This web page aims to provide the latest list of top research journals. These journals are Web of Science and Scopus indexed. The journals are ranked from one to 220 based on Scopus SJR (SCImago Journal Rank).
Researchers can click on the journal title to get more details.
| Rank | Journal Title | Publisher | SJR | Quartile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 104.065 | Q1 |
| 2 | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | Nature Research | 35.568 | Q1 |
| 3 | Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford University Press | 33.069 | Q1 |
| 4 | Nature Reviews Drug Discovery | Nature Research | 32.577 | Q1 |
| 5 | Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology | Nature Publishing Group | 28.076 | Q1 |
| 6 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 27.974 | Q1 |
| 7 | Cancer Cell | Cell Press | 26.632 | Q1 |
| 8 | Cell | Elsevier B.V. | 24.592 | Q1 |
| 9 | Review of Economic Studies | Oxford University Press | 23.622 | Q1 |
| 10 | American Economic Review | American Economic Association | 23.489 | Q1 |
| 11 | Nature Biotechnology | Nature Research | 23.109 | Q1 |
| 12 | Nature Reviews Cancer | Nature Research | 22.814 | Q1 |
| 13 | Journal of Finance | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 22.27 | Q1 |
| 14 | Annals of Oncology | Elsevier Ltd | 21.715 | Q1 |
| 15 | Nature Reviews Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 20.801 | Q1 |
| 16 | World Psychiatry | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 20.787 | Q1 |
| 17 | Nature Energy | Springer Nature | 20.769 | Q1 |
| 18 | Nature Reviews Genetics | Nature Research | 20.403 | Q1 |
| 19 | Econometrica | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 19.935 | Q1 |
| 20 | Nature | Nature Research | 19.713 | Q1 |
| 21 | Journal of Financial Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 18.748 | Q1 |
| 22 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | Nature Research | 18.406 | Q1 |
| 23 | New England Journal of Medicine | Massachussetts Medical Society | 18.397 | Q1 |
| 24 | Annual Review of Economics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 17.768 | Q1 |
| 25 | Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy | Springer Nature | 17.74 | Q1 |
| 26 | Nature Reviews Immunology | Nature Research | 17.646 | Q1 |
| 27 | Nature Medicine | Nature Research | 17.496 | Q1 |
| 28 | Review of Financial Studies | Oxford University Press | 17.406 | Q1 |
| 29 | Nature Reviews Earth and Environment | Springer International Publishing | 17.081 | Q1 |
| 30 | Chemical Reviews | American Chemical Society | 16.918 | Q1 |
| 31 | Journal of Economic Literature | American Economic Association | 16.872 | Q1 |
| 32 | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | Annual Reviews Inc. | 16.778 | Q1 |
| 33 | Immunity | Cell Press | 16.481 | Q1 |
| 34 | Nature Catalysis | Nature Publishing Group | 16.266 | Q1 |
| 35 | Journal of Political Economy | University of Chicago Press | 16.25 | Q1 |
| 36 | Annual Review of Immunology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 16.066 | Q1 |
| 37 | Cell Metabolism | Cell Press | 15.978 | Q1 |
| 38 | Nature Methods | Nature Research | 15.624 | Q1 |
| 39 | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | Nature Publishing Group | 15.606 | Q1 |
| 40 | Reviews of Geophysics | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 15.383 | Q1 |
| 41 | Nature Genetics | Nature Research | 15.377 | Q1 |
| 42 | IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 14.838 | Q1 |
| 43 | The Lancet | Elsevier B.V. | 14.821 | Q1 |
| 44 | MMWR Surveillance Summaries | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 14.728 | Q1 |
| 45 | Nature Reviews Methods Primers | Springer Nature | 14.459 | Q1 |
| 46 | Academy of Management Annals | Academy of Management | 14.367 | Q1 |
| 47 | Organizational Research Methods | SAGE Publications Inc. | 14.268 | Q1 |
| 48 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 14.227 | Q1 |
| 49 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 14.119 | Q1 |
| 50 | Nature Reviews Chemistry | Nature Publishing Group | 13.684 | Q1 |
| 51 | Nature Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 13.131 | Q1 |
