Top Dermatology journals
The leading journals in dermatology, ranked within their own field — not across all of science. The measure is computed from open data; how it works, and its limits, are set out in our method.
Scope: Dermatology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (NLM Broad Subject Terms).
Grouped by quality band, best first, and listed alphabetically within each band — the bands are the ranking; we do not order named journals against one another.
- American journal of clinical dermatology
- BMC dermatology
- Experimental dermatology
- JAMA dermatology
- Dermatologic clinics
- The British journal of dermatology
- The Journal of investigative dermatology
- Clinics in dermatology
- Contact dermatitis
- Dermatology : international journal for clinical and investigative dermatology
- Journal of cosmetic dermatology
- Journal of dermatological science
- Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
- Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
- Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society
- Acta dermato-venereologica
- AIDS patient care and STDs
- Anais brasileiros de dermatologia
- Archives of dermatological research
- Clinical and experimental dermatology
- Dermatitis : contact, atopic, occupational, drug
- Dermatologic therapy
- International journal of cosmetic science
- Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft = Journal of the German Society of Dermatology : JDDG
- Journal of cutaneous medicine and surgery
- Photodermatology, photoimmunology & photomedicine
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Skin pharmacology and physiology
- Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI)
- The Journal of dermatological treatment
- Veterinary dermatology
- Acta dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica, et Adriatica
- Actas dermo-sifiliográficas
- Annales de dermatologie et de vénéréologie
- Cutaneous and ocular toxicology
- Cutis
- Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift für Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete
- Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
- Dermatology online journal
- Die Dermatologie
- European journal of dermatology : EJD
- Giornale italiano di dermatologia e venereologia : organo ufficiale, Società italiana di dermatologia e sifilografia
- Indian journal of dermatology
- Indian journal of dermatology, venereology and leprology
- International journal of dermatology
- Italian journal of dermatology and venereology
- JMIR dermatology
- Journal of cosmetic and laser therapy : official publication of the European Society for Laser Dermatology
- Journal of cutaneous pathology
- Journal of drugs in dermatology : JDD
- Medicina cutánea ibero-latino-americana
- Pediatric dermatology
- Przegla̧d dermatologiczny
- Sexual health
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- The American Journal of dermatopathology
- The Australasian journal of dermatology
- The Journal of dermatology
- Vestnik dermatologii i venerologii
59 ranked journals. Computed 2026-09-04, citation window 2019–2022. Journals too new or too small to rank fairly are not listed — “unranked” is not a zero.
Questions
- Where are allergy, immunology and pathology journals?
- Those are separate NLM disciplines with their own lists. A dermatopathology or skin-immunology journal may be filed under Pathology or Allergy and Immunology and ranked there, not here.
- Does a higher band mean stronger evidence?
- No. The bands measure citation reach within dermatology, not the quality of any single study. Read the work and its methods, not just the masthead.
- How current is this ranking?
- It is recomputed about once a year over a multi-year citation window, and the calculation date is shown beneath the list. Recent, fast-moving work may not yet be reflected in citation counts.
Spotted an error?
If a journal looks misclassified — the wrong discipline, a missing title, a band that seems off — please tell us at [email protected]. Every report gets an answer, and a confirmed error is corrected at the latest when the ranking is next recomputed.
What this is not
- This ranks journals, not individual articles: it says nothing about the validity of any single paper.
- It is not medical advice and no substitute for clinical judgement or reading the work itself.
- The ranking is factual and method-based, computed the same way for every title. Like any method that ranks journals, though, it carries bias and is not a definitive judgement on a journal's quality or relevance — neither an endorsement nor a criticism of any journal or publisher.
See also the Dermatology literature digest — a daily email of new dermatology articles, filtered by these same quality bands.