Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

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SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
0.7
SJR
0.312
CiteScore
1.7
Categories
History and Philosophy of Science
Health Policy
Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Medicine
Nursing
Years of issue
1957-2025
journal names
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
PERSPECT BIOL MED
Publications
4 261
Citations
34 517
h-index
76
Publications
271
Citations
8 389
Top-3 citing journals
Social Science and Medicine
Social Science and Medicine (230 citations)
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (200 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Chicago
University of Chicago (87 publications)
Harvard University
Harvard University (25 publications)
Yale University
Yale University (18 publications)
Cornell University
Cornell University (1 publication)
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge (1 publication)
Top-3 countries
USA (787 publications)
Canada (56 publications)
United Kingdom (56 publications)
USA (2 publications)
New Zealand (1 publication)
United Kingdom (1 publication)

Most cited in 5 years

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Top-100

Citing journals

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
705 citations, 2.04%
Social Science and Medicine
230 citations, 0.67%
PLoS ONE
200 citations, 0.58%
Medical Hypotheses
150 citations, 0.43%
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
147 citations, 0.43%
Science
143 citations, 0.41%
Academic Medicine
132 citations, 0.38%
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
127 citations, 0.37%
American Journal of Bioethics
120 citations, 0.35%
Journal of Biological Chemistry
116 citations, 0.34%
The Lancet
106 citations, 0.31%
New England Journal of Medicine
97 citations, 0.28%
Nature
97 citations, 0.28%
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
96 citations, 0.28%
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
94 citations, 0.27%
Medical Education
87 citations, 0.25%
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
84 citations, 0.24%
Frontiers in Psychology
82 citations, 0.24%
Annals of Internal Medicine
82 citations, 0.24%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
82 citations, 0.24%
Archives of Sexual Behavior
78 citations, 0.23%
Philosophy and Medicine
77 citations, 0.22%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
76 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Theoretical Biology
76 citations, 0.22%
Brain Research
75 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Medical Ethics
74 citations, 0.21%
SSRN Electronic Journal
73 citations, 0.21%
Scientific Reports
69 citations, 0.2%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
67 citations, 0.19%
Medical Teacher
64 citations, 0.19%
Physiology and Behavior
62 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
61 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Perinatal Medicine
58 citations, 0.17%
Frontiers in Psychiatry
57 citations, 0.17%
American Journal of Public Health
57 citations, 0.17%
Isis
56 citations, 0.16%
Biology and Philosophy
55 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
53 citations, 0.15%
American Journal of Medicine
53 citations, 0.15%
Sociology of Health and Illness
51 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
51 citations, 0.15%
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
50 citations, 0.14%
BMC Medical Education
49 citations, 0.14%
Social Studies of Science
49 citations, 0.14%
Synthese
49 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Medical Humanities
48 citations, 0.14%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
46 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
46 citations, 0.13%
Pediatrics
46 citations, 0.13%
Journal of General Internal Medicine
44 citations, 0.13%
BMC Medical Ethics
44 citations, 0.13%
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
44 citations, 0.13%
Ecological Indicators
43 citations, 0.12%
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
43 citations, 0.12%
Life Sciences
42 citations, 0.12%
BMJ Open
42 citations, 0.12%
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
42 citations, 0.12%
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
40 citations, 0.12%
American Journal of Cardiology
40 citations, 0.12%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
40 citations, 0.12%
Journal of the History of Biology
40 citations, 0.12%
Biochemical Pharmacology
40 citations, 0.12%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
38 citations, 0.11%
Progress in Brain Research
38 citations, 0.11%
BMC Public Health
38 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Steroid Biochemistry
37 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Neurochemistry
36 citations, 0.1%
Pain
36 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Religion and Health
36 citations, 0.1%
Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
35 citations, 0.1%
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
34 citations, 0.1%
General and Comparative Endocrinology
34 citations, 0.1%
The International Library of Bioethics
34 citations, 0.1%
Psychosomatics
33 citations, 0.1%
Ecology
33 citations, 0.1%
BMC Bioinformatics
33 citations, 0.1%
Qualitative Health Research
33 citations, 0.1%
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Physiology
33 citations, 0.1%
Medical Humanities
32 citations, 0.09%
International Review of Cytology
32 citations, 0.09%
Nutrients
31 citations, 0.09%
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
31 citations, 0.09%
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
30 citations, 0.09%
Medical Journal of Australia
30 citations, 0.09%
Economics and Human Biology
30 citations, 0.09%
Health (United Kingdom)
29 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Clinical Ethics
29 citations, 0.08%
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development
29 citations, 0.08%
Research Policy
29 citations, 0.08%
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
28 citations, 0.08%
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
28 citations, 0.08%
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
28 citations, 0.08%
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
28 citations, 0.08%
BioScience
28 citations, 0.08%
Environmental Health Perspectives
28 citations, 0.08%
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes
28 citations, 0.08%
American Biology Teacher
27 citations, 0.08%
Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
27 citations, 0.08%
Science and Engineering Ethics
27 citations, 0.08%
Scientometrics
27 citations, 0.08%
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Citing publishers

