Where National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Funded Research Is Published: Top 50 Journals

In shortNational Institute for Health and Care Research (United Kingdom) is named as a funder in the recent research articles of 330 journals we checked, most often in Programme Grants for Applied Research (33 of 36 recent articles). The journals below publish its funded work most often; open a journal for its indexing, review time, reviewer comments and fee waivers.

Journals that publish National Institute for Health and Care Research funded research most often

#	Journal	Articles naming it	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	Programme Grants for Applied Research	33 of 36	Scopus	0.63	n/a
2	Research Involvement and Engagement	24 of 200	Scopus	3.54	132 days
3	NIHR Open Research	22 of 200	Scopus	1.26	n/a
4	The Lancet Healthy Longevity	21 of 200	SCIE	12.17	n/a
5	The Lancet Digital Health	20 of 200	SCIE	16.67	n/a
6	The Lancet Psychiatry	18 of 200	SCIE SSCI	8.79	n/a
7	Clinical Medicine	17 of 200	SCIE	1.77	n/a
8	Public Health in Practice	16 of 200	ESCI	2.30	n/a
9	BMJ Mental Health	14 of 200	SCIE	5.44	n/a
10	Diabetic Medicine	14 of 200	SCIE	2.65	103 days
11	Brain Communications	13 of 200	ESCI	4.52	n/a
12	EClinicalMedicine	13 of 200	SCIE	12.46	n/a
13	The Lancet Respiratory Medicine	13 of 200	SCIE	11.61	n/a
14	Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology	12 of 181	SCIE	2.38	239 days
15	PLoS Medicine	12 of 200	SCIE	8.51	n/a
16	The Lancet Public Health	12 of 200	SCIE SSCI	17.49	n/a
17	BMC Medical Research Methodology	11 of 200	SCIE	5.46	158 days
18	British Journal of Health Psychology	11 of 170	SSCI	2.67	236 days
19	Health & Social Care in the Community	11 of 200	SSCI	1.87	372 days
20	The Lancet Microbe	11 of 200	SCIE	11.87	n/a
21	BMJ Medicine	10 of 111	ESCI	7.14	n/a
22	Health & Place	10 of 200	SCIE SSCI	4.23	n/a
23	Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities	10 of 200	SSCI	2.29	235 days
24	Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity	10 of 90	ESCI	2.57	n/a
25	Journal of the Intensive Care Society	10 of 157	ESCI	1.58	n/a
26	Palliative Medicine	10 of 200	SCIE	7.50	n/a
27	Physiotherapy	10 of 200	SCIE	0.40	n/a
28	BMJ Global Health	9 of 200	SCIE SSCI	5.26	n/a
29	BMJ Open Respiratory Research	9 of 200	SCIE	3.06	n/a
30	Early Intervention in Psychiatry	9 of 200	SCIE SSCI	1.86	222 days
31	Health Economics	9 of 200	SCIE SSCI	2.05	332 days
32	JCPP Advances	9 of 200	ESCI	3.24	n/a
33	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	9 of 200	SCIE	4.72	n/a
34	PharmacoEconomics	9 of 200	SCIE SSCI	3.78	123 days
35	SSM - Mental Health	9 of 200	ESCI	2.88	n/a
36	The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health	9 of 200	SCIE	6.09	n/a
37	The Lancet Global Health	9 of 200	SCIE SSCI	11.52	n/a
38	The Lancet Rheumatology	9 of 200	SCIE	7.37	n/a
39	Wellbeing Space and Society	9 of 200	ESCI	2.22	n/a
40	Archives of Disease in Childhood	8 of 200	SCIE	1.99	n/a
41	Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal	8 of 200	SCIE	2.88	n/a
42	Clinical Obesity	8 of 150	ESCI	3.20	165 days
43	Diagnostic and Prognostic Research	8 of 64	ESCI	5.15	196 days
44	Drug and Alcohol Review	8 of 200	SSCI	2.50	208 days
45	Epidemics	8 of 159	SCIE	3.98	n/a
46	Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance	8 of 200	SCIE	0.73	n/a
47	Journal of Long-Term Care	8 of 58	Scopus	1.41	n/a
48	Rheumatology Advances in Practice	8 of 200	ESCI	1.30	n/a
49	Value in Health	8 of 200	SCIE SSCI	0.34	n/a
50	Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science	7 of 200	ESCI	2.13	n/a

"Articles naming" counts the research articles (of up to 200 from the last 24 months) whose funder list names National Institute for Health and Care Research. *Impact factor calculated from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value. Review time: median days from submission to acceptance, from the dates publishers deposit in Crossref.

Funders named alongside National Institute for Health and Care Research

Other funders that appear in the same journals. Their pages show where their funded research is published.

National Institutes of Health National Natural Science Foundation of China National Health and Medical Research Council Wellcome Trust Canadian Institutes of Health Research Medical Research Council Japan Society for the Promotion of Science National Institute of Mental Health Economic and Social Research Council National Institute on Aging Swedish Research Council Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft UK Research and Innovation Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ZonMw

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Frequently asked questions

Which journals publish the most National Institute for Health and Care Research funded research?

In the recent research articles we checked, the journals that name National Institute for Health and Care Research as a funder most often are Programme Grants for Applied Research, Research Involvement and Engagement, NIHR Open Research, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, The Lancet Digital Health. In all, 330 journals name it.

Does publishing in these journals help my National Institute for Health and Care Research grant?

These journals already publish work supported by National Institute for Health and Care Research, so editors and reviewers know this kind of research. Whether a journal suits your paper still depends on its scope, indexing and review time, shown for each journal in the table.

Does National Institute for Health and Care Research pay the article processing charge (APC)?

Many funders pay or reimburse open access fees under their open access policy, but the rules differ by funder and by grant. Check National Institute for Health and Care Research's open access policy and your grant terms; for country-based waivers, use the free APC waiver checker.

Where does this data come from?

From the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name. Not every publisher deposits funders, so a journal can be missing.

Source, method and date. Source: the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. Method: for each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; spelling variants of a funder are combined. Updated: 29 October 2026. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with National Institute for Health and Care Research or these journals.