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Best Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) journals
222 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all). The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 56 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.
| # | Journal | CiteScore | Percentile | Quartile | WoS | ABDC | OA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature Reviews Methods Primers | 88.3 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 2 | Nature Medicine | 73.9 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 3 | Cell | 67.8 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 4 | Annual Review of Medicine | 43 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 5 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 34.6 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 6 | Nature Protocols | 31.3 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 7 | Biological Reviews | 24.5 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 8 | Nature Communications | 24.3 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 9 | Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews | 21.8 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 10 | Mass Spectrometry Reviews | 21.2 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 11 | eBioMedicine | 19.1 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 12 | Journal of Integrative Plant Biology | 18.3 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 13 | Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology | 16.2 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 14 | Cell Reports Medicine | 15.9 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 15 | Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine | 15.9 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 16 | Developmental Cell | 15.7 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 17 | EMBO Journal | 13.6 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 18 | Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences | 12.8 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 19 | Science China Life Sciences | 12.7 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 20 | Cell Reports | 12.3 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 21 | Management of Environmental Quality | 11.8 | 90th | Q1 | ESCI | C | No |
| 22 | Molecular Systems Biology | 11.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 23 | Cell and Bioscience | 11.5 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 24 | Cells | 11.4 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 25 | Journal of Translational Medicine | 11.3 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 26 | Current Biology | 10.7 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 27 | Life Sciences | 10.7 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 28 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 10.2 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 29 | Emerging Topics in Life Sciences | 9.9 | 87th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 30 | BioMed Research International | 9.4 | 86th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 31 | Methods | 9.3 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 32 | PLOS Biology | 9.2 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 33 | Interdisciplinary Sciences - Computational Life Sciences | 9 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 34 | Journal of Zhejiang University: Science B | 8.3 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 35 | Communications Biology | 8.2 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 36 | BioScience Trends | 8 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 37 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 7.9 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 38 | BMC Biology | 7.8 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 39 | Biomedicines | 7.8 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 40 | CBE Life Sciences Education | 7.6 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 41 | Biological Research | 7.5 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 42 | BioMetals | 7.4 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 43 | Biology | 7.3 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 44 | Life | 7.1 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 45 | Biomolecular Concepts | 7 | 80th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 46 | Insect Science | 7 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 47 | Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine | 7 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 48 | Journal of Taibah University for Science | 6.8 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 49 | Clinical and Experimental Medicine | 6.7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 50 | Experimental Biology and Medicine | 6.6 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 51 | Scientific World Journal | 6.6 | 77th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 52 | Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids | 6.6 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 53 | Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research | 6.4 | 76th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 54 | Biology Direct | 6.4 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 55 | Biological Procedures Online | 6.3 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 56 | DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms | 6.2 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 57 | Maturitas | 6.2 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 58 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 6.1 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 59 | Laboratory Animal Research | 6.1 | 73th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 60 | Open Biology | 6.1 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 61 | Applied Biological Chemistry | 5.8 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 62 | Database : the journal of biological databases and curation | 5.8 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 63 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Landmark | 5.7 | 71th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 64 | Current Research in Translational Medicine | 5.5 | 71th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 65 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar | 5.5 | 71th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 66 | Advanced Biology | 5.5 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 67 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite | 5.4 | 70th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 68 | BioEssays | 5.4 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 69 | Clinical and Translational Science | 5.4 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 70 | Alternatives to Laboratory Animals | 5.2 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 71 | Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences | 5.2 | 68th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 72 | FEBS Open Bio | 5.1 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 73 | Journal of Investigative Medicine | 5.1 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 74 | Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research | 5.1 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 75 | Animal Cells and Systems | 5 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 76 | Journal of Analytical Science and Technology | 5 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 77 | Current Opinion in Systems Biology | 5 | 65th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 78 | PeerJ | 4.9 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 79 | Acta Biochimica Polonica | 4.8 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 80 | Journal of Applied Crystallography | 4.8 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 81 | Biomolecules and Biomedicine | 4.7 | 63th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 82 | Natural Sciences | 4.7 | 63th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 83 | npj Systems Biology and Applications | 4.7 | 63th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 84 | Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences | 4.6 | 62th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 85 | Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering | 4.6 | 61th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 86 | Neuroscience | 4.6 | 61th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 87 | Current Protocols | 4.4 | 60th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 88 | Journal of Biophotonics | 4.3 | 60th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 89 | BioTechniques | 4.3 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 90 | BioImpacts | 4.2 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 91 | Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine | 4.2 | 58th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 92 | BioMedicine (Taiwan) | 4.2 | 58th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 93 | Experimental Animals | 4.1 | 58th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 94 | Animal Welfare | 4 | 57th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 95 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 4 | 57th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 96 | Journal of Oral Biosciences | 3.9 | 56th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 97 | Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy | 3.8 | 56th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 98 | BioSystems | 3.7 | 55th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 99 | Bulletin of Mathematical Biology | 3.6 | 55th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 100 | Biomedical Reports | 3.6 | 54th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
Rank and percentile are within the Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.