Table 2.
Top 10 journals with the highest number of cocitations. Cocited journals refer to 2 or more journals that are simultaneously cited in the reference lists of other research papers.
| Rank | Cited journals | Cocitations, n | IFa (2020) | Quartile in category |
| 1 | Medical Education | 1868 | 4.7 | Q1 |
| 2 | Academic Medicine | 1775 | 7.4 | Q1 |
| 3 | Medical Teacher | 1597 | 4.7 | Q1 |
| 4 | BMC Medical Education | 941 | 3.6 | Q1 |
| 5 | JAMA—Journal of American Medical Association | 931 | 120.7 | Q1 |
| 6 | British Medical Journal | 827 | 107.7 | Q1 |
| 7 | Advances in Health Sciences Education | 802 | 4.0 | Q1 |
| 8 | The Lancet | 697 | 168.9 | Q1 |
| 9 | New England Journal of Medicine | 694 | 158.5 | Q1 |
| 10 | Teaching and Learning Medicine | 599 | 2.5 | Q3 |
aIF: impact factor.