Journal Citation Rankings 2026
Journals are ranked by PNCI, the POSI Normalized Citation Indicator, within their PSC subject category. Citation Quartiles and POSI Zones are based on PNCI-derived percentiles within eligible PSC categories. Categories are never pooled. 50,983 journals ranked in 30 categories; snapshot September 2026. Methodology.
- Ranking metric
- PNCI
- Citations per item relative to items of the same PSC field, publication year and document type (PNCI-1.0). 1.00 is the field average.
- Citation Quartile
- C-Q1 to C-Q4
- From the mid-rank percentile: C-Q1 at 75 and above. Ties share rank and percentile.
- POSI Zone
- Zone 1 to 4
- Top 5%, top 5–20%, top 20–50%, lower 50%, from the same percentile. Official zones need 50+ journals in the category.
- Minimum data
- 20+ items
- Official: 20+ eligible items over 2+ publication years and 90% citation coverage; 10–19 items are provisional. Categories under 20 journals are not ranked.
Subject categories
CITATION-RANK-1.0, PSC v1.0
Natural Sciences
Engineering and Technology
- P2.01Civil Engineering781, 2 Core
- P2.02Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering463
- P2.03Mechanical Engineering523
- P2.04Chemical EngineeringNot ranked
- P2.05Materials Engineering535
- P2.06Medical EngineeringNot ranked
- P2.07Environmental EngineeringNot ranked
- P2.08Environmental BiotechnologyNot ranked
- P2.09Industrial BiotechnologyNot ranked
- P2.10NanotechnologyNot ranked
- P2.11Other Engineering and Technologies1,115
Medical and Health Sciences
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Social Sciences
Highest PNCI journals, top 300
Listed by PNCI across categories for browsing. Every rank, percentile, quartile and zone shown is the journal’s place within its own PSC category.
| Rank | Journal | PSC | PNCI | Percentile | Citation Quartile | POSI Zone | AJR | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/10526 | CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians Wiley, ISSN 0007-9235 | P3.02 | 73.50 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/554 | Poornaprajna International Journal of Philosophy & Languages (PIJPL) ISSN 3107-4634 | P6.03 | 47.27 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/10526 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports ISSN 1057-5987 | P3.02 | 37.70 | 100.0 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 3/10526 | MMWR Surveillance Summaries Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ISSN 1545-8636 | P3.02 | 34.52 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/6008 | British Journal of Educational Technology Wiley, ISSN 0007-1013 | P5.03 | 32.03 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/1967 | Tourism Management Elsevier BV, ISSN 0261-5177 | P5.04 | 29.00 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/1325 | Government Information Quarterly Elsevier BV, ISSN 0740-624X | P5.06 | 28.91 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/6008 | Educational Research Review Elsevier BV, ISSN 1747-938X | P5.03 | 28.25 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/6008 | The Internet and Higher Education Elsevier BV, ISSN 1096-7516 | P5.03 | 26.57 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/6008 | Studies in Science Education Taylor & Francis, ISSN 0305-7267 | P5.03 | 26.23 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/1967 | Computers in Human Behavior Elsevier BV, ISSN 0747-5632 | P5.04 | 24.65 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/2112 | Computer Assisted Language Learning Routledge, ISSN 0958-8221 | P6.02 | 22.48 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/2112 | ReCALL Cambridge University Press, ISSN 0958-3440 | P6.02 | 22.32 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/2112 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Elsevier BV, ISSN 2772-7661 | P6.02 | 20.49 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/3231 | IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ISSN 1553-877X | P1.02 | 20.21 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/1325 | Annual Review of Political Science Annual Reviews, ISSN 1094-2939 | P5.06 | 20.17 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/962 | SIGn Jurnal Hukum ISSN 2685-8606 | P5.05 | 19.83 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/2112 | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Cambridge University Press, ISSN 0267-1905 | P6.02 | 19.82 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/1003 | Annual Review of Public Health Annual Reviews, ISSN 0163-7525 | P3.03 | 19.24 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/2112 | System Elsevier BV, ISSN 0346-251X | P6.02 | 18.50 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/1325 | Policy and Society Elsevier BV, ISSN 1449-4035 | P5.06 | 18.37 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/6008 | Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Taylor & Francis, ISSN 0260-2938 | P5.03 | 18.18 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/2112 | RELC Journal SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0033-6882 | P6.02 | 17.68 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/1174 | International Journal for Educational Integrity BioMed Central, ISSN 1833-2595 | P5.09 | 17.58 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/962 | Annual Review of Law and Social Science Annual Reviews, ISSN 1550-3585 | P5.05 | 17.51 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/1967 | Annual Review of Sociology Annual Reviews, ISSN 0360-0572 | P5.04 | 16.80 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/10526 | Nature Reviews Disease Primers Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2056-676X | P3.02 | 16.70 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/6008 | Review of Educational Research SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0034-6543 | P5.03 | 16.57 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/1967 | Tourism Review Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 0251-3102 | P5.04 | 16.38 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/1431 | Annual Review of Psychology Annual Reviews, ISSN 0066-4308 | P5.01 | 16.36 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/7152 | The Quarterly Journal of Economics Oxford University Press, ISSN 0033-5533 | P5.02 | 16.07 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/1967 | Annual Review of Criminology Annual Reviews, ISSN 2572-4568 | P5.04 | 15.54 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/7152 | International Journal of Information Management Elsevier BV, ISSN 0268-4012 | P5.02 | 15.44 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/10526 | Nature Medicine Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1078-8956 | P3.02 | 14.83 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/10526 | New England Journal of Medicine Massachusetts Medical Society, ISSN 0028-4793 | P3.02 | 14.69 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/1967 | Telematics and Informatics Reports Elsevier BV, ISSN 2772-5030 | P5.04 | 14.62 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/10526 | Journal of Hematology & Oncology BioMed Central, ISSN 1756-8722 | P3.02 | 14.55 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 8/10526 | Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1759-4774 | P3.02 | 14.50 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/1967 | Journal of Destination Marketing & Management Elsevier BV, ISSN 2212-571X | P5.04 | 14.42 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 8/1967 | Annals of Tourism Research Elsevier BV, ISSN 0160-7383 | P5.04 | 14.17 | 99.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/2112 | Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University, ISSN 2083-5205 | P6.02 | 14.03 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/7152 | Spectrum of Decision Making and Applications. Scientific Oasis, ISSN 3042-1462 | P5.02 | 13.93 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 8/2112 | Journal of Second Language Writing Elsevier BV, ISSN 1060-3743 | P6.02 | 13.90 | 99.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 9/1967 | Journal of Travel Research SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0047-2875 | P5.04 | 13.86 | 99.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 9/2112 | Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics ISSN 2998-4475 | P6.02 | 13.82 | 99.6 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 2/1003 | Informatics and Health Elsevier BV, ISSN 2949-9534 | P3.03 | 13.59 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/7152 | Spectrum of Operational Research. Scientific Oasis, ISSN 3042-1470 | P5.02 | 13.53 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/7152 | Academy of Management Annals Routledge, ISSN 1941-6067 | P5.02 | 13.50 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 10/2112 | Annual Review of Linguistics Annual Reviews, ISSN 2333-9683 | P6.02 | 13.42 | 99.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 10/1967 | Journal of Sustainable Tourism Taylor & Francis, ISSN 0966-9582 | P5.04 | 13.31 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/1174 | Habitat International Elsevier BV, ISSN 0197-3975 | P5.09 | 13.26 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/6008 | European Journal of Education Wiley, ISSN 0141-8211 | P5.03 | 13.21 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 8/6008 | Assessing Writing Elsevier BV, ISSN 1075-2935 | P5.03 | 13.09 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 11/2112 | TESOL Quarterly Wiley, ISSN 0039-8322 | P6.02 | 12.99 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/722 | Journal of Cultural Heritage Elsevier BV, ISSN 1296-2074 | P6.05 | 12.91 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/454 | Living Reviews in Relativity Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 1433-8351 | P1.03 | 12.76 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 9/6008 | Acta Pedagogia Asiana ISSN 2963-6442 | P5.03 | 12.69 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 12/2112 | Language Teaching Cambridge University Press, ISSN 0261-4448 | P6.02 | 12.63 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 11/1967 | Tourism Management Perspectives Elsevier BV, ISSN 2211-9736 | P5.04 | 12.62 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 10/6008 | Teaching and Teacher Education Elsevier BV, ISSN 0742-051X | P5.03 | 12.59 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 9/10526 | Kidney International Supplements Elsevier BV, ISSN 2157-1716 | P3.02 | 12.54 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 11/6008 | Journal of Research on Technology in Education Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1539-1523 | P5.03 | 12.38 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/7152 | Innovation and Green Development Elsevier BV, ISSN 2949-7531 | P5.02 | 12.35 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 