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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Cell	172
2	Nature Medicine	168
3	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	158
4	Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy	156
5	Nucleic Acids Research	141
6	Molecules	113
7	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	100
8	Molecular Cancer	99
9	Antioxidants	94
10	Molecular Cell	91
11	Redox Biology	80
12	Molecular Psychiatry	75
13	Biomolecules	74
14	Biomedicines	71
15	Molecular Plant	69
16	Current Biology	66
17	Nature Chemical Biology	64
18	Free Radical Biology and Medicine	61
19	Plant Cell	60
20	Cell Death and Differentiation	58
21	International Journal of Biological Sciences	57
22	EMBO Journal	56
23	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	54
-	Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences	54
25	Journal of Biological Chemistry	53
-	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	53
27	Trends in Microbiology	51
28	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	50
29	Journal of Molecular Biology	49
-	Metabolites	49
31	Bioorganic Chemistry	48
-	Oncogene	48
33	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	46
34	Food & Function	45
-	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	45
36	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	44
-	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal	44
-	EMBO Reports	44
-	Trends in Molecular Medicine	44
40	Biomacromolecules	43
41	Molecular Biology and Evolution	42
-	Natural Product Reports	42
-	Genome Research	42
-	Chemico-Biological Interactions	42
-	Molecular Biology Reports	42
46	FEBS Journal	40
-	Genes & Diseases	40
-	Cell Chemical Biology	40
-	Cell Systems	40
50	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	39

51	Cell and Bioscience	38
-	Process Biochemistry	38
53	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology	37
-	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	37
-	Protein Science	37
-	FASEB Journal	37
57	Molecular Ecology	36
-	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	36
-	Cytokine	36
-	Science Signaling	36
-	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	36
62	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	35
-	Methods	35
64	Bioelectrochemistry	34
-	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	34
-	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	34
-	Current Medicinal Chemistry	34
-	ACS Chemical Neuroscience	34
-	Plant Science	34
-	Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry	34
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
-	Molecular Medicine	34
-	ACS Chemical Biology	34
-	Progress in Lipid Research	34
-	Neurochemistry International	34
76	Biochemical Journal	33
-	Journal of Food Biochemistry	33
-	Molecular Systems Biology	33
79	Annual Review of Biochemistry	32
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	32
-	Essays in Biochemistry	32
-	Phytochemistry	32
-	Structure	32
84	Lipids in Health and Disease	31
-	Experimental and Molecular Medicine	31
-	Biochemical Society Transactions	31
-	Biological Trace Element Research	31
-	Journal of Genetics and Genomics	31
-	ChemBioChem	31
90	Journal of Neurochemistry	30
-	Molecular Immunology	30
-	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology	30
-	Neurochemical Research	30
-	Biochemistry	30
-	Open Biology	30
-	Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics	30
97	Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics	29
-	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	29
-	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	29
-	FEBS Letters	29
-	Apoptosis	29
-	Journal of Molecular Modeling	29
-	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology	29
-	European Journal of Human Genetics	29
105	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	28
-	Human Molecular Genetics	28
-	Bioscience Reports	28
-	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics	28
-	Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry	28
-	Macromolecular Bioscience	28
111	Biofactors	27
-	Biomedical Journal	27
-	Analytical Biochemistry	27
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research	27
-	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	27
116	Biochimie	26
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	26
-	Proteomics	26
-	RNA	26
-	Bioconjugate Chemistry	26
-	Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications	26
-	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	26
-	Chemistry & Biodiversity	26
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	26
125	Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology	25
-	RSC Medicinal Chemistry	25
-	Plant Molecular Biology	25
128	FEBS Open Bio	24
-	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	24
-	Molecular Biotechnology	24
-	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	24
-	Carbohydrate Research	24
-	RNA Biology	24
134	Biometals	23
-	Peptides	23
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	23
137	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	22
-	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience	22
-	Journal of Structural Biology	22
-	BioEssays	22
-	Journal of Lipid Research	22
-	Matrix Biology	22
-	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	22
144	International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology	21
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes	21
-	IUBMB Life	21
-	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry	21
-	Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B	21
-	Molecular Carcinogenesis	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics	21
-	Amino Acids	21
-	Cell Biochemistry and Function	21
-	Current Molecular Pharmacology	21
-	Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica	21
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	21
157	Biophysical Chemistry	20
-	Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry	20
-	Photochemistry and Photobiology	20
-	Addiction Biology	20
-	Gene Therapy	20
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids	20
-	Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	20
164	Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry	19
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects	19
-	Current Opinion in Lipidology	19
-	Molecular Reproduction and Development	19
168	DNA and Cell Biology	18
-	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry	18
-	Biomedical Chromatography	18
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology	18
-	Epigenetics	18
-	Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	18
174	Glycoconjugate Journal	17
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	17

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