New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Nature299
2 New England Journal of Medicine240
3 Science234
4 Advanced Materials207
5 Lancet202
6 Journal of the American Chemical Society179
7 Nature Medicine174
8 Chemical Reviews171
9 Cell167
10 Science of the Total Environment164
11 Chemical Society Reviews155
12 JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association144
- Applied Catalysis B-Environmental144
14 Journal of Hazardous Materials142
15 Journal of Cleaner Production141
16 Journal of Clinical Oncology137
17 Chemosphere136
18 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence134
19 Nucleic Acids Research128
- Coordination Chemistry Reviews128
21 Technological Forecasting and Social Change127
22 Energy125
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy125
24 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America123
- Renewable Energy123
26 Expert Systems With Applications122
- Environmental Science & Technology122
- Journal of Environmental Management122
29 Journal of Materials Science & Technology118
30 Nature Genetics115
31 Journal of Colloid and Interface Science114
- Nature Biotechnology114
33 Circulation113
34 Energy Economics112
- Applied Energy112
36 Food Chemistry111
37 Water Research110
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing110
39 Environmental Research108
- Bioresource Technology108
41 Journal of Business Research106
- Journal of Hepatology106
43 Carbohydrate Polymers105
44 Physical Review Letters104
45 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules103
- Fuel103
- Construction and Building Materials103
48 Food Hydrocolloids102
49 ACM Computing Surveys100
- Progress in Materials Science100
51 Environmental Pollution99
- MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report99
- Carbon99
54 Resources Policy98
- Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy98
- Energy Conversion and Management98
57 Trends in Food Science & Technology97
58 European Heart Journal96
59 Immunity95
- Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing95
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology95
62 Computers in Biology and Medicine94
63 Nature Neuroscience93
- Accounts of Chemical Research93
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence93
66 Gastroenterology92
- Diabetes Care92
68 Blood90
- Annals of Oncology90
- Journal of Controlled Release90
71 Neuron89
- Astrophysical Journal89
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics89
74 Environmental Science and Pollution Research88
- Automation in Construction88
- Molecular Cell88
- Neurocomputing88
- Reliability Engineering & System Safety88
79 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture87
- Resources Conservation and Recycling87
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology87
82 Biomaterials86
- Pattern Recognition86
- Environment International86
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing86
- Knowledge-Based Systems86
- Biosensors & Bioelectronics86
88 Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews84
- Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services84
- Business Strategy and the Environment84
91 Advances in Colloid and Interface Science83
- Astronomy & Astrophysics83
- Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical83
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering83
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications83
96 Analytical Chemistry82
- Applied Surface Science82
- Journal of Power Sources82
99 Remote Sensing of Environment81
- Information Sciences81
101 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems80
- Radiology80
- Journal of Molecular Liquids80
- Alexandria Engineering Journal80
- Seminars in Cancer Biology80
106 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics79
- Materials & Design79
- International Review of Financial Analysis79
109 Artificial Intelligence Review78
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society78
- Technology in Society78
- Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases78
- Ceramics International78
- Hepatology78
- Cement & Concrete Composites78
116 Building and Environment77
- Gut77
- Computers in Human Behavior77
- Energy Policy77
- Food Research International77
121 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology76
- Desalination76
123 Journal of Membrane Science75
- Journal of Hydrology75
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control75
- Brain75
- Pharmacological Research75
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection75
129 Engineering Structures74
- Neural Computing & Applications74
- TRAC-Trends in Analytical Chemistry74
- International Journal of Mechanical Sciences74
- IEEE Transactions on Communications74
- Ocean Engineering74
- Journal of Manufacturing Systems74
136 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety73
- Soil Biology & Biochemistry73
- Journal of Financial Economics73
- Chinese Chemical Letters73
- Measurement73
141 European Journal of Operational Research72
- Cement and Concrete Research72
- New Phytologist72
144 Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences71
- Energy and Buildings71
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging71
- Management Science71
148 Computers & Industrial Engineering70
- Composite Structures70
- Journal of Affective Disorders70
- Clinical Cancer Research70
- Journal of Molecular Structure70
153 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer69
- Solar Energy69
- Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering69
- Environmental Impact Assessment Review69
157 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine68
- Industrial Crops and Products68
- Circulation Research68
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing68
- Corrosion Science68
- Chemistry of Materials68
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement68
- Clinical Infectious Diseases68
165 Journal of Medicinal Chemistry67
- Chaos Solitons & Fractals67
- Neuroimage67
- LWT-Food Science and Technology67
169 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry66
- Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews66
- International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer66
- International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems66
- Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology66
- Cancer Research66
- International Journal of Production Economics66
- Biotechnology Advances66
177 Nonlinear Dynamics65
- European Urology65
- Journal of High Energy Physics65
- Neurology65
- International Journal of Plasticity65
- Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing65
183 Proceedings of the IEEE64
- Composites Science and Technology64
- Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing64
- Technovation64
- Food Control64
- Stroke64
- Current Biology64
190 American Economic Review63
- Inorganic Chemistry63
- Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience63
- Automatica63
- Energy & Fuels63
- Optics and Laser Technology63
- Plant Cell63
- IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics63
- Phytomedicine63
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation63
- ISA Transactions63
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