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Best Physiology journals

196 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Physiology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 49 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 Physiological Reviews 55.1 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Cell Metabolism 54.1 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Annual Review of Plant Biology 49.6 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
4 Annual Review of Physiology 37.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
5 Bone Research 26.2 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
6 Circulation Research 24.8 97th Q1 SCIE No
7 Cardiovascular Research 22.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
8 New Phytologist 16.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
9 Antioxidants 14.7 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
10 Angiogenesis 14.3 95th Q1 SCIE No
11 Antioxidants and Redox Signaling 14.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
12 Basic Research in Cardiology 13.5 94th Q1 SCIE No
13 Physiology 12.5 93th Q1 SCIE No
14 Plant Physiology 12.2 93th Q1 SCIE No
15 Journal of Experimental Botany 11.5 92th Q1 SCIE No
16 Redox Report 10.5 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
17 Plant, Cell and Environment 10.2 91th Q1 SCIE No
18 Journal of Cellular Physiology 9.4 91th Q1 SCIE No
19 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology 9.2 90th Q1 SCIE No
20 Temperature 9.1 90th Q1 No
21 Cell Insight 9.1 89th Q1 ESCI Yes
22 Journal of Plant Physiology 8.8 89th Q1 SCIE No
23 American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology 8.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
24 Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry 8.7 88th Q1 SCIE No
25 Comprehensive Physiology 8.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
26 Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry 8.6 86th Q1 SCIE No
27 Plant Growth Regulation 8.5 86th Q1 SCIE No
28 Neuroscience Bulletin 8.3 85th Q1 SCIE No
29 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 8.2 85th Q1 SCIE No
30 Acta Physiologica 8.2 84th Q1 SCIE No
31 Vitamins and Hormones 8.2 84th Q1 No
32 Hypertension Research 8.2 83th Q1 SCIE No
33 mSystems 8.1 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 Cell Calcium 8.1 82th Q1 SCIE No
35 Plant and Cell Physiology 8 82th Q1 SCIE No
36 Frontiers in Physiology 8 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
37 BMC Biology 7.8 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
38 Bone 7.5 80th Q1 SCIE No
39 Tree Physiology 7.5 80th Q1 SCIE No
40 Microbiology Spectrum 7.5 79th Q1 SCIE Yes
41 Neurobiology of Stress 7.3 79th Q1 SCIE Yes
42 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 7.3 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
43 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 7.3 78th Q1 SCIE No
44 Journal of Physiology 7.2 77th Q1 SCIE No
45 Journal of Hypertension 7.1 77th Q1 SCIE No
46 Skin Pharmacology and Physiology 7 76th Q1 SCIE No
47 Journal of Biological Rhythms 6.9 76th Q1 SCIE No
48 ACS Chemical Neuroscience 6.9 75th Q1 SCIE No
49 Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 6.8 75th Q1 SCIE No
50 Peptides 6.8 74th Q2 SCIE No
51 American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology 6.6 74th Q2 SCIE No
52 Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry 6.6 73th Q2 SCIE No
53 Vascular Pharmacology 6.5 73th Q2 SCIE No
54 Advances in Microbial Physiology 6.5 72th Q2 No
55 Clinical and Experimental Hypertension 6.5 72th Q2 SCIE Yes
56 American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 6.4 71th Q2 SCIE No
57 Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology 6.3 71th Q2 SCIE No
58 Journal of Physiological Anthropology 6.1 70th Q2 SCIE Yes
59 Neurogastroenterology and Motility 6.1 70th Q2 SCIE No
60 Journal of Membrane Biology 6 69th Q2 SCIE No
61 Frontiers in Aging 5.9 69th Q2 ESCI Yes
62 American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism 5.9 68th Q2 SCIE No
63 Horticulture Advances 5.8 68th Q2 ESCI Yes
64 American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology 5.8 67th Q2 SCIE No
65 Phytopathology Research 5.8 67th Q2 SCIE Yes
66 Journal of Applied Physiology 5.8 66th Q2 SCIE No
67 International Journal of Hyperthermia 5.7 66th Q2 SCIE Yes
68 American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 5.6 65th Q2 SCIE No
69 Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology 5.6 65th Q2 SCIE No
70 Physiological Measurement 5.5 64th Q2 SCIE No
71 Psychophysiology 5.5 64th Q2 SCIE, SSCI No
72 Journal of Thermal Biology 5.4 63th Q2 SCIE No
73 Physiologia Plantarum 5.4 63th Q2 SCIE No
74 Animal Bioscience 5.4 62th Q2 SCIE Yes
75 Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes 5.4 61th Q2 SCIE No
76 Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 5.4 61th Q2 SCIE No
77 Digestive Diseases and Sciences 5.4 60th Q2 SCIE No
78 Experimental Physiology 5.4 60th Q2 SCIE Yes
79 Function 5.3 59th Q2 ESCI Yes
80 Muscle and Nerve 5.3 59th Q2 SCIE No
81 Journal of General Physiology 5.2 58th Q2 SCIE No
82 Journal of Physiological Sciences 5.1 58th Q2 SCIE Yes
83 Mycologia 5 57th Q2 SCIE No
84 Nephron 4.9 57th Q2 SCIE No
85 Cell Stress 4.8 56th Q2 ESCI Yes
86 Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology 4.7 56th Q2 No
87 Stress 4.7 55th Q2 SCIE Yes
88 Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 4.6 55th Q2 SCIE No
89 Contact 4.6 54th Q2 Yes
90 Current Opinion in Physiology 4.6 54th Q2 ESCI No
91 American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology 4.5 53th Q2 SCIE Yes
92 Journal of Experimental Biology 4.5 53th Q2 SCIE No
93 Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators 4.5 52th Q2 SCIE No
94 Trees - Structure and Function 4.5 52th Q2 SCIE No
95 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 4.4 51th Q2 SCIE No
96 Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 4.4 51th Q2 SCIE No
97 Cereal Research Communications 4.3 50th Q2 SCIE No
98 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology 4.3 50th Q2 SCIE No
99 Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology 4.2 49th Q3 SCIE No
100 Photosynthetica 4.2 49th Q3 SCIE Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Physiology 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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