Biochemical Research Methods: 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Methods	103
2	Briefings in Bioinformatics	71
3	Nature Protocols	65
4	Bioinformatics	58
5	Lab on a Chip	48
6	BMC Bioinformatics	46
7	Current Opinion in Biotechnology	45
8	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	42
9	Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry	41
10	ACS Synthetic Biology	40
11	Journal of Chromatography A	35
-	Methods	35
13	Journal of Proteome Research	34
14	Molecular & Cellular Proteomics	33
15	Journal of Fluorescence	29
-	Biomedical Optics Express	29
-	Plant Methods	29
18	IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience	28
-	Journal of Neuroscience Methods	28
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	28
21	Bioconjugate Chemistry	27
-	Proteomics	27
23	Analytical Biochemistry	26
24	Journal of Biological Engineering	24
-	Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry	24
-	Journal of Chromatography B-Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences	24
-	New Biotechnology	24
28	Biotechnology Journal	23
29	Journal of Biomedical Optics	22
30	Drug Testing and Analysis	21
-	Biochip Journal	21
32	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	20
-	Journal of Proteomics	20
-	Electrophoresis	20
35	Journal of Biophotonics	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Journal of Virological Methods	19
38	Clinical Proteomics	18
-	Journal of Magnetic Resonance	18
40	Biomedical Chromatography	17
-	SLAS Discovery	17
-	Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening	17
-	IET Nanobiotechnology	17
-	SLAS Technology	17
45	Biomicrofluidics	16
-	Cytometry Part A	16
47	Biological Procedures Online	15
-	Current Bioinformatics	15
-	Phytochemical Analysis	15
50	Expert Review of Proteomics	14

-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	14
-	Protein Expression and Purification	14
-	Biotechniques	14
-	Journal of Immunological Methods	14
-	Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry	14
56	Bioanalysis	13
-	Proteomics Clinical Applications	13
-	Journal of Mass Spectrometry	13
-	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	13
60	Journal of Chromatographic Science	12
61	Transgenic Research	11
62	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter	10
-	Synthetic Biology	10
-	Assay and Drug Development Technologies	10
-	Biologicals	10
-	Chromatographia	10
67	Molecular Imaging	9
-	Journal of Spectroscopy	9
69	Algorithms for Molecular Biology	8
-	Journal of Labelled Compounds & Radiopharmaceuticals	8
-	Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications	8
72	Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies	7
73	Current Proteomics	6