New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy66.510
2 Cell65.665
3 Molecular Cancer46.555
4 Nature Medicine44.682
5 Annual Review of Biochemistry43.882
6 Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters36.455
7 Progress in Lipid Research32.040
8 Nucleic Acids Research28.159
9 Molecular Cell26.955
10 EMBO Journal26.119
11 Molecular Plant25.615
12 Cell Death and Differentiation23.711
13 Redox Biology21.251
14 Molecular Medicine21.091
15 Molecular Aspects of Medicine19.517
16 Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews19.304
17 International Journal of Biological Sciences17.903
18 Molecular Psychiatry17.167
19 Plant Cell16.912
20 EMBO Reports16.422
21 Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences16.126
22 Trends in Microbiology16.097
23 Nature Chemical Biology15.584
24 Natural Product Reports15.522
25 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology15.263
26 Current Opinion in Structural Biology15.094
27 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology14.494
28 Trends in Molecular Medicine14.330
29 Current Opinion in Chemical Biology14.312
30 Molecular Systems Biology14.272
31 Antioxidants14.210
32 Trends in Biochemical Sciences13.766
33 Cell Systems13.494
34 Essays in Biochemistry13.351
35 Cell Chemical Biology13.259
36 Antioxidants & Redox Signaling12.975
37 International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics12.854
38 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer12.781
39 Apoptosis12.463
40 Molecular Biology and Evolution12.217
41 Oncogene12.044
42 Cell and Bioscience11.890
43 Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry11.564
44 Chromosome Research11.375
45 Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology11.120
46 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules10.993
47 Current Biology10.636
48 Nucleic Acid Therapeutics10.615
49 Genome Research10.550
50 Molecules10.387
51 International Journal of Molecular Sciences10.255
52 Matrix Biology10.183
53 Food & Function10.165
54 Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications9.975
55 Biochemical Society Transactions9.744
56 Biomolecules9.608
57 Bioelectrochemistry9.542
58 Chemico-Biological Interactions9.428
59 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal9.237
60 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry9.119
61 Science Signaling9.109
62 Journal of Genetics and Genomics9.073
63 Journal of Molecular Biology8.949
64 Process Biochemistry8.892
65 Methods8.829
66 Molecular Ecology Resources8.776
67 Biomacromolecules8.714
68 Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences8.704
69 Biomedical Journal8.693
70 Biological Trace Element Research8.625
71 Genes & Diseases8.613
72 Biochemical Journal8.530
73 Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology8.317
74 Metabolites8.307
75 Journal of Molecular Neuroscience8.293
76 Protein Science8.289
77 Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology8.198
78 Amino Acids8.036
79 Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders7.947
80 Journal of Food Biochemistry7.839
81 Biomedicines7.808
82 Biofactors7.801
83 Plant Science7.783
84 Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry7.736
85 Neurochemistry International7.622
86 Open Biology7.611
87 Structure7.487
88 RNA Biology7.445
89 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution7.408
90 Lipids in Health and Disease7.361
91 Molecular Ecology7.355
92 Channels7.323
93 Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B7.170
94 Neurochemical Research7.127
95 Current Molecular Pharmacology7.114
96 Gene Therapy7.032
97 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research7.019
98 ACS Chemical Biology7.018
99 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions7.011
100 Cytokine6.927
101 Bioorganic Chemistry6.898
102 Epigenetics6.886
103 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology6.844
104 RNA6.814
105 Biometals6.732
106 Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology6.693
107 Macromolecular Bioscience6.672
108 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease6.649
109 Journal of Lipid Research6.631
110 Current Opinion in Lipidology6.617
111 Human Molecular Genetics6.577
112 Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology6.556
113 Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology6.506
114 ACS Chemical Neuroscience6.486
115 Phytochemistry6.445
116 Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability6.409
117 European Journal of Human Genetics6.408
118 Bioscience Reports6.379
119 Glycoconjugate Journal6.349
120 Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology6.293
121 Journal of Liposome Research6.245
122 Bioconjugate Chemistry6.185
123 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology6.109
- Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry6.109
125 FEBS Journal6.103
126 Plant Molecular Biology6.084
127 Protein Engineering Design & Selection5.987
128 Biochimie5.961
129 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms5.950
130 Analytical Biochemistry5.940
131 Journal of Membrane Biology5.872
132 Free Radical Biology and Medicine5.833
133 Chromosoma5.814
134 Peptides5.765
135 Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology5.764
136 Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling5.708
137 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes5.673
