The first two papers with higher IF were published in the journals Nature and Science respectively:
Nature
On the 1st place, with an IF of 48.5 we have a News&Views article:
Extreme confinement unleashes water's hidden electrical capabilities
Domingo, Neus; Verdaguer, Albert
10.1038/d41586-025-03128-y
Science
And in our 2nd place of this list, with an IF of 45.8:
Excision of organic macrocycles from covalent organic frameworks
Sánchez-Naya, Roberto; Cavalieri, Juan Pablo; Albalad, Jorge; Cortés-Martínez, Alba; Wang, Kaiyu; Fuertes-Espinosa, Carles; Parella, Teodor; Fiori, Sara; Ribas, Esteve; Mugarza, Aitor; Ribas, Xavi; Faraudo, Jordi; Yaghi, Omar M.; Imaz, Inhar; Maspoch, Daniel
10.1126/science.adw4126
Nature Materials
On our 3rd place we have two articles published in the same journal with an IF of 38.5:
Room-temperature anisotropic in-plane spin dynamics in graphene induced by PdSe<sub>2</sub> proximity
Sierra, Juan F.; Světlík, Josef; Savero Torres, Williams; Camosi, Lorenzo; Herling, Franz; Guillet, Thomas; Xu, Kai; Reparaz, Juan Sebastián; Marinova, Vera; Dimitrov, Dimitre; Valenzuela, Sergio O.
10.1038/s41563-024-02109-2
Unidirectional magnetoresistance goes perpendicular
Avci, Can Onur
10.1038/s41563-025-02236-4
Nature Methods
On the 4th place, the next two articles with a higher IF were published as well in the same journal, with an IF of 32.1:
RNA-Puzzles Round V: blind predictions of 23 RNA structures
Bu, Fan; Adam, Yagoub; Adamiak, Ryszard W.; Antczak, Maciej; de Aquino, Belisa Rebeca H.; Badepally, Nagendar Goud; Batey, Robert T.; Baulin, Eugene F.; Boinski, Pawel; Boniecki, Michal J.; Bujnicki, Janusz M.; Carpenter, Kristy A.; Chacon, Jose; Chen, Shi-Jie; Chiu, Wah; Cordero, Pablo; Das, Naba Krishna; Das, Rhiju; Dawson, Wayne K.; DiMaio, Frank; Ding, Feng; Dock-Bregeon, Anne-Catherine; Dokholyan, Nikolay V.; Dror, Ron O.; Dunin-Horkawicz, Stanisław; Eismann, Stephan; Ennifar, Eric; Esmaeeli, Reza; Farsani, Masoud Amiri; Ferré-D’Amaré, Adrian R.; Geniesse, Caleb; Ghanim, George E.; Guzman, Horacio V.; Hood, Iris V.; Huang, Lin; Jain, Dharm Skandh; Jaryani, Farhang; Jin, Lei; Joshi, Astha; Karelina, Masha; Kieft, Jeffrey S.; Kladwang, Wipapat; Kmiecik, Sebastian; Koirala, Deepak; Kollmann, Markus; Kretsch, Rachael C.; Kurciński, Mateusz; Li, Jun; Li, Shuang; Magnus, Marcin; Masquida, BenoÎt; Moafinejad, S. Naeim; Mondal, Arup; Mukherjee, Sunandan; Nguyen, Thi Hoang Duong; Nikolaev, Grigory; Nithin, Chandran; Nye, Grace; Pandaranadar Jeyeram, Iswarya P. N.; Perez, Alberto; Pham, Phillip; Piccirilli, Joseph A.; Pilla, Smita Priyadarshini; Pluta, Radosław; Poblete, Simón; Ponce-Salvatierra, Almudena; Popenda, Mariusz; Popenda, Lukasz; Pucci, Fabrizio; Rangan, Ramya; Ray, Angana; Ren, Aiming; Sarzynska, Joanna; Sha, Congzhou Mike; Stefaniak, Filip; Su, Zhaoming; Suddala, Krishna C.; Szachniuk, Marta; Townshend, Raphael; Trachman, Robert J.; Wang, Jian; Wang, Wenkai; Watkins, Andrew; Wirecki, Tomasz K.; Xiao, Yi; Xiong, Peng; Xiong, Yiduo; Yang, Jianyi; Yesselman, Joseph David; Zhang, Jinwei; Zhang, Yi; Zhang, Zhenzhen; Zhou, Yuanzhe; Zok, Tomasz; Zhang, Dong; Zhang, Sicheng; Żyła, Adriana; Westhof, Eric; Miao, Zhichao
10.1038/s41592-024-02543-9
The need to implement FAIR principles in biomolecular simulations