| 52 | The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology | Elsevier Ltd | 13.113 | Q1 |
| 53 | Journal of Hepatology | Elsevier B.V. | 13.097 | Q1 |
| 54 | Nature Nanotechnology | Nature Research | 13.056 | Q1 |
| 55 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 13.041 | Q1 |
| 56 | Annual Review of Psychology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 12.936 | Q1 |
| 57 | Joule | Cell Press | 12.922 | Q1 |
| 58 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | American Economic Association | 12.637 | Q1 |
| 59 | Nature Photonics | Nature Research | 12.491 | Q1 |
| 60 | Nature Cancer | Nature Research | 12.443 | Q1 |
| 61 | The Lancet Neurology | Elsevier Ltd | 12.439 | Q1 |
| 62 | Nature Electronics | Nature Publishing Group | 12.43 | Q1 |
| 63 | Kidney International Supplements | Elsevier B.V. | 12.369 | Q1 |
| 64 | Journal of Marketing | American Marketing Association | 12.226 | Q1 |
| 65 | Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease | Annual Reviews Inc. | 12.06 | Q1 |
| 66 | Cell Stem Cell | Cell Press | 12.003 | Q1 |
| 67 | Journal of Hematology and Oncology | BioMed Central Ltd | 11.824 | Q1 |
| 68 | eScience | KeAi Communications Co. | 11.618 | Q1 |
| 69 | The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology | Elsevier Ltd | 11.61 | Q1 |
| 70 | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society | 11.493 | Q1 |
| 71 | Chemical Society Reviews | Royal Society of Chemistry | 11.348 | Q1 |
| 72 | NBER Macroeconomics Annual | University of Chicago Press | 11.327 | Q1 |
| 73 | Annual Review of Biochemistry | Annual Reviews Inc. | 11.213 | Q1 |
| 74 | Nature Reviews Cardiology | Nature Research | 11.209 | Q1 |
| 75 | Nature Immunology | Nature Research | 11.131 | Q1 |
| 76 | Journal of Consumer Research | Oxford University Press | 11.045 | Q1 |
| 77 | Nature Neuroscience | Nature Research | 11.041 | Q1 |
| 78 | Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 10.948 | Q1 |
| 79 | Academy of Management Journal | Academy of Management | 10.781 | Q1 |
| 80 | Nature Reviews Nephrology | Nature Research | 10.732 | Q1 |
| 81 | Molecular Cell | Cell Press | 10.67 | Q1 |
| 82 | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | Springer Nature | 10.282 | Q1 |
| 83 | Strategic Management Journal | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10.154 | Q1 |
| 84 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 10.044 | Q1 |
| 85 | Academy of Management Review | Academy of Management | 9.996 | Q1 |
| 86 | Endocrine Reviews | Endocrine Society | 9.991 | Q1 |
| 87 | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology | Nature Research | 9.982 | Q1 |
| 88 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 9.949 | Q1 |
| 89 | Molecular Cancer | BioMed Central Ltd | 9.908 | Q1 |
| 90 | Cell Host and Microbe | Cell Press | 9.892 | Q1 |
| 91 | Review of Finance | Oxford University Press | 9.87 | Q1 |
| 92 | Journal of Accounting Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 9.774 | Q1 |
| 93 | Nature Metabolism | Nature Research | 9.602 | Q1 |
| 94 | Administrative Science Quarterly | SAGE Publications Ltd | 9.595 | Q1 |
| 95 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer International Publishing | 9.588 | Q1 |
| 96 | Nature Aging | Springer | 9.5 | Q1 |
| 97 | The Lancet Oncology | Elsevier Ltd | 9.432 | Q1 |
| 98 | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | American Economic Association | 9.427 | Q1 |
| 99 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 9.3 | Q1 |
| 100 | Energy and Environmental Science | Royal Society of Chemistry | 9.244 | Q1 |
| 101 | National Vital Statistics Reports | National Center for Health Statistics | 9.227 | Q1 |
| 102 | Nature Reviews Bioengineering | Springer Nature | 9.178 | Q1 |
| 103 | Annals of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics at Princeton University | 9.137 | Q1 |
| 104 | iMeta | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 9.121 | Q1 |
| 105 | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | Nature Publishing Group | 9.087 | Q1 |
| 106 | Nature Cell Biology | Nature Research | 9.085 | Q1 |
| 107 | Nature Biomedical Engineering | Nature Research | 8.997 | Q1 |
| 108 | Acta Mathematica | International Press, Inc. | 8.954 | Q1 |
