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Table 2 Rank and record count of journals that published articles that cited the 1102 articles published in World Journal of Gastroenterology in 2019-2020, n (%)

Rank	Publication title	Record count
1	Cancers	241 (2.13)
2	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	241 (2.13)
3	Frontiers in Oncology	193 (1.706)
4	Journal of Clinical Medicine	138 (1.22)
5	Nutrients	119 (1.052)
6	Scientific Reports	111 (0.981)
7	Frontiers in Pharmacology	100 (0.884)
8	Frontiers in Immunology	92 (0.813)
9	Frontiers in Medicine	89 (0.787)
10	World Journal of Clinical Cases	77 (0.681)
11	Cells	76 (0.672)
12	Digestive Diseases and Sciences	73 (0.645)
13	Medicine	71 (0.628)
14	Medicine Hagerstown	70 (0.619)
15	Cureus	67 (0.592)
16	Surgical Endoscopy	67 (0.592)
17	Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques	67 (0.592)
18	Diagnostics	64 (0.566)
19	Diagnostics Basel Switzerland	64 (0.566)
20	BMC Gastroenterology	63 (0.557)
21	Biomed Research International	55 (0.486)
22	Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine	55 (0.486)
23	Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine ECAM	55 (0.486)
24	PLOS One	53 (0.468)
25	Other journals, n = 3025	9013 (79.662)