Biochemistry & Molecular Biology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The 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	Papers
1	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	59781
2	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules	28433
3	Molecules	27999
4	Biomedicines	12696
5	Journal of Biological Chemistry	9339
6	FASEB Journal	8421
7	Antioxidants	7688
8	Biomolecules	7121
9	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications	5900
10	Nucleic Acids Research	5267
11	Free Radical Biology and Medicine	4483
12	Molecular Biology Reports	4360
13	Metabolites	4042
14	Chemistry & Biodiversity	3802
15	Current Biology	3722
16	Food & Function	3656
17	Bioorganic Chemistry	3579
18	Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences	3400
19	Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics	3057
20	Nature Medicine	2667
21	Biomacromolecules	2412
22	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal	2187
23	ChemBioChem	2050
24	Molecular Psychiatry	2022
25	Cell	1981
26	Molecular Ecology	1844
27	Current Medicinal Chemistry	1826
28	Redox Biology	1733
29	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology	1684
30	Chemico-Biological Interactions	1677
31	Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy	1668
32	Journal of Molecular Biology	1656
33	ACS Chemical Neuroscience	1650
34	Cellular and Molecular Biology	1625
35	Molecular Cell	1616
36	FEBS Journal	1600
37	Journal of Molecular Modeling	1585
38	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology	1578
39	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	1577
40	International Journal of Biological Sciences	1543
41	Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry	1536
42	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease	1515
43	Oncogene	1514
44	Biochemistry	1496
-	Protein Science	1496
46	Plant Science	1451
47	Genes & Diseases	1430
48	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences	1425
49	Phytochemistry	1387
50	Process Biochemistry	1383

51	Plant Cell	1324
52	Biological Trace Element Research	1300
53	ACS Chemical Biology	1275
54	RSC Medicinal Chemistry	1241
55	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	1228
56	Lipids in Health and Disease	1227
57	FEBS Letters	1219
58	Biomedical Chromatography	1180
-	Molecular Biology and Evolution	1180
60	Journal of Neurochemistry	1179
61	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics	1151
62	Nature Chemical Biology	1145
63	Neurochemical Research	1138
64	Cytokine	1127
65	Biochemical Genetics	1111
66	Molecular Biotechnology	1086
67	Molecular Cancer	1054
68	Carbohydrate Research	1042
69	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	1018
70	Analytical Biochemistry	1014
71	Macromolecular Bioscience	994
72	Bioconjugate Chemistry	978
73	Journal of Food Biochemistry	974
74	European Journal of Human Genetics	973
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	973
76	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	968
77	Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry	956
78	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics	926
79	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	924
80	Human Molecular Genetics	915
81	Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica	913
82	Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology	905
83	Proteomics	904
84	Molecular Immunology	895
85	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	879
86	FEBS Open Bio	874
87	Biochimie	869
88	Bioelectrochemistry	861
89	American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology	848
90	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	841
91	Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry	833
92	Structure	828
93	Molecular Plant	810
94	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	786
95	Cell and Bioscience	782
96	Methods	765
97	Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology	764
98	Trends in Microbiology	751
99	Journal of Lipid Research	750
100	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research	748
101	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Reviews on Cancer	743
-	Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics	743
103	Genome Research	735
104	Cell Death and Differentiation	734
105	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	733
106	BioEssays	716
107	Biochemistry-Moscow	694
108	Molecular Ecology Resources	691
109	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology	688
110	Molecular Carcinogenesis	682
111	Bioscience Reports	680
112	Biochemical Society Transactions	665
113	Journal of Genetics and Genomics	657
114	Cell Biochemistry and Function	656
115	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	649
116	Cell Chemical Biology	645
117	Photochemistry and Photobiology	641
118	Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry	639
119	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	624
120	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects	623
121	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics	620
122	Trends in Molecular Medicine	612
123	EMBO Reports	611
124	Neurochemistry International	606
125	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology	605
-	Science Signaling	605
127	Molecular Microbiology	603
128	Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	600
129	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry	593
130	Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry	589
131	Trends in Biochemical Sciences	577
132	EMBO Journal	570
133	Protein Expression and Purification	537
134	RNA	532
135	Antioxidants & Redox Signaling	523
136	Open Biology	517
137	Biophysical Chemistry	515
138	Biochemical Journal	511
139	Natural Product Reports	508
140	Genes & Genomics	501
141	Apoptosis	495
142	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes	489
143	Molecular Genetics and Genomics	480
144	Addiction Biology	476
145	Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology	475
146	Steroids	471
147	Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	468
-	Peptides	468
149	Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	467
150	Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology	459
151	IUBMB Life	455
152	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	454
153	International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology	451
154	Plant Molecular Biology	440
155	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids	435
156	Cell Systems	433
157	Journal of Biochemistry	424
158	Biometals	422
159	Biofactors	418
160	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics	414
161	Biomedical Journal	410
162	Journal of Peptide Science	405
163	Molecular Biology	395
164	Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids	394
165	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	391
166	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	379
167	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education	374
168	Protein and Peptide Letters	368
169	Journal of Structural Biology	367
170	RNA Biology	366
171	Molecular Omics	365
-	Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B	365
173	Epigenetics	361
174	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	358
175	Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology	347

176	Journal of Chemical Ecology	340
177	Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics	333
178	DNA and Cell Biology	325
179	Molecular Reproduction and Development	322
180	Insect Molecular Biology	316
181	Current Protein & Peptide Science	314
182	Matrix Biology	306
-	Current Drug Metabolism	306
184	Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design	305
185	Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry	304
186	Molecular Systems Biology	302
187	Biopolymers	298
188	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry	284
189	Protein Journal	281
190	Gene Therapy	277
191	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy	276
192	Biological Chemistry	273
193	Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators	267
194	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	266
-	Yeast	266
196	Current Molecular Pharmacology	263
197	Genetics and Molecular Biology	259
-	Molecular Aspects of Medicine	259
-	Essays in Biochemistry	259
200	Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology	258
201	Journal of Molecular Evolution	255
-	Hemoglobin	255
203	Biotechniques	254
-	Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research	254
205	Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews	253
206	Mammalian Genome	251
207	Amino Acids	248
208	Biochemistry and Cell Biology	246
209	Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications	242
210	Acta Biochimica Polonica	240
211	Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology	239
212	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics	236
213	Free Radical Research	229
-	Journal of Molecular Recognition	229
-	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience	229
216	Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences	227
217	Amyloid-Journal of Protein Folding Disorders	226
218	Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology Communications	221
-	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms	221
220	Molecular and Cellular Probes	217
221	Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability	203
222	Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids	194
223	Chemistry and Physics of Lipids	192
224	International Journal of Genomics	189
225	Current Opinion in Lipidology	183
226	Transgenic Research	182
227	Peptide Science	180
228	Lipids	179
229	Glycoconjugate Journal	169
230	Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology	166
231	Molecular Medicine	165
232	Extremophiles	159
233	Journal of Membrane Biology	156
234	Journal of Liposome Research	155
235	Current Proteomics	154
236	Biocatalysis and Biotransformation	152
237	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics	148
238	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	142
239	Current Genomics	140
240	Progress in Lipid Research	126
241	Genes & Genetic Systems	113
242	Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters	112
243	Channels	99
244	Annual Review of Biochemistry	93
245	Journal of Biomolecular Nmr	92
246	Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction	86
247	Trace Elements and Electrolytes	82
248	Innate Immunity	78
249	Protein Engineering Design & Selection	77
250	Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry	74
251	Chromosoma	70
252	Chemoecology	68
253	Prion	54
254	Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	50
255	International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics	41
256	Chromosome Research	32