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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Computers in Biology and Medicine	89
2	eLife	78
3	Communications Biology	69
4	Life-Basel	64
5	Current Biology	59
6	Biology-Basel	57
7	Biological Reviews	46
8	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	44
9	BMC Biology	43
10	Science China-Life Sciences	40
11	FASEB Journal	37
12	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	36
13	Bioelectrochemistry	31
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	31
15	Life Science Alliance	29
16	Computational Biology and Chemistry	28
-	Journal of Experimental Biology	28
-	Physics of Life Reviews	28
19	Journal of Thermal Biology	27
20	BioEssays	26
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	26
-	Biology Direct	26
23	Biosystems	21
24	Astrobiology	20
-	Journal of Mathematical Biology	20
26	Journal of Theoretical Biology	19
-	Bioscience Trends	19
28	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	18
-	Open Life Sciences	18
30	International Journal of Radiation Biology	17
-	Biology Open	17
-	Biometrika	17
-	Chronobiology International	17
-	Mathematical Biosciences	17
-	Radiation Research	17
36	Biometrics	16
37	American Journal of Human Biology	15
-	Geobiology	15
-	Journal of Biological Rhythms	15
40	Cryobiology	14
-	Journal of Radiation Research	14
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	14
43	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	13
-	Aerobiologia	13
45	Biocell	12
-	Biologia Futura	12
47	Annals of Human Biology	11
-	Biological Bulletin	11
-	Journal of Biological Systems	11
-	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	11

51	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	10
-	Integrative Organismal Biology	10
-	Journal of Biological Education	10
-	Synthetic Biology	10
-	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	10
56	Biological Rhythm Research	9
-	Biology Bulletin	9
-	Biology Letters	9
-	Bioelectromagnetics	9
-	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	9
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	9
-	Theory in Biosciences	9
63	Bioscience Journal	7
-	Archives of Biological Sciences	7
-	Comptes Rendus Biologies	7
-	International Journal of Astrobiology	7
67	Journal of the History of Biology	6
-	Quarterly Review of Biology	6
69	American Biology Teacher	5
-	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	5
71	Folia Biologica-Krakow	4
72	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	2