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Table 1 The top 10 journals from 320 journals which published tobacco-related articles from 13 MEA countries

From: A Scopus-based examination of tobacco use publications in Middle Eastern Arab countries during the period 2003–2012

SCRa

Journal

Frequency (%)

SJR

IF (2012)b

1st

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

29 (5.2)

0.27

NA

2nd

Saudi Medical Journal

24 (4.3)

0.23

0.619

3rd

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

15 (2.7)

1.23

2.477

4th

Tobacco Control

12 (2.1)

1.62

4.111

5th

BMC Public Health

8 (1.4)

0.98

2.076

5th

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

8 (1.4)

1.34

2.61

5th

Food and Chemical Toxicology

8 (1.4)

0.99

3.01

5th

Annals of Saudi Medicine

8 (1.4)

0.38

1.103

9th

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

7 (1.3)

0.31

1.271

10th

Preventive Medicine

6 (1.1)

1.62

3.496

10th

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

6 (1.1)

0.38

1.123

  1. SCR standard competition ranking, SJR SCImago Journal Rank, NA not available, IF impact factor. aEqual journal has the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers; bthe impact factor was reported according to Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Citation Report (JCR) 2012.