Biology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Biological Reviews	22
2	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	17
3	eLife	14
-	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	14
-	Computers in Biology and Medicine	14
-	Current Biology	14
7	Bioelectrochemistry	13
8	BMC Biology	12
-	Communications Biology	12
10	Current Opinion in Insect Science	11
11	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	10
-	Journal of Biosciences	10
13	Life Science Alliance	9
-	Science China-Life Sciences	9
15	Biology-Basel	8
-	Biology Direct	8
-	Astrobiology	8
18	Bioscience Trends	7
-	Biometrika	7
-	Geobiology	7
-	Journal of Biological Rhythms	7
-	Life-Basel	7
23	Biologia	6
-	Bioscience	6
-	Computational Biology and Chemistry	6
-	Integrative Organismal Biology	6
-	Journal of Thermal Biology	6
-	Synthetic Biology	6
29	Chronobiology International	5
-	International Journal of Radiation Biology	5
-	Journal of Mathematical Biology	5
-	Aerobiologia	5
-	BioEssays	5
-	Biosystems	5
-	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	5
-	Journal of Experimental Biology	5
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	5
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	5
39	Biological Bulletin	4
-	Mathematical Biosciences	4
-	Microscopy Research and Technique	4
-	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	4
-	Theory in Biosciences	4
-	Biologia Futura	4
-	Biology Open	4
-	Journal of Radiation Research	4
-	Radiation Research	4
48	Biology Letters	3
-	Biometrics	3
-	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	3

-	Journal of Biological Education	3
-	Journal of Biological Systems	3
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	3
-	American Journal of Human Biology	3
-	Biocell	3
-	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	3
-	International Journal of Astrobiology	3
-	Open Life Sciences	3
-	Annals of Human Biology	3
60	Bioelectromagnetics	2
-	Biological Rhythm Research	2
-	Folia Biologica-Krakow	2
-	Archives of Biological Sciences	2
-	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	2
-	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	2
-	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	2
-	Physics of Life Reviews	2
68	Biology Bulletin	1
-	Cryobiology	1
-	Journal of the History of Biology	1
-	Revista de Biologia Tropical	1
-	Bioscience Journal	1
-	FASEB Journal	1
74	Quarterly Review of Biology	0
-	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	0
-	American Biology Teacher	0