Table 2. The top 10 most active journals that published articles in coronavirus research (sorted by count).

Rank	Journal title	Percentage (N/9,760), %	IF [2018]	Quartile in category [2018]	H-index	Article counts	Total number of citations	Average number of citations
1	Journal of Virology	9.07	4.324	Q1	271	885	26,285	29.7
2	Virology	3.03	2.657	Q2	162	296	5,063	17.1
3	PLoS One	2.44	2.776	Q1	268	238	1,633	6.86
4	Emerging Infectious Diseases	2.09	7.185	Q1	202	204	5,612	27.51
5	Journal of General Virology	1.99	2.809	Q2	152	194	4,033	20.79
6	Virus Research	1.97	2.736	Q2	104	192	2,534	13.2
7	Viruses-Basel	1.70	3.811	Q1	59	166	999	6.02
8	Archives of Virology	1.59	2.261	Q3	102	155	1,529	9.86
9	Journal of Virological Methods	1.52	1.746	Q3	91	148	1,141	7.71
10	Veterinary Microbiology	1.47	2.791	Q1	114	143	1,441	10.08