New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Biology & Biochemistry

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 Microbiology ca. 103.3
2 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery ca. 101.8
3 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ca. 90.2
4 Nature Reviews Genetics ca. 52
5 Nature Medicine ca. 50
6 Cancer Cell ca. 44.5
7 Cell ca. 42.5
8 Nature Biotechnology ca. 41.7
9 Annual Review of Pathology-Mechanisms of Disease ca. 34.5
10 Molecular Cancer ca. 33.9
11 Nature Methods ca. 32.1
12 Cell Metabolism ca. 30.9
13 Energy & Environmental Science ca. 30.8
14 Nature Genetics ca. 29
15 Physiological Reviews ca. 28.7
16 Nature Climate Change ca. 27.1
- Nature Sustainability ca. 27.1
18 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science ca. 27
19 Cell Research ca. 25.9
20 Fungal Diversity ca. 24.8
21 Molecular Plant ca. 24.1
22 Drug Resistance Updates ca. 21.7
23 Lancet Planetary Health ca. 21.6
24 Annual Review of Biochemistry ca. 20.5
25 Environmental Chemistry Letters ca. 20.4
- Cell Stem Cell ca. 20.4
27 Trends in Pharmacological Sciences ca. 19.9
28 Nature Microbiology ca. 19.4
29 Clinical Microbiology Reviews ca. 19.3
30 Annual Review of Physiology ca. 19.1
- Nature Cell Biology ca. 19.1
32 Annual Review of Marine Science ca. 18.9
33 Cell Host & Microbe ca. 18.7
34 Trends in Cell Biology ca. 18.1
35 Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews ca. 17.6
36 Pharmacological Reviews ca. 17.3
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution ca. 17.3
38 Trends in Cognitive Sciences ca. 17.2
39 Annual Review of Entomology ca. 16.7
40 Molecular Cell ca. 16.6
41 Trends in Genetics ca. 16.3
42 Human Reproduction Update ca. 16.1
43 Nature Protocols ca. 16
44 Nature Human Behaviour ca. 15.9
45 Cell Death and Differentiation ca. 15.4
- Trends in Food Science & Technology ca. 15.4
47 Progress in Lipid Research ca. 14.9
- Trends in Biotechnology ca. 14.9
- Trends in Microbiology ca. 14.9
50 Endocrine Pathology ca. 14.7
51 Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B ca. 14.6
- Science Translational Medicine ca. 14.6
53 Nature Ecology & Evolution ca. 14.5
- Journal of Extracellular Vesicles ca. 14.5
55 Drugs ca. 14.4
56 Physics of Life Reviews ca. 14.3
- Autophagy ca. 14.3
58 Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety ca. 14.1
59 Trends in Molecular Medicine ca. 13.8
60 Nature Chemical Biology ca. 13.7
- Annual Review of Biophysics ca. 13.7
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences ca. 13.7
63 Biochar ca. 13.5
64 Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry ca. 13.4
65 Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology ca. 13.2
66 Nucleic Acids Research ca. 13.1
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology ca. 13.1
68 Experimental and Molecular Medicine ca. 12.9
69 Protein & Cell ca. 12.8
70 Microbiome ca. 12.7
71 Journal of Nanobiotechnology ca. 12.6
72 Biotechnology Advances ca. 12.5
- Pharmacology & Therapeutics ca. 12.5
- Cell Discovery ca. 12.5
75 Water Research ca. 12.4
- Ageing Research Reviews ca. 12.4
- Annual Review of Food Science and Technology ca. 12.4
- Food Hydrocolloids ca. 12.4
79 FEMS Microbiology Reviews ca. 12.3
80 Global Change Biology ca. 12
- Molecular Therapy ca. 12
82 Redox Biology ca. 11.9
- Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences ca. 11.9
84 Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews ca. 11.8
85 Biological Reviews ca. 11.7
- Brain ca. 11.7
87 Plant Cell ca. 11.6
- Medicinal Research Reviews ca. 11.6
89 Journal of Controlled Release ca. 11.5
90 Remote Sensing of Environment ca. 11.4
- npj Clean Water ca. 11.4
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics ca. 11.4
- Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology ca. 11.4
94 Environmental Science & Technology ca. 11.3
- Reviews in Aquaculture ca. 11.3
- Journal of Hazardous Materials ca. 11.3
97 Genome Medicine ca. 11.2
98 Human Reproduction Open ca. 11.1
99 Trends in Biochemical Sciences ca. 11
- Gut Microbes ca. 11
101 Resources Conservation and Recycling ca. 10.9
102 Natural Product Reports ca. 10.6
- Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio-Technology ca. 10.6
