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Table 2 The 10 most published journals

From: Global research trends of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: a bibliometric analysis

SCRa

Journal

Frequency (%)

IF b

1st

Journal of Virology

46 (5.2)

4.439

2nd

Emerging Infectious Diseases

43 (4.9)

6.751

3rd

Eurosurveillance

36 (4.1)

5.722

4th

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

35 (4.0)

22.433

5th

MBio

34 (3.9)

6.786

6th

The lancet

24 (2.7)

45.217

7th

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

20 (2.3)

1.859

8th

Virus Research

17 (1.9)

2.324

9th

Journal of the Korean Medical Association

15 (1.7)

NA

9th

Journal of Infectious Diseases

15 (1.7)

5.997

  1. SCR standard competition ranking, NA not available, IF impact factor
  2. a Equal journals have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
  3. b The impact factor was reported according to the journal citation reports (JCR) 2014