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	Computers in Biology and Medicine	92
2	eLife	83
3	Current Biology	64
4	Communications Biology	62
5	Biology-Basel	60
-	Life-Basel	60
7	Biological Reviews	48
-	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	48
9	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	44
10	Science China-Life Sciences	40
11	BMC Biology	38
12	FASEB Journal	37
13	Bioelectrochemistry	34
14	Bioscience	33
15	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
16	Life Science Alliance	28
17	Current Opinion in Insect Science	27
-	Journal of Thermal Biology	27
-	Journal of Experimental Biology	27
20	Computational Biology and Chemistry	26
21	Physics of Life Reviews	24
22	BioEssays	22
-	Biology Direct	22
-	Microscopy Research and Technique	22
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	22
26	Astrobiology	21
-	International Journal of Radiation Biology	21
28	Journal of Mathematical Biology	19
-	Bioscience Trends	19
30	Biosystems	18
31	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	17
-	Open Life Sciences	17
33	Biology Open	16
-	Biometrika	16
-	Chronobiology International	16
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	16
-	Radiation Research	16
38	Mathematical Biosciences	15
-	Biometrics	15
40	Cryobiology	14
-	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	14
-	American Journal of Human Biology	14
-	Biocell	14
-	Journal of Biological Rhythms	14
-	Journal of Radiation Research	14
46	Geobiology	13
47	Biologia	12
-	Biological Bulletin	12
-	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	12
50	Biologia Futura	11

-	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	11
-	Integrative Organismal Biology	11
-	Journal of Biological Systems	11
-	Biology Bulletin	11
55	Journal of Biological Education	10
-	Theory in Biosciences	10
-	Aerobiologia	10
-	Journal of Biosciences	10
-	Synthetic Biology	10
60	Annals of Human Biology	9
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	9
-	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	9
63	Bioelectromagnetics	8
-	Biological Rhythm Research	8
-	Comptes Rendus Biologies	8
-	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	8
-	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	8
68	International Journal of Astrobiology	7
-	Quarterly Review of Biology	7
70	American Biology Teacher	6
-	Bioscience Journal	6
-	Journal of the History of Biology	6
-	Archives of Biological Sciences	6
74	Folia Biologica-Krakow	5
-	Biology Letters	5
76	Revista de Biologia Tropical	4
77	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	2