Scopus subject area
Best Biotechnology journals
321 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Biotechnology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 81 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 Biomedical Engineering | 46.6 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 3 | iMeta | 43.7 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 4 | Nature Methods | 40 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 5 | Bioactive Materials | 38.3 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 6 | Trends in Food Science and Technology | 27.3 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 7 | Biotechnology Advances | 24.8 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 8 | Ageing Research Reviews | 24.1 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 9 | Biofuel Research Journal | 23.5 | 97th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 10 | Protein and Cell | 22.6 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 11 | Trends in Biotechnology | 22.1 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 12 | Critical Reviews in Biotechnology | 20.6 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 13 | Biosensors and Bioelectronics | 19.2 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 14 | Nano Today | 18.6 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 15 | Annual Review of Animal Biosciences | 18.2 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 16 | Acta Biomaterialia | 17.7 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 17 | Plant Communications | 17.6 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 18 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 17.3 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 19 | OpenNano | 17.3 | 94th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 20 | Small | 16.8 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 21 | Nanotheranostics | 16.3 | 93th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 22 | Bioengineered | 15.4 | 93th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 23 | Plant Biotechnology Journal | 15.2 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 24 | Phytochemistry Reviews | 15.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 25 | Bio-Design and Manufacturing | 14.7 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 26 | Food Control | 14.7 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 27 | Horticulture Research | 14.7 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 28 | Bioengineering and Translational Medicine | 13.9 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 29 | Metabolic Engineering | 13.9 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 30 | BioDrugs | 13.8 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 31 | Biofabrication | 13 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 32 | Bioprinting | 12.9 | 90th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 33 | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes | 12.9 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 34 | Nanotechnology Reviews | 12.8 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 35 | Nanophotonics | 12.6 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 36 | Supramolecular Materials | 12.5 | 89th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 37 | Biotechnology Reports | 12.5 | 88th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 38 | Colloids and Interface Science Communications | 12.5 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 39 | Current Research in Food Science | 12.5 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 40 | IET Nanobiotechnology | 12.4 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 41 | Rice Science | 12.4 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 42 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 12.3 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 43 | Biosensors | 12.1 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 44 | Journal of Ginseng Research | 12.1 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 45 | Materials Today Bio | 12 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 46 | Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology | 11.9 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 47 | Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X | 11.3 | 85th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 48 | Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces | 10.9 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 49 | Green Synthesis and Catalysis | 10.7 | 85th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 50 | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology | 10.6 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 51 | ACS Photonics | 10.4 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 52 | Biochip Journal | 10.4 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 53 | Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts | 10.1 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 54 | Frontiers in Genome Editing | 9.8 | 83th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 55 | IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience | 9.8 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 56 | Bioresources and Bioprocessing | 9.7 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 57 | IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | 9.7 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 58 | Journal of Water Process Engineering | 9.6 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 59 | Journal of Bionic Engineering | 9.5 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 60 | Microbial Biotechnology | 9.4 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 61 | Microbial Cell Factories | 9.4 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 62 | New Biotechnology | 9.2 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 63 | GM Crops and Food | 9.1 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 64 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 9 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 65 | Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture | 9 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 66 | BioDesign Research | 8.9 | 79th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 67 | Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry | 8.9 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 68 | Phenomics | 8.9 | 79th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 69 | Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland) | 8.8 | 78th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 70 | Pharmaceutical Research | 8.7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 71 | Plant Methods | 8.7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 72 | Current Research in Biotechnology | 8.6 | 78th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 73 | Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine and Biotechnology | 8.5 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 74 | Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering | 8.5 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 75 | Marine Life Science and Technology | 8.5 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 76 | aBIOTECH | 8.5 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 77 | Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications | 8.3 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 78 | Macromolecular Bioscience | 8.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 79 | Biochemical Engineering Journal | 8.2 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 80 | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal | 8.2 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 81 | Engineering in Life Sciences | 8.2 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 82 | Biomaterials and Biosystems | 8.2 | 74th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 83 | European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics | 8.1 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 84 | Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture | 8.1 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 85 | CRISPR Journal | 7.9 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 86 | AIChE Journal | 7.9 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 87 | Journal of Applied Microbiology | 7.9 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 88 | Cell Reports Methods | 7.8 | 73th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 89 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 7.8 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 90 | BMC Biology | 7.8 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 91 | International Journal of Bioprinting | 7.8 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 92 | Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology | 7.7 | 71th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 93 | Health and Technology | 7.7 | 71th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 94 | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 7.7 | 71th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 95 | Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology | 7.7 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 96 | Enzyme and Microbial Technology | 7.6 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 97 | Molecular Nutrition and Food Research | 7.6 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 98 | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 7.6 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 99 | Interface Focus | 7.4 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 100 | World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology | 7.3 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
Rank and percentile are within the Biotechnology 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.