Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Genetics journal rankings 2003
68 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 68 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.14 on 2002 to 0.57, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are The American Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Ecology, and Heredity.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
68 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.99Q1 | 10.75 1.87 up from 2002 | 1,233 | 76% | $5,150 | ||
2Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 4.58 1.28 up from 2002 | 894 | 9% | $5,150 | ||
3HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.35 0.33 up from 2002 | 555 | 93% | $2,690 | ||
4Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.56Q1 | 3.23 0.56 up from 2002 | 208 | 16% | $3,862 | ||
5Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 4.40 1.05 up from 2002 | 590 | 5% | $3,690 | ||
6Theoretical Population BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 2.79 0.90 up from 2002 | 178 | 6% | $2,840 | ||
7Behavior GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 2.62 0.16 up from 2002 | 169 | 10% | $3,390 | ||
8European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.54 0.30 up from 2002 | 472 | 23% | $2,790 | ||
9Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.28Q1 | 2.02 0.41 up from 2002 | 438 | 64% | $3,560 | ||
10SelectionHungary | 1.22Q1 | 1.39 0.25 up from 2002 | 46 | — | — | ||
11Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 2.88 0.16 down from 2002 | 838 | 97% | — | ||
12Annals of Human GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 2.99 0.71 up from 2002 | 144 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
13Journal of Animal Breeding and GeneticsWiley · Germany | 1.18Q1 | 3.35 2.46 up from 2002 | 166 | 8% | $4,750 | ||
14American Journal of Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.15Q1 | 2.51 0.33 up from 2002 | 2,254 | — | — | ||
15Psychiatric GeneticsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.15Q1 | 2.74 1.12 up from 2002 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
16Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.08Q1 | 1.82 0.12 down from 2002 | 130 | 7% | $3,790 | ||
17ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.08Q1 | 1.46 0.53 up from 2002 | 89 | 7% | $3,590 | ||
18Human MutationWiley · United States | 1.06Q2 | 3.31 0.58 up from 2002 | 823 | 62% | $2,740 | ||
19Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 1.06Q2 | 2.64 0.58 up from 2002 | 224 | 59% | $5,110 | ||
20Genetic EpidemiologyWiley · United States | 1.02Q2 | 2.02 0.31 up from 2002 | 374 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
21Annals of Carnegie MuseumUnited States | 1.00Q2 | 0.59 0.22 up from 2002 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
22Animal BiotechnologyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.24 0.90 up from 2002 | 46 | 5% | — | ||
23Human HeredityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.91Q2 | 2.06 0.36 up from 2002 | 149 | 25% | — | ||
24Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 1.80 0.74 up from 2002 | 870 | 3% | $4,580 | ||
25Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.83Q2 | 2.72 0.67 up from 2002 | 318 | 10% | $5,490 | ||
26ToxiconElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 2.11 0.26 up from 2002 | 606 | 5% | $3,340 | ||
27Insectes SociauxSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.82Q2 | 1.73 0.45 up from 2002 | 189 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
28Journal of Forensic SciencesWiley · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.34 0.61 up from 2002 | 814 | 1% | $4,330 | ||
29Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 1.88no 2002 value | 34 | 64% | $3,540 | — | |
30Annals of Human BiologyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 1.24 0.11 up from 2002 | 160 | 3% | $2,390 | ||
31Veterinary RecordWiley · United States | 0.69Q2 | 1.08 0.06 up from 2002 | 964 | 10% | $3,980 | ||
32Genetic TestingMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.21 0.44 down from 2002 | 176 | 0% | — | ||
33Molecular Ecology NotesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.58Q2 | 1.22 0.31 up from 2002 | 363 | 7% | — | ||
34Molecular UrologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.58Q2 | 1.41 0.89 up from 2002 | 43 | — | — | ||
35Digestive and Liver DiseaseOAElsevier BV · Italy | 0.56Q3 | 1.34 0.20 up from 2002 | 531 | 2% | $3,300 | ||
36Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 1.40 0.61 up from 2002 | 264 | 99% | $2,390 | ||
37The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.26 0.57 up from 2002 | 273 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
38New Genetics and SocietyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 0.59 0.11 down from 2002 | 62 | 78% | $1,590 | ||
39Animal GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.50Q3 | 1.30 0.10 up from 2002 | 393 | 9% | $3,570 | ||
40American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 0.43Q3 | 1.08 1.00 up from 2002 | 79 | 6% | $3,920 | ||
41Public Health GenomicsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.42Q3 | 0.75 0.31 up from 2002 | 116 | 41% | — | ||
42American Journal of Medical Genetics Part AWiley · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.98 0.88 up from 2002 | 177 | 6% | $4,710 | ||
43Journal of Genetic CounselingWiley · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.98 0.48 up from 2002 | 102 | 56% | $3,840 | ||
44Clinical DysmorphologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.87 0.35 up from 2002 | 184 | 1% | — | ||
45Journal of ArachnologyAmerican Arachnological Society · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.58 0.08 up from 2002 | 172 | 100% | — | ||
46Annales de GénétiqueElsevier BV · France | 0.31Q3 | 0.59no change | 128 | 0% | — | ||
47High Altitude Medicine & BiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.30Q3 | 0.83 0.15 up from 2002 | 159 | 2% | — | ||
48Society and AnimalsBrill · Netherlands | 0.28Q3 | 0.33 0.07 up from 2002 | 95 | 3% | — | ||
49Deutsche Lebensmittel-RundschauB. Behr’s Verlag · Germany | 0.27Q3 | 0.77 0.46 up from 2002 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
50Bulletin - International Bull Evaluation Service/Interbull bulletinOAInterbull Centre · Sweden | 0.25Q3 | 0.88 0.47 up from 2002 | 92 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology626
- Genetics68
- Cancer Research16
- Cell Biology14
- Biophysics6
- Molecular Medicine5
- Biochemistry2
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Aging1
- Developmental Biology1
- Structural Biology1
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
- Physiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 additional Genetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,005 +26.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.57 +19.0% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.