14 June 2026 : Clinical Research
Mapping Two Decades of Research on Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in Esophageal Cancer: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis
Changxiong Wang AE 1, Jianye Wu CEF 1, Leyi Zhang CEF 1, Xinrong Fan BE 1*, Zhaohuan Lou BE 2, Xianbao Lu CEF 1DOI: 10.12659/MSM.951916
Med Sci Monit 2026; 32:e951916
Table 2 Bibliometric indicators of the top 20 high-impact journals.
| Rank | Journal | h_index | g_index | m_index | IF 2024 | JCR 2024 | TP | TP_rank | TC | TC_rank | PY_start |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | 22 | 34 | 1.158 | 7.5 | Q1 | 34 | 2 | 1984 | 1 | 2008 |
| 2 | Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques | 17 | 26 | 0.810 | 2.7 | Q1 | 42 | 1 | 554 | 3 | 2006 |
| 3 | Endoscopy | 14 | 18 | 0.824 | 12.8 | Q1 | 18 | 7 | 1403 | 2 | 2010 |
| 4 | Digestive Endoscopy | 12 | 26 | 0.667 | 4.7 | Q1 | 26 | 4 | 509 | 4 | 2009 |
| 5 | World Journal of Gastroenterology | 12 | 23 | 0.706 | 5.4 | Q1 | 23 | 6 | 297 | 7 | 2010 |
| 6 | Diseases of the Esophagus | 11 | 21 | 0.579 | 2.3 | Q3 | 24 | 5 | 354 | 5 | 2008 |
| 7 | Esophagus | 8 | 31 | 0.471 | 3.8 | Q2 | 32 | 3 | 322 | 6 | 2010 |
| 8 | Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 7 | 11 | 0.438 | 3.4 | Q2 | 11 | 9 | 168 | 8 | 2011 |
| 9 | Cancers | 5 | 6 | 0.556 | 4.4 | Q2 | 8 | 10 | 52 | 15 | 2018 |
| 10 | Digestion | 5 | 6 | 0.385 | 3.6 | Q2 | 6 | 16 | 75 | 11 | 2014 |
| 11 | Journal of Gastroenterology | 5 | 7 | 0.417 | 5.5 | Q1 | 7 | 13 | 100 | 10 | 2015 |
| 12 | Radiation Oncology | 5 | 5 | 0.417 | 3.2 | Q1 | 5 | 25 | 70 | 12 | 2015 |
| 13 | BMC Gastroenterology | 4 | 5 | 0.400 | 2.6 | Q2 | 12 | 8 | 139 | 9 | 2017 |
| 14 | Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine | 4 | 6 | 0.250 | 2.3 | Q3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 2011 |
| 15 | Gut and Liver | 4 | 6 | 0.286 | 3.2 | Q2 | 6 | 18 | 47 | 16 | 2013 |
| 16 | Internal Medicine | 4 | 7 | 0.333 | 1.1 | Q2 | 7 | 12 | 34 | 18 | 2015 |
| 17 | Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | 4 | 7 | 0.333 | 2.4 | Q1 | 7 | 14 | 63 | 13 | 2015 |
| 18 | Medicine | 4 | 7 | 0.333 | 1.4 | Q2 | 7 | 15 | 63 | 13 | 2015 |
| 19 | Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology | 4 | 5 | 0.200 | 1.6 | Q3 | 5 | 26 | 19 | 19 | 2007 |
| 20 | United European Gastroenterology Journal | 4 | 4 | 0.364 | 6.7 | Q1 | 4 | 32 | 35 | 17 | 2016 |
| h_index – measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications; g_index – gives more weight to highly-cited articles; m_index – the h-index divided by the number of years since the first published paper; IF – impact factor (2024); JCR – Journal Citation Reports quartile ranking (2024): indicates the journal’s ranking relative to others in the same field (Q1: top 25%, Q2: 25–50%, Q3: 50–75%, Q4: bottom 25%); TP – total publications; TP_rank – rank of total publications; TC – total citations; TC_rank – rank of total citations; PY_start – publication year start: indicates the year the first article was published in this dataset. | |||||||||||