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title: "Medical Image Analysis: impact and top papers"
description: "Medical Image Analysis has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.61 and an h-index of 222 in OpenAlex, #6 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 420 papers, and its papers received 41,258 citations."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis
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license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "Medical Image Analysis has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.61 and an h-index of 222 in OpenAlex, #6 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 420 papers, and its papers received 41,258 citations. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Medical Image Analysis

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- category: AI
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 1361-8415
- Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/medical-image-analysis
- ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1361-8415
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S116571295

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md

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## Key findings

- Medical Image Analysis has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.61 and an h-index of 222 in OpenAlex, #6 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness.
- In 2025 it published 420 papers, and its papers received 41,258 citations.
- Medical Image Analysis published 21 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #52 of 480 journals.
- Leading institutions: Fudan University (3), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2) and Harvard University (2).
- Countries: China (10), United States (5) and Australia (3).
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Medical Image Analysis published 20 papers (1 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “multimodal fusion” (2), “pseudo-labeling” (2) and “survival prediction” (2).

## Citation metrics

*Citation metrics (OpenAlex)*

| Metric | Value |
|---|---:|
| 2-year mean citedness | 12.61 |
| h-index | 222 |
| i10-index | 2,833 |
| Papers in OpenAlex | 4,131 |
| Citations in OpenAlex | 302,478 |
| Rank among tracked AI journals | [#6 of 41](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) |

*Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)*

| Year | Papers | Citations received |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 389 | 32,273 |
| 2025 | 420 | 41,258 |
| 2024 | 303 | 34,452 |
| 2023 | 274 | 29,625 |
| 2022 | 301 | 25,539 |
| 2021 | 337 | 22,885 |
| 2020 | 249 | 17,080 |
| 2019 | 173 | 14,763 |
| 2018 | 121 | 11,218 |
| 2017 | 123 | 9,206 |
| 2016 | 157 | 7,954 |

2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.

Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/medical-image-analysis

## The last 36 months

*Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 |

*Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [pseudo-labeling](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/pseudo-labeling.md) | 2 |
| 3 | survival prediction | 2 |
| 4 | whole slide images | 2 |
| 5 | Cox proportional hazards model | 1 |
| 6 | T1-weighted imaging | 1 |
| 7 | UK Biobank | 1 |
| 8 | aggregation methods | 1 |
| 9 | annotated data scarcity | 1 |
| 10 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 1 |

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [MedReShaper: Mesh-Based AI for 3D Anatomical Shape Completion in Orbital Fracture Reconstruction with Controlled Technical Validation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104385) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Yao Gao, Xijin Du, Feng Li et al. |  |
| 2026-10-27 | [Joint segmentation of pancreatic tumors and peripancreatic vessels via a clinical risk-aware uncertainty alignment framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104378) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Wenli Fu, Hongzhang Zhu, Tao Chen et al. | Shanghai Jiao Tong University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University; Renji Hospital |
| 2026-10-27 | [Learning discriminative prototypes via Variational Information Bottleneck for multimodal cancer survival prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104361) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Zhiyong Tan, Ruifen Cao, 魏丕敬 et al. | Anhui University; Xinjiang Medical University |
| 2026-10-27 | [A latent ODE approach to full-cycle biventricular cardiac motion modeling from cine MRI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104376) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | David Brüggemann, Ekaterina Krymova, Fırat Özdemir et al. | ETH Zurich; Swiss Data Science Center; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [ConComp: Constraining and compensating latent representations for semi-supervised medical image segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104354) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Jie Yang, Y. Wang, Junchao Fan et al. | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University |
| 2026-10-24 | [Editorial Board](https://doi.org/10.1016/s1361-8415(26)00441-x) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) |  |  |
| 2026-10-24 | [4DLoG: Generative modeling of neurodegenerative brain anatomy with 4D longitudinal diffusion model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104368) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Nivetha Jayakumar, Swakshar Deb, Bahram Jafrasteh et al. | University of Virginia; Cornell University; Weill Cornell Medicine |
| 2026-10-19 | [Unsupervised monocular endoscopic depth estimation and overestimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104356) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Wenkang Fan, Hao Fang, Xuyang Feng et al. | Xiamen University; Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University; First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Distribution matching based personalized federated learning for multi-center, cross-modal liver image registration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104365) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Rencheng Zheng, Hang Yu, Xinran Wu et al. | Fudan University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Ruijin Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [Hierarchical visual prompt disentanglement for continual rare disease diagnosis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104355) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Yang Hu, Yuanyuan Chen, Qingjie Zeng et al. | Northwestern Polytechnical University; Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-12 | [Geometry-Guided Graph Encoding Network (G3e-Net) for Patient-Specific Prediction of Vascular Haemodynamics](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104358) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Linyu Qin, Shuaitong Zhang, Xuyang Zhang et al. | Beijing Institute of Technology; Chinese PLA General Hospital; Capital Medical University; … |
| 2026-10-12 | [PaSTA: Fast parametric inference of significance for spatial associations between brain maps](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104360) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Yuanzhe Liu, Andrew Zalesky | The University of Melbourne |
| 2026-10-12 | [Performance uncertainty in medical image analysis: A large-scale investigation of confidence intervals](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104349) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Pascaline André, Charles Heitz, Evangelia Christodoulou et al. | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Inserm; Sorbonne Université; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Towards scalable cancer prognosis by aligning semi-supervised learning with survival modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104347) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Yi Huang, Linghan Cai, Ziliang Feng et al. | Sichuan University; Fudan University; Pudong Medical Center; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Streamline pathology foundation model by cross-magnification distillation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104352) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Ziyu Su, Abdul Akbar, Usama Sajjad et al. | The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center; The Ohio State University |
| 2026-10-09 | [A unified and domain-robust framework enables controllable multimodal brain MRI synthesis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104348) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Haoye Zheng, Zhen Xing, Liuhong Zhu et al. | Xiamen University; First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University; Fudan University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [ROI-informed cross-modal supervised contrastive learning for multimodal depression classification using rs-fMRI and T1-weighted MRI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104350) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Jinmo Byeon, Hakjin Lee, MyeongGyun Jang et al. | Korea University; Ewha Womans University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Mind the Gap: A survey of chronic wound datasets, methods, and clinical translation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104344) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Anum Fatima, Moi Hoon Yap, Neil D. Reeves et al. | Manchester Metropolitan University; Lancaster University |
| 2026-10-06 | [HyM2Surv: Hypergraph learning for cross-magnification and microbiome-attentive multimodal survival prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104343) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Fengyun Zhang, Kaimiao Hu, Changming Sun et al. | Tianjin University; Data61; Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [UPER: A Unified Polyhedral Representation for universal multi-dimensional diffusion MRI image modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104336) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Tianyuan Yao, Zhiyuan Li, Michael Kim et al. | Vanderbilt University; Park University; Vanderbilt University Medical Center; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [A self-navigated framework for motion detection and spoke-reordering musculoskeletal dynamic reconstruction in 3D radial MRI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104345) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | Enping Lin, Fatih Calakli, Musa Tunç Arslan et al. | Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Medical Image Analysis. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis

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  title = {Medical Image Analysis},
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  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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