms, aiming for a more comprehensive assessment than text or facial analysis alone.

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• Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries

  CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians · 2021 · Q1 · SJR 104.00 · FWCI 7597.27 · 113,108 citations · Open access

  In 2020, an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and 10.0 million deaths occurred globally, with female breast cancer becoming the most commonly diagnosed cancer, surpassing lung cancer.

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• Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries

  CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 104.00 · FWCI 4080.68 · 87,943 citations · Open access

  The GLOBOCAN 2018 estimates project 18.1 million new cancer cases and 9.6 million deaths globally, with lung cancer being the most common and deadliest. Significant geographic variability exists, highlighting disparities in cancer burden.

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• Short-Term Effects of Nose-Only Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Glutathione Redox Homeostasis, Cytochrome P450 1A1/2 and Respiratory Enzyme Activities in Mice Tissues

  Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry · 2013 · Q3 · FWCI 460.23 · 47,290 citations · Open access

  Four days of nose-only cigarette smoke exposure in mice significantly increased oxidative stress and disrupted mitochondrial function across liver, kidney, heart, and lung tissues, with lung and heart being particularly affected.

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• Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 18.00 · FWCI 704.52 · 31,181 citations

  A study of 1099 COVID-19 patients in China found a 6.1% rate of severe outcomes (ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, or death), with fever and cough being the most common symptoms, though many patients presented without fever and some had no initial radiologic abnormalities.

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• PD-1 and PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint Blockade to Treat Breast Cancer

  Breast Care · 2016 · Q2 · FWCI 1607.02 · 30,918 citations · Open access

  Immune checkpoint inhibition, specifically blocking PD-1 and PD-L1, shows significant promise for treating breast cancer, particularly triple-negative subtypes, potentially leading to long-term disease control.

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• A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 18.00 · FWCI 668.76 · 30,418 citations

  A previously unknown betacoronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, was identified in patients with pneumonia linked to a market in Wuhan, China.

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• World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki

  JAMA · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 5.00 · FWCI 212.74 · 29,734 citations

  The World Medical Association (WMA) has established the Declaration of Helsinki, a foundational document outlining ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects, including identifiable human material and data.

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• Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

  International Journal of Cancer · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 1052.41 · 29,085 citations · Open access

  GLOBOCAN 2012 estimates reveal 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million deaths globally, with lung, breast, and colorectal cancers being the most frequently diagnosed.

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• The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

  JAMA · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 5.00 · FWCI 1276.82 · 28,211 citations · Open access

  New definitions for sepsis and septic shock have been established, defining sepsis as life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection, operationalized by a 2-point increase in SOFA score. Septic shock is now defined by profound circulatory, cellular, and metabolic abnormalities requiring vasopressors and elevated lactate, indicating a mortality risk over 40%.

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• Global cancer statistics, 2012

  CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 104.00 · FWCI 1664.54 · 27,385 citations · Open access

  In 2012, cancer caused 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths globally, with the burden increasingly shifting to less developed countries.

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• Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal

  ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · 2024 · FWCI 529.79 · 24,011 citations · Open access

  Two previously undiscovered Later Stone Age archaeological sites dating to the Final Pleistocene have been identified in the Falémé Valley of eastern Senegal.

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Journals in this field

The journals that publish most of this field’s papers. Quartile (Q1–Q4), SJR and h-index are from SCImago Journal Rank; “in this field” is how many of the journal’s pooled papers belong here. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?

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