Table 2.
The top 10 most active journals that published articles in melatonin research.
| Rank | Journal title | Percentage (N/20,351) | IF (2018) | Quartile in category (2018) | H-index | Article Counts | Total number of citations | Average number of citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH | 8.43% | 15.221 | Q1 | 113 | 1715 | 60052 | 35.02 |
| 2 | CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL | 2.15% | 2.562 | Q2 | 87 | 438 | 4603 | 10.51 |
| 3 | PLOS ONE | 1.24% | 2.776 | Q1 | 268 | 252 | 2142 | 8.5 |
| 4 | NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY LETTERS | 1.16% | 0.698 | Q3 | 58 | 236 | 2640 | 11.19 |
| 5 | JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS | 1.07% | 2.473 | Q1 | 91 | 217 | 4106 | 18.92 |
| 6 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES | 1.02% | 4.183 | Q1 | 114 | 207 | 2064 | 9.97 |
| 7 | BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM RESEARCH | 0.88% | 0.773 | Q3 | 30 | 179 | 335 | 1.87 |
| 8 | LIFE SCIENCES | 0.81% | 3.448 | Q1 | 150 | 165 | 2834 | 17.18 |
| 9 | NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS | 0.80% | 2.173 | Q3 | 155 | 162 | 2089 | 12.9 |
| 10 | GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY | 0.79% | 2.445 | Q1 | 105 | 161 | 1561 | 9.7 |