The 2026 Journal Citation Reports Have Been Published

On June 17, Clarivate launched the set of metrics for Journal Citation Report (JCR), based on data from 2025. JCR is a report on the impact of journal citations at a given point in time, when a snapshot of the data available in Web of Science is taken and the figures are calculated. 

This 2026 edition includes metrics for 22,643 scientific journals, by 113 countries,  distributed across 254 subject categories, consolidating the index’s growth and expanding the representation of disciplines, countries, and publishers. According to Clarivate, the goal is to provide an increasingly comprehensive view of the global research ecosystem.  

Clarivate highlights several trends based on this year’s data: 

  • Expansion of global participation: 521 journals received an Impact Factor for the first time, from 47 countries/regions. Of these journals, 58% are based outside the United States and Western Europe. 
  • Changes in the geographic origin of authors: Mainland China and the United States remain the most represented countries/regions, accounting for 48% of author affiliations. 
  • Representation from the Global South continues to grow. The countries/regions with the largest increases in author representation between 2023 and 2025 are mainland China (23%) and India (12%). 
  • Author memberships from the Global South increased by 6% compared to 2024 and by 10% compared to 2023. 

The Journal Impact Factor is still assigned to all journals that meet the Web of Science quality criteria (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, and ESCI). However, some categories, particularly in the Arts and Humanities, still do not have rankings, quartiles, or percentiles based on the JIF, in accordance with the methodological policy implemented by Clarivate in recent editions. 

This year, a new magazine is being added to the 33 that are published in PoliPapers, a portal of the Polytechnic University of Valencia designed to promote open access publishing of digital scientific journals. There are now a total of 23 journals. All of these journals receive an Impact Factor (IF) and a Journal Citation Index (JCI), but 10 of them fall into categories for which the IF does not provide a ranking, quartile, or percentile. 

These are the magazines from PoliPapers listed in the Journal Citation Report in 2025, arranged alphabetically by title: 

And here are some of its metrics in the JCR 2025:

   Journal Impact Factor Journal Citation Indicator 
 Colección Categoría JIF RANK Quartile Percentile JCI RANK Quartile Percentile 
AGT ESCI MATHEMATICS 0.8 215/492 Q2 56.4 0.74 163/492 Q2 66.97  
CAA ESCI FILM, RADIO, TELEVISIO 0.1 n/a n/a n/a 0.22 45/62 Q3 28.23 
EARN ESCI ECONOMICS 0.6 498/626 Q4 20.5 0.13 552/627 Q4 12.04 
EB ESCI ARCHITECTURE 0.1 n/a n/a n/a 0.03 87/100 Q4 13.50 
EGA AHCI ARCHITECTURE 0.3 n/a n/a n/a 0.35 46/100 Q2 54.50 
EGE ESCI ARCHITECTURE 0.3 n/a n/a n/a 0.41 41/100 Q2 59.50 
IA ESCI ENGINEERING, CIVIL 0.9 157/193 Q4 18.9 0.12 170/193 Q4 12.18 
IJPME ESCI ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINAR 2.0 78/178 Q2 56.5 0.39 96/179 Q3 46.65 
LC ESCI ART <0.1 n/a n/a n/a 0.00 138/151 Q4 8.94 
ARCHITECTURE 95/100 5.50 
LYT ESCI LINGUISTICS 0.1 296/312 Q4 5.3 0.06 304/312 Q4 2.72 
LOGGIA ESCI ARCHITECTURE 0.2 n/a n/a n/a 0.20 63/100 Q3 37.50 
MUSE ESCI EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 1.3 400/760 Q3 47.4 0.49 446/762 Q3 41.54 
REDU ESCI EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 0.9 501/760 Q3 34.1 0.20 617/762 Q4 19.09 
RLYLA ESCI LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS 1.0 n/a n/a n/a 0.65 136/407 Q2 66.71 
RAET ESCI REMOTE SENSING 0.8 59/66 Q4 11.4 0.12 60/66 Q4 9.85 
RIAI SCIE ROBOTICS; 1.0 43/48 Q4 11.5 0.22 43/48 Q4 11.46 
AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS 74/88 Q4 16.5 75/88 Q4 15.34 
REINAD ESCI FAMILY STUDIES 0.3 62/66 Q4 6.8 0.10 64/66 Q4 3.79 
SONDA ESCI EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 0.1 709/760 Q4 6.8 0.01 749/762 Q4 1.77 
VAR ESCI ARCHAEOLOGY 1.5 n/a n/a n/a 1.72 9/171 Q1 95.03 
VITRUVIO ESCI ARCHITECTURE 1.4 n/a n/a n/a 1.56 7/100 Q1 93.50 
VLC ESCI ARCHITECTURE 0.2 n/a n/a n/a 0.28 55/100 Q3 45.50 
WPOM ESCI BUSINESS 0.2 313/323 Q4 3.3 0,15 278/324 Q4 14.35 
WRS SCIE AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE 1.2 59/87 Q3 32.8 0,43 55/87 Q3 37.36