Table 3.

The top 10 most productive journals for clinical trial research and co-cited journals.

Rank	Journals	Number of publications	Number of citations	Average Number of citations	IF and JCR division(2022)	Co-cited Journals	Number of citations	IF and JCR division (2022)	Centrality
1	Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases	137	15592	115.43	27.4,Q1	Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases	8580	27.4,Q1	0.01
2	Journal of Rheumatology	111	4109	36.15	3.9,Q2	Journal of Rheumatology	4473	3.9,Q2	0.02
3	Rheumatology	64	2321	37.72	5.5,Q1	Arthritis and Rheumatism	3676	—	0.01
4	Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology	61	1102	18.54	3.7,Q2	Arthritis Rheumatology	2503	13.3,Q1	0.01
5	Clinical Rheumatology	49	1158	23.92	3.4,Q2	Rheumatology	1907	5.5,Q1	0.02
6	Arthritis Research Therapy	42	1653	40.77	4.9,Q2	Lancet	1338	168.9,Q1	0.09
7	Arthritis and Rheumatism	33	8284	246.71	—	New England Journal of Medicine	982	158.5,Q1	0.15
8	Rheumatology International	31	988	29.28	4.0,Q2	Arthritis Research Therapy	837	4.9,Q2	0.05
9	Best Practice Research in Clinical Rheumatology	28	745	24.42	5.2,Q1	Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology	783	3.7,Q2	0.09
10	Arthritis Rheumatology	27	1473	54.11	13.3,Q1	Arthritis Care Research	759	4.7,Q2	0.05