Biology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Biological Reviews	23
2	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	16
3	Bioelectrochemistry	14
-	Computers in Biology and Medicine	14
-	Current Biology	14
-	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	14
-	eLife	14
8	Communications Biology	12
-	BMC Biology	12
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	12
11	Journal of Biosciences	10
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	10
13	Life Science Alliance	9
-	Science China-Life Sciences	9
15	Biology-Basel	8
16	Journal of Biological Rhythms	7
-	Life-Basel	7
-	Astrobiology	7
-	Biology Direct	7
-	Journal of Thermal Biology	7
-	Biologia	7
-	Bioscience Trends	7
23	Geobiology	6
-	Synthetic Biology	6
-	BioEssays	6
-	Biometrika	6
-	Bioscience	6
-	Computational Biology and Chemistry	6
29	Journal of Experimental Biology	5
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	5
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	5
-	Biosystems	5
-	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	5
-	Integrative Organismal Biology	5
-	International Journal of Radiation Biology	5
-	Journal of Mathematical Biology	5
-	Aerobiologia	5
-	Biological Bulletin	5
-	Chronobiology International	5
40	Journal of Radiation Research	4
-	Radiation Research	4
-	Biologia Futura	4
-	Biology Open	4
-	Mathematical Biosciences	4
-	Microscopy Research and Technique	4
-	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	4
47	International Journal of Astrobiology	3
-	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	3
-	Open Life Sciences	3
-	Annals of Human Biology	3

-	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	3
-	Journal of Biological Education	3
-	Journal of Biological Systems	3
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	3
-	Theory in Biosciences	3
-	American Journal of Human Biology	3
-	Biology Letters	3
-	Biometrics	3
-	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	3
60	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	2
-	Physics of Life Reviews	2
-	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	2
-	Biocell	2
-	Bioelectromagnetics	2
-	Biological Rhythm Research	2
66	Bioscience Journal	1
-	FASEB Journal	1
-	Journal of the History of Biology	1
-	Revista de Biologia Tropical	1
-	Archives of Biological Sciences	1
-	Biology Bulletin	1
-	Cryobiology	1
-	Folia Biologica-Krakow	1
74	Quarterly Review of Biology	0
-	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	0
-	American Biology Teacher	0