Springer Nature journals lead global citation rankings in 2025 - July 7, 2026
For the second consecutive year, Springer Nature’s journals ranked as the three most cited globally, according to Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports. Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and Nature each surpassed one million citations in 2025. Nature Communications recorded more than 1.1 million citations, marking a… Read More
APS journals record strong performance in 2026 Citation Reports - July 7, 2026
The American Physical Society’s (APS) journals achieved record‑high performance across multiple metrics in Clarivate’s 2026 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), released on June 17. The annual report, which evaluates more than 22,600 indexed journals across 254 research fields, highlighted APS’s influence in both core physics… Read More
JMIR Publications journals ranked in 2025 Citation Reports - June 23, 2026
Clarivate has released the Journal Citation Reports 2026, which include the 2025 Journal Impact Factor (JIF) results for 24 journals published by JMIR Publications. Of these, 12 journals ranked in the first quartile of their subject categories, 3 received a JIF for the first… Read More
APL Energy and APL Machine Learning achieve first journal impact factors - June 19, 2026
AIP Publishing has marked a significant milestone with two of its newest open access journals, APL Energy and APL Machine Learning, each receiving their inaugural Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF™) in the 2025 edition of Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports™. APL Energy debuted… Read More
Clarivate publishes 2026 Journal Citation Reports highlighting global research trends - June 18, 2026
Clarivate Plc has released the 2026 edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), continuing its role as a publisher‑neutral framework for evaluating journal influence across the global research ecosystem. Now in its sixth decade, JCR provides metrics for 22,643 journals across 254 categories, reflecting… Read More
363 MDPI journals receive 2025 CiteScores from Scopus - June 10, 2026
Scopus has released the 2025 CiteScore metrics, with 363 journals from MDPI receiving scores. The results highlight broad recognition across disciplines, steady improvement for most ranked titles, and a growing presence in top subject category rankings. CiteScore, published annually by Elsevier’s Scopus database, measures… Read More
Clarivate launches the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list - November 13, 2025
Clarivate has issued its annual Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, an assessment designed to identify individuals whose research has demonstrated substantial and far-reaching influence. Analysts from the Institute for Scientific Information evaluated data from the Web of Science Core Collection, applying a combination of… Read More
IEEE journals maintain leading position in latest global citation rankings - July 23, 2025
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization focused on advancing technology, has reported continued strong performance across its portfolio of scholarly publications in the most recent citation rankings. Results from the June 2025 release of Clarivate Analytics’ Journal Citation Reports and Elsevier’s Scopus CiteScore metrics indicate that… Read More
EDP Sciences journals report strong metric gains across multiple disciplines in 2024 - July 18, 2025
EDP Sciences has reported improved performance across its journal portfolio in the 2024 Journal Citation Reports™ and CiteScores, with notable increases in several key subject areas, including optics, engineering, health sciences, astronomy, mathematics, applied science, and environmental research. Among the most significant increases was the Journal of… Read More
MIT Press journals lead multiple fields in 2024 impact factor rankings - July 9, 2025
MIT Press journals have secured top rankings in the 2024 Journal Citation Reports, leading three separate categories. The Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics topped both the Linguistics and Language & Linguistics categories, while International Security ranked first in International Relations. Among newer titles, the Harvard… Read More
