TABLE 4.
Productivity of the top 5 neurology subspecialty journals with distribution by journal and by study design.
| Movement disorders | Stroke | Multiple sclerosis journal | Epilepsia | Journal of stroke | Total | |
| JCR rank | 11 | 16 | 22 | 24 | 28 | |
| Journal impact factor | 8.3 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 4.8 | |
| Study design | ||||||
| RCT | 2 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 40 |
| Clinical trials | 3 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 21 |
| Systematic review | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 19 |
| Case reports | 10 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 50 |
| Cohort | 28 | 63 | 0 | 355 | 0 | 446 |
| Cross-sectional | 2 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 18 |
| Case-control | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 26 |
| Comparative | 1 | 4 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 65 |
| Total | 54 | 85 | 0 | 546 | 0 |
The bold values are simply the totals of the rows/columns.