Most Cited Scientific Journals by Impact Factor 2024
About This Dataset
Most Cited Scientific Journals by Impact Factor 2024
Academic journals ranked by their impact factor — the average number of citations received per published article — in 2024 according to Clarivate Journal Citation Reports. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians has consistently maintained the highest impact factor of any journal, reflecting the extraordinary importance of cancer research to global medicine. AI-assisted data.
Analysis
The top three in Impact Factor in 2024 are CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (502), The Lancet (168) and New England Journal of Medicine (158). The 8 entries in Impact Factor cover a range of 457, from 502 down to 45. Most of that gap is between first and second alone (334 of 457); the other 7 are separated by just 123. Only 1 of the 8 reaches even half the leader's figure (251 or more).
Source:
Clarivate
Key Findings
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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians leads in Impact Factor with 502 in 2024.
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Average Impact Factor in 2024: 148 · median: 94.
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Gap in 2024: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians is 11.2× larger than Cell.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Clarivate
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2024 · 8 observations
- Measure
- Impact Factor
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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