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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Medicine	173
2	Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy	167
-	Cell	167
4	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	160
5	Nucleic Acids Research	141
6	Molecules	116
7	Molecular Cancer	106
8	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	101
9	Antioxidants	96
10	Molecular Cell	89
11	Redox Biology	80
12	Molecular Psychiatry	75
-	Biomolecules	75
14	Biomedicines	73
15	Molecular Plant	70
16	Nature Chemical Biology	67
17	Current Biology	64
18	Plant Cell	62
-	International Journal of Biological Sciences	62
20	Free Radical Biology and Medicine	60
21	Cell Death and Differentiation	58
22	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	57
23	EMBO Journal	56
24	Journal of Biological Chemistry	55
25	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	53
26	Trends in Microbiology	52
-	Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences	52
28	Metabolites	51
-	Food & Function	51
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	51
31	Oncogene	50
32	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal	48
33	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	45
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	45
-	Trends in Molecular Medicine	45
-	Bioorganic Chemistry	45
37	Natural Product Reports	44
-	Journal of Molecular Biology	44
-	Molecular Biology and Evolution	44
-	Molecular Biology Reports	44
-	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	44
-	Genes & Diseases	44
-	Biomacromolecules	44
44	Chemico-Biological Interactions	42
45	EMBO Reports	41
46	Cell Chemical Biology	40
47	Genome Research	39
-	Process Biochemistry	39
-	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology	39
50	Cell and Bioscience	38

-	Cell Systems	38
-	FEBS Journal	38
53	FASEB Journal	37
-	Progress in Lipid Research	37
-	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	37
56	Science Signaling	36
-	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	36
-	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	36
-	Molecular Ecology	36
-	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	36
-	Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry	36
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	36
-	Annual Review of Biochemistry	36
64	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	35
-	Methods	35
66	Plant Science	34
-	Protein Science	34
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
-	ACS Chemical Neuroscience	34
-	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	34
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	34
-	Bioelectrochemistry	34
73	ACS Chemical Biology	33
-	Biochemical Society Transactions	33
-	Biological Trace Element Research	33
-	Current Medicinal Chemistry	33
-	Cytokine	33
-	Essays in Biochemistry	33
79	Apoptosis	32
-	Journal of Food Biochemistry	32
-	Structure	32
-	Molecular Medicine	32
83	Lipids in Health and Disease	31
-	Neurochemistry International	31
-	Journal of Genetics and Genomics	31
86	Neurochemical Research	30
-	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology	30
-	ChemBioChem	30
-	Molecular Immunology	30
-	European Journal of Human Genetics	30
-	FEBS Letters	30
-	Phytochemistry	30
-	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology	30
-	Biochemical Journal	30
95	Molecular Systems Biology	29
-	Biochemistry	29
-	Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics	29
-	Open Biology	29
-	Bioscience Reports	29
100	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	28
-	Journal of Neurochemistry	28
-	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	28
-	Journal of Molecular Modeling	28
-	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	28
-	Macromolecular Bioscience	28
-	Biochimie	28
107	Proteomics	27
-	RSC Medicinal Chemistry	27
-	Chemistry & Biodiversity	27
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	27
-	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	27
-	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics	27
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research	27
-	Bioconjugate Chemistry	27
-	Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications	27
-	Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry	27
-	Human Molecular Genetics	27
118	RNA	26
-	Analytical Biochemistry	26
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	26
-	Biofactors	26
122	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	25
-	Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics	25
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	25
-	Biomedical Journal	25
126	Molecular Biotechnology	24
-	Experimental and Molecular Medicine	24
-	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	24
-	Biometals	24
-	Journal of Lipid Research	24
131	Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology	23
-	Carbohydrate Research	23
-	Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B	23
-	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	23
-	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	23
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	23
-	Plant Molecular Biology	23
-	RNA Biology	23
-	Matrix Biology	23
-	FEBS Open Bio	23
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes	23
142	Cell Biochemistry and Function	22
-	Molecular Microbiology	22
-	BioEssays	22
145	Peptides	21
-	Photochemistry and Photobiology	21
-	Journal of Structural Biology	21
-	Molecular Carcinogenesis	21
-	Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica	21
-	Addiction Biology	21
-	International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology	21
152	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience	20
-	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry	20
-	Current Molecular Pharmacology	20
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	20
-	Gene Therapy	20
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects	20
-	Biophysical Chemistry	20
159	Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry	19
-	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics	19
-	Epigenetics	19
-	Amino Acids	19
-	Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry	19
-	IUBMB Life	19
165	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology	18
-	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry	18
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids	18
168	Steroids	17
-	Current Opinion in Lipidology	17
-	Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology	17
-	Biomedical Chromatography	17
-	Molecular Reproduction and Development	17
-	Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	17
-	Molecular Omics	17
-	DNA and Cell Biology	17

-	Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders	17
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	17
178	Molecular Genetics and Genomics	16
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics	16
-	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy	16
-	Journal of Molecular Recognition	16
-	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics	16
-	Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability	16
-	Free Radical Research	16
-	Glycoconjugate Journal	16
-	Biochemistry-Moscow	16
-	Journal of Biochemistry	16
-	Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design	16
189	Yeast	15
-	Cellular and Molecular Biology	15
-	Mammalian Genome	15
-	Insect Molecular Biology	15
-	International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics	15
-	Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	15
-	Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry	15
-	Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	15
-	Current Protein & Peptide Science	15
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms	15
-	Biological Chemistry	15
200	Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids	14
-	Protein Expression and Purification	14
-	Biotechniques	14
-	Biochemical Genetics	14
-	Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators	14
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	14
-	Channels	14
-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	14
-	Molecular Biology	14
-	Biochemistry and Cell Biology	14
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics	14
-	Journal of Membrane Biology	14
212	Biopolymers	13
-	Journal of Liposome Research	13
-	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	13
-	Journal of Molecular Evolution	13
-	Chemistry and Physics of Lipids	13
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	13
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics	13
-	Current Drug Metabolism	13
-	Extremophiles	13
-	Genes & Genomics	13
-	Journal of Chemical Ecology	13
223	Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology	12
-	Current Genomics	12
-	Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research	12
-	Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology	12
227	Protein and Peptide Letters	11
-	Journal of Peptide Science	11
-	Chromosoma	11
-	Innate Immunity	11
-	Protein Journal	11
-	Transgenic Research	11
-	Chromosome Research	11
-	Genetics and Molecular Biology	11
-	Journal of Biomolecular Nmr	11
236	Hemoglobin	10
-	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education	10
-	International Journal of Genomics	10
-	Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids	10
-	Protein Engineering Design & Selection	10
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences	10
242	Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction	9
-	Biocatalysis and Biotransformation	9
-	Lipids	9
245	Peptide Science	8
-	Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications	8
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology	8
248	Prion	7
-	Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics	7
-	Genes & Genetic Systems	7
-	Chemoecology	7
-	Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry	7
253	Current Proteomics	6
-	Acta Biochimica Polonica	6
255	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
256	Trace Elements and Electrolytes	2
-	Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology	2