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Top Urology journals

The leading journals in urology, 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: Urology (NLM Broad Subject Terms).

Urology spans surgical oncology, stone disease, functional and reconstructive work and transplantation, with journals from broad flagships to focused sub-specialty titles. This page ranks the journals the NLM classifies under Urology by how often their articles reach the most-cited tier of the field, comparing journals within urology only.

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% 4
  • European urology
  • European urology oncology
  • Nature reviews. Urology
  • The Journal of urology
Top 10% 2
  • Andrology
  • Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases
Top 25% 7
  • BJU international
  • Current urology reports
  • European urology focus
  • The journal of sexual medicine
  • The Prostate
  • The Urologic clinics of North America
  • World journal of urology
Top 50% 11
  • Andrologia
  • Asian journal of andrology
  • BMC urology
  • Clinical genitourinary cancer
  • Current opinion in urology
  • International journal of impotence research
  • International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association
  • Journal of endourology
  • Journal of pediatric urology
  • Urolithiasis
  • Urologic oncology
Unranked 18
  • Actas urologicas españolas
  • Actas urologicas españolas
  • Aktuelle Urologie
  • Der Urologe. Ausg. A
  • Die Urologie
  • Female pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery
  • International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology
  • International urogynecology journal
  • Investigative and clinical urology
  • Lower urinary tract symptoms
  • Neurourology and urodynamics
  • Nihon Hinyōkika Gakkai zasshi. The japanese journal of urology
  • Scandinavian journal of urology
  • The French journal of urology
  • Urologia
  • Urologia internationalis
  • Urology
  • Urology practice

42 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 kidney-medicine (nephrology) journals?
Nephrology is a separate NLM discipline: medical kidney journals are ranked under Nephrology, surgical and urological ones under Urology. Keeping them apart stops each list from being diluted by a neighbouring field.
Does a top band mean a result published there can be trusted?
No. This ranks journals, not individual studies; the strength of a finding depends on the study, not the masthead. Treat the ranking 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 Urology literature digest — a daily email of new urology articles, filtered by these same quality bands.