New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Biology & Biochemistry

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 Microbiology ca. 103.3
2 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery ca. 101.8
3 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ca. 90.2
4 Nature Reviews Genetics ca. 52
5 Nature Medicine ca. 50
6 Cancer Cell ca. 44.5
7 Cell ca. 42.5
8 Nature Biotechnology ca. 41.7
9 Annual Review of Pathology-Mechanisms of Disease ca. 34.5
10 Molecular Cancer ca. 33.9
11 Nature Methods ca. 32.1
12 Cell Metabolism ca. 30.9
13 Energy & Environmental Science ca. 30.8
14 Nature Genetics ca. 29
15 Physiological Reviews ca. 28.7
16 Nature Climate Change ca. 27.1
- Nature Sustainability ca. 27.1
18 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science ca. 27
19 Cell Research ca. 25.9
20 Fungal Diversity ca. 24.8
21 Molecular Plant ca. 24.1
22 Drug Resistance Updates ca. 21.7
23 Lancet Planetary Health ca. 21.6
24 Annual Review of Biochemistry ca. 20.5
25 Environmental Chemistry Letters ca. 20.4
- Cell Stem Cell ca. 20.4
27 Trends in Pharmacological Sciences ca. 19.9
28 Nature Microbiology ca. 19.4
29 Clinical Microbiology Reviews ca. 19.3
30 Nature Cell Biology ca. 19.1
- Annual Review of Physiology ca. 19.1
32 Annual Review of Marine Science ca. 18.9
33 Cell Host & Microbe ca. 18.7
34 Trends in Cell Biology ca. 18.1
35 Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews ca. 17.6
36 Pharmacological Reviews ca. 17.3
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution ca. 17.3
38 Trends in Cognitive Sciences ca. 17.2
39 Annual Review of Entomology ca. 16.7
40 Molecular Cell ca. 16.6
41 Trends in Genetics ca. 16.3
42 Human Reproduction Update ca. 16.1
43 Nature Protocols ca. 16
44 Nature Human Behaviour ca. 15.9
45 Cell Death and Differentiation ca. 15.4
- Trends in Food Science & Technology ca. 15.4
47 Trends in Biotechnology ca. 14.9
- Progress in Lipid Research ca. 14.9
- Trends in Microbiology ca. 14.9
50 Endocrine Pathology ca. 14.7
51 Science Translational Medicine ca. 14.6
- Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B ca. 14.6
53 Journal of Extracellular Vesicles ca. 14.5
- Nature Ecology & Evolution ca. 14.5
55 Drugs ca. 14.4
56 Autophagy ca. 14.3
- Physics of Life Reviews ca. 14.3
58 Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety ca. 14.1
59 Trends in Molecular Medicine ca. 13.8
60 Nature Chemical Biology ca. 13.7
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences ca. 13.7
- Annual Review of Biophysics ca. 13.7
63 Biochar ca. 13.5
64 Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry ca. 13.4
65 Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology ca. 13.2
66 Nucleic Acids Research ca. 13.1
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology ca. 13.1
68 Experimental and Molecular Medicine ca. 12.9
69 Protein & Cell ca. 12.8
70 Microbiome ca. 12.7
71 Journal of Nanobiotechnology ca. 12.6
72 Cell Discovery ca. 12.5
- Pharmacology & Therapeutics ca. 12.5
- Biotechnology Advances ca. 12.5
75 Food Hydrocolloids ca. 12.4
- Ageing Research Reviews ca. 12.4
- Water Research ca. 12.4
- Annual Review of Food Science and Technology ca. 12.4
79 FEMS Microbiology Reviews ca. 12.3
80 Global Change Biology ca. 12
- Molecular Therapy ca. 12
82 Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences ca. 11.9
- Redox Biology ca. 11.9
84 Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews ca. 11.8
85 Biological Reviews ca. 11.7
- Brain ca. 11.7
87 Plant Cell ca. 11.6
- Medicinal Research Reviews ca. 11.6
89 Journal of Controlled Release ca. 11.5
90 Remote Sensing of Environment ca. 11.4
- npj Clean Water ca. 11.4
- Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology ca. 11.4
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics ca. 11.4
94 Reviews in Aquaculture ca. 11.3
- Environmental Science & Technology ca. 11.3
- Journal of Hazardous Materials ca. 11.3
97 Genome Medicine ca. 11.2
98 Human Reproduction Open ca. 11.1
99 Gut Microbes ca. 11
- Trends in Biochemical Sciences ca. 11
101 Resources Conservation and Recycling ca. 10.9
102 Food Packaging and Shelf Life ca. 10.6
- Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio-Technology ca. 10.6
