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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Computers in Biology and Medicine	92
2	eLife	79
3	Communications Biology	64
4	Current Biology	63
5	Life-Basel	61
6	Biology-Basel	58
7	Biological Reviews	48
8	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	46
9	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	43
10	Science China-Life Sciences	40
11	BMC Biology	39
12	FASEB Journal	38
13	Bioelectrochemistry	33
14	Bioscience	32
15	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	31
16	Journal of Thermal Biology	28
-	Life Science Alliance	28
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	28
19	Journal of Experimental Biology	27
20	Computational Biology and Chemistry	26
21	BioEssays	24
-	Physics of Life Reviews	24
23	Biology Direct	22
24	Astrobiology	21
25	Journal of Mathematical Biology	20
-	Microscopy Research and Technique	20
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	20
28	Bioscience Trends	19
-	Biosystems	19
-	Open Life Sciences	19
31	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	18
-	International Journal of Radiation Biology	18
33	Biometrika	17
-	Radiation Research	17
35	Biology Open	16
36	Chronobiology International	15
-	Mathematical Biosciences	15
-	Cryobiology	15
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	15
40	American Journal of Human Biology	14
-	Biocell	14
-	Biometrics	14
-	Geobiology	14
-	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	14
-	Journal of Radiation Research	14
46	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	13
-	Journal of Biological Rhythms	13
48	Biologia Futura	12
-	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	12
50	Biological Bulletin	11

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