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Best Structural Biology journals

51 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Structural Biology. The top 51 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 13 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Annual Review of Biophysics 24.6 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 15.1 97th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Current Opinion in Structural Biology 13.7 95th Q1 SCIE – No
4 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 11.4 93th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Journal of Molecular Biology 8.9 91th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Biophysical Reviews 8.3 89th Q1 ESCI – No
7 BMC Bioinformatics 8.3 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 8.2 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 Journal of Structural Biology: X 7.9 83th Q1 ESCI – Yes
10 BMC Biology 7.8 81th Q1 SCIE – Yes
11 Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology 7.5 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
12 Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Structure 7.2 75th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology 7.1 73th Q2 SCIE – No
15 Molecular Informatics 6.8 71th Q2 SCIE – No
16 Frontiers in Bioinformatics 6.6 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
17 Current Research in Structural Biology 6.5 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
18 Proteomes 6.4 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
19 Journal of Molecular Recognition 6.4 63th Q2 SCIE – No
20 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 6.1 61th Q2 SCIE – No
21 FEBS Letters 5.8 59th Q2 SCIE – No
22 Traffic 5.6 57th Q2 SCIE – No
23 Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 5.5 55th Q2 SCIE – No
24 Computational Biology and Chemistry 5.2 53th Q2 SCIE – No
25 Journal of Structural Biology 4.6 51th Q2 SCIE – No
26 Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 4.6 50th Q2 SCIE – No
27 Micron 4.5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
28 NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 4.1 46th Q3 ESCI – Yes
29 Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology 4 44th Q3 – – No
30 Bioinformatics Advances 3.9 42th Q3 ESCI – Yes
31 Microscopy (Oxford, England) 3.9 40th Q3 SCIE – No
32 Crystallography Reviews 3.8 38th Q3 SCIE – No
33 Physical Biology 3.8 36th Q3 SCIE – No
34 Journal of Peptide Science 3.8 34th Q3 SCIE – No
35 Methods and Protocols 3.4 32th Q3 ESCI – Yes
36 Algorithms for Molecular Biology 3.3 30th Q3 SCIE – Yes
37 Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 3.1 28th Q3 – – No
38 Journal of Biochemical Technology 2.9 26th Q3 – – No
39 Protein and Peptide Letters 2.8 24th Q4 SCIE – No
40 Biophysics Reports 2.6 22th Q4 – – Yes
41 Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances 2.4 20th Q4 SCIE – No
42 AIMS Biophysics 2.4 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
43 Ultrastructural Pathology 2.3 16th Q4 SCIE – No
44 Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures 2.3 14th Q4 SCIE – Yes
45 Cytoskeleton 2.2 12th Q4 SCIE – No
46 Canadian Entomologist 2.1 10th Q4 SCIE – No
47 Acta Crystallographica Section F:Structural Biology Communications 1.9 8th Q4 SCIE – No
48 Frontiers in Chemical Biology 1.7 6th Q4 – – Yes
49 Molecular Biology 1.7 4th Q4 SCIE – No
50 Biomolecular NMR Assignments 1.3 2th Q4 SCIE – No
51 Acta Anatomica Sinica 0.4 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Structural 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.

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