Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Domain ranking · 2000
Life Sciences journal rankings 2000
1,416 ranked journals · Domain
Life Sciences has 1,416 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Cell, Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, and Nature Genetics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1CellCell Press · United States | 11.63Q1 | 30.80no 1999 value | 1,300 | 97% | $11,400 | — | |
2Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 10.68Q1 | 15.82no 1999 value | 82 | 5% | — | — | |
3Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 8.26Q1 | 19.72no 1999 value | 1,047 | 11% | $12,690 | — | |
4Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.21Q1 | 7.93no 1999 value | 67 | 4% | — | — | |
5NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.30Q1 | 9.25no 1999 value | 8,240 | 8% | $12,690 | — | |
6Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 7.00Q1 | 14.21no 1999 value | 72 | 9% | $4,500 | — | |
7Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States | 6.61Q1 | 18.76no 1999 value | 395 | 90% | $10,400 | — | |
8ImmunityCell Press · United States | 6.41Q1 | 21.01no 1999 value | 473 | 100% | $10,400 | — | |
9Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular StructureAnnual Reviews · United States | 5.51Q1 | 16.63no 1999 value | 55 | 14% | — | — | |
10NeuronCell Press · United States | 5.28Q1 | 14.55no 1999 value | 813 | 98% | $10,400 | — | |
11The Journal of Experimental MedicineRockefeller University Press · United States | 4.97Q1 | 14.95no 1999 value | 1,335 | 100% | — | — | |
12ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 4.96Q1 | 6.40no 1999 value | 12,290 | 2% | — | — | |
13The EMBO JournalOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.91Q1 | 14.38no 1999 value | 2,100 | 94% | $7,990 | — | |
14Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.90Q1 | 12.69no 1999 value | 179 | 10% | $12,690 | — | |
15Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States | 4.85Q1 | 12.12no 1999 value | 1,792 | 100% | $5,200 | — | |
16Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on BiomembranesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.58Q1 | 12.32no 1999 value | 41 | 9% | — | — | |
17Brain Research ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.51Q1 | 10.24no 1999 value | 143 | 4% | — | — | |
18Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 4.41Q1 | 10.03no 1999 value | 397 | 13% | $12,690 | — | |
19The Journal of Cell BiologyRockefeller University Press · United States | 4.34Q1 | 13.49no 1999 value | 1,610 | 92% | — | — | |
20Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.28Q1 | 4.27no 1999 value | 65 | 15% | $3,570 | — | |
21Annual Review of ImmunologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 4.18Q1 | 52.53no 1999 value | 84 | 6% | — | — | |
22Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.18Q1 | 4.04no 1999 value | 206 | 5% | — | — | |
23Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States | 4.17Q1 | 10.57no 1999 value | 8,261 | 93% | — | — | |
24The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.09Q1 | 4.24no 1999 value | 393 | 5% | — | — | |
25Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 3.80Q1 | 5.10no 1999 value | 82 | 86% | — | — | |
26Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 10.44no 1999 value | 202 | 3% | $5,190 | — | |
27Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.75Q1 | 10.21no 1999 value | 33 | 18% | $4,800 | — | |
28Human Molecular GeneticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 9.75no 1999 value | 852 | 21% | $4,390 | — | |
29The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.55Q1 | 6.29no 1999 value | 1,074 | 46% | $4,934 | — | |
30Critical Reviews in NeurobiologyBegell House · United States | 3.54Q1 | 8.81no 1999 value | 40 | 0% | — | — | |
31Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 1.39no 1999 value | 158 | 3% | $4,090 | — | |
32Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 3.31Q1 | 4.63no 1999 value | 188 | 14% | — | — | |
33The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 6.49no 1999 value | 926 | 50% | $5,450 | — | |
34Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 5.48no 1999 value | 40 | 0% | $5,530 | — | |
35Annual Review of BiochemistryAnnual Reviews · United States | 3.22Q1 | 47.07no 1999 value | 85 | 6% | — | — | |
36Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.20Q1 | 1.24no 1999 value | 95 | 30% | $3,920 | — | |
37Immunology TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 8.63no 1999 value | 519 | 4% | — | — | |
38Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.15Q1 | 8.97no 1999 value | 2,961 | 100% | — | — | |
39Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.14Q1 | 4.08no 1999 value | 402 | 51% | $3,000 | — | |
40Circulation ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.13Q1 | 8.02no 1999 value | 961 | 56% | — | — | |
41Molecular and Cellular BiologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.10Q1 | 9.77no 1999 value | 2,361 | 87% | — | — | |
42Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.07Q1 | 3.52no 1999 value | 56 | 0% | — | — | |
43Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 3.07Q1 | 5.24no 1999 value | 219 | 26% | $2,166 | — | |
44The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.03Q1 | 7.84no 1999 value | 1,303 | 85% | $5,150 | — | |
45Physiological ReviewsAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 2.96Q1 | 25.60no 1999 value | 98 | 8% | — | — | |
46Critical Reviews in ImmunologyBegell House · United States | 2.93Q1 | 6.72no 1999 value | 67 | 3% | — | — | |
47CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 3.11no 1999 value | 175 | 10% | $3,910 | — | |
48Neural ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 2.90Q1 | 3.72no 1999 value | 299 | 9% | — | — | |
49Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.87Q1 | 3.22no 1999 value | 278 | 8% | $3,900 | — | |
50DevelopmentThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 9.72no 1999 value | 1,464 | 5% | — | — |
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
529 additional Life Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,416
- Window papers (baseline)
- 681,698 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.59 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 273
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 1,416 | 1,528 | 1,615 | 1,712 | 1,731 | 1,801 | 1,865 | 1,956 | 2,004 | 2,096 | 2,222 | 2,355 | 2,484 | 2,599 | 2,705 | 2,838 | 2,923 | 2,983 | 3,027 | 3,037 | 3,015 | 3,000 | 3,030 | 3,032 | 3,014 | 3,016 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 681,698 | 747,894 | 789,157 | 838,563 | 854,790 | 911,302 | 969,983 | 1,041,301 | 1,106,285 | 1,194,995 | 1,291,816 | 1,389,175 | 1,451,151 | 1,495,499 | 1,547,978 | 1,608,280 | 1,646,156 | 1,651,790 | 1,653,566 | 1,677,661 | 1,731,463 | 1,821,734 | 1,907,316 | 1,955,191 | 1,960,779 | 2,008,547 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.69 | 0.71 | 0.74 | 0.778 | 0.810 | 0.813 | 0.869 | 0.8675 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 0.873 | 0.8678 | 0.83 | 0.8177 | 0.8180 | 0.80925 | 0.806 | 0.814 | 0.80931 | 0.80 | 0.784 | 0.77 | 0.79 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 2.5% | 2,489 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 3.276 per 1,000 | 2,252 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -7.1% | 2,737 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 99.1% | 3,016 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,258 | 1,900 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.1% | 2,917 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.3% | 3,016 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.79 | 2,965 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.6% | 3,016 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 42.9% | 3,011 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.