Biochemical Research Methods: 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Methods	103
2	Briefings in Bioinformatics	70
3	Nature Protocols	68
4	Bioinformatics	58
5	Current Opinion in Biotechnology	47
6	BMC Bioinformatics	42
7	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	41
-	Lab on a Chip	41
9	Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry	40
10	Journal of Chromatography A	38
11	Journal of Proteome Research	35
12	Methods	34
13	Molecular & Cellular Proteomics	29
-	Plant Methods	29
15	Journal of Fluorescence	27
-	Journal of Neuroscience Methods	27
-	Bioconjugate Chemistry	27
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	27
19	IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience	26
-	Analytical Biochemistry	26
21	Proteomics	25
22	Journal of Chromatography B-Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences	24
23	Biotechnology Journal	23
-	Journal of Biomedical Optics	23
-	Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry	23
26	Biochip Journal	22
-	Journal of Proteomics	22
-	Electrophoresis	22
29	Drug Testing and Analysis	21
-	Journal of Biological Engineering	21
-	Journal of Virological Methods	21
-	New Biotechnology	21
33	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
34	Expert Review of Proteomics	19
-	Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening	19
36	Journal of Biophotonics	18
-	Biomedical Chromatography	18
38	Biomicrofluidics	17
-	Cytometry Part A	17
40	Clinical Proteomics	16
-	Journal of Magnetic Resonance	16
-	Bioanalysis	16
-	IET Nanobiotechnology	16
-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	16
45	Current Bioinformatics	15
-	Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry	15
-	Journal of Immunological Methods	15
-	Phytochemical Analysis	15
-	Protein Expression and Purification	15
50	Biological Procedures Online	14

-	Transgenic Research	14
52	Biotechniques	13
53	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	12
-	Journal of Mass Spectrometry	12
55	Assay and Drug Development Technologies	11
-	Journal of Chromatographic Science	11
-	Proteomics Clinical Applications	11
58	Algorithms for Molecular Biology	10
-	Chromatographia	10
60	Biologicals	9
-	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter	9
62	Molecular Imaging	8
63	Journal of Labelled Compounds & Radiopharmaceuticals	7
-	Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies	7
65	Current Proteomics	6