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Elsevier
7671 citations, 22.22%
Springer Nature
5338 citations, 15.46%
Wiley
3722 citations, 10.78%
Taylor & Francis
2028 citations, 5.88%
Cambridge University Press
1529 citations, 4.43%
SAGE
1391 citations, 4.03%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
790 citations, 2.29%
Oxford University Press
735 citations, 2.13%
MDPI
634 citations, 1.84%
Frontiers Media S.A.
476 citations, 1.38%
BMJ
311 citations, 0.9%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
263 citations, 0.76%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
217 citations, 0.63%
American Psychological Association (APA)
202 citations, 0.59%
University of Chicago Press
183 citations, 0.53%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
165 citations, 0.48%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
165 citations, 0.48%
Mary Ann Liebert
160 citations, 0.46%
Walter de Gruyter
134 citations, 0.39%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
132 citations, 0.38%
Emerald
131 citations, 0.38%
SciELO
116 citations, 0.34%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
110 citations, 0.32%
The Royal Society
101 citations, 0.29%
Massachusetts Medical Society
99 citations, 0.29%
American College of Physicians
91 citations, 0.26%
American Physiological Society
87 citations, 0.25%
Hindawi Limited
87 citations, 0.25%
Annual Reviews
87 citations, 0.25%
MIT Press
85 citations, 0.25%
American Society for Microbiology
84 citations, 0.24%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
82 citations, 0.24%
IGI Global
77 citations, 0.22%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
69 citations, 0.2%
American Public Health Association
63 citations, 0.18%
Duke University Press
61 citations, 0.18%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
61 citations, 0.18%
S. Karger AG
58 citations, 0.17%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
56 citations, 0.16%
American Academy of Pediatrics
53 citations, 0.15%
JMIR Publications
49 citations, 0.14%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
46 citations, 0.13%
CAIRN
43 citations, 0.12%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
42 citations, 0.12%
F1000 Research
41 citations, 0.12%
American Medical Association (AMA)
40 citations, 0.12%
SLACK
40 citations, 0.12%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
36 citations, 0.1%
American Society for Nutrition
35 citations, 0.1%
Pleiades Publishing
33 citations, 0.1%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
30 citations, 0.09%
Environmental Health Perspectives
30 citations, 0.09%
Canadian Science Publishing
29 citations, 0.08%
National Association of Biology Teachers
28 citations, 0.08%
IOP Publishing
28 citations, 0.08%
The Endocrine Society
28 citations, 0.08%
IntechOpen
28 citations, 0.08%
American Thoracic Society
26 citations, 0.08%
University Pub. Group
26 citations, 0.08%
Mark Allen Group
25 citations, 0.07%
American Diabetes Association
24 citations, 0.07%
Ubiquity Press
23 citations, 0.07%
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
21 citations, 0.06%
University of California Press
21 citations, 0.06%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
21 citations, 0.06%
Akademiai Kiado
21 citations, 0.06%
Baishideng Publishing Group
20 citations, 0.06%
The Company of Biologists
19 citations, 0.06%
Health Affairs (Project Hope)
19 citations, 0.06%
AIP Publishing
18 citations, 0.05%
Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)
18 citations, 0.05%
Bristol University Press
18 citations, 0.05%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
18 citations, 0.05%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
17 citations, 0.05%
IOS Press
15 citations, 0.04%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
15 citations, 0.04%
OpenEdition
15 citations, 0.04%
IMR Press
14 citations, 0.04%
EDP Sciences
14 citations, 0.04%
American Society for Clinical Investigation
14 citations, 0.04%
American Speech Language Hearing Association
14 citations, 0.04%
Society for Neuroscience
14 citations, 0.04%
Medknow
14 citations, 0.04%
World Scientific
13 citations, 0.04%
Portland Press
13 citations, 0.04%
CSIRO Publishing
13 citations, 0.04%
Human Kinetics
13 citations, 0.04%
Brill
12 citations, 0.03%
Spandidos Publications
12 citations, 0.03%
University of Montreal
12 citations, 0.03%
British Psychological Society
12 citations, 0.03%
11 citations, 0.03%
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
11 citations, 0.03%
eLife Sciences Publications
11 citations, 0.03%
Guilford Publications
11 citations, 0.03%
Edinburgh University Press
10 citations, 0.03%
Springer Publishing Company
10 citations, 0.03%
PeerJ
10 citations, 0.03%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
10 citations, 0.03%
Consortium Erudit
10 citations, 0.03%
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University of Chicago
87 publications, 2.04%
Harvard University
25 publications, 0.59%
Yale University
18 publications, 0.42%
University of Michigan
