High Impact Journals (2026)

Looking for a high impact journal for your manuscript? Below are 366 Q1 journals with current impact factors of 10 or above — ranked across medicine, biology, chemistry, engineering, computer science, and physics. Click any title to see the full impact factor history, APC, acceptance rate, and indexing status.

Top 20 High Impact Journals Worldwide

All Q1 quartile
# Journal Publisher Impact Factor Details
1 CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians Wiley 226.20 View »
2 The Lancet Elsevier BV 202.70 View »
3 New England Journal of Medicine Massachusetts Medical Society 176.00 View »
4 AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY Academic Journals 162.25 View »
5 BMJ BMJ 105.70 View »
6 BMJ 105.70 View »
7 BMJ 105.70 View »
8 BMJ 105.70 View »
9 Nature Medicine Springer Nature 82.90 View »
10 Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2 The Royal Society of Chemistry 82.00 View »
11 Nature Nature Portfolio 69.50 View »
12 Cell Elsevier 66.80 View »
13 Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 1 Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases The Royal Society of Chemistry 66.00 View »
14 Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society The Royal Society of Chemistry 65.00 View »
15 Human Nature Springer Nature 64.80 View »
16 Nature Astronomy Springer Nature 64.80 View »
17 Nature Biomedical Engineering Springer Nature 64.80 View »
18 Nature Biotechnology Springer Nature 64.80 View »
19 Nature Catalysis Springer Nature 64.80 View »
20 Nature Chemical Biology Springer Nature 64.80 View »

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Full High Impact Journal List

All journals with an impact factor of 10 or higher in our 2026 database, sorted by IF.

Journal Publisher Impact Factor APC Details
Plant and Cell Physiology Oxford University Press 64.50 View »
Protein & Cell Springer Nature 64.50 View »
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology Elsevier 64.50 View »
Stem Cell Reports Elsevier 64.50 View »
Stem Cell Research & Therapy Springer Nature 64.50 View »
Stem Cells International Wiley 64.50 $2,830.00 View »
The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Elsevier 64.50 View »
The Journal of Cell Biology Rockefeller University Press 64.50 View »
The Plant Cell Oxford University Press 64.50 View »
Tissue and Cell Elsevier 64.50 View »
Trends in Cell Biology Elsevier 64.50 View »
Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 63.70 $10,500.00 View »
Nature Climate Change Springer Nature 61.56 View »
Nature Geoscience Springer Nature 61.56 View »
Nature Reviews Chemistry Springer Nature 61.56 View »
ACS Central Science American Chemical Society 56.90 View »
Aceh Journal of Animal Science Faculty of Marine and Fisheries Universitas Syiah Kuala 56.90 FREE View »
Administrative Science Quarterly SAGE 56.90 View »
Advanced Science Wiley 56.90 View »
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Springer Nature 56.90 View »
Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Pharmacy / Mustansiriyah University 56.90 $95.00 View »
Al-Qadisiyah Journal for Engineering Science University of Al-Qadisiyah 56.90 $250,000.00 View »
American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 56.90 View »
Applied Surface Science Elsevier BV 56.90 View »
Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences Springer Nature 56.90 View »
Asian Journal of Science Education Universitas Syiah Kuala 56.90 $500,000.00 View »
Atmospheric Science Letters Wiley 56.90 View »
Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 56.90 View »
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters Elsevier 56.90 View »
Beni-Suef University International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Beni-Suef University 56.90 $250.00 View »
Buana Information Technology and Computer Sciences Universitas Buana Perjuangan Karawang 56.90 FREE View »
Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology Springer Nature 56.90 View »
Chemical Engineering Science Elsevier BV 56.90 View »
Chemical Science The Royal Society of Chemistry 56.90 View »
Clinical Science Portland Press 56.90 View »
Communications Faculty of Science University of Ankara Series C Biology Geological Engineering and Geophysical Engineering Ankara University 56.90 View »
Composites Science and Technology Elsevier 56.90 View »
Computational Materials Science Elsevier 56.90 View »
Computational Science and Techniques Klaipėda University 56.90 $150.00 View »
Corrosion Science Elsevier 56.90 View »
Crop Science Wiley 56.90 View »
Earth Science, Systems and Society Geological Society of London 56.90 $2,800.00 View »
Earth and Planetary Science Letters Elsevier 56.90 View »
Earth-Science Reviews Elsevier 56.90 View »
Elkawnie: Journal of Islamic Science and Technology Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh 56.90 $1,000,000.00 View »
Energy & Environmental Science The Royal Society of Chemistry 56.90 View »
Environmental Earth Sciences Springer Nature 56.90 View »
Environmental Science & Policy Elsevier 56.90 View »
Environmental Science & Technology American Chemical Society 56.90 View »
Environmental Science and Pollution Research Springer Science+Business Media 56.90 View »

What counts as a high impact journal?

A high impact journal is generally one with a Journal Citation Reports (JCR) impact factor of 10 or above — placing it in the Q1 quartile of its subject category. The cutoff varies by field: in clinical medicine the bar is far higher than in pure mathematics. Use the per-field tables above to benchmark within your discipline.

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