Biochemistry & Molecular Biology: 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Medicine	172
-	Cell	172
3	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	153
4	Nucleic Acids Research	138
5	Molecules	111
6	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	102
7	Molecular Cancer	95
8	Molecular Cell	89
9	Molecular Psychiatry	73
10	Molecular Plant	67
11	Current Biology	64
12	Nature Chemical Biology	62
13	Plant Cell	60
-	Free Radical Biology and Medicine	60
15	Cell Death and Differentiation	57
16	EMBO Journal	56
17	International Journal of Biological Sciences	55
-	Journal of Biological Chemistry	55
19	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	53
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	53
21	Trends in Microbiology	51
-	Journal of Molecular Biology	51
23	Bioorganic Chemistry	50
24	Oncogene	49
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	49
26	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	48
27	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	45
28	Trends in Molecular Medicine	44
-	Biomacromolecules	44
-	Food & Function	44
-	EMBO Reports	44
32	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	43
-	FEBS Journal	43
34	Molecular Biology and Evolution	42
-	Genome Research	42
36	Natural Product Reports	41
-	Chemico-Biological Interactions	41
-	Molecular Biology Reports	41
-	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal	41
40	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	38
-	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	38
42	Molecular Ecology	37
-	FASEB Journal	37
-	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology	37
-	Process Biochemistry	37
46	Cytokine	36
-	ACS Chemical Biology	36
-	Biochemical Journal	36
-	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	36
-	Molecular Medicine	36

-	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	36
-	Experimental and Molecular Medicine	36
53	Protein Science	35
-	Science Signaling	35
-	Current Medicinal Chemistry	35
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	35
-	Progress in Lipid Research	35
-	Essays in Biochemistry	35
-	ACS Chemical Neuroscience	35
60	Plant Science	34
-	Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry	34
-	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	34
-	Methods	34
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
-	Neurochemistry International	34
-	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	34
67	Bioelectrochemistry	33
-	Biological Trace Element Research	33
-	Biochemistry	33
70	Structure	32
-	Journal of Genetics and Genomics	32
-	Molecular Systems Biology	32
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	32
-	Journal of Food Biochemistry	32
-	Annual Review of Biochemistry	32
76	Neurochemical Research	31
-	Phytochemistry	31
-	Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics	31
-	Lipids in Health and Disease	31
-	Biochemical Society Transactions	31
-	Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics	31
82	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology	30
-	Molecular Immunology	30
-	European Journal of Human Genetics	30
-	ChemBioChem	30
86	Journal of Molecular Modeling	29
-	Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry	29
-	FEBS Letters	29
-	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	29
-	Journal of Neurochemistry	29
-	Bioscience Reports	29
-	Apoptosis	29
93	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology	28
-	Macromolecular Bioscience	28
-	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	28
-	Human Molecular Genetics	28
-	RNA	28
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	28
-	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics	28
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research	28
101	Biochimie	27
-	Bioconjugate Chemistry	27
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	27
-	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	27
105	Biofactors	26
-	Analytical Biochemistry	26
-	Plant Molecular Biology	26
-	Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications	26
-	Chemistry & Biodiversity	26
110	Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology	25
-	Proteomics	25
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	25
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	25
114	Carbohydrate Research	24
-	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	24
116	RNA Biology	23
-	Biometals	23
-	Molecular Biotechnology	23
-	IUBMB Life	23
-	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	23
121	Journal of Lipid Research	22
-	Amino Acids	22
-	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	22
-	Peptides	22
-	BioEssays	22
-	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience	22
-	Journal of Structural Biology	22
-	Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B	22
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	22
-	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	22
131	Photochemistry and Photobiology	21
-	Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	21
-	Matrix Biology	21
-	Molecular Carcinogenesis	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica	21
-	International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology	21
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes	21
-	Cell Biochemistry and Function	21
-	Gene Therapy	21
141	Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry	20
-	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry	20
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids	20
144	Addiction Biology	19
-	Biophysical Chemistry	19
-	Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry	19
-	Current Molecular Pharmacology	19
-	Molecular Reproduction and Development	19
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects	19
150	Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology	18
-	Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	18
-	Biomedical Chromatography	18
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology	18
-	Current Opinion in Lipidology	18
-	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry	18
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics	18
-	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy	18
158	DNA and Cell Biology	17
-	Epigenetics	17
-	Glycoconjugate Journal	17
-	Mammalian Genome	17
162	Journal of Molecular Recognition	16
-	Chemistry and Physics of Lipids	16
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	16
-	Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	16
-	Molecular Genetics and Genomics	16
-	Free Radical Research	16
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	16
-	Biochemistry-Moscow	16
-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	16
-	Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders	16
172	Protein Expression and Purification	15
-	Journal of Membrane Biology	15
-	Biological Chemistry	15
-	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics	15

-	International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics	15
-	Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design	15
-	Steroids	15
-	Extremophiles	15
-	Journal of Biochemistry	15
181	Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids	14
-	Yeast	14
-	Journal of Molecular Evolution	14
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	14
-	Current Drug Metabolism	14
-	Current Protein & Peptide Science	14
-	Genes & Genomics	14
-	Journal of Chemical Ecology	14
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms	14
-	Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators	14
-	Cellular and Molecular Biology	14
-	Molecular Biology	14
-	Insect Molecular Biology	14
-	Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry	14
195	Transgenic Research	13
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics	13
-	Biotechniques	13
-	Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology	13
-	Biochemistry and Cell Biology	13
-	Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry	13
-	Journal of Liposome Research	13
-	Biochemical Genetics	13
203	Biopolymers	12
-	Channels	12
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics	12
-	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	12
-	Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research	12
-	Current Genomics	12
-	Innate Immunity	12
210	Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology	11
-	Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids	11
-	Journal of Biomolecular Nmr	11
-	Protein Journal	11
-	Journal of Peptide Science	11
-	Chromosoma	11
216	Protein and Peptide Letters	10
-	Chromosome Research	10
-	Genetics and Molecular Biology	10
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences	10
-	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education	10
221	Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology	9
-	Protein Engineering Design & Selection	9
-	Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction	9
-	Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics	9
-	Hemoglobin	9
-	Biocatalysis and Biotransformation	9
227	Lipids	8
228	Chemoecology	7
-	Genes & Genetic Systems	7
230	Prion	6
-	Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry	6
-	Current Proteomics	6
-	Acta Biochimica Polonica	6
234	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
235	Trace Elements and Electrolytes	3
236	Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology	2
-	Turkish Journal of Biochemistry-Turk Biyokimya Dergisi	2