16 publications, 0.38%
University of Pennsylvania
16 publications, 0.38%
Johns Hopkins University
14 publications, 0.33%
University of Illinois at Chicago
14 publications, 0.33%
University of Pittsburgh
14 publications, 0.33%
Michigan State University
13 publications, 0.31%
Indiana University Bloomington
13 publications, 0.31%
Case Western Reserve University
12 publications, 0.28%
University of Washington
12 publications, 0.28%
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
11 publications, 0.26%
Washington University in St. Louis
11 publications, 0.26%
University of British Columbia
11 publications, 0.26%
University of Virginia
11 publications, 0.26%
Northwestern University
10 publications, 0.23%
Stanford University
9 publications, 0.21%
Columbia University
9 publications, 0.21%
Boston University
9 publications, 0.21%
Brown University
9 publications, 0.21%
University of California, Berkeley
8 publications, 0.19%
New York University
8 publications, 0.19%
Baylor College of Medicine
8 publications, 0.19%
Pennsylvania State University
7 publications, 0.16%
Cornell University
6 publications, 0.14%
Oregon Health & Science University
6 publications, 0.14%
University of California, San Diego
6 publications, 0.14%
University of California, San Francisco
6 publications, 0.14%
Vanderbilt University
6 publications, 0.14%
McGill University
6 publications, 0.14%
Temple University
6 publications, 0.14%
University of Toronto
6 publications, 0.14%
University College London
5 publications, 0.12%
Georgetown University
5 publications, 0.12%
Duke University Hospital
5 publications, 0.12%
Rockefeller University
5 publications, 0.12%
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
5 publications, 0.12%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
5 publications, 0.12%
University of Kentucky
5 publications, 0.12%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
4 publications, 0.09%
University of Oxford
4 publications, 0.09%
University of Cambridge
4 publications, 0.09%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 publications, 0.09%
Dalhousie University
4 publications, 0.09%
Massachusetts General Hospital
4 publications, 0.09%
Brigham and Women's Hospital
4 publications, 0.09%
University of California, Los Angeles
4 publications, 0.09%
Loyola University Chicago
4 publications, 0.09%
Trinity College Dublin
4 publications, 0.09%
Tulane University
4 publications, 0.09%
Medical College of Wisconsin
4 publications, 0.09%
University of Sheffield
4 publications, 0.09%
Western University
4 publications, 0.09%
Houston Methodist Hospital
4 publications, 0.09%
University of Miami
4 publications, 0.09%
University of Delaware
4 publications, 0.09%
University of Connecticut Health
4 publications, 0.09%
Northeast Ohio Medical University
4 publications, 0.09%
Meir Medical Center
3 publications, 0.07%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 publications, 0.07%
Imperial College London
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Copenhagen
3 publications, 0.07%
Florida State University
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Southern California
3 publications, 0.07%
Stony Brook University
3 publications, 0.07%
Drexel University
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Siena
3 publications, 0.07%
California Institute of Technology
3 publications, 0.07%
George Washington University
3 publications, 0.07%
Princeton University
3 publications, 0.07%
Arizona State University
3 publications, 0.07%
Colorado State University
3 publications, 0.07%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3 publications, 0.07%
Duke University
3 publications, 0.07%
Ohio State University
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Notre Dame
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 0.07%
McMaster University
3 publications, 0.07%
Dartmouth College
3 publications, 0.07%
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
3 publications, 0.07%
Emory University
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Maryland, College Park
3 publications, 0.07%
Mayo Clinic
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Ottawa
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Guelph
3 publications, 0.07%
Wake Forest University
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Cincinnati
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Rochester
3 publications, 0.07%
Indiana University School of Medicine
3 publications, 0.07%
University of Alabama at Birmingham
3 publications, 0.07%
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
3 publications, 0.07%
University of South Carolina
3 publications, 0.07%
Tel Aviv University
2 publications, 0.05%
Hadassah Medical Center
2 publications, 0.05%
Ghent University
2 publications, 0.05%
Australian National University
2 publications, 0.05%
Aston University
2 publications, 0.05%
University of Liverpool
2 publications, 0.05%
University of Edinburgh
2 publications, 0.05%
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Publishing organizations in 5 years