Amaro, Rommie E.; Åqvist, Johan; Bahar, Ivet; Battistini, Federica; Bellaiche, Adam; Beltran, Daniel; Biggin, Philip C.; Bonomi, Massimiliano; Bowman, Gregory R.; Bryce, Richard A.; Bussi, Giovanni; Carloni, Paolo; Case, David A.; Cavalli, Andrea; Chang, Chia-En A.; Cheatham, Thomas E.; Cheung, Margaret S.; Chipot, Christophe; Chong, Lillian T.; Choudhary, Preeti; Cisneros, G. Andres; Clementi, Cecilia; Collepardo-Guevara, Rosana; Coveney, Peter; Covino, Roberto; Crawford, T. Daniel; Dal Peraro, Matteo; de Groot, Bert L.; Delemotte, Lucie; De Vivo, Marco; Essex, Jonathan W.; Fraternali, Franca; Gao, Jiali; Gelpí, Josep Ll.; Gervasio, Francesco L.; González-Nilo, Fernando D.; Grubmüller, Helmut; Guenza, Marina G.; Guzman, Horacio V.; Harris, Sarah; Head-Gordon, Teresa; Hernandez, Rigoberto; Hospital, Adam; Huang, Niu; Huang, Xuhui; Hummer, Gerhard; Iglesias-Fernández, Javier; Jensen, Jan H.; Jha, Shantenu; Jiao, Wanting; Jorgensen, William L.; Kamerlin, Shina C. L.; Khalid, Syma; Laughton, Charles; Levitt, Michael; Limongelli, Vittorio; Lindahl, Erik; Lindorff-Larsen, Kresten; Loverde, Sharon; Lundborg, Magnus; Luo, Yun L.; Luque, F. Javier; Lynch, Charlotte I.; MacKerell, Alexander D.; Magistrato, Alessandra; Marrink, Siewert J.; Martin, Hugh; McCammon, J. Andrew; Merz, Kenneth; Moliner, Vicent; Mulholland, Adrian J.; Murad, Sohail; Naganathan, Athi N.; Nangia, Shikha; Noe, Frank; Noy, Agnes; Oláh, Julianna; O’Mara, Megan L.; Ondrechen, Mary Jo; Onuchic, Jose N.; Onufriev, Alexey; Osuna, Sílvia; Palermo, Giulia; Panchenko, Anna R.; Pantano, Sergio; Parish, Carol; Parrinello, Michele; Perez, Alberto; Perez-Acle, Tomas; Perilla, Juan R.; Pettitt, B. Montgomery; Pietropaolo, Adriana; Piquemal, Jean-Philip; Poma, Adolfo B.; Praprotnik, Matej; Ramos, Maria J.; Ren, Pengyu; Reuter, Nathalie; Roitberg, Adrian; Rosta, Edina; Rovira, Carme; Roux, Benoit; Rothlisberger, Ursula; Sanbonmatsu, Karissa Y.; Schlick, Tamar; Shaytan, Alexey K.; Simmerling, Carlos; Smith, Jeremy C.; Sugita, Yuji; Świderek, Katarzyna; Taiji, Makoto; Tao, Peng; Tieleman, D. Peter; Tikhonova, Irina G.; Tirado-Rives, Julian; Tuñón, Iñaki; van der Kamp, Marc W.; van der Spoel, David; Velankar, Sameer; Voth, Gregory A.; Wade, Rebecca; Warshel, Ariel; Welborn, Valerie Vaissier; Wetmore, Stacey D.; Wheeler, Travis J.; Wong, Chung F.; Yang, Lee-Wei; Zacharias, Martin; Orozco, Modesto
10.1038/s41592-025-02635-0
Energy & Environmental Science
On the 5th place, we have three articles published in Energy & Environmental Science, with IF 31:
Amorphous coordination polymers for versatile Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+, and Zn2+ cation storage
Guo, Xiaolong; Markowski, Robert; Black, Ashley; Apostol, Petru; Rambabu, Darsi; Lužanin, Olivera; Pavčnik, Tjaša; Monti, Damien; Du, Mengyuan; Tie, Da; Lin, Xiaodong; Bakuru, Vasudeva Rao; Delogne, Raphaël; Robeyns, Koen; Simonelli, Laura; Gohy, Jean-François; Bitenc, Jan; Wang, Jiande; Ponrouch, Alexandre; Vlad, Alexandru
10.1039/D5EE02567B
Carbonyl-based organic electrode materials spanning from nonaqueous rechargeable lithium to calcium batteries
Zhao, Kun; Wang, Xingxing; Feng, Wenfang; Ponrouch, Alexandre; Poizot, Philippe; Armand, Michel; Zhou, Zhibin; Zhang, Heng
10.1039/D4EE06017B
Unveiling capacity limitations of MnO2 in rechargeable Zn chemistry
Liu, Cheng; Martin-Diaconescu, Vlad; Black, Ashley Phillip; Khabazian, Siavash; Mundet, Bernat; Matlak, Krzysztof; Stievano, Lorenzo; Sorrentino, Andrea; Simonelli, Laura; Tonti, Dino
10.1039/D5EE03588K
Advanced Materials
And to finish our top 10 list, in the 6th position, we have one artivle with an IF of 26.8.
Electrically Readable Lateral Flow Assay Using Organic Transistors for Diagnostic Applications
Ortiz-Aguayo, María Jesús; Martínez-Domingo, Carme; Gutiérrez, Diego; Kos, Dean; Mas-Torrent, Marta
10.1002/adma.202513468
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A good example of the research done at ICMAB on materials for energy, electronics and nanomedicine for a better future!
Note: The data has been gathered from the Web of Science-Core collection, as of 19/03/2026.
