Top list journals of 2025

As of January 2025 and until the end of the year, these scientific journals will form the basis for KI’s so-called top publications list. The list of qualified journals is based on information from the Medline (PubMed) database and is produced by our University Library in late autumn each year to determine the auto-feed of high-impact publications on ki.se for the coming year.

Inclusion criteria 2025

  • The chart below contains journals with JIF (Journal Impact Factor) or JCf (Journal Citation Factor, i.e. field-normalised citation score) corresponding to the top 5% of the journals in the Medline database during the years 2019–2023.
  • JIF limit: 12.4
  • JCf limit: 2.6
  • Journals from other research disciplines have been excluded from the chart, but may still qualify for the top list auto-feed on ki.se.

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As from January 2025 until the end of the year, these scientific journals form the basis for KI's top publications list.
Journals by first letterNo. KI articles 2019-2023
Accounts of chemical research2
ACS central science6
ACS nano27
Acta neuropathologica16
Advanced drug delivery reviews8
Advanced functional materials2
Advanced materials10
Advanced science24
Ageing research reviews22
Allergy92
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association112
American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation13
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology36
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine18
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons9
Angewandte Chemie15
Annals of internal medicine20
Annals of neurology36
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology34
Annals of surgery70
Annals of the rheumatic diseases71
Annual review of animal biosciences1
Annual review of clinical psychology1
Annual review of nutrition1
Annual review of public health1
Arthritis & rheumatology48
Autophagy20
Bioactive materials5
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society1
Biomaterials9
Blood75
Blood cancer journal8
BMJ : British medical journal46
Brain : a journal of neurology42
British journal of sports medicine31
Cancer cell5
Cancer communications4
Cancer discovery14
Cancer research38
Cardiovascular research46
Cell43
Cell death and differentiation34
Cell discovery1
Cell host & microbe10
Cell metabolism22
Cell research8
Cell stem cell15
Cellular & molecular immunology7
Chem1
Chemical engineering journal1
Chemical reviews3
Chemical Society reviews1
Circulation70
Circulation research24
Clinical and molecular hepatology1
Clinical microbiology reviews2
Clinical psychology review4
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal6
Computers in human behavior1
Diabetes care49
Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy2
Drugs3
Endocrine pathology16
Endocrine reviews7
Euro surveillance : European communicable disease bulletin29
European heart journal94
European journal of epidemiology65
European journal of heart failure89
European urology28
Gastroenterology46
Genome biology15
Genome medicine26
Gut37
Hepatology : official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases25
Human reproduction open8
Human reproduction update5
IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering1
Immunity25
Intensive care medicine17
International journal of mental health and addiction1
International journal of oral science1
International journal of surgery9
International journal of transgender health4
JACC. CardioOncology3
JACC. Cardiovascular imaging7
JAMA22
JAMA cardiology13
JAMA dermatology11
JAMA internal medicine9
JAMA neurology35
JAMA oncology21
JAMA ophthalmology5
JAMA pediatrics21
JAMA psychiatry56
JAMA surgery13
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology51
Journal of extracellular vesicles23
Journal of hematology & oncology4
Journal of hepatology36
Journal of orthopaedic translation2
Journal of pineal research2
Journal of religion and health1
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry21
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology5
Journal of the American Chemical Society17
Journal of the American College of Cardiology44
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN21
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN4
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer7
Kidney international28
Lancet73
Leukemia45
Light, science & applications3
Microbiome12
Military Medical Research1
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc11
Molecular biology and evolution9
Molecular cancer4
Molecular cell24
Molecular neurodegeneration8
Molecular psychiatry125
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy16
Nature89
Nature aging8
Nature biomedical engineering4
Nature biotechnology20
Nature cancer8
Nature cell biology20
Nature chemical biology7
Nature chemistry1
Nature communications450
Nature ecology & evolution2
Nature genetics90
Nature human behaviour18
Nature immunology9
Nature materials2
Nature medicine39
Nature metabolism22
Nature methods12
Nature microbiology9
Nature nanotechnology4
Nature neuroscience21
Nature plants2
Nature protocols9
Nature reviews. Cancer4
Nature reviews. Cardiology7
Nature reviews. Chemistry1
Nature reviews. Clinical oncology6
Nature reviews. Disease primers11
Nature reviews. Drug discovery4
Nature reviews. Endocrinology10
Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology7
Nature reviews. Immunology2
Nature reviews. Materials1
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology2
Nature reviews. Nephrology7
Nature reviews. Neurology10
Nature reviews. Neuroscience3
Nature reviews. Rheumatology7
Nature reviews. Urology4
Nature structural & molecular biology3
Neuron18
Neuro-oncology10
NPJ digital medicine9
Nucleic acids research49
Ophthalmology4
Periodontology 20005
Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2
Pharmacological reviews3
Physiological reviews4
Progress in retinal and eye research2
Psychological bulletin4
Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society1
Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts1
Psychotherapy and psychosomatics7
Radiology12
Rhinology18
Science39
Science immunology33
Science translational medicine36
Seminars in cancer biology11
Signal transduction and targeted therapy4
Small16
The American journal of psychiatry25
The British journal of dermatology21
The British journal of surgery77
The European respiratory journal51
The ISME journal2
The Journal of clinical investigation37
The Journal of experimental medicine40
The Journal of infection9
The Lancet regional health. Europe32
The Lancet. Child & adolescent health15
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology20
The Lancet. Digital health17
The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology20
The Lancet. Global health25
The Lancet. Haematology19
The lancet. HIV11
The Lancet. Infectious diseases24
The Lancet. Microbe3
The Lancet. Neurology32
The Lancet. Oncology35
The Lancet. Planetary health7
The lancet. Psychiatry28
The Lancet. Public health19
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine16
The Lancet. Rheumatology9
The New England journal of medicine57
Theranostics11
Trends in biotechnology1
Trends in cancer4
Trends in cell biology3
Trends in cognitive sciences3
Trends in genetics : TIG3
Trends in immunology6
Trends in microbiology3
Trends in molecular medicine10
Trends in neurosciences4
Trends in pharmacological sciences5
World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)10

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