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 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	eLife	99
2	Current Biology	68
3	Computers in Biology and Medicine	67
4	Communications Biology	59
5	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	48
6	FASEB Journal	47
-	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	47
8	Biology-Basel	46
9	Biological Reviews	45
10	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	42
11	BMC Biology	40
12	Bioscience	37
13	Science China-Life Sciences	35
14	Bioelectrochemistry	34
15	Current Opinion in Insect Science	33
-	Life-Basel	33
17	Journal of Experimental Biology	30
18	Life Science Alliance	28
-	BioEssays	28
20	Computational Biology and Chemistry	27
21	Astrobiology	25
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	25
23	Biology Letters	24
-	Bioscience Trends	24
-	Microscopy Research and Technique	24
26	Journal of Thermal Biology	23
-	Interface Focus	23
-	Journal of Biosciences	23
29	Chronobiology International	22
-	Physics of Life Reviews	22
-	Radiation Research	22
32	Mathematical Biosciences	21
33	International Journal of Radiation Biology	20
34	American Journal of Human Biology	18
-	Biologia	18
-	Biology Direct	18
-	Biometrika	18
-	Cryobiology	18
39	Geobiology	17
-	Biology Open	17
-	Biosystems	17
-	Journal of Biological Rhythms	17
43	Biometrics	16
-	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	16
-	Journal of Mathematical Biology	16
-	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	16
47	Aerobiologia	13
-	Journal of Radiation Research	13
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	13
-	Open Life Sciences	13

51	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	12
-	Annals of Human Biology	12
-	Synthetic Biology	12
54	Biocell	11
-	Bioelectromagnetics	11
-	Biological Bulletin	11
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	11
-	Biologia Futura	11
-	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	11
60	Integrative Organismal Biology	10
-	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	10
-	Journal of Biological Systems	10
63	Biology Bulletin	9
-	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	9
-	International Journal of Astrobiology	9
-	Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki	9
67	Journal of Biological Education	8
68	Biological Rhythm Research	7
-	Revista de Biologia Tropical	7
-	Theory in Biosciences	7
-	Quarterly Review of Biology	7
72	Archives of Biological Sciences	6
-	Journal of the History of Biology	6
-	American Biology Teacher	6
-	Bioscience Journal	6
76	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	5
77	Comptes Rendus Biologies	4
-	Folia Biologica-Krakow	4
-	Human Biology	4
80	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	3