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 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology ca. 12.5
- Natural Product Reports 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 Biomolecules ca. 5.6
- Protein Science 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 Channels ca. 5
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease ca. 5
72 Bioelectrochemistry ca. 4.9
- Journal of Lipid Research ca. 4.9
74 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal ca. 4.8
- Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology ca. 4.8
76 Journal of Liposome Research ca. 4.7
- Journal of Molecular Biology ca. 4.7
78 Journal of Neurochemistry ca. 4.6
- RSC Medicinal Chemistry ca. 4.6
- Structure ca. 4.6
- Plant Science ca. 4.6
- European Journal of Human Genetics ca. 4.6
83 Biomedicines ca. 4.5
- Bioscience Reports ca. 4.5
- Metabolites ca. 4.5
- ACS Chemical Neuroscience ca. 4.5
- Bioconjugate Chemistry ca. 4.5
- Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology 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
- Neurochemical Research ca. 4.5
- Nucleic Acid Therapeutics ca. 4.5
94 Process Biochemistry ca. 4.4
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology ca. 4.4
- Biochemical Society Transactions ca. 4.4
- Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences ca. 4.4
98 Biological Trace Element Research ca. 4.3
- RNA ca. 4.3
- Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology ca. 4.3
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research ca. 4.3
- FASEB Journal ca. 4.3
- Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ca. 4.3
104 FEBS Journal ca. 4.2
- Macromolecular Bioscience ca. 4.2
106 Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications ca. 4.1
- Proteomics ca. 4.1
- RNA Biology ca. 4.1
- Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology ca. 4.1
- Current Issues in Molecular Biology ca. 4.1
- Journal of Biological Chemistry 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 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids ca. 3.8
- Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry ca. 3.8
121 Plant Molecular Biology ca. 3.7
- Molecular Ecology ca. 3.7
- Molecular Immunology ca. 3.7
- Epigenetics ca. 3.7
125 Methods ca. 3.6
- Cytokine ca. 3.6
- ACS Chemical Biology ca. 3.6
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms ca. 3.6
- Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology ca. 3.6
130 Protein Engineering Design & Selection ca. 3.5
- Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ca. 3.5
- Molecular Carcinogenesis ca. 3.5
- Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics ca. 3.5
- Innate Immunity ca. 3.5
- Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences ca. 3.5
- Cell Biochemistry and Function ca. 3.5
- Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology ca. 3.5
- International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology ca. 3.5
- Peptides ca. 3.5
140 Phytochemistry ca. 3.4
- Carbohydrate Research ca. 3.4
- Biochimie ca. 3.4
143 BioEssays ca. 3.3
- Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics ca. 3.3
- Insect Molecular Biology ca. 3.3
- Chemical Biology & Drug Design ca. 3.3
147 Molecular Biotechnology ca. 3.2
- Current Medicinal Chemistry ca. 3.2
- Amino Acids ca. 3.2
- IUBMB Life 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
- Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ca. 3.1
- FEBS Letters ca. 3.1
- Human Molecular Genetics 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 Biopolymers ca. 2.9
- Chemistry & Biodiversity ca. 2.9
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-General Subjects 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 ChemBioChem ca. 2.8
- Molecular and Cellular Biology ca. 2.8
- Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry ca. 2.8
178 FEBS Open Bio ca. 2.7
- Biochemistry ca. 2.7
- Journal of Molecular Recognition ca. 2.7
- Steroids ca. 2.7
182 Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy ca. 2.6
- Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators 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
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics ca. 2.6
- Journal of Membrane Biology ca. 2.6
- Biotechniques ca. 2.6
- Chromosome Research ca. 2.6
- Photochemistry and Photobiology ca. 2.6
194 Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry ca. 2.5
- Chromosoma ca. 2.5
- Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics ca. 2.5
- Biological Chemistry ca. 2.5
- Protein and Peptide Letters ca. 2.5
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ca. 2.5
- Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ca. 2.5
- International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics ca. 2.5
202 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
- Journal of Biochemistry ca. 2.4
- Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids ca. 2.4
- Molecular Omics ca. 2.4
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 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 Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology ca. 2.2
- Yeast ca. 2.2
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics ca. 2.2
- Extremophiles 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 Journal of Chemical Ecology ca. 2.1
- Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C-A Journal of Biosciences ca. 2.1
- Biochemistry-Moscow ca. 2.1
- Journal of Biomolecular Nmr 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
- Protein Journal ca. 1.9
- Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction ca. 1.9
- Transgenic Research ca. 1.9
- Biochemical Genetics ca. 1.9
- Peptide Science ca. 1.9
235 Protein Expression and Purification ca. 1.8
236 Biomedical Chromatography ca. 1.7
- Prion ca. 1.7
- Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry 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 Genes & Genetic Systems ca. 0.9
- Turkish Journal of Biochemistry-Turk Biyokimya Dergisi 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
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