New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Genetics & Heredity

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)
Rank Journal Impact Factor 2024
1 Nature Reviews Genetics ca. 52
2 Nature Genetics ca. 29
3 Trends in Ecology & Evolution ca. 17.3
4 Trends in Genetics ca. 16.3
5 Molecular Therapy ca. 12
6 Genome Medicine ca. 11.2
7 Annual Review of Genetics ca. 8.6
8 Horticulture Research ca. 8.5
9 American Journal of Human Genetics ca. 8.1
10 Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics ca. 7.9
- Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics ca. 7.9
12 Genes & Development ca. 7.7
13 Oncogene ca. 7.3
14 Journal of Genetics and Genomics ca. 7.1
15 Genetics in Medicine ca. 6.2
16 Circulation-Genomic and Precision Medicine ca. 5.5
- Genome Research ca. 5.5
- Molecular Autism ca. 5.5
19 Molecular Biology and Evolution ca. 5.3
20 Biology of Sex Differences ca. 5.1
21 Cancer Gene Therapy ca. 5
22 Genes and Nutrition ca. 4.9
23 npj Genomic Medicine ca. 4.8
24 European Journal of Human Genetics ca. 4.6
25 Genes and Immunity ca. 4.5
- Gene Therapy ca. 4.5
- Mitochondrion ca. 4.5
28 Clinical Epigenetics ca. 4.4
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C-Seminars in Medical Genetics ca. 4.4
- Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy ca. 4.4
31 Mutagenesis ca. 4.3
32 Journal of Molecular Medicine-Jmm ca. 4.2
- Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research ca. 4.2
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics ca. 4.2
35 Human Gene Therapy ca. 4
- Microbial Genomics ca. 4
- CRISPR Journal ca. 4
38 Heredity ca. 3.9
39 Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease ca. 3.8
- Plant Genome ca. 3.8
- Genetic Epidemiology ca. 3.8
42 Human Mutation ca. 3.7
- PLoS Genetics ca. 3.7
- Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 3.7
- BMC Genomics ca. 3.7
- Neurology-Genetics ca. 3.7
47 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ca. 3.6
- Human Genetics ca. 3.6
- Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ca. 3.6
50 Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases ca. 3.5
- Epigenetics & Chromatin ca. 3.5
- Molecular Genetics and Metabolism ca. 3.5
53 Current Gene Therapy ca. 3.3
54 Human Molecular Genetics ca. 3.2
- Epigenetics ca. 3.2
56 Mobile DNA ca. 3.1
- Forensic Science International-Genetics ca. 3.1
- Functional & Integrative Genomics ca. 3.1
59 Molecular Breeding ca. 3
- Genomics ca. 3
61 Pharmacogenomics Journal ca. 2.9
- Immunogenetics ca. 2.9
- DNA Research ca. 2.9
64 Genes Chromosomes & Cancer ca. 2.8
- Genome Biology and Evolution ca. 2.8
- Chromosome Research ca. 2.8
- Frontiers in Genetics ca. 2.8
- Genes ca. 2.8
69 Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics ca. 2.7
- DNA Repair ca. 2.7
- Mammalian Genome ca. 2.7
- Prenatal Diagnosis ca. 2.7
73 BMC Ecology and Evolution ca. 2.6
- Cancer Genomics & Proteomics ca. 2.6
- Evolution ca. 2.6
- DNA and Cell Biology ca. 2.6
- Epigenomics ca. 2.6
78 Journal of Heredity ca. 2.5
- Mutation Research-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis ca. 2.5
- Genesis ca. 2.5
- Journal of Human Genetics ca. 2.5
- Briefings in Functional Genomics ca. 2.5
- Physiological Genomics ca. 2.5
- Hereditas ca. 2.5
85 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics ca. 2.4
- Gene ca. 2.4
87 Chromosoma ca. 2.3
- Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis ca. 2.3
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology ca. 2.3
- Clinical Genetics ca. 2.3
- Fungal Genetics and Biology ca. 2.3
92 Journal of Gene Medicine ca. 2.2
- G3-Genes Genomes Genetics ca. 2.2
- Behavior Genetics ca. 2.2
- Plasmid ca. 2.2
96 Animal Genetics ca. 2.1
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics ca. 2.1
- Cancer Genetics ca. 2.1
- Evolutionary Ecology ca. 2.1
- Genetics Research ca. 2.1
101 Journal of Neurogenetics ca. 2
- BMC Medical Genomics ca. 2
- Evolution & Development ca. 2
- Familial Cancer ca. 2
105 International Journal of Genomics ca. 1.9
- Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports ca. 1.9
- Journal of Applied Genetics ca. 1.9
- Journal of Genetic Counseling ca. 1.9
- Virus Genes ca. 1.9
110 Journal of Molecular Evolution ca. 1.8
111 Conservation Genetics ca. 1.7
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ca. 1.7
- Cellular Reprogramming ca. 1.7
- Pharmacogenetics and Genomics ca. 1.7
- European Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 1.7
- Genes & Genomics ca. 1.7
- Genome ca. 1.7
118 Biochemical Genetics ca. 1.6
- Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine ca. 1.6
- Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression ca. 1.6
- Current Genetics ca. 1.6
- Tree Genetics & Genomes ca. 1.6
123 Human Heredity ca. 1.5
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics ca. 1.5
- Marine Genomics ca. 1.5
- New Genetics and Society ca. 1.5
- Public Health Genomics ca. 1.5
128 Molecular Cytogenetics ca. 1.4
- Current Genomics ca. 1.4
- Psychiatric Genetics ca. 1.4
- Medizinische Genetik ca. 1.4
132 Cytogenetic and Genome Research ca. 1.3
- Theoretical Population Biology ca. 1.3
- Genes to Cells ca. 1.3
- Genetica ca. 1.3
- Genetics and Molecular Biology ca. 1.3
137 Journal of Genetics ca. 1.2
- Neurogenetics ca. 1.2
- Twin Research and Human Genetics ca. 1.2
- Genes & Genetic Systems ca. 1.2
- Annals of Human Genetics ca. 1.2
142 International Journal of Immunogenetics ca. 1.1
- Gene Expression Patterns ca. 1.1
144 Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers ca. 1
- Ophthalmic Genetics ca. 1
146 Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 0.9
- Molecular Syndromology ca. 0.9
- Comparative Cytogenetics ca. 0.9
- Conservation Genetics Resources ca. 0.9
150 Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources ca. 0.7
151 Mitochondrial DNA Part A ca. 0.6
152 Cytology and Genetics ca. 0.5
- Russian Journal of Genetics ca. 0.5
- Clinical Dysmorphology ca. 0.5
155 Cytologia ca. 0.4
156 International Journal of Human Genetics ca. 0.1
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