New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Genetics & Heredity

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)
Rank Journal Impact Factor 2024
1 Nature Reviews Genetics ca. 51.4
2 Nature Genetics ca. 25.5
3 Trends in Ecology & Evolution ca. 17.9
4 Trends in Genetics ca. 12.9
5 Molecular Therapy ca. 11.4
6 Cancer Genetics ca. 11
7 Genome Medicine ca. 10.8
8 Horticulture Research ca. 9.5
9 Oncogene ca. 9.1
- Annual Review of Genetics ca. 9.1
11 Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics ca. 8.3
12 Journal of Genetics and Genomics ca. 7.9
13 American Journal of Human Genetics ca. 7.7
14 Genes & Development ca. 7.4
15 Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics ca. 7.2
16 Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research ca. 6.5
17 Molecular Biology and Evolution ca. 6.4
- Cancer Gene Therapy ca. 6.4
19 Genome Research ca. 6.3
20 Genetics in Medicine ca. 6.2
21 Circulation-Genomic and Precision Medicine ca. 6.1
22 Gene Therapy ca. 5.9
23 Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy ca. 5.8
24 Mitochondrion ca. 5.7
- Molecular Autism ca. 5.7
- Clinical Epigenetics ca. 5.7
27 Biology of Sex Differences ca. 5.3
- npj Genomic Medicine ca. 5.3
29 Journal of Molecular Medicine-Jmm ca. 5
30 European Journal of Human Genetics ca. 4.6
- Human Gene Therapy ca. 4.6
32 Microbial Genomics ca. 4.5
33 Epigenetics & Chromatin ca. 4.4
34 Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ca. 4.3
- Plant Genome ca. 4.3
36 Genes and Immunity ca. 4.2
- Mobile DNA ca. 4.2
38 Current Gene Therapy ca. 4.1
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics ca. 4.1
40 Molecular Genetics and Metabolism ca. 4
- Current Genomics ca. 4
- Functional & Integrative Genomics ca. 4
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ca. 4
44 PLoS Genetics ca. 3.9
- BMC Genomics ca. 3.9
46 Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease ca. 3.8
47 Epigenetics ca. 3.7
48 Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases ca. 3.6
- Genomics ca. 3.6
- Molecular Breeding ca. 3.6
- CRISPR Journal ca. 3.6
- Forensic Science International-Genetics ca. 3.6
53 Human Genetics ca. 3.4
- Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 3.4
- Genetic Epidemiology ca. 3.4
56 Neurology-Genetics ca. 3.3
- Genome Biology and Evolution ca. 3.3
58 Briefings in Functional Genomics ca. 3.2
- DNA Repair ca. 3.2
60 Epigenomics ca. 3.1
- Genes ca. 3.1
- Human Molecular Genetics ca. 3.1
- Mutagenesis ca. 3.1
- Prenatal Diagnosis ca. 3.1
65 Frontiers in Genetics ca. 3
- Fungal Genetics and Biology ca. 3
- Evolution ca. 3
- Journal of Gene Medicine ca. 3
69 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics ca. 2.9
70 Pharmacogenomics Journal ca. 2.8
- DNA Research ca. 2.8
- Genes and Nutrition ca. 2.8
- Mutation Research-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis ca. 2.8
- Genesis ca. 2.8
- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics ca. 2.8
76 Gene ca. 2.7
- Cellular Reprogramming ca. 2.7
- Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis ca. 2.7
- BMC Ecology and Evolution ca. 2.7
80 DNA and Cell Biology ca. 2.6
- Hereditas ca. 2.6
- Mammalian Genome ca. 2.6
- Chromosome Research ca. 2.6
- Heredity ca. 2.6
- BMC Medical Genomics ca. 2.6
- Cancer Genomics & Proteomics ca. 2.6
87 American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C-Seminars in Medical Genetics ca. 2.5
- Physiological Genomics ca. 2.5
- Chromosoma ca. 2.5
90 Behavior Genetics ca. 2.4
- Evolution & Development ca. 2.4
- G3-Genes Genomes Genetics ca. 2.4
- Mutation Research-Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis ca. 2.4
- Conservation Genetics ca. 2.4
95 Journal of Evolutionary Biology ca. 2.3
- Journal of Human Genetics ca. 2.3
- Plasmid ca. 2.3
- Genes Chromosomes & Cancer ca. 2.3
99 European Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 2.2
- Public Health Genomics ca. 2.2
- Journal of Heredity ca. 2.2
- Animal Genetics ca. 2.2
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics ca. 2.2
104 Familial Cancer ca. 2.1
- Immunogenetics ca. 2.1
- Journal of Applied Genetics ca. 2.1
- Clinical Genetics ca. 2.1
- Tree Genetics & Genomes ca. 2.1
109 Evolutionary Ecology ca. 2
- Genes & Genomics ca. 2
- Genetica ca. 2
- Cytogenetic and Genome Research ca. 2
- Virus Genes ca. 2
- International Journal of Genomics ca. 2
- Journal of Molecular Evolution ca. 2
116 Current Genetics ca. 1.9
- Genetics Research ca. 1.9
- Genome ca. 1.9
- Journal of Genetic Counseling ca. 1.9
- Biochemical Genetics ca. 1.9
121 Human Mutation ca. 1.8
- Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports ca. 1.8
123 Genetics and Molecular Biology ca. 1.7
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ca. 1.7
125 Neurogenetics ca. 1.6
- Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine ca. 1.6
- Pharmacogenetics and Genomics ca. 1.6
128 Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression ca. 1.5
- Annals of Human Genetics ca. 1.5
130 Psychiatric Genetics ca. 1.4
- Theoretical Population Biology ca. 1.4
- Genes to Cells ca. 1.4
- Gene Expression Patterns ca. 1.4
- American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics ca. 1.4
- Molecular Cytogenetics ca. 1.4
136 Twin Research and Human Genetics ca. 1.3
- International Journal of Immunogenetics ca. 1.3
- Marine Genomics ca. 1.3
139 New Genetics and Society ca. 1.2
- Medizinische Genetik ca. 1.2
- Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers ca. 1.2
142 Human Heredity ca. 1.1
- Journal of Neurogenetics ca. 1.1
144 Mitochondrial DNA Part A ca. 1
- Conservation Genetics Resources ca. 1
- Ophthalmic Genetics ca. 1
- Journal of Genetics ca. 1
- Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics ca. 1
149 Comparative Cytogenetics ca. 0.9
- Genes & Genetic Systems ca. 0.9
151 Molecular Syndromology ca. 0.8
152 Cytology and Genetics ca. 0.7
- Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources ca. 0.7
154 Clinical Dysmorphology ca. 0.6
155 Cytologia ca. 0.5
- Russian Journal of Genetics ca. 0.5
157 International Journal of Human Genetics ca. 0
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