- Food Packaging and Shelf Life ca. 10.6
105 Biosensors & Bioelectronics ca. 10.5
- Pharmacological Research ca. 10.5
- Plant Biotechnology Journal ca. 10.5
108 Physiology ca. 10.3
- Molecular Aspects of Medicine ca. 10.3
110 Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters ca. 10.2
111 Molecular Psychiatry ca. 10.1
- Journal of Neuroinflammation ca. 10.1
- Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ca. 10.1
114 ISME Journal ca. 10
- Journal of Cleaner Production ca. 10
- International Journal of Biological Sciences ca. 10
117 Annual Review of Microbiology ca. 9.9
118 Food Chemistry ca. 9.8
- Environmental Health Perspectives ca. 9.8
120 Environment International ca. 9.7
- Sleep Medicine Reviews ca. 9.7
122 Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment ca. 9.6
- Cell Death & Disease ca. 9.6
124 Science China-Life Sciences ca. 9.5
125 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology ca. 9.3
- Acta Neuropathologica ca. 9.3
127 Energy Policy ca. 9.2
- npj Biofilms and Microbiomes ca. 9.2
- Seminars in Immunopathology ca. 9.2
130 Current Opinion in Food Science ca. 9.1
- Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions ca. 9.1
132 Bioresource Technology ca. 9
- Biological Psychiatry ca. 9
134 Communications Earth & Environment ca. 8.9
- Cell Communication and Signaling ca. 8.9
- Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ca. 8.9
- Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis ca. 8.9
138 Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition ca. 8.8
- Environmental Science & Technology Letters ca. 8.8
140 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences ca. 8.7
- Developmental Cell ca. 8.7
142 Annual Review of Genetics ca. 8.6
143 Clinical Microbiology and Infection ca. 8.5
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ca. 8.5
- Horticulture Research ca. 8.5
146 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management ca. 8.4
- Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology ca. 8.4
- Acta Pharmacologica Sinica ca. 8.4
- Brain Stimulation ca. 8.4
- Journal of Environmental Management ca. 8.4
151 EMBO Journal ca. 8.3
- Phytomedicine ca. 8.3
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer ca. 8.3
- Annual Review of Virology ca. 8.3
155 Water Research X ca. 8.2
- Free Radical Biology and Medicine ca. 8.2
- Particle and Fibre Toxicology ca. 8.2
- Earths Future ca. 8.2
- Food Chemistry-X ca. 8.2
160 American Journal of Human Genetics ca. 8.1
- Drug Delivery ca. 8.1
- Current Pollution Reports ca. 8.1
- Apoptosis ca. 8.1
- Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews ca. 8.1
165 Science of the Total Environment ca. 8
- Food Research International ca. 8
167 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews ca. 7.9
- Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics ca. 7.9
- Journal of Headache and Pain ca. 7.9
- Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics ca. 7.9
171 npj Science of Food ca. 7.8
- Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews ca. 7.8
173 Molecular Systems Biology ca. 7.7
- Critical Reviews in Biotechnology ca. 7.7
- Genes & Development ca. 7.7
- Briefings in Bioinformatics ca. 7.7
- Cell Systems ca. 7.7
- Annals of Neurology ca. 7.7
- British Journal of Pharmacology ca. 7.7
- Environmental Research ca. 7.7
181 Alzheimers Research & Therapy ca. 7.6
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ca. 7.6
- Bioscience ca. 7.6
- Food Engineering Reviews ca. 7.6
- Brain Behavior and Immunity ca. 7.6
186 Current Biology ca. 7.5
- Emerging Microbes & Infections ca. 7.5
- Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy ca. 7.5
- Current Opinion in Microbiology ca. 7.5
- Archives of Pharmacal Research ca. 7.5
- Neurology-Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation ca. 7.5
- Drug Discovery Today ca. 7.5
193 Food Science and Human Wellness ca. 7.4
- CNS Drugs ca. 7.4
- Ecological Indicators ca. 7.4
- Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders ca. 7.4
197 Oncogene ca. 7.3
- Environmental Pollution ca. 7.3
- Clinical Infectious Diseases ca. 7.3
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research ca. 7.3
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