Most-cited articles by year
Medicine
Wolters Kluwer · ISSN 0025-7974 · 52,398 works in OpenAlex · h-index 285
Lists by publication year
Each list ranks the articles Medicine published that year by citations counted in OpenAlex on the snapshot date. Ranks are frozen once published.
- 2024Top 100 of 4,270 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2023Top 100 of 3,976 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2022Top 100 of 3,943 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2021Top 100 of 4,415 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2020Top 100 of 5,073 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2019Top 100 of 4,457 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2018Top 100 of 4,270 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2017Top 100 of 3,726 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
- 2016Top 100 of 3,422 articles · snapshot 29 Oct 2026
About these lists
Medicine published between 3,422 and 5,073 eligible articles a year in the years covered, so each list shows the top 100. Every entry shows its rank, the share of the year’s cohort it beats, its citation count and, where OpenAlex has one, the abstract. Authors can claim an entry for a badge and a CV line, or ask to have their name withheld.
Read the methodology for cohort rules, exclusions and the snapshot policy.
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