| 109 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 8.871 | Q1 |
| 110 | Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press | 8.83 | Q1 |
| 111 | Gut | BMJ Publishing Group | 8.772 | Q1 |
| 112 | Journal of Accounting and Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 8.748 | Q1 |
| 113 | European Urology | Elsevier B.V. | 8.715 | Q1 |
| 114 | Annual Review of Public Health | Annual Reviews Inc. | 8.648 | Q1 |
| 115 | Neuron | Cell Press | 8.564 | Q1 |
| 116 | Science Immunology | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 8.56 | Q1 |
| 117 | Psychological Bulletin | American Psychological Association | 8.496 | Q1 |
| 118 | Nano-Micro Letters | Open Access Science Online | 8.402 | Q1 |
| 119 | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 8.38 | Q1 |
| 120 | Progress in Materials Science | Elsevier Ltd | 8.365 | Q1 |
| 121 | Marketing Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 8.324 | Q1 |
| 122 | Circulation | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 8.311 | Q1 |
| 123 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | Elsevier Inc. | 8.275 | Q1 |
| 124 | Advanced Materials | Wiley-Blackwell | 8.266 | Q1 |
| 125 | Journal of Management | SAGE Publications Inc. | 8.251 | Q1 |
| 126 | The Lancet Public Health | Elsevier Ltd | 8.25 | Q1 |
| 127 | Annual Review of Financial Economics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 8.229 | Q1 |
| 128 | Journal of Economic Perspectives | American Economic Association | 8.181 | Q1 |
| 129 | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford University Press | 8.111 | Q1 |
| 130 | Electrochemical Energy Reviews | Springer | 8.084 | Q1 |
| 131 | The Lancet Psychiatry | Elsevier Ltd | 8.07 | Q1 |
| 132 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 8.026 | Q1 |
| 133 | Progress in Energy and Combustion Science | Elsevier B.V. | 8.013 | Q1 |
| 134 | Cancer Communications | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 7.986 | Q1 |
| 135 | Nature Climate Change | Nature Research | 7.978 | Q1 |
| 136 | Annual Review of Physiology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 7.966 | Q1 |
| 137 | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Springer Netherlands | 7.947 | Q1 |
| 138 | Organization Science | INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences | 7.929 | Q1 |
| 139 | Nature Sustainability | Nature Publishing Group | 7.896 | Q1 |
| 140 | Nature Chemistry | Nature Publishing Group | 7.801 | Q1 |
| 141 | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | American Economic Association | 7.737 | Q1 |
| 142 | Journal of the American Mathematical Society | American Mathematical Society | 7.702 | Q1 |
| 143 | Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 7.701 | Q1 |
| 144 | Molecular Plant | Cell Press | 7.692 | Q1 |
| 145 | Advanced Energy Materials | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 7.677 | Q1 |
| 146 | The Lancet Respiratory Medicine | Elsevier Ltd | 7.652 | Q1 |
| 147 | Annual Review of Neuroscience | Annual Reviews Inc. | 7.549 | Q1 |
| 148 | Journal of Thoracic Oncology | Elsevier Inc. | 7.497 | Q1 |
| 149 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Research | 7.44 | Q1 |
| 150 | eLight | Springer | 7.423 | Q1 |
| 151 | Nature Protocols | Springer Nature | 7.403 | Q1 |
| 152 | JAMA Oncology | American Medical Association | 7.399 | Q1 |
| 153 | Cancer Discovery | American Association for Cancer Research Inc. | 7.389 | Q1 |
| 154 | Journal of Marketing Research | SAGE Publications Ltd | 7.363 | Q1 |
| 155 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | Elsevier B.V. | 7.286 | Q1 |
| 156 | Journal of the European Economic Association | Wiley-Blackwell | 7.259 | Q1 |
| 157 | Earth System Science Data | Copernicus Publications | 7.199 | Q1 |
| 158 | Diabetes Care | American Diabetes Association Inc. | 7.161 | Q1 |
| 159 | Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence | Elsevier B.V. | 7.083 | Q1 |
| 160 | Nature Reviews Neurology | Nature Research | 7.083 | Q1 |
| 161 | Hepatology | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 7.063 | Q1 |
| 162 | Science Translational Medicine | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 7.026 | Q1 |
| 163 | Cellular and Molecular Immunology | Springer Nature | 7.021 | Q1 |
