The Leading Transplantation Journals: A Trend Analysis, 2011–2021

Table 3

Top quartile (Q1) journals in 2011 and the change in their rank in 2021 ranking.

Journal	New ranks	Citation change (%)	Document change (%)
American Journal of Transplantation	Same	+50	11
Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology	Dropped by 1 rank	−14	−31
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation	Promoted by 2 ranks	+7	−35
Transplantation	Dropped by 3 ranks	−41	−47
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation	Promoted by 2 ranks	−31	−50
Transplantation Reviews	Dropped by 6 ranks	+13	32
Liver Transplantation	Promoted by 2 ranks	−17	−35
Transplant International	Dropped by 3 ranks	−1.70	12.90
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation	Dropped by 4 ranks	−29.20	−6.20

A positive sign means an increase from 2011 to 2021 and a negative sign means a decrease from 2011 to 2021.