Top Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) journals
The leading journals in otorhinolaryngology (ent), 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: Otolaryngology (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.
- International forum of allergy & rhinology
- JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery
- Rhinology
- Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale
- Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
- Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Società italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale
- American journal of rhinology & allergy
- Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery
- The Laryngoscope
- American journal of otolaryngology
- B-ENT
- European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases
- European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
- Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO
- Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation
- Otolaryngologic clinics of North America
- The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology
- Acta oto-laryngologica
- Acta otorrinolaringologica española
- Acta otorrinolaringológica española
- Auris, nasus, larynx
- Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology
- Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery
- Ear, nose, & throat journal
- HNO
- International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology
- Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
- Laryngo- rhino- otologie
- Nihon Jibiinkoka Gakkai kaiho
- ORL; journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties
- Otolaryngologia polska = The Polish otolaryngology
- Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
- The journal of international advanced otology
- The Journal of laryngology and otology
- Vestnik otorinolaringologii
35 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 the audiology and allergy journals?
- Audiology and allergy are neighbouring NLM disciplines with their own lists. A journal is ranked in its home field, so a hearing-science or rhinology-allergy title may appear elsewhere rather than here.
- Does a top band settle which journal to trust?
- No. The bands rank journals by citation reach within the specialty, not the validity of any single study. Use them as one signal among several.
- 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 Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) literature digest — a daily email of new otorhinolaryngology (ent) articles, filtered by these same quality bands.