Where Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Funded Research Is Published: Top 50 Journals

In shortNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Canada) is named as a funder in the recent research articles of 927 journals we checked, most often in FACETS (47 of 200 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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada funded research most often

#	Journal	Articles naming it	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	FACETS	47 of 200	SCIE	2.43	n/a
2	Botany	38 of 111	SCIE	1.00	n/a
3	Arctic Science	35 of 184	SCIE	1.92	n/a
4	Canadian Journal of Statistics	34 of 97	SCIE	0.68	314 days
5	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	32 of 155	SCIE	2.89	n/a
6	ACS Food Science & Technology	28 of 200	ESCI	3.39	n/a
7	Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism	27 of 200	SCIE	2.96	n/a
8	Canadian Journal of Animal Science	27 of 164	SCIE	1.33	n/a
9	Insurance Mathematics and Economics	27 of 200	SCIE SSCI	1.55	n/a
10	Biochemistry and Cell Biology	26 of 129	SCIE	1.82	n/a
11	Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering	26 of 200	SCIE	1.76	n/a
12	Canadian Journal of Plant Science	26 of 200	SCIE	1.17	n/a
13	American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology	25 of 200	SCIE	2.26	104 days
14	Journal of Neurophysiology	20 of 200	SCIE	2.86	128 days
15	Genome	19 of 139	SCIE	1.88	n/a
16	Journal of Comparative Physiology B	19 of 124	SCIE	2.77	131 days
17	Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering	19 of 160	SCIE	1.42	n/a
18	Canadian Journal of Soil Science	18 of 103	SCIE	1.75	n/a
19	Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry	18 of 200	SCIE	4.45	n/a
20	Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B	18 of 177	SCIE	1.64	n/a
21	Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology	18 of 200	SCIE	2.48	n/a
22	Empirical Software Engineering	17 of 200	SCIE	5.06	275 days
23	Environmental Reviews	17 of 173	SCIE	4.74	n/a
24	Evolutionary Applications	17 of 200	SCIE	4.07	188 days
25	Hormones and Behavior	17 of 200	SCIE	2.83	n/a
26	American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology	16 of 200	SCIE	5.39	91 days
27	Canadian Journal of Forest Research	15 of 200	SCIE	2.11	n/a
28	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology	15 of 200	SCIE	2.46	n/a
29	General and Comparative Endocrinology	15 of 200	SCIE	1.95	n/a
30	Journal of Applied Physiology	15 of 200	SCIE	3.42	112 days
31	Infectious Disease Modelling	14 of 200	ESCI	2.76	n/a
32	Journal of Dairy Science	14 of 200	SCIE	4.49	n/a
33	Journal of Theoretical Biology	14 of 200	SCIE	1.92	n/a
34	River Research and Applications	14 of 200	SCIE	2.16	180 days
35	Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews	13 of 200	SCIE	16.22	n/a
36	Advances in Applied Mathematics	13 of 200	SCIE	0.97	n/a
37	Environmental Biology of Fishes	13 of 200	SCIE	1.55	234 days
38	Journal of Biomechanics	13 of 200	SCIE	2.87	n/a
39	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	13 of 148	SCIE	1.88	122 days
40	Mathematical Biosciences	13 of 200	SCIE	2.52	n/a
41	Mineralogy and Petrology	13 of 132	SCIE	1.44	137 days
42	Vision Research	13 of 200	SCIE	2.07	n/a
43	Autonomic Neuroscience	12 of 200	SCIE	2.57	n/a
44	Canadian Journal of Chemistry	12 of 200	SCIE	1.02	n/a
45	Computer Graphics Forum	12 of 200	SCIE	2.44	n/a
46	Environmental Science Processes & Impacts	12 of 200	SCIE	3.37	n/a
47	Freshwater Biology	12 of 200	SCIE	2.00	268 days
48	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	12 of 200	SCIE	5.80	n/a
49	Hippocampus	12 of 185	SCIE	3.02	160 days
50	Journal of Great Lakes Research	12 of 200	SCIE	1.96	n/a

"Articles naming" counts the research articles (of up to 200 from the last 24 months) whose funder list names Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. *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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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

National Natural Science Foundation of China National Science Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft National Institutes of Health Japan Society for the Promotion of Science National Key Research and Development Program of China Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Agence Nationale de la Recherche Australian Research Council European Research Council Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo European Commission

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Frequently asked questions

Which journals publish the most Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada funded research?

In the recent research articles we checked, the journals that name Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada as a funder most often are FACETS, Botany, Arctic Science, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Canadian Journal of Microbiology. In all, 927 journals name it.

Does publishing in these journals help my Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant?

These journals already publish work supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada'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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada or these journals.