TABLE 1 -- MOST-CITED JOURNALS, 1994 AND 1989 1994Rank1989RankTitle1994 Citations(thousands) 1989 Citations(thousands) 1 1Journal of Biological Chemistry 265.3183.4 2 2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 259.3 180.6 3 3 Nature 246.5 178.3 4 5 Science 190.9 117.1 5 4 Journal of the Am. Chemical Soc. 153.0 121.8 6 10 Cell 129.2 71.3 7 8 Physical Review B 116.6 77.7 8 7 Physical Review Letters 114.6 78.0 9 6 Journal of Chemical Physics 108.5 82.9 10 9 New England Journal of Medicine 98.9 72.4 11 12 Lancet 85.5 68.0 12 14 Biochemistry-US 85.0 56.2 13 11 Journal of Immunology 84.5 70.0 14 15 American Journal of Physiology 78.6 55.1 15 13 Biochemica et Biophysica Acta 71.2 65.8 16 19 Cancer Research 69.1 46. 17 16 Brain Research 63.5 50.2 18 18 Journal of Clinical Investigation 63.2 48.3 19 17 Astrophysical Journal 62.1 48.9 20 20 Journal of Cell Biology 62.1 46.1 21 24 Journal of Physical Chemistry-US 59.0 37.8 22 22 Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 57.0 43.2 23 26 EMBO Journal 55.9 31.1 24 27 Nucleic Acids Research 55.1 36.0 25 21 Biochemistry Journal 50.6 44.5 26 23 Journal of Experimental Medicine 50.5 38.0 27 54 Molecular and Cellular Biology 50.4 23.5 28 44 Journal of Geophysical Research 50.3 27.3 29 42 Blood 50.1 28.0 30 28 Circulation 49.7 35.6 31 26 Journal of Applied Physics 49.7 36.2 32 25 Journal of Organic Chemistry 49.0 36.2 33 33 Applied Physics Letters 48.3 32.8 34 32 Tetrahedron Letters 45.9 34.4 35 35 Journal of Molecular Biology 44.8 32.3 36 39 Journal of Bacteriology 43.2 30.1 37 59 Journal of Virology 43.1 21.8 38 41 FEBS Letters 42.8 29.3 39 29 Analytical Biochemistry 42.6 35.0 40 31 Endocrinology 41.2 34.3 41 40 JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association 41.0 29.4 42 30 Cancer 40.1 34.6 43 38 Physics Letters B 39.6 30.5 44 46 Physical Review A 39.3 27.0 45 34 British Medical Journal 37.7 32.6 46 47 Inorganic Chemistry 35.4 27.0 47 43 European Journal of Biochemistry 34.6 27.5 48 45 Analytical Chemistry 34.3 27.1 49 37 Journal of Physiology-London 33.4 30.6 50 50 Gastroenterology 31.8 25.2 Source: Institute for Scientific Information