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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Computers in Biology and Medicine	95
2	Current Biology	64
3	Biological Reviews	53
4	Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences	50
5	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	48
6	Science China-Life Sciences	38
7	BMC Biology	36
-	FASEB Journal	36
9	Bioelectrochemistry	33
-	Bioscience	33
11	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
12	Journal of Thermal Biology	27
13	Journal of Experimental Biology	26
14	Astrobiology	24
-	Computational Biology and Chemistry	24
16	Journal of Theoretical Biology	23
-	Physics of Life Reviews	23
18	BioEssays	22
-	Biology Direct	22
20	Microscopy Research and Technique	21
21	International Journal of Radiation Biology	20
22	Journal of Mathematical Biology	19
-	Bioscience Trends	19
24	Biosystems	18
25	Chronobiology International	16
-	Biologia	16
-	Biometrika	16
-	Journal of Biological Rhythms	16
29	Biometrics	15
-	Mathematical Biosciences	15
-	Radiation Research	15
-	American Journal of Human Biology	15
-	Bulletin of Mathematical Biology	15
-	Cryobiology	15
35	Biological Bulletin	13
-	Geobiology	13
-	Journal of Radiation Research	13
38	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	12
-	Journal of Biosciences	12
-	Biocell	12
41	Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research	11
-	Aerobiologia	11
43	Journal of Biological Systems	10
-	Journal of Ethnobiology	10
-	Annals of Human Biology	10
-	Journal of Biological Education	10
47	Theory in Biosciences	9
-	Bioelectromagnetics	9
-	Biology Bulletin	9
-	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology	9

-	Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics	9
52	Mathematical Medicine and Biology-A Journal of the Ima	8
-	Biological Rhythm Research	8
-	Quarterly Review of Biology	8
-	Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine	8
-	International Journal of Astrobiology	8
57	Journal of the History of Biology	5
-	American Biology Teacher	5
-	Archives of Biological Sciences	5
-	Bioscience Journal	5
61	Revista de Biologia Tropical	4
-	Biology Letters	4
-	Folia Biologica-Krakow	4
64	Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii	2