Biology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Biological Reviews	19.834
2	Computers in Biology and Medicine	12.545
3	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	11.877
4	eLife	11.385
5	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	10.880
6	Current Biology	10.542
7	Bioelectrochemistry	9.166
8	Bioscience	8.919
9	BMC Biology	8.591
10	Science China-Life Sciences	7.982
11	Bioscience Trends	7.886
12	Journal of Biosciences	7.222
13	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	6.685
14	Astrobiology	5.964
15	Journal of Biological Rhythms	5.862
16	Journal of Thermal Biology	5.344
17	Biology Direct	4.920
18	Biologia	4.798
19	Computational Biology and Chemistry	3.952
20	Aerobiologia	3.945
21	Journal of Ethnobiology	3.853
22	BioEssays	3.778
23	Physics of Life Reviews	3.766
24	Geobiology	3.723
25	Chronobiology International	3.694
26	Journal of Theoretical Biology	3.691
27	Journal of Mathematical Biology	3.683
28	Biometrika	3.643
29	International Journal of Radiation Biology	3.623
30	Journal of Experimental Biology	3.534
31	Biological Bulletin	3.424
32	Biosystems	3.309
33	Microscopy Research and Technique	3.259
34	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	3.252
35	Journal of Radiation Research	3.074
36	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	3.009
37	Radiation Research	2.864
38	Mathematical Biosciences	2.797
39	Biology Open	2.663
40	Theory in Biosciences	2.526
41	International Journal of Astrobiology	2.375
42	Annals of Human Biology	2.239
43	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	2.200
44	Biometrics	2.175
45	Journal of Biological Education	2.083
46	American Journal of Human Biology	1.880
47	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	1.875
48	Bioelectromagnetics	1.826
49	Journal of Biological Systems	1.825
50	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	1.803

51	Biocell	1.605
52	FASEB Journal	1.434
53	Biological Rhythm Research	1.353
54	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	1.350
55	Cryobiology	1.280
56	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	1.217
57	Folia Biologica-Krakow	0.928
58	Journal of the History of Biology	0.901
59	Biology Letters	0.766
60	Archives of Biological Sciences	0.748
61	Biology Bulletin	0.652
62	Bioscience Journal	0.624
63	Revista de Biologia Tropical	0.592
64	American Biology Teacher	0.347
65	Quarterly Review of Biology	0.203
66	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	0.104