TABLE 3.
The top 10 journals and co-cited journals in the research on the association of rare earth elements with cancer [n (%)].
| Rank | Journals | N (%) | Country | IF (2020) | Co-cited journals | Co-citation | Country | IF (2020) |
| 1 | Radiology | 183 (2.33) | United States | 11.105 | Radiology | 5,863 | United States | 11.105 |
| 2 | Journal of nuclear medicine | 173 (2.20) | United States | 10.057 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 5,611 | United States | 15.419 |
| 3 | Journal of vascular and interventional radiology | 139 (1.77) | United States | 3.464 | Biomaterials | 4,127 | Netherlands | 12.479 |
| 4 | The journal of urology | 139 (1.77) | Netherlands | 7.45 | ACS Nano | 3,563 | United States | 15.881 |
| 5 | Blood | 132 (1.68) | United States | 22.113 | Angewandte chemie-international edition | 3,545 | Germany | 15.336 |
| 6 | International journal of radiation oncology biology physics | 122 (1.55) | Netherlands | 7.038 | Journal of nuclear medicine | 3,526 | United States | 10.057 |
| 7 | European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imagine | 103 (1.31) | Germany | 9.236 | Advanced materials | 2,404 | United States | 30.849 |
| 8 | Journal of clinical oncology | 102 (1.30) | United States | 44.544 | Chemical reviews | 2,356 | United States | 60.622 |
| 9 | Lasers in surgery and medicine | 100 (1.27) | United States | 4.025 | Chemical society review | 2,317 | United Kingdom | 54.564 |
| 10 | Journal of endourology | 78 (1.00) | United States | 2.942 | Journal of clinical oncology | 2,272 | United States | 44.544 |