Biochemistry & Molecular Biology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy	179
2	Cell	172
3	Nature Medicine	169
4	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	162
5	Nucleic Acids Research	137
6	Molecules	125
7	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	108
8	Molecular Cancer	103
9	Antioxidants	102
10	Redox Biology	93
11	Molecular Cell	86
12	Biomolecules	80
13	Biomedicines	79
14	Molecular Psychiatry	74
15	Molecular Plant	67
16	Nature Chemical Biology	66
17	Plant Cell	65
18	Current Biology	60
19	Free Radical Biology and Medicine	59
20	International Journal of Biological Sciences	57
21	Trends in Microbiology	56
22	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	55
-	Journal of Biological Chemistry	55
24	EMBO Journal	54
25	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	53
-	Metabolites	53
27	Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences	52
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	52
29	Cell Death and Differentiation	51
30	Oncogene	50
31	Trends in Molecular Medicine	48
32	Molecular Biology Reports	47
-	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	47
-	Genes & Diseases	47
35	Chemico-Biological Interactions	45
-	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	45
-	Bioorganic Chemistry	45
-	Food & Function	45
39	Journal of Molecular Biology	43
-	Cell Chemical Biology	43
-	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal	43
42	EMBO Reports	42
43	Biomacromolecules	41
44	Process Biochemistry	40
-	Cell and Bioscience	40
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	40
-	Natural Product Reports	40
-	Molecular Biology and Evolution	40
-	Annual Review of Biochemistry	40
50	Apoptosis	39

-	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	39
-	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	39
53	FASEB Journal	38
-	Genome Research	38
-	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	38
56	Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry	37
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	37
-	Protein Science	37
-	Lipids in Health and Disease	37
-	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology	37
61	Plant Science	36
-	Science Signaling	36
-	Molecular Ecology	36
-	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	36
65	Cell Systems	35
-	ACS Chemical Neuroscience	35
-	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	35
68	Progress in Lipid Research	34
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
-	Biochemical Society Transactions	34
-	Biological Trace Element Research	34
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	34
73	Methods	33
-	Essays in Biochemistry	33
-	Journal of Genetics and Genomics	33
-	FEBS Journal	33
-	Bioelectrochemistry	33
78	Chemistry & Biodiversity	32
-	Current Medicinal Chemistry	32
-	Journal of Neurochemistry	32
81	Phytochemistry	31
-	Structure	31
-	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	31
-	Molecular Systems Biology	31
-	Neurochemical Research	31
-	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology	31
-	Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics	31
88	Neurochemistry International	30
-	Journal of Molecular Modeling	30
-	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology	30
-	Macromolecular Bioscience	30
-	ChemBioChem	30
-	Cytokine	30
-	ACS Chemical Biology	30
-	FEBS Letters	30
96	Molecular Medicine	29
-	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics	29
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research	29
-	Bioconjugate Chemistry	29
-	Proteomics	29
-	RSC Medicinal Chemistry	29
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	29
-	Bioscience Reports	29
-	European Journal of Human Genetics	29
-	Journal of Food Biochemistry	29
106	Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry	28
-	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	28
-	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	28
109	Biochemistry	27
-	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	27
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	27
-	Molecular Biotechnology	27
-	Human Molecular Genetics	27
-	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	27
115	Journal of Lipid Research	26
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	26
-	Biomedical Journal	26
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	26
-	Biochemical Journal	26
-	Biochimie	26
-	Biofactors	26
122	Open Biology	25
-	Matrix Biology	25
-	Analytical Biochemistry	25
-	BioEssays	25
-	Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology	25
-	RNA	25
128	Current Molecular Pharmacology	24
-	Molecular Immunology	24
130	Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics	23
-	RNA Biology	23
-	Carbohydrate Research	23
-	Cell Biochemistry and Function	23
-	Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica	23
-	Biometals	23
-	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	23
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	23
138	Gene Therapy	22
-	Peptides	22
-	Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B	22
-	FEBS Open Bio	22
-	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	22
-	International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology	22
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes	22
145	Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology	21
-	IUBMB Life	21
-	Photochemistry and Photobiology	21
-	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry	21
-	Journal of Structural Biology	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	21
152	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	20
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects	20
-	Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry	20
-	Molecular Carcinogenesis	20
-	Epigenetics	20
157	Plant Molecular Biology	19
-	Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability	19
-	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry	19
-	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics	19
-	Current Opinion in Lipidology	19
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	19
163	Molecular Reproduction and Development	18
-	Biomedical Chromatography	18
-	Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	18
-	Addiction Biology	18
-	Steroids	18
-	Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry	18
-	Biochemistry-Moscow	18
170	Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry	17
-	Amino Acids	17
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics	17
-	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics	17
-	Biophysical Chemistry	17
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology	17

-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms	17
177	Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	16
-	Journal of Molecular Recognition	16
-	Journal of Biochemistry	16
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids	16
-	Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design	16
-	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience	16
-	Journal of Peptide Science	16
-	Channels	16
-	Current Genomics	16
-	Molecular Genetics and Genomics	16
-	Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders	16
-	Free Radical Research	16
-	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy	16
-	Biological Chemistry	16
191	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	15
-	Journal of Molecular Evolution	15
-	Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	15
-	Current Protein & Peptide Science	15
-	DNA and Cell Biology	15
-	Biochemical Genetics	15
-	Insect Molecular Biology	15
-	Protein and Peptide Letters	15
-	Yeast	15
-	Genes & Genomics	15
-	Glycoconjugate Journal	15
-	Biochemistry and Cell Biology	15
203	Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators	14
-	Journal of Membrane Biology	14
-	Biopolymers	14
-	Biotechniques	14
-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	14
-	Current Drug Metabolism	14
-	Molecular Omics	14
-	Journal of Liposome Research	14
-	Mammalian Genome	14
-	Extremophiles	14
213	Cellular and Molecular Biology	13
-	Protein Expression and Purification	13
-	Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research	13
-	Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology	13
217	Protein Journal	12
-	Transgenic Research	12
-	Molecular Biology	12
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	12
-	Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications	12
-	Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids	12
-	Chemistry and Physics of Lipids	12
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics	12
225	Protein Engineering Design & Selection	11
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences	11
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	11
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics	11
-	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education	11
-	Journal of Biomolecular Nmr	11
-	Journal of Chemical Ecology	11
-	Genetics and Molecular Biology	11
233	Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids	10
-	Chromosoma	10
-	Biocatalysis and Biotransformation	10
-	Innate Immunity	10
-	International Journal of Genomics	10
-	Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology	10
239	Peptide Science	9
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology	9
241	Lipids	8
-	Hemoglobin	8
-	Prion	8
-	Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction	8
-	Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics	8
246	Genes & Genetic Systems	7
-	Current Proteomics	7
-	Acta Biochimica Polonica	7
249	Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications	6
250	Chemoecology	5
251	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
-	Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry	4
253	Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology	2
-	Trace Elements and Electrolytes	2