The new 2026 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) release and 2025 JIF values

June 25, 2026

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an analytical tool intended for assessing the quality of the journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database’s Core Collection part.

We are pleased to announce that the 2026 JCR edition is already released. Major highlights of this edition:

  • Covers more than 22,600 journals, including ~6,700 fully (Gold) open access
  • Journal distribution by disciplines: >15,000 science journals, >7,700 social science journals and >3,400 arts & humanities journals.
  • Scholarly journals from 113 countries are recognized and receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF).
  • 521 journals received JIF for the first time.

The list of 2026 JCR journals will be available at Master Journal List (MJL) website in the middle of July. In order to download this and other journal lists of the WoS Core Collection indexes (SCIE, SSCI, ESCI ir AHCI), as well as of additional indexes, the sign-in with the WoS account details (or creation of WoS account) is required.

More information about WoS account and access to different WoS products is available here >>> (in the section “Additional features”).

Both JCR tool and MJL website can also be accessed directly from the Web of Science database interface:

More information about JCR tool and its usage can be found here >>>.

 

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