Clarivate Releases JCR 2025 Impact Factors

ByDr. Bhagat

Last Updated on July 16, 2026 by Dr. Bhagat

Clarivate has officially released the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2025, presenting the updated Impact Factors for over 21,000 journals indexed in Web of Science. The update reflects citation data from the year 2024, and includes both Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).

What’s New in JCR 2025?

  • ✅ Latest IFs based on 2024 citation data
  • ✅ Over 250 journals received their first-ever impact factor
  • ✅ Journals flagged for self-citation manipulation have been excluded
  • ✅ Introduction of percentage-based journal metrics to address skewed citation distributions
  • ✅ Downloadable datasets and category-wise breakdowns available on the Clarivate platform

Top 100 Highest Impact Factor Journals – 2025

Rank Journal Name JIF 2024
1 CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS 232.4
2 NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY 103.3
3 NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY 101.8
3 NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY 101.8
4 NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY 90.2
5 Kidney International Supplements 89.6
6 LANCET 88.5
7 Nature Reviews Materials 86.2
7 Nature Reviews Materials 86.2
8 Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 82.2
9 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 78.5
10 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 71.5
10 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 71.5
11 NATURE REVIEWS CANCER 66.8
12 World Psychiatry 65.8
13 ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY 65.4
14 Living Reviews in Relativity 62.5
15 NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY 60.9
16 Nature Reviews Disease Primers 60.6
17 MMWR Recommendations and Reports 60.1
17 Nature Energy 60.1
17 Nature Energy 60.1
19 Nature Reviews Methods Primers 56.0
20 CHEMICAL REVIEWS 55.8
21 JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 55.0
22 Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 52.7
22 Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 52.7
23 NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS 52.0
24 Nature Reviews Chemistry 51.7
25 Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 51.0
26 NATURE MEDICINE 50.0
26 NATURE MEDICINE 50.0
26 NATURE MEDICINE 50.0
27 MMWR Surveillance Summaries 49.8
28 NATURE 48.5
29 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 46.7
29 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 46.7
30 SCIENCE 45.8
31 LANCET NEUROLOGY 45.5
32 REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 44.8
33 Nature Catalysis 44.6
34 CANCER CELL 44.5
34 CANCER CELL 44.5
35 Nature Reviews Cardiology 44.2
36 BMJ-British Medical Journal 42.7
37 CELL 42.5
37 CELL 42.5
38 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 41.9
39 Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 41.8
40 NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY 41.7
41 Nature Electronics 40.9
42 Journal of Hematology & Oncology 40.4
42 Journal of Hematology & Oncology 40.4
43 Nature Reviews Endocrinology 40.0
43 PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE 40.0
45 Nature Reviews Nephrology 39.8
46 Nature Reviews Physics 39.5
46 Nature Reviews Physics 39.5
47 CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS 39.0
48 CIRCULATION 38.6
48 CIRCULATION 38.6
48 Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology 38.6
50 NATURE MATERIALS 38.5
50 NATURE MATERIALS 38.5
50 NATURE MATERIALS 38.5
50 NATURE MATERIALS 38.5
51 Nature Reviews Bioengineering 37.6
51 Nature Reviews Bioengineering 37.6
52 REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS 37.3
53 PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND COMBUSTION SCIENCE 37.0
53 PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND COMBUSTION SCIENCE 37.0
53 PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND COMBUSTION SCIENCE 37.0
53 PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND COMBUSTION SCIENCE 37.0
54 eScience 36.6
54 eScience 36.6
55 Nano-Micro Letters 36.3
55 Nano-Micro Letters 36.3
55 Nano-Micro Letters 36.3
55 Electrochemical Energy Reviews 36.3
57 LANCET ONCOLOGY 35.9
58 EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL 35.6
59 Joule 35.4
59 Joule 35.4
59 Joule 35.4
60 Nature Nanotechnology 34.9
60 Nature Nanotechnology 34.9
61 Annual Review of Pathology-Mechanisms of Disease 34.5
62 Molecular Cancer 33.9
62 Molecular Cancer 33.9
63 Cancer Discovery 33.3
63 Annual Review of Immunology 33.3
65 iMeta 33.2
66 Nature Reviews Neurology 33.1
67 JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY 33.0
68 Nature Photonics 32.9
68 Nature Photonics 32.9
69 Lancet Respiratory Medicine 32.8
69 Lancet Respiratory Medicine 32.8
70 Nature Reviews Rheumatology 32.7
71 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 32.5
72 NATURE METHODS 32.1
72 eLight 32.1
74 Interdisciplinary Materials 31.6
74 Interdisciplinary Materials 31.6
74 Interdisciplinary Materials 31.6
75 Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 31.1
75 Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 31.1
76 LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES 31.0
77 Cell Metabolism 30.9
77 Cell Metabolism 30.9
78 Energy & Environmental Science 30.8
78 Energy & Environmental Science 30.8
78 Energy & Environmental Science 30.8
78 Energy & Environmental Science 30.8
79 Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 30.7
80 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 30.2
80 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 30.2
81 PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS 29.5
82 Annual Review of Psychology 29.4
82 Annual Review of Psychology 29.4
83 NATURE GENETICS 29.0
84 Physiological Reviews 28.7
85 Nature Cancer 28.5
86 ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS 28.0
87 NATURE IMMUNOLOGY 27.6
87 Living Reviews in Solar Physics 27.6
89 Science Robotics 27.5
90 Nature Climate Change 27.1
90 Nature Climate Change 27.1
90 Nature Climate Change 27.1
90 Nature Sustainability 27.1
90 Nature Sustainability 27.1
90 Nature Sustainability 27.1
92 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 27.0
92 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science 27.0
92 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science 27.0
94 ADVANCED MATERIALS 26.8
94 ADVANCED MATERIALS 26.8
94 ADVANCED MATERIALS 26.8
94 ADVANCED MATERIALS 26.8
94 ADVANCED MATERIALS 26.8
94 ADVANCED MATERIALS 26.8
94 NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS 26.8
94 MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS 26.8
94 MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS 26.8
97 NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE 26.7
98 Nature Biomedical Engineering 26.6
99 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW 26.5
99 Annual Review of Plant Biology 26.5

JCR Impact Factor 2026

📢 UPDATE (June 2026): The new JCR Impact Factor 2025 data has been released! Check out the full list and analysis here: https://impactfactorforjournal.com/jcr-impact-factor-2025/

Download the Full JCR 2025 Impact Factor List

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