- Natural Product Reports ca. 10.6
105 Pharmacological Research ca. 10.5
- Plant Biotechnology Journal ca. 10.5
- Biosensors & Bioelectronics ca. 10.5
108 Physiology ca. 10.3
- Molecular Aspects of Medicine ca. 10.3
110 Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters ca. 10.2
111 Journal of Neuroinflammation ca. 10.1
- Molecular Psychiatry ca. 10.1
- Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ca. 10.1
114 ISME Journal ca. 10
- Journal of Cleaner Production ca. 10
- International Journal of Biological Sciences ca. 10
117 Annual Review of Microbiology ca. 9.9
118 Environmental Health Perspectives ca. 9.8
- Food Chemistry ca. 9.8
120 Sleep Medicine Reviews ca. 9.7
- Environment International ca. 9.7
122 Cell Death & Disease ca. 9.6
- Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment ca. 9.6
124 Science China-Life Sciences ca. 9.5
125 Acta Neuropathologica ca. 9.3
- Journal of Integrative Plant Biology ca. 9.3
127 Energy Policy ca. 9.2
- Seminars in Immunopathology ca. 9.2
- npj Biofilms and Microbiomes ca. 9.2
130 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions ca. 9.1
- Current Opinion in Food Science ca. 9.1
132 Biological Psychiatry ca. 9
- Bioresource Technology ca. 9
134 Cell Communication and Signaling ca. 8.9
- Communications Earth & Environment ca. 8.9
- Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ca. 8.9
- Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis ca. 8.9
138 Environmental Science & Technology Letters ca. 8.8
- Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition ca. 8.8
140 Developmental Cell ca. 8.7
- Annual Review of Animal Biosciences ca. 8.7
142 Annual Review of Genetics ca. 8.6
143 Clinical Microbiology and Infection ca. 8.5
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ca. 8.5
- Horticulture Research ca. 8.5
146 Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology ca. 8.4
- Brain Stimulation ca. 8.4
- Journal of Environmental Management ca. 8.4
- Acta Pharmacologica Sinica ca. 8.4
- Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management ca. 8.4
151 Phytomedicine ca. 8.3
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer ca. 8.3
- EMBO Journal ca. 8.3
- Annual Review of Virology ca. 8.3
155 Earths Future ca. 8.2
- Food Chemistry-X ca. 8.2
- Water Research X ca. 8.2
- Particle and Fibre Toxicology ca. 8.2
- Free Radical Biology and Medicine ca. 8.2
160 Apoptosis ca. 8.1
- American Journal of Human Genetics ca. 8.1
- Current Pollution Reports ca. 8.1
- Drug Delivery ca. 8.1
- Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews ca. 8.1
165 Science of the Total Environment ca. 8
- Food Research International ca. 8
167 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews ca. 7.9
- Journal of Headache and Pain ca. 7.9
- Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics ca. 7.9
- Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics ca. 7.9
171 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews ca. 7.8
- npj Science of Food ca. 7.8
173 Environmental Research ca. 7.7
- Critical Reviews in Biotechnology ca. 7.7
- Molecular Systems Biology ca. 7.7
- Annals of Neurology ca. 7.7
- Cell Systems ca. 7.7
- Briefings in Bioinformatics ca. 7.7
- British Journal of Pharmacology ca. 7.7
- Genes & Development ca. 7.7
181 Food Engineering Reviews ca. 7.6
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ca. 7.6
- Brain Behavior and Immunity ca. 7.6
- Alzheimers Research & Therapy ca. 7.6
- Bioscience ca. 7.6
186 Drug Discovery Today ca. 7.5
- Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy ca. 7.5
- Emerging Microbes & Infections ca. 7.5
- Current Opinion in Microbiology ca. 7.5
- Current Biology ca. 7.5
- Neurology-Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation ca. 7.5
- Archives of Pharmacal Research ca. 7.5
193 Ecological Indicators ca. 7.4
- Food Science and Human Wellness ca. 7.4
- Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders ca. 7.4
- CNS Drugs ca. 7.4
197 Environmental Pollution ca. 7.3
- Clinical Infectious Diseases ca. 7.3
- Stem Cell Research & Therapy ca. 7.3
- Oncogene ca. 7.3
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