Top 15 Journals with most researches for highly cited vaccine researches
| Journal | No. of highly cited papers (%) | No. of citations (%) | Citations per paper | % of related papers* | Impact Factor† | JCR category (category rank) |
| Nature | 131 (4.02) | 63 164 | 482.17 | 1.87 | 50.5 | Multidisciplinary Sciences (1/134) |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 122 (3.75) | 68 923 | 564.94 | 3.56 | 96.2 | Medicine, General & Internal (2/325) |
| Lancet | 118 (3.62) | 58 034 | 491.81 | 2.96 | 98.4 | Medicine, General & Internal (1/325) |
| Nature Communications | 81 (2.49) | 15 391 | 190.01 | 1.64 | 14.7 | Multidisciplinary Sciences (8/134) |
| Science | 81 (2.49) | 39 946 | 493.16 | 1.91 | 44.7 | Multidisciplinary Sciences (3/134) |
| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | 75 (2.30) | 12 223 | 162.97 | 9.83 | 25.4 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (2/403) |
| Lancet Infectious Diseases | 69 (2.12) | 19 035 | 275.87 | 15.66 | 36.4 | Infectious Diseases (1/132) |
| Cell | 65 (2.00) | 33 422 | 514.18 | 3.81 | 45.5 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (2/313) |
| Nature Medicine | 64 (1.96) | 21 132 | 330.19 | 6.36 | 58.7 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (1/313) |
| Science Translational Medicine | 38 (1.17) | 7323 | 192.71 | 8.93 | 15.8 | Cell Biology (11/205) |
| Vaccine | 35 (1.07) | 13 714 | 391.83 | 92.25 | 4.5 | Immunology (61/181) |
| Vaccines | 33 (1.01) | 7608 | 230.55 | 86.72 | 5.2 | Immunology (45/181) |
| Journal of the American Medical Association | 32 (0.98) | 10 709 | 334.66 | 2.50 | 63.1 | Medicine, General & Internal (5/325) |
| JAMA Network Open | 32 (0.98) | 3599 | 112.47 | 2.97 | 10.5 | Medicine, General & Internal (10/325) |
| PLoS One | 31 (0.95) | 7460 | 240.65 | 2.18 | 2.9 | Multidisciplinary Sciences (31/134) |
*% of related articles = number of vaccine-related articles / total number of articles in this journal in recent 10 years.
†IF from Clarivate published 2023 Journal Impact Factor.
JCR, Journal Citation Report.