This web page aims to provide the latest list of top research journals in 2022. These top journals are Web of Science and Scopus indexed. The top 100 journals are ranked from one to 100 based on their SJR score.
Researchers can click on the journal title to get more details.
| Rank | Journal Title | Publisher | SJR | Quartile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | Wiley-Blackwell | 56.204 | Q1 |
| 2 | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | Nature Publishing Group | 33.213 | Q1 |
| 3 | Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford University Press | 31.348 | Q1 |
| 4 | Cell | Cell Press | 25.716 | Q1 |
| 5 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 25.045 | Q1 |
| 6 | New England Journal of Medicine | Massachussetts Medical Society | 24.907 | Q1 |
| 7 | Nature Medicine | Nature Publishing Group | 24.161 | Q1 |
| 8 | Nature Reviews Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 23.876 | Q1 |
| 9 | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 23.032 | - |
| 10 | Nature Reviews Genetics | Nature Publishing Group | 23.027 | Q1 |
| 11 | National Vital Statistics Reports | Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services | 21.728 | Q1 |
| 12 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 21.151 | Q1 |
| 13 | American Economic Review | American Economic Association | 20.361 | Q1 |
| 14 | Nature Biotechnology | Nature Publishing Group | 20.12 | Q1 |
| 15 | Chemical Reviews | American Chemical Society | 18.718 | Q1 |
| 16 | Journal of Political Economy | University of Chicago | 18.476 | Q1 |
| 17 | Nature | Nature Publishing Group | 17.897 | Q1 |
| 18 | Annual Review of Immunology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 17.814 | Q1 |
| 19 | Administrative Science Quarterly | Johnson School at Cornell University | 17.357 | Q1 |
| 20 | Nature Reviews Immunology | Nature Publishing Group | 17.109 | Q1 |
| 21 | Nature Reviews Cancer | Nature Publishing Group | 16.955 | Q1 |
| 22 | Nature Energy | Springer Nature | 16.736 | Q1 |
| 23 | Nature Genetics | Nature Publishing Group | 16.517 | Q1 |
| 24 | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Department of Health and Human Services | 16.513 | Q1 |
| 25 | Journal of Finance | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 16.463 | Q1 |
| 26 | Lancet, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 15.652 | Q1 |
| 27 | Review of Economic Studies | Oxford University Press | 15.527 | Q1 |
| 28 | Academy of Management Annals | Academy of Management | 14.781 | Q1 |
| 29 | Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 14.589 | Q1 |
| 30 | Chemical Society Reviews | Royal Society of Chemistry | 14.529 | Q1 |
| 31 | Immunity | Cell Press | 14.075 | Q1 |
| 32 | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | IEEE Computer Society | 13.737 | - |
| 33 | IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 13.519 | Q1 |
| 34 | Lancet Microbe, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 13.313 | Q1 |
| 35 | Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning | Now Publishers Inc | 13.206 | Q1 |
| 36 | Econometrica | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13.199 | Q1 |
| 37 | Annual Review of Biochemistry | Annual Reviews Inc. | 13.085 | Q1 |
| 38 | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society | 13.021 | Q1 |
| 39 | World Psychiatry | Wiley-Blackwell | 12.991 | Q1 |
| 40 | Nature Catalysis | Nature Publishing Group | 12.887 | Q1 |
| 41 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 12.75 | Q1 |
| 42 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 12.365 | Q1 |
| 43 | Nature Materials | Nature Publishing Group | 12.229 | Q1 |
| 44 | Nature Methods | Nature Publishing Group | 12.115 | Q1 |
| 45 | Nature Neuroscience | Nature Publishing Group | 12.017 | Q1 |
| 46 | Science immunology | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 11.962 | Q1 |
| 47 | Nature Reviews Chemistry | Nature Publishing Group | 11.811 | Q1 |
| 48 | Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology | Nature Publishing Group | 11.764 | Q1 |
| 49 | Lancet Oncology, The | Lancet Publishing Group | 11.71 | Q1 |
