Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Genetics journal rankings 2002
64 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 64 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.43, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 0.86. The top three are The American Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Ecology, and Heredity.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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.
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14)
64 ranked journals
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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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.17Q1 | 8.88 1.22 up from 2001 | 1,374 | 86% | $5,150 | ||
2Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.30 0.55 up from 2001 | 911 | 11% | $5,150 | ||
3HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.02 0.36 down from 2001 | 626 | 97% | $2,690 | ||
4Behavior GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 2.46 0.61 up from 2001 | 169 | 13% | $3,390 | ||
5Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.37Q1 | 2.67 0.29 up from 2001 | 187 | 26% | $3,862 | ||
6European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 3.24 0.24 down from 2001 | 457 | 18% | $2,790 | ||
7Theoretical Population BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 1.89 0.06 up from 2001 | 155 | 5% | $2,840 | ||
8Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 3.35 0.47 up from 2001 | 682 | 6% | $3,690 | ||
9Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 1.94 0.86 up from 2001 | 77 | 2% | $3,790 | ||
10Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 3.04 0.14 up from 2001 | 779 | 98% | — | ||
11Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.04Q1 | 1.62 0.49 up from 2001 | 401 | 60% | $3,560 | ||
12Human MutationWiley · United States | 0.95Q1 | 2.73 0.17 up from 2001 | 886 | 66% | $2,740 | ||
13Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.87Q1 | 2.06 1.21 up from 2001 | 188 | 98% | $5,110 | ||
14Annals of Human GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.87Q1 | 2.28 0.41 up from 2001 | 176 | 36% | $3,190 | ||
15American Journal of Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 0.87Q1 | 2.18 0.31 up from 2001 | 2,597 | 8% | — | ||
16Human HeredityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.86Q1 | 1.70 0.28 down from 2001 | 168 | 18% | — | ||
17Annals of Human BiologyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.12 0.08 down from 2001 | 149 | 2% | $2,390 | ||
18ToxiconElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.85 0.48 up from 2001 | 512 | 3% | $3,340 | ||
19Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.76Q2 | 2.05 0.29 up from 2001 | 306 | 8% | $5,490 | ||
20Psychiatric GeneticsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.75Q2 | 1.63 0.15 up from 2001 | 112 | 3% | — | ||
21Veterinary RecordWiley · United States | 0.71Q2 | 1.02 0.01 up from 2001 | 962 | 8% | $3,980 | ||
22ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.68Q2 | 0.93 0.08 up from 2001 | 83 | 6% | $3,590 | ||
23Genetic EpidemiologyWiley · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.71 0.23 down from 2001 | 501 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
24Genetic TestingMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.65 0.02 down from 2001 | 177 | 2% | — | ||
25Annals of Carnegie MuseumUnited States | 0.61Q2 | 0.37 0.76 down from 2001 | 37 | 87% | — | ||
26Insectes SociauxSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.60Q2 | 1.28 0.27 down from 2001 | 184 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
27Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.59Q2 | 1.06 0.14 down from 2001 | 771 | 2% | $4,580 | ||
28New Genetics and SocietyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.54Q2 | 0.70 0.33 up from 2001 | 55 | 92% | $1,590 | ||
29Digestive and Liver DiseaseOAElsevier BV · Italy | 0.52Q2 | 1.14 0.52 up from 2001 | 337 | 1% | $3,300 | ||
30Journal of Forensic SciencesWiley · United States | 0.52Q2 | 0.73 0.29 down from 2001 | 790 | 1% | $4,330 | ||
31Molecular Ecology NotesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.50Q2 | 0.92 0.92 up from 2001 | 124 | 6% | — | ||
32Animal BiotechnologyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.43Q2 | 1.33 0.66 up from 2001 | 50 | 5% | — | ||
33Journal of Animal Breeding and GeneticsWiley · Germany | 0.43Q3 | 0.89 0.09 up from 2001 | 167 | 14% | $4,750 | ||
34Animal GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 1.20 0.23 up from 2001 | 427 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
35The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.69 0.01 down from 2001 | 257 | 1% | $4,150 | ||
36Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.32Q3 | 0.79 0.13 up from 2001 | 250 | 98% | $2,390 | ||
37SociobiologyOAState University of Feira de Santana · Brazil | 0.30Q3 | 0.58 0.04 up from 2001 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
38Annales de GénétiqueElsevier BV · France | 0.29Q3 | 0.59 0.27 down from 2001 | 85 | 0% | — | ||
39Molecular UrologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.29Q3 | 0.51 0.51 up from 2001 | 43 | — | — | ||
40Deutsche Lebensmittel-RundschauB. Behr’s Verlag · Germany | 0.28Q3 | 0.31 0.28 up from 2001 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
41GeneScreenWiley · United Kingdom | 0.27Q3 | 0.55 0.26 up from 2001 | 38 | — | — | ||
42High Altitude Medicine & BiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.25Q3 | 0.68 0.04 down from 2001 | 104 | 2% | — | ||
43Journal of Genetic CounselingWiley · United States | 0.24Q3 | 0.50 0.03 down from 2001 | 90 | 46% | $3,840 | ||
44International Congress SeriesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.22Q3 | 0.28 0.28 up from 2001 | 359 | 3% | — | ||
45Public Health GenomicsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.22Q3 | 0.44 0.01 down from 2001 | 115 | 22% | — | ||
46Society and AnimalsBrill · Netherlands | 0.20Q3 | 0.26 0.03 up from 2001 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
47Clinical DysmorphologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 0.19Q3 | 0.52 0.06 down from 2001 | 175 | 3% | — | ||
48AnthrozoösTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.18Q3 | 0.28 0.03 up from 2001 | 94 | 7% | — | ||
49Wilderness and Environmental MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.31 0.06 down from 2001 | 198 | 65% | $4,150 | ||
50Journal of Nutraceuticals Functional & Medical FoodsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.21 0.14 down from 2001 | 46 | — | — |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology586
- Genetics64
- Cancer Research15
- Cell Biology13
- Biophysics6
- Molecular Medicine5
- Biochemistry2
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Aging1
- Developmental Biology1
- Structural Biology1
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
- Physiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Genetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 64
- Window papers (baseline)
- 58,350 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.42987 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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 | 53 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 66 | 69 | 72 | 77 | 85 | 95 | 99 | 102 | 106 | 108 | 116 | 121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 121 | 120 | 120 | 120 | 122 | 125 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 49,162 | 54,673 | 58,350 | 62,005 | 62,764 | 66,635 | 71,118 | 76,704 | 81,233 | 88,092 | 94,309 | 99,614 | 100,646 | 100,795 | 102,423 | 105,797 | 108,204 | 109,120 | 108,752 | 109,623 | 111,294 | 114,679 | 118,670 | 119,863 | 119,840 | 122,023 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.42992 | 0.42987 | 0.57 | 0.693 | 0.665 | 0.656 | 0.733 | 0.71 | 0.771 | 0.792 | 0.785 | 0.729 | 0.83 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 0.8550 | 0.8040 | 0.8551 | 0.8041 | 0.75 | 0.766 | 0.68 | 0.67 | 0.70 | 0.690 |
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.