In an increasingly crowded, for-profit landscape for scholarly research, the health of a publishing program is often measured by the influence of its publications. This year, three MIT Press journals demonstrated their stature by earning the highest impact factors in their disciplines. Computational Linguistics ranked first in the Linguistics category, International Security led the International Relations category, and The Review of Economics and Statistics topped the Social Sciences, Mathematical Models category in Clarivate's 2026 journal impact factor rankings. For the MIT Press, this achievement highlights the distinctive strength of its journals program. Although relatively small compared to other commercial and university press publishers, MIT Press journals consistently publish widely cited scholarship across a broad range of disciplines, from social science and the humanities to neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Clarivate's impact factors capture the previous year's...
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