Journal metrics
Created July 6, 2026
Data for The Journal of Clinical Investigation and JCI Insight, published by the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Impact Factor and other citation metrics
| Journal | 2025 Impact Factor | 5-Year Impact Factor | Immediacy index | Eigenfactor | Journal Citation Indicator | CiteScore |
| JCI | 14.3 | 15.0 | 3.3 | 0.08376 | 2.93 | 17.3 |
| JCI Insight | 6.8 | 7.5 | 1.3 | 0.05119 | 1.62 | 10.8 |
Data are from Web of Science, June 2026, except for CiteScore (Scopus).
Submission, Review, and Decisions
Data represent submissions or publications from June 1, 2025, to May 31, 2026, in the following categories: Research, Clinical Research and Public Health, Physician-Scientist Development (JCI Insight only), Research Letter, and Letter to the Editor.
Review and accept rates
| Journal | Submissions | Review rate | Transferred to JCI Insight with reviews from the JCI |
Accept rate |
| JCI | 5,553 | 23.1% | – | 9.5% |
| JCI Insight | 2,959 | 26.0% | 5.3% | 20.2% |
Submissions: No. of first submissions. In the case of JCI Insight, this includes manuscripts transferred from the JCI.
Review rate and Accept rate: Percentage estimated by dividing the number of manuscripts undergoing peer review or accepted in the year by those submitted in the same year (i.e., the numerator and denominator do not represent the same cohort of papers).
Transferred to JCI Insight with reviews from the JCI: Percentage of submissions transferred to JCI Insight after review and rejection by the JCI.
Time to 1st decision, acceptance, and publication
| Journal | Submission to 1st decision (Not reviewed/ Reviewed), d |
Submission to acceptance, d | Acceptance to pub of In-Press Previews, d | Acceptance to publication, all, d |
| JCI | 5.4/35.0 | 279.3 | 9.3 | 25.8 |
| JCI Insight | 2.0/35.9 | 246.3 | 8.4 | 22.4 |
Submission to 1st decision: Average no. of days from receipt of the first submission to author notification of either editorial rejection of the manuscript (“Not Reviewed”) or the decision after peer review (“Reviewed”).
Submission to acceptance: Average no. of days from first submission to author notification of acceptance.
Acceptance to publication of In-Press Preview: Average no. of days from acceptance to publication of the unedited accepted manuscript PDF (In-Press Preview).
Acceptance to publication, all: Average no. of days from acceptance to publication of the In-Press Preview or the copyedited, laid-out article.
