Table 4.
Journals publishing the greatest number of economic evaluations by income group of countries studied
| Low and lower‐middle | Upper‐middle | High | All | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Journal | Type | N | Journal | Type | N | Journal | Type | N | Journal | Type | N |
| 1 | PLoS One | Other | 30 | PLoS One | Other | 31 | Journal of Medical Economics | HEPS | 100 | PLoS One | Other | 121 |
| 2 | Vaccine | BM | 13 | Vaccine | Other | 17 | Health Technology Assessment | HEPS | 82 | Journal of Medical Economics | HEPS | 101 |
| 3 | Malaria Journal | BM | 9 | Value in Health Regional Issues | BM | 11 | PLoS One | Other | 70 | Health Technology Assessment | HEPS | 82 |
| 4 | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | BM | 8 | Value in Health | HEPS | 8 | Value in Health | HEPS | 54 | Vaccine | BM | 66 |
| 5 | Health Policy and Planning | HEPS | 8 | BMJ | HEPS | 7 | Vaccine | BM | 44 | Value in Health | HEPS | 63 |
| 6 | BMJ | BM | 6 | AIDS | BM | 7 | ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research | HEPS | 36 | ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research | HEPS | 37 |
| 7 | Value in Health Regional Issues | HEPS | 6 | Cadernos de Saúde Pública | BM | 7 | European Journal of Health Economics | HEPS | 35 | European Journal of Health Economics | HEPS | 36 |
| 8 | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | HEPS | 5 | BMC Public Health | BM | 6 | PharmacoEconomics | HEPS | 33 | PharmacoEconomics | HEPS | 34 |
| 9 | PLoS Medicine | BM | 5 | BMC Health Services Research | BM | 6 | Clinical Therapeutics | BM | 28 | Clinical Therapeutics | BM | 32 |
| 10 | AIDS | BM | 4 | PLoS Medicine | HEPS | 5 | BMJ Open | BM | 26 | Value in Health Regional Issues | HEPS | 28 |
| 11 | PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases | BM | 4 | International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | BM | 5 | Applied Health Economics and Health Policy | HEPS | 26 | BMJ Open | BM | 26 |
| 12 | BMC Public Health | BM | 3 | Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand | BM | 5 | International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care | HEPS | 22 | Applied Health Economics and Health Policy | HEPS | 26 |
| 13 | International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | BM | 3 | Malaria Journal | BM | 4 | Cancer | BM | 21 | International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care | HEPS | 25 |
| 14 | World Journal of Surgery | BM | 3 | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | BM | 4 | BMJ | BM | 19 | BMC Health Services Research | HEPS | 23 |
| 15 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | HEPS | 3 | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | BM | 4 | BMC Health Services Research | HEPS | 17 | Cancer | BM | 21 |
| 16 | Tropical Medicine and International Health | BM | 3 | Clinical Therapeutics | HEPS | 4 | American Journal of Managed Care | BM | 16 | BMJ | BM | 20 |
| 17 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | BM | 2 | BMC Infectious Diseases | BM | 4 | Osteoporosis International | BM | 14 | BMC Public Health | BM | 20 |
| 18 | Lancet | BM | 2 | Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública | BM | 4 | Gynecologic Oncology | BM | 14 | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | HEPS | 20 |
| 19 | Biosystems | BM | 2 | Modern Preventive Medicine | BM | 4 | BMC Public Health | BM | 13 | American Journal of Managed Care | BM | 16 |
| 20 | Journal of Pediatrics | BM | 2 | Biomedica | BM | 4 | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation | HEPS | 13 | AIDS | BM | 16 |
| Lancet Global Health | BM | 2 | Chinese Journal of New Drugs | BM | 4 | BJU International | BM | 13 | ||||
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA | BM | 2 | Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi | BM | 4 | Heart | BM | 13 | ||||
| Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association | BM | 2 | ||||||||||
| Disasters | Other | 2 | ||||||||||
BM: Biomedical; HEPS: Health economics, policy, and services; OTH: Other.