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Table 1 List of 53 scientific journal titles included in the survey

From: Assessing availability of scientific journals, databases, and health library services in Canadian health ministries: a cross-sectional study

JCRaEdition (year)

Subject category

Journal (Information relative to access and content)b

IFc(Rank)

Idd

Science (2009)

Health Care Sciences & Services

-Health Technology Assessment (OA) (SR)

6.910 (1)

1

-Journal of Medical Internet Research (OA) (SR)

3.924 (2)

2

-Milbank Quarterly (SR)

3.872 (3)

3

-Health Affairs (SR)

3.582 (4)

4

-Medical Care (SR)

3.241 (5)

5

Medical Ethics

-American Journal of Bioethics

4.000 (1)

6

-Ethnicity & Health (SR)

1.673 (2)

7

-Hastings Center Report

1.539 (3)

8

-Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

1.433 (4)

9

-Developing World Bioethics (*)

1.256 (5)

10

Medical Informatics

-Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (*) (SR)

3.974 (1)

11

-Journal of Medical Internet Research (OA) (SR)

3.924 (2)

D2

-International Journal of Medical Informatics (SR)

3.126 (3)

12

-Medical Decision Making (SR)

2.597 (4)

13

-Statistical Methods in Medical Research

2.569 (5)

14

Medicine, General & Internal

-New England Journal of Medicine (*)

47.050 (1)

15

-Lancet (SR)

30.758 (2)

16

-JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association (SR)

28.899 (3)

17

-Annals of Internal Medicine (*) (SR)

16.225 (4)

18

-British Medical Journal (OA) (SR)

13.660 (5)

19

-Canadian Medical Association Journal (*) (SR)

7.271 (9)

20

-Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (**) (SR)

5.653 (11)

21

Medicine, Legal

-International Journal of Legal Medicine

2.793 (1)

22

-Forensic Science International-Genetics

2.421 (2)

23

-Forensic Science International (SR)

2.104 (3)

24

-Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (SR)

1.798 (4)

25

-Journal of Forensic Sciences

1.524 (5)

26

Medicine, Research & Experimental

-Nature Medicine

27.136 (1)

27

-Journal of Clinical Investigation (*)

15.387 (2)

28

-Journal of Experimental Medicine (*)

14.505 (3)

29

-Trends in Molecular Medicine

11.049 (4)

30

-Molecular Aspects of Medicine

6.492 (5)

31

Nursing

-Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing (SR)

1.944 (1)

32

-Birth-Issues in Perinatal Care (SR)

1.919 (2)

33

-International Journal of Nursing Studies (SR)

1.910 (3)

34

-Oncology Nursing Forum (SR)

1.907 (4)

35

-Cancer Nursing (SR)

1.878 (5)

36

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

-Epidemiologic Reviews (*) (SR)

17.500 (1)

37

-WHO Technical Report Series (OA) (SR)

8.000 (2)

38

-Annual Review of Public Health (SR)

7.915 (3)

39

-Environmental Health Perspectives (OA) (SR)

6.191 (4)

40

-American Journal of Epidemiology (*) (SR)

5.589 (5)

41

Social Sciences (2009)

Health Policy & Services

-Milbank Quarterly (SR)

3.872 (1)

D3

-Health Affairs (SR)

3.582 (2)

D4

-Medical Care (SR)

3.241 (3)

D5

-Value in Health (SR)

3.032 (4)

42

-Psychiatric Services (SR)

2.813 (5)

43

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

-Annual Review of Public Health (SR)

7.915 (1)

D39

-American Journal of Public Health (SR)

4.371 (2)

44

-Tobacco Control (SR)

3.852 (3)

45

-Journal of Adolescent Health (SR)

3.325 (4)

46

-Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (SR)

3.043 (5)

47

-Canadian Journal of Public Health (*) (SR)

1.349 (45)

48

Social Sciences, Biomedical

-American Journal of Bioethics

4.000 (1)

D6

-Evolution and Human Behavior

3.594 (2)

49

-Aids and Behavior (SR)

3.038 (3)

50

-Social Science & Medicine (SR)

2.710 (4)

51

-Psycho-Oncolog (SR)

2.684 (5)

52

NAe

NA

-Healthcare Policy (*) (SR)

NA

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  1. aJCR, Journal Citation Report.
  2. bInformation collected from the journals’ websites. (OA), Open access journal: All research articles are freely available online; (*), Hybrid or delayed open access journal; (**), Free online access is made available through funded provisions in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan. (SR), Journal contains systematic reviews in present and/or past issues.
  3. cIF, Impact factor and rank (based on impact factor) adapted from the 2009 JCR.
  4. dId, Identification number attributed to each journal tested in this study. D(Id), Duplicated journal entry for a designated journal Id within this table.
  5. eNA, Not Applicable. Healthcare Policy was not evaluated in the 2009 JCR.