| 50 | Nature Nanotechnology | Nature Publishing Group | 11.698 | Q1 |
| 51 | Lancet Neurology, The | Lancet Publishing Group | 11.674 | Q1 |
| 52 | Review of Financial Studies | Oxford University Press | 11.67 | Q1 |
| 53 | Energy and Environmental Science | Royal Society of Chemistry | 11.558 | Q1 |
| 54 | Lancet Public Health, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 11.372 | Q1 |
| 55 | Nature Reviews Drug Discovery | Nature Publishing Group | 11.296 | Q1 |
| 56 | Lancet Respiratory Medicine,The | Elsevier Ltd. | 11.12 | Q1 |
| 57 | Nature Photonics | Nature Publishing Group | 10.991 | Q1 |
| 58 | Academy of Management Journal | Academy of Management | 10.874 | Q1 |
| 59 | Joule | Cell Press | 10.451 | Q1 |
| 60 | Journal of Financial Economics | Elsevier | 10.418 | Q1 |
| 61 | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | Lancet Publishing Group | 10.236 | Q1 |
| 62 | MMWR Surveillance Summaries | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 10.129 | Q1 |
| 63 | Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease | Annual Reviews Inc. | 10.113 | Q1 |
| 64 | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | American Economic Association | 10.079 | Q1 |
| 65 | Cancer Cell | Cell Press | 9.975 | Q1 |
| 66 | Molecular Cell | Cell Press | 9.959 | Q1 |
| 67 | Nature Cell Biology | Nature Publishing Group | 9.897 | Q1 |
| 68 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | American Economic Association | 9.804 | Q1 |
| 69 | Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology,The | Elsevier BV | 9.767 | Q1 |
| 70 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | Elsevier USA | 9.756 | Q1 |
| 71 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Publishing Group | 9.69 | Q1 |
| 72 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Verlag | 9.607 | Q1 |
| 73 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 9.575 | Q1 |
| 74 | Annual Review of Genetics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 9.498 | Q1 |
| 75 | Journal of Economic Literature | American Economic Association | 9.445 | Q1 |
| 76 | Strategic Management Journal | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 9.443 | Q1 |
| 77 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 9.438 | Q1 |
| 78 | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology | Nature Publishing Group | 9.409 | Q1 |
| 79 | Journal of Clinical Oncology | American Society of Clinical Oncology | 9.378 | Q1 |
| 80 | Cell Host and Microbe | Cell Press | 9.373 | Q1 |
| 81 | Genome Biology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 9.371 | Q1 |
| 82 | Cell Metabolism | Cell Press | 9.297 | Q1 |
| 83 | Nature Immunology | Nature Publishing Group | 9.135 | Q1 |
| 84 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | Nature Publishing Group | 9.103 | Q1 |
| 85 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer Nature Switzerland AG | 8.971 | Q1 |
| 86 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 8.964 | Q1 |
| 87 | Progress in Materials Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 8.941 | Q1 |
| 88 | Lancet Psychiatry,The | Elsevier Ltd. | 8.932 | Q1 |
| 89 | Lancet Global Health,The | Elsevier BV | 8.845 | Q1 |
| 90 | Advances in Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 8.837 | Q1 |
| 91 | Annual Review of Psychology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 8.804 | Q1 |
| 92 | Advanced Materials | Wiley-Blackwell | 8.663 | Q1 |
| 93 | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | Annual Reviews Inc. | 8.656 | Q1 |
| 94 | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | American Economic Association | 8.636 | Q1 |
| 95 | Annals of Oncology | Elsevier Ltd. | 8.59 | Q1 |
| 96 | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | Nature Publishing Group | 8.561 | Q1 |
| 97 | Reviews of Geophysics | Wiley-Blackwell | 8.527 | Q1 |
| 98 | Nature Structural and Molecular Biology | Nature Publishing Group | 8.497 | Q1 |
| 99 | Annual Review of Public Health | Annual Reviews Inc. | 8.451 | Q1 |
| 100 | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | Nature Publishing Group | 8.409 | Q1 |