Scopus subject area
Best Genetics journals
357 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Genetics. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 89 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 | Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy | 81.6 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 2 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 74.8 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 3 | Nature Genetics | 38.6 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 4 | Cell Stem Cell | 36.1 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 5 | Nucleic Acids Research | 29.8 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 6 | Nature Microbiology | 28.8 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 7 | Trends in Genetics | 25.1 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 8 | Cell Discovery | 20.4 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 9 | Annual Review of Animal Biosciences | 18.2 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 10 | Genome Medicine | 18 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 11 | Molecular Therapy | 17.9 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 12 | Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics | 15.1 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 13 | Horticulture Research | 14.7 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 14 | Cell Genomics | 14.6 | 96th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 15 | Genome Biology | 14.5 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 16 | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer | 14.1 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 17 | Oncogene | 14 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 18 | Systematic Biology | 14 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 19 | Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics | 13.9 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 20 | American Journal of Human Genetics | 12.5 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 21 | MedComm | 12.5 | 94th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 22 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 12.3 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 23 | Annual Review of Genetics | 12.2 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 24 | Plant Physiology | 12.2 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 25 | Experientia Supplementum (2012) | 12 | 93th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 26 | Journal of Genetics and Genomics | 11.7 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 27 | Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science | 11.6 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 28 | Nucleic Acid Therapeutics | 11.4 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 29 | Cancer Cell International | 10.5 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 30 | Gene Therapy | 10.1 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 31 | Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy | 10 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 32 | Plant Journal | 10 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 33 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 9.9 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 34 | Frontiers in Genome Editing | 9.8 | 90th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 35 | Genes and Development | 9.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 36 | International Journal of Molecular Medicine | 9.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 37 | IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | 9.7 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 38 | Molecular Medicine | 9.7 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 39 | EMBO Reports | 9.5 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 40 | Molecular Oncology | 9.4 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 41 | Stem Cell Reports | 9.3 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 42 | Environmental DNA | 9.2 | 88th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 43 | Phenomics | 8.9 | 88th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 44 | European Journal of Human Genetics | 8.8 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 45 | Genome Research | 8.8 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 46 | Plant Methods | 8.7 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 47 | Genetics | 8.7 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 48 | Human Genetics | 8.7 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 49 | Human Mutation | 8.7 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 50 | Plant Science | 8.5 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 51 | aBIOTECH | 8.5 | 85th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 52 | Journal of Medical Genetics | 8.2 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 53 | Plant Physiology and Biochemistry | 8.2 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 54 | PLOS Pathogens | 8.2 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 55 | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal | 8.2 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 56 | Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research | 8.2 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 57 | Non-coding RNA Research | 8.2 | 84th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 58 | Clinical Epigenetics | 8.1 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 59 | mSystems | 8.1 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 60 | Environmental Microbiome | 8 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 61 | CRISPR Journal | 7.9 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 62 | American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics | 7.8 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 63 | Cell Reports Methods | 7.8 | 82th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 64 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 7.8 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 65 | Journal of Dairy Science | 7.8 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 66 | Experimental Gerontology | 7.7 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 67 | Mutagenesis | 7.7 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 68 | npj Genomic Medicine | 7.7 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 69 | Molecular Ecology | 7.7 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 70 | Molecular Therapy Methods and Clinical Development | 7.7 | 80th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 71 | Plant Molecular Biology | 7.7 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 72 | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 7.6 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 73 | Microbiology Spectrum | 7.5 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 74 | Planta | 7.5 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 75 | Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology | 7.5 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 76 | Current Opinion in Lipidology | 7.5 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 77 | Heredity | 7.4 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 78 | Human Gene Therapy | 7.4 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 79 | Matrix Biology Plus | 7.3 | 78th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 80 | Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine | 7.3 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 81 | Genes and Cancer | 7.3 | 77th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 82 | Journal of Molecular Cell Biology | 7.3 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 83 | Molecular Medicine Reports | 7.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 84 | BioData Mining | 7.2 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 85 | Human Molecular Genetics | 7.2 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 86 | Microbial Genomics | 7.1 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 87 | Forensic Science International: Genetics | 7 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 88 | Frontiers in Genetics | 6.9 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 89 | Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics | 6.8 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 90 | Current Opinion in Genetics and Development | 6.8 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 91 | IUBMB Life | 6.8 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 92 | Plant Genome | 6.8 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 93 | Current Gene Therapy | 6.7 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 94 | PLOS Genetics | 6.6 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 95 | Genetics Selection Evolution | 6.5 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 96 | Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease | 6.4 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 97 | Genomics | 6.4 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 98 | Human Genomics | 6.4 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 99 | Briefings in Functional Genomics | 6.3 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 100 | Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology | 6.3 | 72th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
Rank and percentile are within the Genetics 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.