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Best Bioengineering journals

165 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Bioengineering. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 42 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 Biotechnology 66.4 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Nature Catalysis 62.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Nature Nanotechnology 57.8 98th Q1 SCIE No
4 Nature Biomedical Engineering 46.6 97th Q1 SCIE No
5 Biotechnology Advances 24.8 97th Q1 SCIE No
6 Biomaterials 24.7 96th Q1 SCIE No
7 Annual Review of Biophysics 24.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
8 Trends in Biotechnology 22.1 95th Q1 SCIE No
9 Bioresource Technology 20.7 94th Q1 SCIE No
10 Sensors International 20.7 94th Q1 Yes
11 Journal of Nanobiotechnology 20.2 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
12 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology 19.8 93th Q1 SCIE No
13 Smart Materials in Medicine 19.1 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
14 Nano Today 18.6 91th Q1 SCIE No
15 Current Opinion in Biotechnology 17.3 91th Q1 SCIE No
16 Bioengineered 15.4 90th Q1 No
17 Grain and Oil Science and Technology 13.9 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
18 Metabolic Engineering 13.9 89th Q1 SCIE No
19 ChemBioEng Reviews 13.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
20 Biomaterials Advances 13.6 88th Q1 SCIE No
21 Nano Letters 13.5 87th Q1 SCIE No
22 Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews 13.5 87th Q1 SCIE No
23 ACS Sensors 13.1 86th Q1 SCIE No
24 Biofabrication 13 86th Q1 SCIE No
25 Mechanism and Machine Theory 12 85th Q1 SCIE No
26 Materials Today Bio 12 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
27 International Journal of Nanomedicine 10.6 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 10.6 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
29 Lab on a Chip 10.6 83th Q1 SCIE No
30 Biochip Journal 10.4 82th Q1 SCIE No
31 Gels 10.3 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
32 Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine 10.3 81th Q1 SCIE No
33 Engineering Microbiology 10.1 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
34 IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience 9.8 80th Q1 SCIE No
35 Journal of Bionic Engineering 9.5 79th Q1 SCIE No
36 Microbial Biotechnology 9.4 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
37 Microbial Cell Factories 9.4 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
38 Bioresource Technology Reports 9.3 77th Q1 ESCI No
39 Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology 9.3 77th Q1 ESCI No
40 New Biotechnology 9.2 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
41 Nanoscale Advances 9.2 75th Q1 SCIE Yes
42 Process Biochemistry 8.9 75th Q1 SCIE No
43 Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 8.9 74th Q2 SCIE No
44 Food Structure 8.9 74th Q2 SCIE No
45 Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 8.9 73th Q2 SCIE No
46 Biomacromolecules 8.8 72th Q2 SCIE No
47 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 8.5 72th Q2 SCIE No
48 Extreme Mechanics Letters 8.3 71th Q2 SCIE No
49 Macromolecular Bioscience 8.3 71th Q2 SCIE No
50 Journal of Experimental Nanoscience 8.3 70th Q2 SCIE Yes
51 Biochemical Engineering Journal 8.2 69th Q2 SCIE No
52 Engineering in Life Sciences 8.2 69th Q2 SCIE Yes
53 Biotechnology and Bioengineering 7.8 68th Q2 SCIE No
54 Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology 7.7 68th Q2 ESCI No
55 Health and Technology 7.7 67th Q2 ESCI No
56 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 7.7 66th Q2 SCIE No
57 Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 7.7 66th Q2 SCIE Yes
58 Enzyme and Microbial Technology 7.6 65th Q2 SCIE No
59 Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 7.6 65th Q2 SCIE Yes
60 Bioengineering 7.5 64th Q2 SCIE Yes
61 Polymer Chemistry 7.5 63th Q2 SCIE No
62 Interface Focus 7.4 63th Q2 SCIE No
63 Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition 7.2 62th Q2 SCIE No
64 Journal of Biotechnology 7.2 62th Q2 SCIE No
65 Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering 7.1 61th Q2 No
66 Bioconjugate Chemistry 7 61th Q2 SCIE No
67 Biophysics Reviews 7 60th Q2 ESCI No
68 Nano Futures 6.9 59th Q2 SCIE No
69 Current Research in Neurobiology 6.7 59th Q2 ESCI Yes
70 Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 6.7 58th Q2 SCIE No
71 Frontiers in Chemical Engineering 6.7 58th Q2 ESCI Yes
72 APL Bioengineering 6.6 57th Q2 SCIE Yes
73 Nanomedicine 6.5 56th Q2 SCIE No
74 Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6.4 56th Q2 SCIE No
75 Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews 6.3 55th Q2 SCIE No
76 Biomedical Materials (Bristol) 6.2 55th Q2 SCIE No
77 Biomimetics 6.2 54th Q2 SCIE Yes
78 Molecular Biotechnology 6 53th Q2 SCIE No
79 Tissue Engineering - Part A 5.9 53th Q2 SCIE No
80 Journal of Microencapsulation 5.9 52th Q2 SCIE No
81 Nanotechnology 5.9 52th Q2 SCIE No
82 Food Bioengineering 5.8 51th Q2 ESCI Yes
83 Biotechnology Notes 5.8 50th Q2 Yes
84 Processes 5.7 50th Q2 SCIE Yes
85 Animal Biotechnology 5.7 49th Q3 SCIE Yes
86 BioTech 5.6 49th Q3 ESCI Yes
87 Advances in Bioenergy 5.6 48th Q3 No
88 Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 5.6 47th Q3 SCIE No
89 Protein Engineering, Design and Selection 5.4 47th Q3 SCIE No
90 International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics 5.3 46th Q3 SCIE No
91 International Journal of Dairy Technology 5.2 46th Q3 SCIE No
92 Micro and Nano Letters 5.2 45th Q3 SCIE Yes
93 Yeast 5.2 44th Q3 SCIE No
94 Journal of Applied Biomaterials and Functional Materials 5 44th Q3 SCIE Yes
95 Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology 5 43th Q3 No
96 Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods 5 43th Q3 SCIE No
97 Biodegradation 5 42th Q3 SCIE No
98 Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 4.9 41th Q3 SCIE No
99 Journal of Nanoparticle Research 4.9 41th Q3 SCIE No
100 BioNanoScience 4.9 40th Q3 ESCI No

Rank and percentile are within the Bioengineering 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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