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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Medicine	175
2	Cell	169
3	Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy	168
4	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	163
5	Nucleic Acids Research	127
6	Molecules	119
7	Molecular Cancer	110
8	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	102
9	Antioxidants	99
10	Molecular Cell	90
11	Redox Biology	83
12	Molecular Psychiatry	76
13	Biomedicines	74
-	Biomolecules	74
15	Molecular Plant	70
16	International Journal of Biological Sciences	67
17	Nature Chemical Biology	66
18	Plant Cell	64
19	Current Biology	63
20	Free Radical Biology and Medicine	61
21	Cell Death and Differentiation	59
-	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	59
23	EMBO Journal	57
24	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	55
-	Journal of Biological Chemistry	55
26	Food & Function	54
-	Trends in Microbiology	54
28	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	52
-	Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences	52
-	Oncogene	52
31	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal	51
32	Metabolites	49
33	Genes & Diseases	46
-	Trends in Molecular Medicine	46
-	Journal of Molecular Biology	46
-	Natural Product Reports	46
37	Molecular Biology Reports	45
-	Bioorganic Chemistry	45
-	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	45
-	Biomacromolecules	45
41	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	44
42	Chemico-Biological Interactions	43
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	43
-	Molecular Biology and Evolution	43
45	Cell Chemical Biology	42
46	EMBO Reports	41
47	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology	40
48	Cell and Bioscience	39
-	Process Biochemistry	39
50	FASEB Journal	38

-	Genome Research	38
52	Cell Systems	37
-	Molecular Ecology	37
-	Annual Review of Biochemistry	37
-	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	37
56	Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry	36
-	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	36
-	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	36
-	FEBS Journal	36
-	Progress in Lipid Research	36
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	36
-	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	36
63	Methods	35
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	35
-	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	35
-	Science Signaling	35
67	Apoptosis	34
-	Biochemical Society Transactions	34
-	Biological Trace Element Research	34
-	ACS Chemical Neuroscience	34
-	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	34
-	Plant Science	34
73	ACS Chemical Biology	33
-	Structure	33
-	Lipids in Health and Disease	33
-	Current Medicinal Chemistry	33
-	Cytokine	33
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	33
-	Bioelectrochemistry	33
-	Protein Science	33
81	Molecular Medicine	32
-	Journal of Genetics and Genomics	32
83	Journal of Food Biochemistry	31
-	Neurochemical Research	31
-	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology	31
86	ChemBioChem	30
-	European Journal of Human Genetics	30
-	Phytochemistry	30
-	Essays in Biochemistry	30
-	FEBS Letters	30
-	RSC Medicinal Chemistry	30
-	Molecular Systems Biology	30
93	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology	29
-	Macromolecular Bioscience	29
-	Chemistry & Biodiversity	29
-	Open Biology	29
-	Bioscience Reports	29
-	Journal of Neurochemistry	29
-	Biochemical Journal	29
-	Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics	29
101	Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry	28
-	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics	28
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research	28
-	Neurochemistry International	28
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	28
-	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	28
-	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	28
-	Proteomics	28
109	Journal of Molecular Modeling	27
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	27
-	Human Molecular Genetics	27
-	Biochemistry	27
-	Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics	27
-	Molecular Immunology	27
-	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	27
-	Biochimie	27
117	Bioconjugate Chemistry	26
-	Molecular Biotechnology	26
-	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	26
-	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	26
-	Biofactors	26
122	Journal of Lipid Research	25
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	25
-	Matrix Biology	25
-	Analytical Biochemistry	25
-	Biomedical Journal	25
-	RNA	25
128	BioEssays	24
-	Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications	24
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	24
-	Biometals	24
132	Carbohydrate Research	23
-	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	23
-	FEBS Open Bio	23
-	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	23
-	RNA Biology	23
-	Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology	23
138	Cell Biochemistry and Function	22
-	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry	22
-	Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B	22
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes	22
-	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	22
143	Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica	21
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	21
-	International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology	21
-	Plant Molecular Biology	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Gene Therapy	21
-	Peptides	21
150	Current Molecular Pharmacology	20
-	Epigenetics	20
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects	20
-	IUBMB Life	20
-	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience	20
-	Journal of Structural Biology	20
-	Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry	20
-	Photochemistry and Photobiology	20
158	Biophysical Chemistry	19
-	Molecular Carcinogenesis	19
-	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics	19
161	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology	18
-	Molecular Omics	18
-	Addiction Biology	18
-	Amino Acids	18
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids	18
-	Biomedical Chromatography	18
-	Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry	18
-	Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology	18
-	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry	18
-	Steroids	18
171	Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	17
-	Molecular Reproduction and Development	17
-	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics	17
-	Molecular Genetics and Genomics	17
-	Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability	17

-	Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders	17
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	17
-	Biochemistry-Moscow	17
179	Journal of Molecular Recognition	16
-	Current Opinion in Lipidology	16
-	Free Radical Research	16
-	Glycoconjugate Journal	16
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics	16
-	Journal of Biochemistry	16
-	Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design	16
-	DNA and Cell Biology	16
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms	16
-	Biological Chemistry	16
189	Journal of Membrane Biology	15
-	Cellular and Molecular Biology	15
-	Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry	15
-	Biochemistry and Cell Biology	15
-	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy	15
194	Biotechniques	14
-	Molecular and Cellular Probes	14
-	Genes & Genomics	14
-	Biochemical Genetics	14
-	Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	14
-	Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators	14
-	Channels	14
-	Chemistry and Physics of Lipids	14
-	Current Drug Metabolism	14
-	Current Protein & Peptide Science	14
-	Insect Molecular Biology	14
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics	14
-	Protein Expression and Purification	14
207	Journal of Molecular Evolution	13
-	Biopolymers	13
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	13
-	Journal of Chemical Ecology	13
-	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	13
-	Journal of Liposome Research	13
-	Journal of Peptide Science	13
-	Mammalian Genome	13
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	13
-	Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	13
-	Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology	13
-	Yeast	13
-	Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids	13
220	Molecular Biology	12
-	Extremophiles	12
-	Genetics and Molecular Biology	12
-	Transgenic Research	12
-	Protein Journal	12
-	Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research	12
-	International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics	12
-	Protein and Peptide Letters	12
228	Chromosoma	11
-	Current Genomics	11
-	Journal of Biomolecular Nmr	11
-	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences	11
-	Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids	11
-	Chromosome Research	11
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics	11
-	Innate Immunity	11
236	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education	10
-	Protein Engineering Design & Selection	10
-	Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology	10
-	Hemoglobin	10
240	Lipids	9
-	Biocatalysis and Biotransformation	9
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology	9
-	Peptide Science	9
-	Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction	9
-	Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications	9
-	International Journal of Genomics	9
247	Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics	8
-	Prion	8
249	Chemoecology	7
-	Acta Biochimica Polonica	7
-	Genes & Genetic Systems	7
252	Current Proteomics	5
-	Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry	5
254	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
255	Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology	3
256	Trace Elements and Electrolytes	2