Table 2.
Top 10 most cited journals in three time periods (cumulative). The total number of citations in an analyzed period is presented within parentheses.
| Rank | 2000 and later | 2007 and later | 2012 and later |
| 1 | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1388) | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1073) | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (720) |
| 2 | The New England Journal of Medicine (1291) | The New England Journal of Medicine (731) | PLOS One (352) |
| 3 | The Lancet (1156) | PLOS One (616) | The New England Journal of Medicine (255) |
| 4 | The BMJ (921) | The BMJ (557) | Annals of Internal Medicine (200) |
| 5 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (888) | The Lancet (424) | The Lancet (196) |
| 6 | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (822) | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (422) | The BMJ (192) |
| 7 | Nature (802) | Nature (357) | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (153) |
| 8 | Science (739) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (335) | Nature (147) |
| 9 | PLOS One (620) | Annals of Internal Medicine (273) | Neurology (110) |
| 10 | Journal of Biological Chemistry (560) | Neurology (224) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (94) |