Table 1.
Top ten active journals in publishing documents on vaccine hesitancy (1990–2019)
| Ranka | Journal | Frequency | % N = 2791 |
SJR | Rank | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaccine | 369 | 13.2 | 1.759 | Q1 | Netherlands |
| 2 | Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics | 129 | 4.6 | 0.989 | Q2 | USA |
| 3 | Pediatrics | 66 | 2.4 | 2.996 | Q1 | USA |
| 4 | BMC Public Health | 52 | 1.9 | 1.338 | Q1 | UK |
| 5 | Plos One | 50 | 1.8 | 1.1 | Q1 | USA |
| 6 | American Journal of Public Health | 23 | 0.8 | 2.51 | Q1 | USA |
| 6 | Expert Review of Vaccines | 23 | 0.8 | 1.603 | Q1 | UK |
| 8 | American Journal of Infection Control | 22 | 0.8 | 1.07 | Q1 | USA |
| 9 | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 21 | 0.8 | 1.54 | Q1 | USA |
| 10 | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 20 | 0.7 | 2.68 | Q1 | Netherlands |
Q Quartile, with Q1 being the best in quality and Q4 being the least in quality
SJR Scientific Journal Rank. The higher the SJR the stronger the journal
aIn ranking, two equally active journals were given similar rank and one position in the ranking system was skipped