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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Computers in Biology and Medicine	95
2	eLife	86
3	Current Biology	67
4	Communications Biology	63
5	Biology-Basel	56
6	Biological Reviews	53
7	Life-Basel	52
8	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	51
9	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	49
10	BMC Biology	36
-	Science China-Life Sciences	36
12	FASEB Journal	35
13	Bioelectrochemistry	32
-	Bioscience	32
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
16	Current Opinion in Insect Science	30
17	Journal of Thermal Biology	27
-	Life Science Alliance	27
19	Journal of Experimental Biology	26
20	Computational Biology and Chemistry	24
21	BioEssays	23
22	Biology Direct	22
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	22
-	Physics of Life Reviews	22
-	Astrobiology	22
26	International Journal of Radiation Biology	20
-	Microscopy Research and Technique	20
28	Journal of Mathematical Biology	19
29	Biosystems	18
-	Bioscience Trends	18
31	Journal of Biological Rhythms	17
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	17
-	Chronobiology International	17
34	Biology Open	16
-	Biometrika	16
-	Biologia	16
37	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	15
-	Radiation Research	15
-	Biometrics	15
-	Mathematical Biosciences	15
-	American Journal of Human Biology	15
42	Cryobiology	14
43	Geobiology	13
-	Journal of Biosciences	13
-	Journal of Radiation Research	13
-	Open Life Sciences	13
-	Biological Bulletin	13
48	Synthetic Biology	12
-	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	12
-	Biocell	12

51	Biologia Futura	11
-	Aerobiologia	11
53	Annals of Human Biology	10
-	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	10
-	Journal of Biological Education	10
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	10
-	Bioelectromagnetics	10
58	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	9
-	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	9
-	Biology Bulletin	9
-	Integrative Organismal Biology	9
-	Journal of Biological Systems	9
63	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	8
-	International Journal of Astrobiology	8
-	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	8
-	Theory in Biosciences	8
67	Quarterly Review of Biology	7
-	Biological Rhythm Research	7
69	American Biology Teacher	6
-	Journal of the History of Biology	6
71	Bioscience Journal	5
-	Revista de Biologia Tropical	5
73	Folia Biologica-Krakow	4
-	Archives of Biological Sciences	4
75	Biology Letters	3
76	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	2