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Best Biochemistry journals

446 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Biochemistry. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 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 Catalysis 62.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science 42.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Nature Methods 40 99th Q1 SCIE No
4 Annual Review of Biochemistry 35.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
5 Progress in Lipid Research 34.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
6 Chem 30.4 98th Q1 SCIE No
7 Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts 26.1 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Annual Review of Biophysics 24.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
9 Ageing Research Reviews 24.1 98th Q1 SCIE No
10 Blood 22.8 97th Q1 SCIE No
11 Experimental and Molecular Medicine 22.6 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
12 Protein and Cell 22.6 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
13 Journal of the American Chemical Society 22 97th Q1 SCIE No
14 Molecular Aspects of Medicine 21.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
15 Natural Product Reports 21.2 96th Q1 SCIE No
16 Cell Discovery 20.4 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
17 Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity 20.1 96th Q1 No
18 Trends in Biochemical Sciences 20.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
19 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 18.3 95th Q1 SCIE No
20 Acta Biomaterialia 17.7 95th Q1 SCIE No
21 Plant Communications 17.6 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
22 Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters 17.1 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
23 Environmental Research 16.5 94th Q1 SCIE No
24 Green Carbon 15.7 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
25 Journal of Membrane Science 15.6 94th Q1 SCIE No
26 Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 15.6 94th Q1 SCIE No
27 Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications 15.4 94th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 Antioxidants 14.7 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
29 Horticulture Research 14.7 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
30 Chemical Record 14.6 93th Q1 SCIE No
31 Antioxidants and Redox Signaling 14.1 93th Q1 SCIE No
32 Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 14 92th Q1 SCIE No
33 Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics 13.9 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 ChemBioEng Reviews 13.8 92th Q1 SCIE No
35 Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 13.7 92th Q1 SCIE No
36 Cell Chemical Biology 13.6 92th Q1 SCIE No
37 Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews 13.5 91th Q1 SCIE No
38 Cell Communication and Signaling 13.3 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
39 Free Radical Biology and Medicine 13.2 91th Q1 SCIE No
40 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA 13.2 91th Q1 SCIE No
41 Biofabrication 13 90th Q1 SCIE No
42 FEBS Journal 12.7 90th Q1 SCIE No
43 Journal of Chemical Reviews 12.2 90th Q1 No
44 Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 11.9 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
45 Nucleic Acid Therapeutics 11.4 90th Q1 SCIE No
46 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 11.4 89th Q1 SCIE No
47 Essays in Biochemistry 11.3 89th Q1 SCIE No
48 Bioinformatics 11.1 89th Q1 SCIE A Yes
49 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 11 89th Q1 SCIE No
50 Analytica Chimica Acta 10.9 88th Q1 SCIE No
51 BioFactors 10.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
52 Chemical Biology Letters 10.8 88th Q1 ESCI No
53 ChemTexts 10.7 88th Q1 ESCI No
54 Lab on a Chip 10.6 88th Q1 SCIE No
55 Redox Report 10.5 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
56 Genes and Diseases 10.4 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
57 Antibiotics 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
58 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE No
59 EMBO Reports 9.5 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
60 Microbial Biotechnology 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
61 Sensors 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
62 Biological Trace Element Research 9.3 86th Q1 SCIE No
63 Biomolecules 9.3 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
64 Biochemical Pharmacology 9.3 85th Q1 SCIE No
65 Protein Science 9.3 85th Q1 SCIE No
66 Stem Cell Reports 9.3 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
67 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology 9.2 85th Q1 SCIE No
68 Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 9 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
69 Journal of Integrative Agriculture 9 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
70 Natural Products and Bioprospecting 9 84th Q1 ESCI Yes
71 Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 8.9 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
72 Process Biochemistry 8.9 84th Q1 SCIE No
73 Journal of Membrane Science Letters 8.9 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
74 Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry 8.6 83th Q1 SCIE No
75 Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 8.6 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
76 Reactive and Functional Polymers 8.6 83th Q1 SCIE No
77 Tissue Barriers 8.6 82th Q1 ESCI No
78 Bioscience Reports 8.4 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
79 BMC Bioinformatics 8.3 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
80 Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications 8.3 82th Q1 ESCI Yes
81 Communications Chemistry 8.3 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
82 Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling 8.3 81th Q1 SCIE No
83 Biomaterials and Biosystems 8.2 81th Q1 Yes
84 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 8.2 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
85 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 8.2 81th Q1 SCIE No
86 Journal of Investigative Dermatology 8.2 80th Q1 SCIE No
87 Non-coding RNA Research 8.2 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
88 Metabolites 8.1 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
89 mSystems 8.1 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
90 Food Bioscience 8 80th Q1 SCIE No
91 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 8 79th Q1 SCIE No
92 Chemical Physics Impact 8 79th Q1 ESCI Yes
93 Biochemical Society Transactions 7.9 79th Q1 SCIE No
94 Neurochemical Research 7.9 79th Q1 SCIE No
95 European Journal of Clinical Investigation 7.9 78th Q1 SCIE No
96 Cell Reports Methods 7.8 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
97 International Journal of Tryptophan Research 7.8 78th Q1 ESCI No
98 Science Signaling 7.8 78th Q1 SCIE No
99 Experimental Gerontology 7.7 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
100 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 7.7 77th Q1 SCIE No

Rank and percentile are within the Biochemistry 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.

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