Highest Impact Factor Journals

Here is the list of the top 100 highest impact factor journals of 2022. This is the most updated list of journals with the highest impact factor around the world. The list is made from data provided in Journal Citation Report by Clavirate.

What is Impact Factor and How is it calculated?

Impact Factor (IF) or often called journal impact factor (JIF) is an index provided by an analytics company named Clarivate. The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of times the articles are cited in the last two years by the total number of publications in those two years.

  • Total Citations in 2020 and 2021 = 500
  • Total Number of Publications in 2020 and 2021 = 100
  • Impact Factor of the Journal in 2022 = 500/100 = 5

List of Journals with highest Impact Factor

Journal NameJournal Impact Factor 2022
CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS254.7
LANCET168.9
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE158.5 
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION120.7
NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY120.1
NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY112.7
BMJ-British Medical Journal105.7
NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY100.3
NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY88.1
Nature Reviews Materials83.5
NATURE MEDICINE82.9
Nature Reviews Disease Primers81.5
Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology78.8
NATURE REVIEWS CANCER78.5
Lancet Respiratory Medicine76.2
World Psychiatry73.3
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology65.1
NATURE64.8
CELL64.5
Lancet Psychiatry64.3
CHEMICAL REVIEWS62.1
SCIENCE56.9
Nature Energy56.7
LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES56.3
LANCET ONCOLOGY51.1
ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY50.5
CANCER CELL50.3
Lancet Public Health50
Nature Reviews Cardiology49.6
LANCET NEUROLOGY48
NATURE METHODS48
NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY46.9
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS46.2
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY45.3
Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology44.5
CELL RESEARCH44.1
REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS44.1
NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS42.7
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment42.1
Nature Reviews Nephrology41.5
NATURE MATERIALS41.2
Living Reviews in Relativity40.6
Nature Reviews Endocrinology40.5
Joule39.8
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL39.3
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy39.3
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE39.2
JAMA Internal Medicine39
INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE38.9
Nature Reviews Physics38.5
Nature Nanotechnology38.3
Lancet Microbe38.2
Nature Reviews Neurology38.1
CIRCULATION37.8
Nature Catalysis37.8
PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE37.4
Molecular Cancer37.3
CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS36.8
Lancet Child & Adolescent Health36.4
Nature Reviews Chemistry36.3
Annual Review of Pathology-Mechanisms of Disease36.2
Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology35.7
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials35.6
Nature Photonics35
NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE34.7
Lancet Global Health34.3
Nature Electronics34.3
MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPO3R3T.9
MMWR Recommendations and Reports33.7
Nature Reviews Rheumatology33.7
PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS33.6
Cell Discovery33.5
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics33.3
Energy & Environmental Science32.5
Immunity32.4
Electrochemical Energy Reviews31.3
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPOR31
Lancet Digital Health30.8
NATURE GENETICS30.8
Nature Climate Change30.7
NATURE IMMUNOLOGY30.5
Cell Host & Microbe30.3

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