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High Impact Journals (2026)

Looking for a high impact journal for your manuscript? Below are 375 Q1 journals with current citation rates of 10 or above — ranked across medicine, biology, chemistry, engineering, computer science, and physics. Click any title to see the full citation rate history, APC, acceptance rate, and indexing status.

Top 20 High Impact Journals Worldwide

All Q1 quartile
# Journal Publisher Citation Rate Details
1 BMJ BMJ 93.30 View »
2 New England Journal of Medicine Massachusetts Medical Society 91.20 View »
3 Nature Medicine Springer Nature 82.90 View »
4 Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2 The Royal Society of Chemistry 82.00 View »
5 The Lancet Elsevier BV 79.30 View »
6 Nature Nature Portfolio 69.50 View »
7 Cell Elsevier 66.80 View »
8 Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 1 Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases The Royal Society of Chemistry 66.00 View »
9 Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society The Royal Society of Chemistry 65.00 View »
10 Human Nature Springer Nature 64.80 View »
11 Nature Astronomy Springer Nature 64.80 View »
12 Nature Biomedical Engineering Springer Nature 64.80 View »
13 Nature Biotechnology Springer Nature 64.80 View »
14 Nature Catalysis Springer Nature 64.80 View »
15 Nature Chemical Biology Springer Nature 64.80 View »
16 Nature Chemistry Springer Nature 64.80 View »
17 Nature Ecology & Evolution Springer Nature 64.80 View »
18 Nature Electronics Springer Nature 64.80 View »
19 Nature Energy Springer Nature 64.80 View »
20 Nature Genetics Springer Nature 64.80 View »

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Full High Impact Journal List

All journals with a 2-year citation rate (OpenAlex) of 10 or higher in our 2026 database, sorted by citation rate.

Journal Publisher Citation Rate APC Details
Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 2 Molecular and Chemical Physics The Royal Society of Chemistry 31.00 — View »
Journal of the Chemical Society Transactions The Royal Society of Chemistry 30.00 — View »
Faraday Symposia of the Chemical Society — 28.00 — View »
Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 The Royal Society of Chemistry 28.00 — View »
Living Reviews in Relativity SpringerOpen 27.41 FREE View »
Journal of Materials Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry 26.00 — View »
Reviews of Modern Physics American Physical Society 24.42 — View »
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence IEEE 24.30 $2,995.00 View »
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 24.17 — View »
Psychological Bulletin American Psychological Association 23.00 $4,000.00 View »
Environmental Chemistry Letters Springer Nature 21.84 — View »
African Journal of Agricultural Research Academic Journals 21.69 — View »
Transactions of the Faraday Society Royal Society of Chemistry 21.00 — View »
Advanced Materials — 20.72 — View »
Immunity Cell Press 19.59 $9,080.00 View »
Nature Communications Nature Portfolio 17.70 $6,290.00 View »
The Lancet Elsevier BV 17.36 — View »
Angewandte Chemie Wiley 16.60 — View »
Journal of the American Chemical Society American Chemical Society 16.30 $5,000.00 View »
Coordination Chemistry Reviews Elsevier 16.23 — View »
Advanced Energy Materials Wiley 16.22 $5,250.00 View »
Nano Energy Elsevier BV 16.07 $4,910.00 View »
Accounts of Chemical Research American Chemical Society 16.03 — View »
Journal of the Chemical Society A Inorganic Physical Theoretical The Royal Society of Chemistry 16.00 — View »
The Journal of Negro Education Howard University 16.00 — View »
Journal of Material Science and Technology Elsevier BV 15.69 $3,000.00 View »
ACM Computing Surveys Association for Computing Machinery 15.19 — View »
The Lancet Public Health Elsevier 15.13 — View »
ACS Nano American Chemical Society 15.06 — View »
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Elsevier 14.81 — View »
The Lancet Digital Health Elsevier 14.79 — View »
The Lancet Neurology Elsevier 14.56 — View »
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture Elsevier BV 14.53 $4,840.00 View »
African Journal of Microbiology Research Academic Journals 14.45 — View »
The Quarterly Journal of Economics Oxford University Press 14.20 $3,500.00 View »
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Elsevier BV 14.16 $4,830.00 View »
Quarterly Reviews Chemical Society The Royal Society of Chemistry 14.00 — View »
Angewandte Chemie International Edition Wiley 13.98 — View »
International Journal of Plasticity Elsevier BV 13.95 $3,900.00 View »
Advanced Functional Materials Wiley 13.95 — View »
Journal of Energy Chemistry Elsevier BV 13.90 $2,750.00 View »
Technological Forecasting and Social Change Elsevier BV 13.61 $2,750.00 View »
Physics Reports Elsevier 13.24 — View »
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental Elsevier 13.21 — View »
British Journal of Educational Technology Wiley 13.03 $3,860.00 View »
CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION) Elsevier BV 12.99 — View »
American Economic Review American Economic Association 12.91 — View »
International Journal of Oncology Spandidos Publishing 12.89 — View »
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) — 12.69 — View »
ACS Energy Letters American Chemical Society 12.45 — View »

What counts as a high impact journal?

A high impact journal is generally one with a 2-year citation rate of 10 or above — typically 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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