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Best Molecular Biology journals
413 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Molecular Biology. 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 Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 165.2 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 2 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 74.8 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 3 | Journal of Hematology and Oncology | 70.1 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 4 | Physiological Reviews | 55.1 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 5 | Cell Metabolism | 54.1 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 6 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 49.6 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 7 | Nature Methods | 40 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 8 | Molecular Plant | 39.2 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 9 | Cell Death and Differentiation | 29.3 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 10 | Clinical and Molecular Hepatology | 28.1 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 11 | Molecular Cell | 27 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 12 | Molecular Neurodegeneration | 25.1 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 13 | Cell Research | 24.3 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 14 | Ageing Research Reviews | 24.1 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 15 | Trends in Molecular Medicine | 24 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 16 | Nature Chemical Biology | 22.8 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 17 | Experimental and Molecular Medicine | 22.6 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 18 | Autophagy | 22.5 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 19 | Molecular Psychiatry | 21.7 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 20 | Molecular Aspects of Medicine | 21.6 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 21 | Journal of Biomedical Science | 21.4 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 22 | Cell Discovery | 20.4 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 23 | Trends in Biochemical Sciences | 20.1 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 24 | Genome Medicine | 18 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 25 | Molecular Therapy | 17.9 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 26 | International Journal of Biological Sciences | 17.8 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 27 | Acta Biomaterialia | 17.7 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 28 | Plant Communications | 17.6 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 29 | Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters | 17.1 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 30 | Aggregate | 16.9 | 92th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 31 | Developmental Cell | 15.7 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 32 | Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics | 15.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 33 | Nature Structural and Molecular Biology | 15.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 34 | Antioxidants | 14.7 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 35 | Antioxidants and Redox Signaling | 14.1 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 36 | Oncogene | 14 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 37 | Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics | 13.9 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 38 | Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 13.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 39 | Current Opinion in Structural Biology | 13.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 40 | Briefings in Bioinformatics | 13.6 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 41 | EMBO Journal | 13.6 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 42 | Cell Chemical Biology | 13.6 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 43 | Cell Communication and Signaling | 13.3 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 44 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA | 13.2 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 45 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 12.8 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 46 | FEBS Journal | 12.7 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 47 | Molecular Horticulture | 12.7 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 48 | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | 12 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 49 | Experientia Supplementum (2012) | 12 | 88th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 50 | Materials Today Bio | 12 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 51 | Molecular Metabolism | 11.9 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 52 | Journal of Genetics and Genomics | 11.7 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 53 | Molecular Biomedicine | 11.7 | 87th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 54 | Extracellular Vesicle | 11.6 | 87th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 55 | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | 11.4 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 56 | Nucleic Acid Therapeutics | 11.4 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 57 | Essays in Biochemistry | 11.3 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 58 | Bioinformatics | 11.1 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | A | Yes |
| 59 | Cancer Gene Therapy | 11.1 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 60 | Oncogenesis | 11 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 61 | Chemical Biology Letters | 10.8 | 85th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 62 | Genes and Diseases | 10.4 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 63 | Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry | 10.2 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 64 | Gene Therapy | 10.1 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 65 | Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins | 10.1 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 66 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 10 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 67 | Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine | 9.9 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 68 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 9.9 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 69 | Molecular Medicine | 9.7 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 70 | Molecular Cancer Research | 9.6 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 71 | Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology | 9.6 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 72 | Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology | 9.6 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 73 | EMBO Reports | 9.5 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 74 | Cell Surface | 9.4 | 82th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 75 | Matrix Biology | 9.4 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 76 | Biomolecules | 9.3 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 77 | Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience | 9.3 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 78 | Journal of Biological Engineering | 9.3 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 79 | Methods | 9.3 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 80 | Protein Science | 9.3 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 81 | Molecular Plant Pathology | 9.2 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 82 | New Biotechnology | 9.2 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 83 | Cell Insight | 9.1 | 80th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 84 | American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology | 9 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 85 | Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences | 8.9 | 79th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 86 | Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences | 8.9 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 87 | Phenomics | 8.9 | 79th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 88 | Journal of Molecular Biology | 8.9 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 89 | Mitochondrion | 8.9 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 90 | Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology | 8.8 | 78th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 91 | Cell Cycle | 8.7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 92 | Clinical and Molecular Allergy | 8.7 | 77th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 93 | Molecular and Cellular Proteomics | 8.6 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 94 | Molecular Autism | 8.6 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 95 | Biofilm | 8.5 | 77th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 96 | aBIOTECH | 8.5 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 97 | Bioscience Reports | 8.4 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 98 | Biophysical Reviews | 8.3 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 99 | Laboratory Investigation | 8.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 100 | BMC Bioinformatics | 8.3 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
Rank and percentile are within the Molecular Biology 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.