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Peer Reviewed Journals List (2026)

Browse 822+ scientific peer reviewed journals with verified impact factors. 203 are open access and 18 are completely free to publish in. The average impact factor across all listed journals is 21.67.

What Makes a Journal Peer Reviewed?

A peer reviewed journal (also called a refereed journal) subjects every submitted manuscript to evaluation by independent experts before publication. This rigorous process validates methodology, findings, and conclusions. All journals listed on JournalsHub with impact factors are peer reviewed and indexed in major databases like Scopus, Web of Science, and DOAJ.

Top 10 Peer Reviewed Journals by Impact Factor

#1
The Lancet
Elsevier · ISSN: 0140-6736
IF: 202.70
#2
New England Journal of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine · ISSN: 0028-4793
IF: 176.00
#3
BMJ
Academic Publisher · ISSN: 1756-1833
IF: 105.70
#4
BMJ
Academic Publisher · ISSN: 0007-1447
IF: 105.70
#5
BMJ
Academic Publisher · ISSN: 0267-0623
IF: 105.70
#6
BMJ
BMJ · ISSN: 0959-8138
IF: 105.70
#7
Nature Medicine
Springer Nature · ISSN: 1078-8956
IF: 82.90
#8
Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2
The Royal Society of Chemistry · ISSN: 1364-5471
IF: 82.00
#9
Nature
Springer Nature · ISSN: 0028-0836
IF: 69.50
#10
Cell
Elsevier · ISSN: 0092-8674
IF: 66.80

All Peer Reviewed Journals

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

Elsevier

0951-8320 IF 8.42
Medical Image Analysis

Elsevier

1361-8415 IF 8.16
Reports on Progress in Physics

IOP Publishing

0034-4885 IF 8.10
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2329-9290 IF 8.06
ACS Sensors

American Chemical Society

2379-3694 IF 8.03
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

American Meteorological Society

0003-0007 IF 8.00
Physical Review X

American Physical Society

2160-3308 IF 7.91
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter

Association for Computing Machinery

1931-0145 IF 7.62
Genome biology

Springer Nature

1474-7596 IF 7.56
Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Elsevier

0195-9255 IF 7.43
Global Change Biology

Wiley

1354-1013 IF 7.34
Proceedings of the IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

0018-9219 IF 7.32
Food Chemistry

Elsevier

0308-8146 IF 7.25
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

0733-8716 IF 7.14
Journal of the Chemical Society B Physical Organic

The Royal Society of Chemistry

0045-6470 IF 7.00
Journal of Environmental Management

Elsevier

0301-4797 IF 6.98
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

Wiley

1939-0041 IF 6.97
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Wiley

2049-1948 IF 6.92
Engineering Geology

Elsevier

0013-7952 IF 6.78
Seminars in Cancer Biology

Elsevier

1044-579X IF 6.70
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

IOP Publishing

1475-7508 IF 6.65
JAMA

American Medical Association

0098-7484 IF 6.65
Green Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry

1463-9262 IF 6.50
Global Environmental Change

Elsevier

0959-3780 IF 6.46
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Elsevier

0045-7825 IF 6.46

Frequently Asked Questions about Peer Reviewed Journals

A peer reviewed journal is an academic publication where submitted manuscripts are evaluated by independent experts (peers) in the same field before publication. This process ensures quality, validity, and significance. Peer review is the gold standard of academic publishing.

Check if the journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, or DOAJ. Journals with impact factors have undergone peer review. You can also check the journal's website for their review process. On JournalsHub, all journals with impact factors are peer reviewed.

They are the same thing. Both terms refer to journals where papers are evaluated by field experts before acceptance. The terms are used interchangeably in academic publishing.

Not necessarily. While most reputable open access journals are peer reviewed, some predatory journals claim to be open access without genuine peer review. Always verify by checking indexing in Scopus, Web of Science, or DOAJ before submitting.
At a Glance
822
Journals
203
Open Access
21.67
Avg IF
18
Free (No APC)
Top Publishers
  • Elsevier 148
  • Springer Nature 129
  • Wiley 64
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 51
  • 42
  • Association for Computing Machinery 37
  • American Chemical Society 28
  • The Royal Society of Chemistry 25
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