New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)
Rank Journal Impact Factor 2025
1 Nature Medicine ca. 52.5
2 Cell ca. 45.1
3 Molecular Cancer ca. 42.2
4 Molecular Plant ca. 32.7
5 Annual Review of Biochemistry ca. 24.9
6 Trends in Microbiology ca. 18.7
7 Progress in Lipid Research ca. 18.1
- Trends in Molecular Medicine ca. 18.1
9 Experimental and Molecular Medicine ca. 17.5
10 Redox Biology ca. 16.2
11 Molecular Cell ca. 16
12 Nature Chemical Biology ca. 15.8
13 Nucleic Acids Research ca. 15
14 Trends in Biochemical Sciences ca. 14.4
15 Molecular Aspects of Medicine ca. 13.8
16 Cell Death and Differentiation ca. 13.6
17 Plant Cell ca. 13.5
18 Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews ca. 13.4
19 Natural Product Reports ca. 12.5
- Journal of Integrative Plant Biology ca. 12.5
21 Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters ca. 12.2
22 International Journal of Biological Sciences ca. 11.7
23 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer ca. 11.2
24 Molecular Psychiatry ca. 10.4
25 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ca. 10.1
26 Oncogene ca. 9.1
27 Cell Chemical Biology ca. 9
- Apoptosis ca. 9
29 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ca. 8.7
- Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ca. 8.7
31 EMBO Journal ca. 8.4
32 Molecular Medicine ca. 8.3
33 Antioxidants ca. 8.2
34 Free Radical Biology and Medicine ca. 8
35 Journal of Genetics and Genomics ca. 7.9
36 Current Opinion in Structural Biology ca. 7.8
37 Current Biology ca. 7.7
38 Cell Systems ca. 7.5
39 Current Opinion in Chemical Biology ca. 7.2
- Current Molecular Pharmacology ca. 7.2
41 Science Signaling ca. 7
42 Lipids in Health and Disease ca. 6.9
43 Antioxidants & Redox Signaling ca. 6.8
44 Molecular Systems Biology ca. 6.7
45 Cell and Bioscience ca. 6.5
- Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ca. 6.5
47 Molecular Biology and Evolution ca. 6.4
48 Food & Function ca. 6.3
- Genome Research ca. 6.3
- Biomedical Journal ca. 6.3
51 EMBO Reports ca. 6
52 Gene Therapy ca. 5.9
- Biomacromolecules ca. 5.9
- Matrix Biology ca. 5.9
- Molecular Ecology Resources ca. 5.9
56 Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B ca. 5.7
- Essays in Biochemistry ca. 5.7
58 Protein Science ca. 5.6
- Biomolecules ca. 5.6
60 Neurochemistry International ca. 5.5
61 American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology ca. 5.4
62 Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry ca. 5.3
63 Chemico-Biological Interactions ca. 5.2
- Biofactors ca. 5.2
- Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry ca. 5.2
66 Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry ca. 5.1
- Molecules ca. 5.1
- Bioorganic Chemistry ca. 5.1
- Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders ca. 5.1
70 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease ca. 5
- Channels ca. 5
72 Bioelectrochemistry ca. 4.9
- Journal of Lipid Research ca. 4.9
74 Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology ca. 4.8
- Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal ca. 4.8
76 Journal of Liposome Research ca. 4.7
- Journal of Molecular Biology ca. 4.7
78 Plant Science ca. 4.6
- Journal of Neurochemistry ca. 4.6
- RSC Medicinal Chemistry ca. 4.6
- Structure ca. 4.6
- European Journal of Human Genetics ca. 4.6
83 Neurochemical Research ca. 4.5
- Nucleic Acid Therapeutics ca. 4.5
- Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology ca. 4.5
- Bioconjugate Chemistry ca. 4.5
- Biomedicines ca. 4.5
- Bioscience Reports ca. 4.5
- Metabolites ca. 4.5
- ACS Chemical Neuroscience ca. 4.5
- Current Opinion in Lipidology ca. 4.5
- Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica ca. 4.5
- Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology ca. 4.5
94 Biochemical Society Transactions ca. 4.4
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology ca. 4.4
- Process Biochemistry ca. 4.4
- Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences ca. 4.4
98 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research ca. 4.3
- Biological Trace Element Research ca. 4.3
- Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology ca. 4.3
- RNA ca. 4.3
- Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ca. 4.3
- FASEB Journal ca. 4.3
104 FEBS Journal ca. 4.2
- Macromolecular Bioscience ca. 4.2
106 Proteomics ca. 4.1
- RNA Biology ca. 4.1
- Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications ca. 4.1
- Journal of Biological Chemistry ca. 4.1
- Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology ca. 4.1
- Current Issues in Molecular Biology ca. 4.1
112 Current Genomics ca. 4
- Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability ca. 4
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ca. 4
- Biometals ca. 4
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology ca. 4
117 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ca. 3.9
- Biochemical Journal ca. 3.9
119 Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry ca. 3.8
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids ca. 3.8
121 Molecular Ecology ca. 3.7
- Molecular Immunology ca. 3.7
- Plant Molecular Biology ca. 3.7
- Epigenetics ca. 3.7
125 Methods ca. 3.6
- Cytokine ca. 3.6
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms ca. 3.6
- Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology ca. 3.6
- ACS Chemical Biology ca. 3.6
130 Peptides ca. 3.5
- Innate Immunity ca. 3.5
- Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ca. 3.5
- Molecular Carcinogenesis ca. 3.5
- Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics ca. 3.5
- Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences ca. 3.5
- Protein Engineering Design & Selection ca. 3.5
- International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology ca. 3.5
- Cell Biochemistry and Function ca. 3.5
- Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology ca. 3.5
140 Phytochemistry ca. 3.4
- Biochimie ca. 3.4
- Carbohydrate Research ca. 3.4
143 Insect Molecular Biology ca. 3.3
- BioEssays ca. 3.3
- Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics ca. 3.3
- Chemical Biology & Drug Design ca. 3.3
147 IUBMB Life ca. 3.2
- Molecular Biotechnology ca. 3.2
- Current Medicinal Chemistry ca. 3.2
- Amino Acids ca. 3.2
- Molecular and Cellular Probes ca. 3.2
- Molecular Biology Reports ca. 3.2
153 Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry ca. 3.1
- Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling ca. 3.1
- Molecular Microbiology ca. 3.1
- Analytical Biochemistry ca. 3.1
- Free Radical Research ca. 3.1
- Open Biology ca. 3.1
- Human Molecular Genetics ca. 3.1
- Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ca. 3.1
- FEBS Letters ca. 3.1
162 Journal of Cellular Biochemistry ca. 3
- Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics ca. 3
- Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design ca. 3
- Chemistry and Physics of Lipids ca. 3
- Fish Physiology and Biochemistry ca. 3
- Glycoconjugate Journal ca. 3
168 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects ca. 2.9
- Biopolymers ca. 2.9
- Chemistry & Biodiversity ca. 2.9
- Journal of Molecular Modeling ca. 2.9
- Metallomics ca. 2.9
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics ca. 2.9
- Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology ca. 2.9
175 Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry ca. 2.8
- ChemBioChem ca. 2.8
- Molecular and Cellular Biology ca. 2.8
178 Steroids ca. 2.7
- Biochemistry ca. 2.7
- FEBS Open Bio ca. 2.7
- Journal of Molecular Recognition ca. 2.7
182 Photochemistry and Photobiology ca. 2.6
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics ca. 2.6
- Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy ca. 2.6
- Journal of Peptide Science ca. 2.6
- Mammalian Genome ca. 2.6
- DNA and Cell Biology ca. 2.6
- Addiction Biology ca. 2.6
- Molecular Reproduction and Development ca. 2.6
- Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators ca. 2.6
- Journal of Membrane Biology ca. 2.6
- Biotechniques ca. 2.6
- Chromosome Research ca. 2.6
194 Protein and Peptide Letters ca. 2.5
- Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics ca. 2.5
- Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry ca. 2.5
- Chromosoma ca. 2.5
- International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics ca. 2.5
- Biological Chemistry ca. 2.5
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ca. 2.5
- Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ca. 2.5
202 Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids ca. 2.4
- Journal of Biochemistry ca. 2.4
- Journal of Molecular Neuroscience ca. 2.4
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology ca. 2.4
- Current Protein & Peptide Science ca. 2.4
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes ca. 2.4
- Molecular Omics ca. 2.4
209 Journal of Food Biochemistry ca. 2.3
- Journal of Structural Biology ca. 2.3
- Biophysical Chemistry ca. 2.3
- Current Drug Metabolism ca. 2.3
213 Molecular Genetics and Genomics ca. 2.2
- Extremophiles ca. 2.2
- Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology ca. 2.2
- Yeast ca. 2.2
- Biochemical Systematics and Ecology ca. 2.2
- Biochemistry and Cell Biology ca. 2.2
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics ca. 2.2
220 Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences ca. 2.1
- Biochemistry-Moscow ca. 2.1
- Journal of Biomolecular Nmr ca. 2.1
- Journal of Chemical Ecology ca. 2.1
224 International Journal of Genomics ca. 2
- Journal of Molecular Evolution ca. 2
- Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology ca. 2
- Genes & Genomics ca. 2
- Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology ca. 2
229 Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research ca. 1.9
- Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction ca. 1.9
- Biochemical Genetics ca. 1.9
- Peptide Science ca. 1.9
- Protein Journal ca. 1.9
- Transgenic Research ca. 1.9
235 Protein Expression and Purification ca. 1.8
236 Prion ca. 1.7
- Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry ca. 1.7
- Biomedical Chromatography ca. 1.7
- Genetics and Molecular Biology ca. 1.7
240 Lipids ca. 1.6
241 Biocatalysis and Biotransformation ca. 1.5
- Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry ca. 1.5
243 Chemoecology ca. 1.4
- Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology ca. 1.4
245 Trace Elements and Electrolytes ca. 1.3
- Molecular Biology ca. 1.3
- Current Proteomics ca. 1.3
248 Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications ca. 1.1
249 Hemoglobin ca. 1
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education ca. 1
- Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids ca. 1
- Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry ca. 1
253 Turkish Journal of Biochemistry-Turk Biyokimya Dergisi ca. 0.9
- Genes & Genetic Systems ca. 0.9
255 Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics ca. 0.8
256 Pteridines ca. 0.7
257 Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology ca. 0.5
258 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology ca. 0.4
259 Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology ca. 0.3
2.0142419338226