138 Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry5.624
139 American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology5.416
140 Journal of Neurochemistry5.343
141 International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology5.330
142 Current Medicinal Chemistry5.282
143 Molecular Biology Reports5.226
144 Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy5.214
145 Journal of Structural Biology5.191
146 Molecular and Cellular Probes5.180
147 Chemical Biology & Drug Design5.092
148 Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics5.082
149 Molecular Microbiology5.053
150 Molecular Immunology5.047
151 Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids5.010
152 Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics4.969
153 RSC Medicinal Chemistry4.936
154 Biophysical Chemistry4.913
155 Innate Immunity4.897
156 FEBS Letters4.875
157 Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics4.873
158 Biological Chemistry4.861
159 Free Radical Research4.782
160 Molecular Biotechnology4.751
161 Journal of Cellular Biochemistry4.748
162 Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology4.746
163 Proteomics4.736
164 Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics4.711
165 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids4.655
166 Journal of Molecular Modeling4.640
167 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects4.623
168 BioEssays4.589
169 DNA and Cell Biology4.560
170 Cell Biochemistry and Function4.550
171 Biochemistry4.549
172 Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry4.505
173 Extremophiles4.459
174 Fish Physiology and Biochemistry4.455
175 Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology4.450
176 Journal of Biomolecular Nmr4.391
177 Biotechniques4.390
178 Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology4.360
179 Molecular Carcinogenesis4.324
180 Chemistry and Physics of Lipids4.302
181 Addiction Biology4.294
182 Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design4.259
183 Molecular Genetics and Genomics4.235
184 Journal of Biological Chemistry4.227
185 ChemBioChem4.222
186 Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators4.191
187 IUBMB Life4.152
188 Journal of Molecular Recognition4.140
189 Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications4.121
190 Steroids4.064
191 Insect Molecular Biology4.022
192 Journal of Molecular Evolution4.000
193 Molecular Reproduction and Development3.944
194 Photochemistry and Photobiology3.919
195 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology3.884
196 Current Genomics3.843
197 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology3.841
198 Prion3.833
199 Molecular Omics3.811
200 Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica3.761
201 Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences3.756
202 Biochemistry and Cell Biology3.732
203 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics3.703
204 Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry3.624
205 FEBS Open Bio3.621
206 Carbohydrate Research3.616
207 Current Drug Metabolism3.585
208 Current Protein & Peptide Science3.580
209 Chemistry & Biodiversity3.546
210 Mammalian Genome3.490
211 Journal of Biochemistry3.483
212 Biochemical Systematics and Ecology3.325
213 Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction3.291
214 Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research3.287
215 Genes & Genomics3.246
216 Transgenic Research3.203
217 Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology3.165
218 Biochemistry-Moscow3.143
219 Genetics and Molecular Biology3.085
220 Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology3.072
221 Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences3.048
222 Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology2.988
223 Protein and Peptide Letters2.970
224 Journal of Chemical Ecology2.885
225 Protein Journal2.815
226 Protein Expression and Purification2.814
227 Yeast2.801
228 Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology2.793
229 Biomedical Chromatography2.697
230 Biocatalysis and Biotransformation2.671
231 Biochemical Genetics2.446
232 Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry2.438
233 International Journal of Genomics2.317
234 Biopolymers2.312
235 Cellular and Molecular Biology2.268
236 Chemoecology2.221
237 Genes & Genetic Systems2.204
238 FASEB Journal2.186
239 Journal of Peptide Science2.158
240 Molecular Biology2.099
241 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics1.961
242 Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids1.947
243 Hemoglobin1.910
244 Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications1.851
245 Peptide Science1.800
246 Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry1.757
247 Acta Biochimica Polonica1.742
248 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education1.650
249 Lipids1.559
250 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics1.546
251 Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics1.423
252 Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology1.088
253 Current Proteomics1.032
254 Trace Elements and Electrolytes0.927
255 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology0.613
256 Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology0.109
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