Top Gastroenterology journals
The leading journals in gastroenterology, 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: Gastroenterology (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.
Top 5%
7
- Gut
- Gut microbes
- Hepatology : official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology
- Journal of hepatology
- Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology
- The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
Top 10%
5
- Clinical and molecular hepatology
- Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association
- Gastroenterology
- Journal of Crohn's & colitis
- Journal of gastroenterology
Top 25%
16
- American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology
- Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology
- Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology
- Clinics in liver disease
- Current gastroenterology reports
- Dysphagia
- Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association
- Gastroenterology clinics of North America
- Hepatology communications
- Hepatology international
- Inflammatory bowel diseases
- Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver
- Neurogastroenterology and motility
- Seminars in liver disease
- The American journal of gastroenterology
- World journal of gastroenterology
Top 50%
20
- Annals of hepatology
- BMC gastroenterology
- BMJ open gastroenterology
- Clinical and translational gastroenterology
- Clinical colorectal cancer
- Current opinion in gastroenterology
- Digestion
- Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
- Digestive diseases and sciences
- Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus
- Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society
- Expert review of gastroenterology & hepatology
- Gut and liver
- Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery
- Islets
- Journal of clinical gastroenterology
- Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
- Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences
- Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.]
- Techniques in coloproctology
Unranked
39
- Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica
- Acta gastroenterologica Latinoamericana
- Arab journal of gastroenterology : the official publication of the Pan-Arab Association of Gastroenterology
- Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery
- Arquivos de gastroenterologia
- Canadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology
- Clinical journal of gastroenterology
- Clinics and research in hepatology and gastroenterology
- Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
- Digestive diseases
- Digestive surgery
- Diseases of the colon and rectum
- European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology
- Ėksperimental'nai︠a︡ i klinicheskai︠a︡ gastroėnterologii︠a︡ = Experimental & clinical gastroenterology
- Gastroenterology nursing : the official journal of the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates
- Gastroenterología y hepatología
- Hepatobiliary & pancreatic diseases international : HBPD INT
- HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association
- Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology
- International journal of colorectal disease
- Journal of digestive diseases
- Journal of gastrointestinal and liver diseases : JGLD
- Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
- Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
- Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
- Journal of viral hepatitis
- Journal of visceral surgery
- Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica
- Minerva gastroenterology
- Nihon Daicho Komonbyo Gakkai zasshi
- Pancreas
- Revista de gastroenterología de México
- Revista de Gastroenterología de México
- Revista española de enfermedades digestivas
- Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association
- Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology
- The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi
- The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology
- Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
87 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
- Why are liver (hepatology) journals in a gastroenterology list?
- The NLM has no separate 'hepatology' discipline: liver journals are classified under Gastroenterology. Rather than duplicate the same ranking under two names, we present one honest list covering gastroenterology and hepatology together.
- Are the top places dominated by liver journals?
- Sometimes, because several liver journals are heavily cited. The measure rewards citation reach across the whole discipline; it is not weighted toward any sub-field, and a strong endoscopy or IBD journal is ranked on the same basis.
- How up to date is it?
- It is recomputed roughly once a year over a multi-year citation window, with the calculation date shown under the list. Very recent 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 Gastroenterology literature digest — a daily email of new gastroenterology articles, filtered by these same quality bands.