Biochemistry & Molecular 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Cell	176
2	Nature Medicine	173
3	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	151
4	Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy	149
5	Nucleic Acids Research	134
6	Molecules	108
7	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	100
8	Molecular Cancer	90
9	Antioxidants	89
10	Molecular Cell	88
11	Redox Biology	81
12	Biomolecules	74
13	Molecular Psychiatry	71
14	Molecular Plant	67
-	Biomedicines	67
-	Current Biology	67
17	Nature Chemical Biology	64
18	Free Radical Biology and Medicine	61
19	Plant Cell	59
20	Cell Death and Differentiation	58
21	Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences	54
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	54
-	Journal of Molecular Biology	54
24	Trends in Microbiology	53
-	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	53
-	EMBO Journal	53
27	Oncogene	52
28	Journal of Biological Chemistry	51
-	International Journal of Biological Sciences	51
-	Bioorganic Chemistry	51
31	FEBS Journal	50
32	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	48
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	48
-	Metabolites	48
35	EMBO Reports	44
-	Trends in Molecular Medicine	44
-	Biomacromolecules	44
-	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	44
39	Cell Systems	43
40	Genome Research	42
41	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	41
-	Food & Function	41
-	Cell Chemical Biology	41
-	Molecular Biology and Evolution	41
45	Annual Review of Biochemistry	40
46	Natural Product Reports	39
-	Chemico-Biological Interactions	39
-	Molecular Biology Reports	39
-	Experimental and Molecular Medicine	39
-	Genes & Diseases	39

51	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal	38
-	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	38
-	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	38
-	Molecular Ecology	38
55	Cell and Bioscience	37
-	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	37
-	Cytokine	37
58	ACS Chemical Biology	36
-	Process Biochemistry	36
-	ACS Chemical Neuroscience	36
61	Protein Science	35
-	Molecular Systems Biology	35
-	FASEB Journal	35
-	Methods	35
-	Molecular Medicine	35
-	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	35
-	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology	35
-	Biochemical Journal	35
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	35
70	Plant Science	34
-	Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry	34
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
-	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	34
-	Current Medicinal Chemistry	34
75	Science Signaling	33
-	Neurochemistry International	33
77	Biochemistry	32
-	ChemBioChem	32
-	Progress in Lipid Research	32
-	Essays in Biochemistry	32
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	32
-	Bioelectrochemistry	32
-	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	32
-	Journal of Food Biochemistry	32
85	Biochemical Society Transactions	31
-	Biological Trace Element Research	31
-	Journal of Genetics and Genomics	31
-	Structure	31
-	Lipids in Health and Disease	31
90	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology	30
-	Neurochemical Research	30
-	European Journal of Human Genetics	30
-	Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry	30
-	Open Biology	30
-	Phytochemistry	30
-	Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics	30
-	Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics	30
-	Bioscience Reports	30
-	Molecular Immunology	30
100	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics	29
-	Journal of Molecular Modeling	29
-	Macromolecular Bioscience	29
-	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	29
-	Journal of Neurochemistry	29
105	RNA	28
-	FEBS Letters	28
-	Apoptosis	28
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research	28
-	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	28
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	28
-	Human Molecular Genetics	28
-	Biochimie	28
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	28
-	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	28
115	Bioconjugate Chemistry	27
-	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology	27
-	Biomedical Journal	27
118	Proteomics	26
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	26
-	Chemistry & Biodiversity	26
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	26
-	Biofactors	26
123	Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology	25
-	Analytical Biochemistry	25
-	Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications	25
-	Plant Molecular Biology	25
127	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	24
-	Carbohydrate Research	24
-	RNA Biology	24
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	24
-	FEBS Open Bio	24
132	Amino Acids	23
-	BioEssays	23
-	IUBMB Life	23
-	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	23
-	Biometals	23
-	Molecular Biotechnology	23
138	RSC Medicinal Chemistry	22
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	22
-	Gene Therapy	22
-	Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	22
-	Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B	22
143	Peptides	21
-	Photochemistry and Photobiology	21
-	Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica	21
-	Matrix Biology	21
-	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	21
-	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	21
-	International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology	21
-	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience	21
-	Journal of Structural Biology	21
152	Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry	20
-	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics	20
-	Addiction Biology	20
-	Journal of Lipid Research	20
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes	20
-	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry	20
-	Molecular Carcinogenesis	20
159	Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology	19
-	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry	19
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects	19
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids	19
-	Cell Biochemistry and Function	19
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology	19
-	Current Opinion in Lipidology	19
-	Biophysical Chemistry	19
-	Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry	19
-	Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	19
-	Molecular Microbiology	19
170	Epigenetics	18
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics	18
-	Current Molecular Pharmacology	18
-	Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	18
174	Biomedical Chromatography	17
-	Molecular Reproduction and Development	17

-	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy	17
-	Mammalian Genome	17
-	Molecular Genetics and Genomics	17
-	DNA and Cell Biology	17
180	Protein Expression and Purification	16
-	Journal of Molecular Recognition	16
-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	16
-	Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders	16
-	Glycoconjugate Journal	16
-	Biochemistry-Moscow	16
-	Biological Chemistry	16
-	Chemistry and Physics of Lipids	16
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	16
189	Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids	15
-	Steroids	15
-	International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics	15
-	Journal of Chemical Ecology	15
-	Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design	15
-	Free Radical Research	15
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	15
-	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics	15
-	Current Protein & Peptide Science	15
198	Journal of Membrane Biology	14
-	Molecular Omics	14
-	Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators	14
-	Transgenic Research	14
-	Yeast	14
-	Extremophiles	14
-	Genes & Genomics	14
-	Journal of Biochemistry	14
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics	14
-	Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry	14
-	Current Drug Metabolism	14
209	Biochemical Genetics	13
-	Journal of Molecular Evolution	13
-	Biotechniques	13
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	13
-	Molecular Biology	13
-	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	13
-	Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology	13
-	Biochemistry and Cell Biology	13
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms	13
-	Journal of Liposome Research	13
-	Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability	13
220	Insect Molecular Biology	12
-	Biopolymers	12
-	Cellular and Molecular Biology	12
-	Protein Journal	12
-	Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry	12
-	Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research	12
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics	12
227	Protein and Peptide Letters	11
-	Innate Immunity	11
-	Journal of Biomolecular Nmr	11
-	Current Genomics	11
-	Journal of Peptide Science	11
-	Channels	11
-	Chromosome Research	11
234	International Journal of Genomics	10
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology	10
-	Chromosoma	10
-	Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids	10
-	Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction	10
-	Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology	10
240	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences	9
-	Biocatalysis and Biotransformation	9
-	Hemoglobin	9
-	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education	9
-	Lipids	9
-	Peptide Science	9
-	Protein Engineering Design & Selection	9
-	Genetics and Molecular Biology	9
248	Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics	8
-	Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications	8
-	Chemoecology	8
251	Genes & Genetic Systems	7
-	Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry	7
253	Prion	6
-	Current Proteomics	6
-	Acta Biochimica Polonica	6
256	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
257	Trace Elements and Electrolytes	3
258	Turkish Journal of Biochemistry-Turk Biyokimya Dergisi	2
-	Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology	2