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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Methods	101
2	Briefings in Bioinformatics	72
3	Nature Protocols	65
4	Bioinformatics	59
5	BMC Bioinformatics	45
-	Lab on a Chip	45
7	Current Opinion in Biotechnology	43
8	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	42
9	ACS Synthetic Biology	40
-	Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry	40
11	Journal of Chromatography A	35
12	Journal of Proteome Research	34
13	Methods	33
14	Molecular & Cellular Proteomics	31
15	Biomedical Optics Express	30
16	Plant Methods	29
17	IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience	28
-	Journal of Fluorescence	28
-	Journal of Neuroscience Methods	28
20	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	27
-	Analytical Biochemistry	27
22	Proteomics	26
-	Bioconjugate Chemistry	26
24	Journal of Chromatography B-Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences	24
-	Biotechnology Journal	24
26	New Biotechnology	23
-	Electrophoresis	23
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	23
-	Journal of Biological Engineering	23
-	Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry	23
31	Journal of Biomedical Optics	22
-	Drug Testing and Analysis	22
33	Journal of Virological Methods	21
-	SLAS Discovery	21
35	Biochip Journal	20
-	Journal of Proteomics	20
37	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
38	Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening	18
-	Cytometry Part A	18
-	Biomedical Chromatography	18
-	Journal of Biophotonics	18
42	Journal of Magnetic Resonance	17
43	SLAS Technology	16
-	IET Nanobiotechnology	16
-	Biomicrofluidics	16
-	Clinical Proteomics	16
-	Expert Review of Proteomics	16
48	Journal of Immunological Methods	15
-	Phytochemical Analysis	15
-	Protein Expression and Purification	15

-	Current Bioinformatics	15
52	Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry	14
-	Bioanalysis	14
-	Biological Procedures Online	14
-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	14
56	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	13
-	Biotechniques	13
-	Journal of Mass Spectrometry	13
59	Transgenic Research	12
-	Proteomics Clinical Applications	12
61	Assay and Drug Development Technologies	11
-	Journal of Chromatographic Science	11
63	Biologicals	10
-	Journal of Spectroscopy	10
-	Synthetic Biology	10
66	Chromatographia	9
-	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter	9
68	Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications	8
-	Algorithms for Molecular Biology	8
-	Molecular Imaging	8
71	Journal of Labelled Compounds & Radiopharmaceuticals	7
72	Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies	6
-	Current Proteomics	6