10/10526 | Endocrine Reviews Oxford University Press, ISSN 0163-769X | P3.02 | 12.34 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/454 | Reviews of Modern Physics American Physical Society, ISSN 0034-6861 | P1.03 | 12.21 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/1174 | Cities Elsevier BV, ISSN 0264-2751 | P5.09 | 12.07 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/523 | Progress in Materials Science Elsevier BV, ISSN 0079-6425 | P2.03 | 12.06 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 12/6008 | Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2153-2974 | P5.03 | 12.06 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 13/6008 | Studies in Higher Education Routledge, ISSN 0307-5079 | P5.03 | 11.81 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/1003 | Implementation Science BioMed Central, ISSN 1748-5908 | P3.03 | 11.65 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 11/10526 | Annual Review of Medicine Annual Reviews, ISSN 0066-4219 | P3.02 | 11.64 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/288 | Arts Education Policy Review Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1063-2913 | P6.04 | 11.63 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 1/930 | Statistics Surveys American Statistical Association, ISSN 1935-7516 | P1.01 | 11.51 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 13/2112 | Studies in Second Language Acquisition Cambridge University Press, ISSN 0272-2631 | P6.02 | 11.51 | 99.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 14/6008 | Review of Education Wiley, ISSN 2049-6613 | P5.03 | 11.47 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/1325 | Journal of European Public Policy Routledge, ISSN 1350-1763 | P5.06 | 11.46 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/7152 | Journal of Innovation & Knowledge Elsevier BV, ISSN 2444-569X | P5.02 | 11.39 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 15/6008 | Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ISSN 1449-3098 | P5.03 | 11.38 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 14/2112 | Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1750-1229 | P6.02 | 11.38 | 99.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/1325 | European Journal of Political Research Wiley, ISSN 0304-4130 | P5.06 | 11.32 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/1174 | AI and Ethics Springer Nature, ISSN 2730-5953 | P5.09 | 11.27 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 8/7152 | The Lancet Elsevier BV, ISSN 0140-6736 | P5.02 | 11.17 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 16/6008 | International Journal of Changes in Education ISSN 3029-133X | P5.03 | 11.17 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 12/1967 | International Journal of Qualitative Methods SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1609-4069 | P5.04 | 11.16 | 99.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/3231 | Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning Now Publishers, ISSN 1935-8237 | P1.02 | 11.11 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 9/7152 | Journal of Financial Economics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0304-405X | P5.02 | 11.06 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/962 | Journal of Human Rights Culture and Legal System ISSN 2807-2812 | P5.05 | 11.00 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 13/1967 | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Elsevier BV, ISSN 2212-4209 | P5.04 | 10.99 | 99.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/1325 | Public Administration Wiley, ISSN 0033-3298 | P5.06 | 10.91 | 99.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 10/7152 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services Elsevier BV, ISSN 0969-6989 | P5.02 | 10.85 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/288 | Research Studies in Music Education SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1321-103X | P6.04 | 10.80 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 14/1967 | Social Issues and Policy Review Wiley, ISSN 1751-2395 | P5.04 | 10.78 | 99.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 11/7152 | American Economic Review American Economic Association, ISSN 0002-8282 | P5.02 | 10.78 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 17/6008 | Education Sciences Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, ISSN 2227-7102 | P5.03 | 10.77 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 12/7152 | Annual Review of Economics Annual Reviews, ISSN 1941-1383 | P5.02 | 10.70 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 15/1967 | American Sociological Review SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0003-1224 | P5.04 | 10.69 | 99.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 18/6008 | Innovations in Education and Teaching International Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1470-3297 | P5.03 | 10.67 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/1325 | American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press, ISSN 0003-0554 | P5.06 | 10.64 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 13/7152 | The Journal of Finance Wiley, ISSN 0022-1082 | P5.02 | 10.63 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 19/6008 | Journal of Teacher Education SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0022-4871 | P5.03 | 10.62 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |