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 Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics ca. 7.9
- Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics 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 Molecular Autism ca. 5.5
- Circulation-Genomic and Precision Medicine ca. 5.5
- Genome Research 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 Gene Therapy ca. 4.5
- Genes and Immunity 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
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics ca. 4.2
- Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research ca. 4.2
35 CRISPR Journal ca. 4
- Microbial Genomics ca. 4
- Human Gene Therapy ca. 4
38 Heredity ca. 3.9
39 Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease ca. 3.8
- Genetic Epidemiology ca. 3.8
- Plant Genome ca. 3.8
42 Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 3.7
- BMC Genomics ca. 3.7
- PLoS Genetics ca. 3.7
- Human Mutation ca. 3.7
- Neurology-Genetics ca. 3.7
47 Human Genetics ca. 3.6
- Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ca. 3.6
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ca. 3.6
50 Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases ca. 3.5
- Molecular Genetics and Metabolism ca. 3.5
- Epigenetics & Chromatin ca. 3.5
53 Current Gene Therapy ca. 3.3
54 Epigenetics ca. 3.2
- Human Molecular Genetics ca. 3.2
56 Forensic Science International-Genetics ca. 3.1
- Functional & Integrative Genomics ca. 3.1
- Mobile DNA ca. 3.1
59 Molecular Breeding ca. 3
- Genomics ca. 3
61 Pharmacogenomics Journal ca. 2.9
- DNA Research ca. 2.9
- Immunogenetics ca. 2.9
64 Frontiers in Genetics ca. 2.8
- Genes Chromosomes & Cancer ca. 2.8
- Chromosome Research ca. 2.8
- Genome Biology and Evolution ca. 2.8
- Genes ca. 2.8
69 DNA Repair ca. 2.7
- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics ca. 2.7
- Prenatal Diagnosis ca. 2.7
- Mammalian Genome ca. 2.7
73 Cancer Genomics & Proteomics ca. 2.6
- DNA and Cell Biology ca. 2.6
- BMC Ecology and Evolution ca. 2.6
- Epigenomics ca. 2.6
- Evolution ca. 2.6
78 Journal of Heredity ca. 2.5
- Hereditas ca. 2.5
- Mutation Research-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis ca. 2.5
- Journal of Human Genetics ca. 2.5
- Briefings in Functional Genomics ca. 2.5
- Physiological Genomics ca. 2.5
- Genesis ca. 2.5
85 Gene ca. 2.4
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics ca. 2.4
87 Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis ca. 2.3
- Clinical Genetics ca. 2.3
- Chromosoma ca. 2.3
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology ca. 2.3
- Fungal Genetics and Biology ca. 2.3
92 Plasmid ca. 2.2
- Journal of Gene Medicine ca. 2.2
- G3-Genes Genomes Genetics ca. 2.2
- Behavior Genetics ca. 2.2
96 Animal Genetics ca. 2.1
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics ca. 2.1
- Cancer Genetics ca. 2.1
- Genetics Research ca. 2.1
- Evolutionary Ecology ca. 2.1
101 Journal of Neurogenetics ca. 2
- Evolution & Development ca. 2
- BMC Medical Genomics ca. 2
- Familial Cancer ca. 2
105 Journal of Genetic Counseling ca. 1.9
- Virus Genes ca. 1.9
- International Journal of Genomics ca. 1.9
- Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports ca. 1.9
- Journal of Applied Genetics ca. 1.9
110 Journal of Molecular Evolution ca. 1.8
111 Genes & Genomics ca. 1.7
- European Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 1.7
- Genome ca. 1.7
- Cellular Reprogramming ca. 1.7
- Conservation Genetics ca. 1.7
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ca. 1.7
- Pharmacogenetics and Genomics ca. 1.7
118 Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine ca. 1.6
- Tree Genetics & Genomes ca. 1.6
- Biochemical Genetics ca. 1.6
- Current Genetics ca. 1.6
- Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression ca. 1.6
123 American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics ca. 1.5
- Public Health Genomics ca. 1.5
- New Genetics and Society ca. 1.5
- Marine Genomics ca. 1.5
- Human Heredity ca. 1.5
128 Current Genomics ca. 1.4
- Psychiatric Genetics ca. 1.4
- Molecular Cytogenetics ca. 1.4
- Medizinische Genetik ca. 1.4
132 Genetica ca. 1.3
- Genes to Cells ca. 1.3
- Genetics and Molecular Biology ca. 1.3
- Cytogenetic and Genome Research ca. 1.3
- Theoretical Population Biology ca. 1.3
137 Genes & Genetic Systems ca. 1.2
- Annals of Human Genetics ca. 1.2
- Neurogenetics ca. 1.2
- Twin Research and Human Genetics ca. 1.2
- Journal of Genetics ca. 1.2
142 Gene Expression Patterns ca. 1.1
- International Journal of Immunogenetics ca. 1.1
144 Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers ca. 1
- Ophthalmic Genetics ca. 1
146 Molecular Syndromology ca. 0.9
- Conservation Genetics Resources ca. 0.9
- Comparative Cytogenetics ca. 0.9
- Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics 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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