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Table 2 The most productive journals in the microbiome-gut-brain axis research

From: Global research trends in microbiome-gut-brain axis during 2009–2018: a bibliometric and visualized study

SCRa

Journal

Frequency (%)

IFb

1st

Brain Behavior and Immunity

49 (2.86)

6.170

2nd

Scientific Reports

34 (1.98)

4.011

3rd

Plos One

33 (1.93)

2.776

4th

Gut Microbes

23 (1.34)

7.823

4th

World Journal of Gastroenterology

23 (1.34)

3.411

6th

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

22 (1.28)

3.803

7th

Frontiers in Microbiology

20 (1.17)

4.259

8th

Nutrients

19 (1.11)

4.171

9th

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

15 (0.88)

2.126

10th

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

14 (0.82)

23.57

  1. SCR Standard competition ranking, IF Impact factor
  2. aEqual journals have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
  3. bImpact factors (IF) based on Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2018 from Clarivate Analytics