Table 1 . The 10 top journals which Iranian authors tend to publish in .
| Journal Name | No of Article | Country | Scopus | CiteScore 2016 | Q in Scopus | WoS | JCR 2016 | IF | Q in WoS | |
| 1 | Archives of Iranian medicine | 1546 | Iran | Yes | 1.26 | Q2 | Yes | Yes | 1.200 | Q3 |
| 2 | Iranian Red Crescent medical journal | 1425 | Iran | Yes | 1.10 | Q2* | Yes | Yes | 0.865 | Q3* |
| 3 | Iranian journal of public health | 1401 | Iran | Yes | 0.85 | Q3 | Yes | Yes | 0.768 | Q4 |
| 4 | Acta medica Iranica | 1242 | Iran | Yes | 0.72 | Q2* | No | No | - | - |
| 5 | Pakistan journal of biological sciences | 1197 | Pakistan | Yes | 0.77 | Q3 | No | No | - | - |
| 6 | Journal of research in medical sciences | 1168 | Iran | Yes | 1.47 | Q2 | Yes | Yes | 1.237 | Q3 |
| 7 | Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research | 1013 | Iran | Yes | 1.70 | Q1* | Yes | Yes | 1.507 | Q4 |
| 8 | Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention | 991 | Iran | Yes | 1.87 | Q2 | Yes | Yes | 2.514 | Q3 |
| 9 | Advanced biomedical research | 823 | India | No | - | - | No | No | - | - |
| 10 | Iranian journal of basic medical sciences | 799 | Iran | Yes | 1.63 | Q3☨ | Yes | Yes | 1.424 | Q3* |
Note: Authors double checked the quartiles of the journals after the whole data analysis based on latest Scimago and JCR data, some ranks is changed as specified.
*The quartile fell down one class.
☨The quartile improved one class.