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Journals in Science (2026 Rankings)

Browse 283+ scientific journals ranked by impact factor. 181 are open access with an average impact factor of 47.94. Covering biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, medicine, and multidisciplinary science.

About Science Journals

Science journals publish original research, reviews, and commentary across the natural sciences. The most prestigious — like Nature, Science, and Cell — are multidisciplinary, while thousands of specialized journals focus on specific fields like molecular biology, astrophysics, or organic chemistry. All journals listed here are peer reviewed and indexed in major databases.

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Top 10 Science Journals by Impact Factor

#1
AI Open
KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. · ISSN: 2666-6510
OA
#2
Administração Pública e Gestão Social
Universidade Federal de Viçosa · ISSN: 2175-5787
OA
#3
Advances in Environmental Technology
Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) · ISSN: 2476-6674
OA
#4
African Journal of Social Work
National Association of Social Workers · ISSN: 2409-5605
OA
#5
Anales (Asociación Física Argentina)
CEILAP-UNIDEF-CONICET-CITEDEF · ISSN: 0327-358X
OA
#6
Antropologías del Sur
Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano · ISSN: 0719-4498
OA
#7
Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems
American Meteorological Society · ISSN: 2769-7525
OA
#8
Ascarya
Perkumpulan Alumni dan Santri Mahyajatul Qurro' · ISSN: 2798-5083
OA
#9
Asia Pacific
University of Sindh · ISSN: 1810-035X
OA
#10
BMJ Open Science
BMJ · ISSN: 2398-8703
OA

All Science Journals

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

IEEE

0162-8828 IF 24.30
Psychological Bulletin

American Psychological Association

0033-2909 IF 23.00
Nature Communications

Springer Nature

2041-1723 IF 17.70
Journal of the American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society

0002-7863 IF 16.30
The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Oxford University Press

0033-5533 IF 14.20
PNAS Nexus

Oxford University Press

2752-6542 IF 11.10
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

0196-2892 IF 10.00
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

0018-9499 IF 10.00
Physical Review Letters

American Physical Society

0031-9007 IF 9.10
eLife

eLife Sciences Publications

2050-084X IF 8.70
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

American Meteorological Society

0003-0007 IF 8.00
Journal of Climate

American Meteorological Society

0894-8755 IF 4.90
PLoS ONE

Public Library of Science

1932-6203 IF 3.70
Springer texts in social sciences

-

2730-6135 IF 3.37
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

1545-598X IF 3.27
Journal of Hydrometeorology

American Meteorological Society

1525-755X IF 3.10
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

American Meteorological Society

0022-4928 IF 3.04
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Wiley

0035-9009 IF 3.00
ACS Chemical Neuroscience

American Chemical Society

1948-7193 IF 2.97
Journal of Physical Oceanography

American Meteorological Society

0022-3670 IF 2.80
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

American Meteorological Society

1558-8424 IF 2.60
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

American Meteorological Society

0739-0572 IF 2.40
Weather, Climate, and Society

American Meteorological Society

1948-8327 IF 2.30
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Wiley

2169-8953 IF 2.26
Earth Interactions

American Meteorological Society

1087-3562 IF 1.90

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