Top journals from Saudi Arabia
All 33 ranked journals whose publisher is in Saudi Arabia, ordered by the ITS Journal Score (2021–2025, open OpenAlex data).
Saudi Arabia in numbers
Saudi Arabia has 33 journals with an ITS Journal Score, #75 of 148 countries by number of ranked journals. Together they published 13,230 papers in 2021–2025, and 85% of these papers are open access. 20 of the journals (61%) are listed in DOAJ. The most common fields are Medicine (11), Social Sciences (5), Computer Science (3) journals.
Country here is the publisher's country as recorded in OpenAlex. A journal's editors and authors may be based elsewhere.
Ranked journals
| Rank in country | Global rank | Journal | Field | Score | Papers 2021–2025 | h-index | Open access | DOAJ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #699 | Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences Elsevier BV | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 85.8 | 1,716 | 132 | 100% | — |
| 2 | #1,714 | Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal Elsevier BV | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 81.3 | 983 | 105 | 100% | Yes |
| 3 | #2,173 | Journal of Saudi Chemical Society Elsevier BV | Chemistry | 80.0 | 598 | 104 | 100% | Yes |
| 4 | #3,577 | Journal of Taibah University for Science Elsevier BV | Engineering | 76.3 | 607 | 70 | 100% | Yes |
| 5 | #4,584 | Saudi Medical Journal Ministry of Defence and Aviation | Medicine | 74.0 | 1,141 | 89 | 100% | — |
| 6 | #5,712 | Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences Elsevier BV | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 71.9 | 372 | 82 | 99% | Yes |
| 7 | #6,254 | The Saudi Dental Journal Elsevier BV | Dentistry | 70.9 | 686 | 61 | 100% | Yes |
| 8 | #8,388 | Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences Elsevier BV | Medicine | 67.3 | 737 | 51 | 100% | Yes |
| 9 | #8,631 | Annals of Saudi Medicine King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre | Medicine | 66.9 | 246 | 79 | 100% | Yes |
| 10 | #9,986 | Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia Medknow | Medicine | 64.7 | 690 | 54 | 100% | Yes |
| 11 | #11,582 | Journal of Family and Community Medicine Medknow | Medicine | 62.1 | 219 | 62 | 100% | Yes |
| 12 | #11,681 | Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology Elsevier BV | Medicine | 61.9 | 408 | 49 | 96% | — |
| 13 | #11,826 | Neurosciences Riyadh Military Hospital | Medicine | 61.7 | 251 | 38 | 100% | — |
| 14 | #20,994 | Journal of Clinical Neonatology Medknow | Medicine | 48.1 | 210 | 30 | 50% | — |
| 15 | #22,788 | Journal of Information Security and Cybercrimes Research Naif University Publishing House | Computer Science | 45.9 | 73 | 11 | 100% | Yes |
| 16 | #23,116 | Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation Medknow | Medicine | 45.5 | 432 | 42 | 100% | Yes |
| 17 | #23,608 | Journal of King Abdulaziz University-Islamic Economics King Abdulaziz University - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS | Business, Management and Accounting | 44.9 | 73 | 30 | 100% | — |
| 18 | #24,339 | International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries Discover STM Publishing Ltd. | Psychology | 44.1 | 1,761 | 18 | 1% | — |
| 19 | #30,942 | Majmaah Journal of Health Sciences Majmaah University | Psychology | 37.7 | 267 | 10 | 100% | Yes |
| 20 | #32,503 | Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine Naif University Publishing House | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 36.3 | 108 | 11 | 100% | Yes |
| 21 | #32,541 | Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Computer Science | 36.3 | 77 | 7 | 42% | — |
| 22 | #33,768 | Journal of King Abdulaziz University-Marine Sciences | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 35.2 | 68 | 16 | 100% | — |
| 23 | #35,004 | Saudi Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Medknow | Medicine | 34.2 | 203 | 7 | 55% | — |
| 24 | #40,115 | Scientific Journal of King Faisal University Humanities and Management Sciences King Faisal University | Social Sciences | 30.2 | 146 | 5 | 100% | Yes |
| 25 | #42,439 | Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Medical Sciences Springer | Dentistry | 28.4 | 105 | 5 | 100% | Yes |
| 26 | #42,450 | Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine Discover STM Publishing Ltd | Medicine | 28.4 | 312 | 6 | 100% | Yes |
| 27 | #48,328 | Journal of Biochemical and Clinical Genetics Discover STM Publishing Ltd | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 23.8 | 91 | 6 | 100% | Yes |
| 28 | #51,370 | Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Educational and Psychological Sciences Umm Al-Qura University | Social Sciences | 21.2 | 259 | 2 | 100% | Yes |
| 29 | #52,517 | Journal of King Abdulaziz University-Computing and Information Technology Sciences King Abdulaziz University | Computer Science | 20.1 | 56 | 6 | 79% | — |
| 30 | #53,023 | Journal of Research in Language & Translation King Saud University | Arts and Humanities | 19.7 | 74 | 3 | 100% | Yes |
| 31 | #53,362 | ARAB JOURNAL FOR SECURITY STUDIES Naif University Publishing House | Social Sciences | 19.4 | 95 | 3 | 100% | Yes |
| 32 | #58,931 | Security Policy Paper Naif Arab University for Security Sciences | Social Sciences | 12.8 | 87 | 2 | 98% | — |
| 33 | #61,833 | Journal of Research and Social Studies | Social Sciences | 6.1 | 79 | 0 | 100% | — |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.