- Top 20 target medical research journals for researchers in Arab countries have published their work (ranked in descending order by number of publications in the journal with at least one author affiliated with one of the Arab countries, out of a total of 4261 journals).
| Ranks | Journal names | Publication sources | Publications (n) | Times cited (n) | JIF quartile | Journal IF* | 5 year IF | Citation impact† |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences | Saudi Arabia | 1,852 | 16,266 | Q2 | 4.05 | 4.25 | 8.78 |
| 2 | PLOS One | United States of America | 1,828 | 18,911 | Q2 | 3.75 | 4.07 | 10.35 |
| 3 | Scientific Reports | England | 1,812 | 23,790 | Q2 | 5.00 | 5.52 | 13.13 |
| 4 | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | Netherlands | 1,381 | 35,078 | Q1 | 8.03 | 7.63 | 25.40 |
| 5 | BioMed Research International | United States of America | 827 | 6,321 | Q3 | 3.25 | 3.77 | 7.64 |
| 6 | Saudi Medical Journal | Saudi Arabia | 772 | 3,650 | Q4 | 1.42 | 2.12 | 4.73 |
| 7 | Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy | France | 746 | 14,528 | Q1 | 7.42 | 6.58 | 19.47 |
| 8 | Bioorganic Chemistry | United States of America | 740 | 13,341 | Q1 | 5.31 | 5.32 | 18.03 |
| 9 | Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal | Saudi Arabia | 713 | 6,897 | Q2 | 4.56 | 5.09 | 9.67 |
| 10 | Frontiers in Microbiology | Switzerland | 609 | 10,194 | Q1 | 6.06 | 6.84 | 16.74 |
| 11 | Pharmaceutics | Switzerland | 608 | 5,577 | Q1 | 6.53 | 7.23 | 9.17 |
| 12 | Healthcare | Switzerland | 565 | 1,600 | Q2 | 3.16 | 3.46 | 2.83 |
| 13 | Antibiotics-Basel | Switzerland | 538 | 3,755 | Q1 | 5.22 | 5.40 | 6.98 |
| 14 | Journal of Infection and Public Health | England | 521 | 7,300 | Q1 | 7.54 | 6.21 | 14.01 |
| 15 | Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology | France | 519 | 4,665 | Q2 | 5.06 | 4.62 | 8.99 |
| 16 | Frontiers in Pharmacology | Switzerland | 519 | 7,737 | Q1 | 5.99 | 6.46 | 14.91 |
| 17 | Life Sciences | England | 493 | 6,791 | Q1 | 6.78 | 6.04 | 13.77 |
| 18 | Pharmaceuticals | Switzerland | 480 | 2,376 | Q1 | 5.22 | 5.71 | 4.95 |
| 19 | Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience | United States of America | 473 | 1,930 | Q2 | 3.12 | 3.88 | 4.08 |
| 20 | Natural Product Research | England | 467 | 3,129 | Q3 | 2.49 | 2.51 | 6.70 |