Top Radiology & Medical Imaging journals
The leading journals in radiology & medical imaging, 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: Radiology, Radiotherapy (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 journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
- Radiation oncology
- Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc
- Radiology
- Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
- European radiology
- Investigative radiology
- La Radiologia medica
- Medical physics
- AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
- AJR. American journal of roentgenology
- Dento maxillo facial radiology
- European journal of radiology
- European radiology experimental
- International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
- Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
- Korean journal of radiology
- Pediatric radiology
- Practical radiation oncology
- Seminars in radiation oncology
- Academic radiology
- Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes
- Cardiovascular and interventional radiology
- International journal of radiation biology
- Japanese journal of radiology
- Journal of synchrotron radiation
- Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
- Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR
- Neuroradiology
- Oral radiology
- Radiologic clinics of North America
- Radiology and oncology
- Radiology. Imaging cancer
- Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Röntgengesellschaft ... [et al]
- Techniques in vascular and interventional radiology
- The British journal of radiology
- Zeitschrift für medizinische Physik
- Acta radiologica
- Brachytherapy
- Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals
- Cancer radiothérapie : journal de la Société française de radiothérapie oncologique
- Clinical neuroradiology
- Clinical radiology
- Current problems in diagnostic radiology
- Current radiopharmaceuticals
- Der Radiologe
- Die Radiologie
- Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences
- Journal of computer assisted tomography
- Journal of labelled compounds & radiopharmaceuticals
- Journal of neuroradiology = Journal de neuroradiologie
- Journal of radiation research
- Journal of radiological protection : official journal of the Society for Radiological Protection
- Journal of radiology case reports
- Journal of X-ray science and technology
- Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists
- Nihon Hōshasen Gijutsu Gakkai zasshi
- Radiation and environmental biophysics
- Radiation measurements
- Radiología
- Radiología
- Seminars in roentgenology
- The neuroradiology journal
- The quarterly journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging : official publication of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine (AIMN) [and] the International Association of Radiopharmacology (IAR), [and] Section of the Society of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Biology
- Vestnik rentgenologii i radiologii
65 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 imaging-physics and nuclear-medicine journals?
- We deliberately limit this page to clinical radiology. Medical imaging technology, image analysis and nuclear medicine are distinct fields with their own scope and journals; including them pushed engineering titles to the top and misrepresented a clinical list.
- Does a higher band mean a better journal for every modality?
- Not necessarily. The bands measure citation reach across clinical radiology as a whole, so a strong modality-specific journal may sit below the broad flagships. Treat it as a starting point, not the final word.
- 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 Radiology & Medical Imaging literature digest — a daily email of new radiology & medical imaging articles, filtered by these same quality bands.