| 164 | Annual Review of Marine Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 6.925 | Q1 |
| 165 | Nature Machine Intelligence | Springer International Publishing | 6.902 | Q1 |
| 166 | The Lancet Haematology | Elsevier Ltd | 6.899 | Q1 |
| 167 | Cell Research | Springer Nature | 6.865 | Q1 |
| 168 | MMWR supplements | Epidemiology Program Office | 6.859 | Q1 |
| 169 | Critical Finance Review | Now Publishers Inc | 6.838 | Q1 |
| 170 | Trends in Cell Biology | Elsevier Ltd | 6.813 | Q1 |
| 171 | Journal of Labor Economics | University of Chicago Press | 6.774 | Q1 |
| 172 | Nature Reviews Rheumatology | Nature Research | 6.768 | Q1 |
| 173 | Nature Reviews Psychology | Nature Publishing Group | 6.763 | Q1 |
| 174 | Annual Review of Medicine | Annual Reviews Inc. | 6.762 | Q1 |
| 175 | Nature Structural and Molecular Biology | Nature Research | 6.761 | Q1 |
| 176 | Gastroenterology | W.B. Saunders | 6.688 | Q1 |
| 177 | Foundations and Trends in Finance | Now Publishers Inc | 6.641 | Q1 |
| 178 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 6.584 | Q1 |
| 179 | Nature Physics | Nature Research | 6.581 | Q1 |
| 180 | Journal of Econometrics | Elsevier B.V. | 6.575 | Q1 |
| 181 | American Journal of Political Science | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 6.539 | Q1 |
| 182 | Cell Genomics | Cell Press | 6.518 | Q1 |
| 183 | Chem | Elsevier Inc. | 6.508 | Q1 |
| 184 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 6.496 | Q1 |
| 185 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 6.494 | Q1 |
| 186 | Fungal Diversity | Springer Nature | Q1 | |
| 187 | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 6.482 | Q1 |
| 188 | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | IEEE Computer Society | 6.466 | - |
| 189 | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging | Elsevier Inc. | 6.43 | Q1 |
| 190 | Management Science | INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences | 6.428 | Q1 |
| 191 | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Springer New York | 6.426 | Q1 |
| 192 | Annual Review of Political Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 6.416 | Q1 |
| 193 | Educational Psychologist | Routledge | 6.305 | Q1 |
| 194 | Personality and Social Psychology Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 6.292 | Q1 |
| 195 | Journal of Monetary Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 6.262 | Q1 |
| 196 | Molecular Neurodegeneration | BioMed Central Ltd | 6.262 | Q1 |
| 197 | Progress in Polymer Science | Elsevier Ltd | 6.25 | Q1 |
| 198 | Cement and Concrete Research | Elsevier Ltd | 6.233 | Q1 |
| 199 | The Lancet Digital Health | Elsevier Ltd | 6.221 | Q1 |
| 200 | Photonics Insights | SPIE | 6.191 | Q1 |
| 201 | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | - | |
| 202 | Nature Synthesis | Nature Publishing Group | 6.18 | Q1 |
| 203 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | Annual Reviews Inc. | 6.175 | Q1 |
| 204 | The Lancet Rheumatology | Elsevier Ltd | 6.167 | Q1 |
| 205 | Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 6.161 | - |
| 206 | Nature Geoscience | Nature Publishing Group | 6.141 | Q1 |
| 207 | Leadership Quarterly | Elsevier Inc. | 6.124 | Q1 |
| 208 | Econometrics Journal | Oxford University Press | 6.123 | Q1 |
| 209 | Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 6.119 | Q1 |
| 210 | Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science | SAGE Publications Inc. | 6.094 | Q1 |
| 211 | Journal of Human Resources | University of Wisconsin Press | 6.085 | Q1 |
| 212 | Nature Chemical Biology | Nature Research | 6.032 | Q1 |
| 213 | JAMA Cardiology | American Medical Association | 6.028 | Q1 |
| 214 | Nature Food | Springer Nature | 5.996 | Q1 |
| 215 | JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network | Harborside Press | 5.992 | Q1 |
| 216 | Human Reproduction Update | Oxford University Press | 5.991 | Q1 |
| 217 | ACM Computing Surveys | Association for Computing Machinery | 5.985 | Q1 |
| 218 | New Astronomy Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 5.925 | Q1 |
| 219 | Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | Now Publishers Inc | 5.923 | Q1 |
| 220 | Blood | Elsevier B.V. | 5.912 | Q1 |