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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Computers in Biology and Medicine	96
2	eLife	83
3	Current Biology	67
4	Communications Biology	62
5	Biology-Basel	58
-	Life-Basel	58
7	Biological Reviews	51
8	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	49
9	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	44
10	Science China-Life Sciences	38
-	BMC Biology	38
12	FASEB Journal	37
13	Bioelectrochemistry	34
14	Bioscience	33
15	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
16	Current Opinion in Insect Science	28
17	Journal of Experimental Biology	27
-	Life Science Alliance	27
19	Journal of Thermal Biology	26
20	Computational Biology and Chemistry	25
21	Astrobiology	23
-	Biology Direct	23
-	Physics of Life Reviews	23
24	BioEssays	22
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	22
-	Microscopy Research and Technique	22
27	International Journal of Radiation Biology	21
28	Journal of Mathematical Biology	20
29	Biometrika	18
-	Biosystems	18
-	Bioscience Trends	18
32	Biology Open	17
33	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	16
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	16
-	Biometrics	16
-	Chronobiology International	16
37	Journal of Biological Rhythms	15
-	Open Life Sciences	15
-	Radiation Research	15
40	American Journal of Human Biology	14
-	Cryobiology	14
-	Mathematical Biosciences	14
43	Geobiology	13
-	Journal of Radiation Research	13
-	Biocell	13
-	Biological Bulletin	13
-	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	13
48	Biologia	12
-	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	12
50	Biologia Futura	11

-	Journal of Biosciences	11
52	Synthetic Biology	10
-	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	10
-	Aerobiologia	10
-	Biology Bulletin	10
-	Integrative Organismal Biology	10
-	Journal of Biological Systems	10
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	10
59	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	9
-	Theory in Biosciences	9
-	Journal of Biological Education	9
62	Annals of Human Biology	8
-	International Journal of Astrobiology	8
-	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	8
-	Bioelectromagnetics	8
-	Biological Rhythm Research	8
67	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	7
-	Quarterly Review of Biology	7
69	American Biology Teacher	6
-	Bioscience Journal	6
71	Archives of Biological Sciences	5
-	Folia Biologica-Krakow	5
-	Journal of the History of Biology	5
-	Revista de Biologia Tropical	5
75	Biology Letters	4
76	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	2