Last Updated on July 1, 2026 by Dr. Bhagat
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Top 100 Highest Impact Factor Journals of 2025
An up-to-date compilation of Top 100 Highest Impact Factor Journals of 2025 with the latest data and key facts — verified June 2026.
Here is the list of the top 100 highest impact factor journals of 2025. 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
📢 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/
List of Journals with highest Impact Factor
| Journal Name | IF 2025 | Quartile |
| CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS | 685.2 | Q1 |
| NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY | 118.0 | Q1 |
| LANCET | 109.0 | Q1 |
| NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY | 104.6 | Q1 |
| MMWR Surveillance Summaries | 96.9 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology | 94.6 | Q1 |
| NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY | 91.2 | Q1 |
| NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE | 84.5 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Materials | 83.3 | Q1 |
| Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy | 81.2 | Q1 |
| ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY | 80.4 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 79.8 | Q1 |
| World Psychiatry | 79.5 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | 74.1 | Q1 |
| Nature Energy | 70.1 | Q1 |
| JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION | 65.4 | Q1 |
| Living Reviews in Relativity | 64.6 | Q1 |
| CHEMICAL REVIEWS | 64.2 | Q1 |
| NATURE REVIEWS CANCER | 60.7 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology | 57.5 | Q1 |
| NATURE | 56.1 | Q1 |
| CANCER CELL | 56.1 | Q1 |
| Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | 55.9 | Q1 |
| BMJ-British Medical Journal | 55.1 | Q1 |
| LANCET NEUROLOGY | 54.6 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Methods Primers | 54.2 | Q1 |
| eScience | 52.9 | Q1 |
| NATURE MEDICINE | 52.5 | Q1 |
| NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS | 51.4 | Q1 |
| MMWR Recommendations and Reports | 51.3 | Q1 |
| Electrochemical Energy Reviews | 50.7 | Q1 |
| IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials | 50.6 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Chemistry | 50.3 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Cardiology | 50.2 | Q1 |
| REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS | 48.9 | Q1 |
| Nature Catalysis | 48.3 | Q1 |
| CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS | 48.3 | Q1 |
| Journal of Hematology & Oncology | 47.8 | Q1 |
| SCIENCE | 47.3 | Q1 |
| NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY | 47.1 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Nephrology | 46.7 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Physics | 46.6 | Q1 |
| EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL | 45.3 | Q1 |
| CELL | 45.1 | Q1 |
| JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY | 44.7 | Q1 |
| NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY | 44.5 | Q1 |
| iMeta | 44.4 | Q1 |
| PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE | 42.9 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Bioengineering | 42.7 | Q1 |
| Nature Electronics | 42.3 | Q1 |
| Molecular Cancer | 42.2 | Q1 |
| Annual Review of Psychology | 41.8 | Q1 |
| CIRCULATION | 41.3 | Q1 |
| PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND COMBUSTION SCIENCE | 41.3 | Q1 |
| JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY | 40.1 | Q1 |
| Annual Review of Immunology | 39.8 | Q1 |
| Innovation | 39.5 | Q1 |
| Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology | 39.1 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Endocrinology | 39.1 | Q1 |
| International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | 38.7 | Q1 |
| Nano-Micro Letters | 38.5 | Q1 |
| REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS | 38.5 | Q1 |
| Nature Photonics | 38.1 | Q1 |
| NATURE MATERIALS | 38.0 | Q1 |
| Nature Nanotechnology | 37.5 | Q1 |
| Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 37.3 | Q1 |
| Joule | 37.1 | Q1 |
| Cell Metabolism | 37.0 | Q1 |
| Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | 36.6 | Q1 |
| Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology | 36.3 | Q1 |
| Physiological Reviews | 35.7 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering | 34.8 | Q1 |
| Lancet Respiratory Medicine | 34.7 | Q1 |
| Annual Review of Pathology-Mechanisms of Disease | 34.5 | Q1 |
| LANCET ONCOLOGY | 33.7 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Rheumatology | 33.7 | Q1 |
| PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE | 32.8 | Q1 |
| Molecular Plant | 32.7 | Q1 |
| Nature Sustainability | 32.1 | Q1 |
| eLight | 31.4 | Q1 |
| Nature Reviews Neurology | 31.2 | Q1 |
| CELL RESEARCH | 31.1 | Q1 |
| INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT | 31.0 | Q1 |
| PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE | 30.9 | Q1 |
| Nature Water | 30.7 | Q1 |
| Immunity | 30.6 | Q1 |
| Energy & Environmental Science | 30.5 | Q1 |
| ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS | 30.4 | Q1 |
| Exploration | 30.4 | Q1 |
| Advances in Optics and Photonics | 30.1 | Q1 |
| Nature Machine Intelligence | 29.8 | Q1 |
| Gastroenterology | 29.7 | Q1 |
| Nature Chemical Engineering | 29.7 | Q1 |
| Cancer Discovery | 29.5 | Q1 |
| Lancet Rheumatology | 29.5 | Q1 |
| LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES | 29.4 | Q1 |
| Living Reviews in Solar Physics | 29.4 | Q1 |
| EUROPEAN UROLOGY | 29.1 | Q1 |
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At a glanceKey takeaways
- Understanding the metric and its limitations helps you make better publishing decisions.
- The impact factor varies significantly by field — a 5–10 score is excellent in most disciplines.
- Always verify current metrics from official sources (JCR, Scopus) before relying on them.
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SourcesReferences & further reading
Impact-factor figures on this page are drawn from Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate), 2025 release — the most recent Journal Impact Factor data, retrieved June 2026. Metrics change annually — always confirm time-sensitive values at the official source before relying on them.
