List of core medical journals publising gastroenterology papers, in descending order of five year impact factor, in the top two impact categories (W4 and W3)
| W4 Journals (top 10%) | No of UK papers | W3 Journals (next 20%) | No of UK papers |
| N Engl J Med | 20 | Diabetologia | 18 |
| Lancet | 193 | Br J Pharmacol | 153 |
| Proc Natl Acad Sci USA | 30 | J Cell Sci | 26 |
| J Clin Invest | 18 | Biochem J | 196 |
| J Biol Chem | 40 | Infect Immun | 19 |
| Cancer Res | 38 | Drugs | 22 |
| Am J Pathol | 18 | Eur J Biochem | 22 |
| J Physiol (Lond) | 78 | Biochem Biophys Res Commun | 27 |
| Gastroenterolgy | 233 | FEBS Lett | 52 |
| Neuroscience | 19 | J Clin Microbiol | 22 |
| Hepatology | 148 | Am J Physiol | 75 |
| AIDS | 19 | J Gen Virol | 34 |
| J Infect Dis | 19 | J Pathol | 97 |
| BMJ | 219 | ||
| Gut | 1113 | ||
| Transplantation | 81 | ||
| Br J Cancer | 184 | ||
| Int J Cancer | 58 | ||
| Immunology | 40 | ||
| Carcinogenesis | 65 | ||
| Eur J Pharmacol | 43 | ||
| Clin Exp Immunol | 57 | ||
| Pflug Arch | 34 | ||
| Biochim Biophys | 109 | ||
| J Endocrinol | 31 | ||
| Cancer | 39 | ||
| J Hepatol | 168 |