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University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.37%
Cornell University
1 publication, 0.37%
Victoria University of Wellington
1 publication, 0.37%
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Publishing countries

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USA, 787, 18.47%
USA
787 publications, 18.47%
United Kingdom, 56, 1.31%
United Kingdom
56 publications, 1.31%
Canada, 56, 1.31%
Canada
56 publications, 1.31%
Israel, 23, 0.54%
Israel
23 publications, 0.54%
Australia, 14, 0.33%
Australia
14 publications, 0.33%
Germany, 11, 0.26%
Germany
11 publications, 0.26%
New Zealand, 11, 0.26%
New Zealand
11 publications, 0.26%
Belgium, 9, 0.21%
Belgium
9 publications, 0.21%
Italy, 9, 0.21%
Italy
9 publications, 0.21%
Ireland, 8, 0.19%
Ireland
8 publications, 0.19%
Netherlands, 8, 0.19%
Netherlands
8 publications, 0.19%
South Africa, 7, 0.16%
South Africa
7 publications, 0.16%
Denmark, 5, 0.12%
Denmark
5 publications, 0.12%
Norway, 5, 0.12%
Norway
5 publications, 0.12%
Republic of Korea, 5, 0.12%
Republic of Korea
5 publications, 0.12%
France, 4, 0.09%
France
4 publications, 0.09%
Switzerland, 4, 0.09%
Switzerland
4 publications, 0.09%
Sweden, 4, 0.09%
Sweden
4 publications, 0.09%
Brazil, 3, 0.07%
Brazil
3 publications, 0.07%
India, 3, 0.07%
India
3 publications, 0.07%
China, 2, 0.05%
China
2 publications, 0.05%
Portugal, 2, 0.05%
Portugal
2 publications, 0.05%
Austria, 2, 0.05%
Austria
2 publications, 0.05%
Greece, 2, 0.05%
Greece
2 publications, 0.05%
Spain, 2, 0.05%
Spain
2 publications, 0.05%
Mexico, 2, 0.05%
Mexico
2 publications, 0.05%
Singapore, 2, 0.05%
Singapore
2 publications, 0.05%
Finland, 2, 0.05%
Finland
2 publications, 0.05%
Romania, 1, 0.02%
Romania
1 publication, 0.02%
Croatia, 1, 0.02%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.02%
Japan, 1, 0.02%
Japan
1 publication, 0.02%
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USA
2 publications, 0.74%
United Kingdom, 1, 0.37%
United Kingdom
1 publication, 0.37%
New Zealand, 1, 0.37%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.37%
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