Best Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging Journals (2026)
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Top Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging journals
| # | Journal | h-index | Citations/paper (2 yr) | Tier | Access | Indexed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lancet Digital Health Elsevier BV | 130 | 15.67 | Flagship | Open access · APC $5,780 | PubMed · DOAJ · Core |
| 2 | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 326 | 9.03 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 3 | Computers in Biology and Medicine Elsevier BV | 186 | 7.98 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 4 | Seminars in Nuclear Medicine Elsevier BV | 127 | 6.65 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 5 | Journal of Nuclear Medicine Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | 228 | 6.57 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed |
| 6 | Radiology Radiological Society of North America | 432 | 6.13 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 7 | Insights into Imaging Springer Nature | 106 | 5.98 | Leading field journal | Open access · APC $2,890 | PubMed · DOAJ · Core |
| 8 | Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Elsevier BV | 183 | 5.58 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 9 | Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics Elsevier BV | 117 | 5.55 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 10 | Investigative Radiology Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | 159 | 5.11 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 11 | European Radiology Springer Science+Business Media | 212 | 4.77 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 12 | European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Springer Science+Business Media | 223 | 4.65 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 13 | Journal of Personalized Medicine Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 96 | 4.62 | Solid specialist | Open access · APC $2,227 | PubMed · Core |
| 14 | Korean Journal of Radiology Korean Society of Radiology | 99 | 4.56 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 15 | Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine Springer Science+Business Media | 101 | 3.82 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 16 | Diagnostics Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 126 | 3.68 | Solid specialist | Open access · APC $2,227 | PubMed · DOAJ · Core |
| 17 | European Journal of Radiology Elsevier BV | 165 | 3.44 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 18 | Journal of Biomedical Optics SPIE | 183 | 3.35 | Solid specialist | Open access · APC $1,675 | PubMed · DOAJ · Core |
| 19 | Biomedical Optics Express Optica Publishing Group | 134 | 3.35 | Solid specialist | Open access · APC $1,913 | PubMed · DOAJ · Core |
| 20 | Academic Radiology Elsevier BV | 129 | 3.21 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 21 | Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Wiley | 326 | 2.79 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 22 | Physics in Medicine and Biology IOP Publishing | 266 | 2.75 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 23 | Medical Physics Wiley | 269 | 2.66 | Leading field journal | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 24 | Lasers in Medical Science Springer Science+Business Media | 109 | 2.61 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 25 | International Journal of Hyperthermia Taylor & Francis | 123 | 2.58 | Solid specialist | Open access · APC $2,557 | PubMed · DOAJ · Core |
| 26 | British Journal of Radiology Wiley | 179 | 2.56 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 27 | Journal of the American College of Radiology Elsevier BV | 109 | 2.36 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 28 | NMR in Biomedicine Wiley | 161 | 2.35 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 29 | Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Wiley | 218 | 2.27 | Solid specialist | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
| 30 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Elsevier BV | 155 | 2.25 | Accessible & legitimate | Subscription | PubMed · Core |
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You paste your title and abstract; an AI model classifies the paper into biomedical subfields and honestly assesses its scope, then ranks a shortlist of verified journals from our dataset of 2,600+ biomedical journals. Every metric shown comes from the dataset — the AI can never invent a journal or a number.
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Which fields are covered?+
All of biomedicine and the life sciences: 38 subfields from molecular biology, immunology, and oncology to public health, pharmacology, neuroscience, plant science, and veterinary medicine.
Why don't you show impact factors?+
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Where does the data come from?+
From open, verifiable sources: OpenAlex (CC0) for citation metrics, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed journal list, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Publishing in the wrong venue has real consequences — in 2019 a U.S. federal court ordered the publisher OMICS Group to pay $50.1 million for deceptive peer-review claims. When in doubt about any journal, use the Think. Check. Submit. checklist at thinkchecksubmit.org.
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Use the browse section: pick your subfield and the table ranks journals by 2-year citations per paper. Tier 1–2 journals roughly correspond to the top quartile of a field. Each row shows open-access status, publication fees (APC), and which trusted indexes list the journal.
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