Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Genetics journal rankings 2004
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 67 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.12 on 2003 to 0.69, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are The American Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Ecology, and American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
67 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.12Q1 | 10.67 0.08 down from 2003 | 1,137 | 90% | $5,150 | ||
2Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 5.46 0.88 up from 2003 | 842 | 14% | $5,150 | ||
3American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 2.30Q1 | 4.54 3.25 up from 2003 | 37 | 7% | $3,460 | ||
4Theoretical Population BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 2.98 0.18 up from 2003 | 215 | 6% | $2,840 | ||
5Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.72Q1 | 4.46 0.06 up from 2003 | 546 | 6% | $3,690 | ||
6Annals of Human GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.48 0.49 up from 2003 | 151 | 12% | $3,190 | ||
7BMC Medical GeneticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 4.09 0.89 up from 2003 | 34 | 100% | $2,380 | ||
8Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.86 0.37 down from 2003 | 225 | 28% | $3,862 | ||
9Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.09 0.07 up from 2003 | 487 | 52% | $3,560 | ||
10HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.37 0.02 up from 2003 | 582 | 89% | $2,690 | ||
11ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.41Q1 | 1.98 0.52 up from 2003 | 91 | 6% | $3,590 | ||
12Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 3.43 0.79 up from 2003 | 246 | 95% | $5,110 | ||
13Human MutationWiley · United States | 1.37Q1 | 4.30 0.99 up from 2003 | 689 | 64% | $2,740 | ||
14Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 3.48 1.60 up from 2003 | 83 | 49% | $3,540 | ||
15European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 2.96 0.58 down from 2003 | 513 | 22% | $2,790 | ||
16Human HeredityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.29Q1 | 3.65 1.59 up from 2003 | 143 | 24% | — | ||
17Behavior GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 2.12 0.50 down from 2003 | 196 | 13% | $3,390 | ||
18Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 2.22 0.40 up from 2003 | 171 | 7% | $3,790 | ||
19American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.17Q2 | 3.20 2.13 up from 2003 | 232 | 11% | $3,920 | ||
20Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 2.98 0.10 up from 2003 | 877 | 96% | — | ||
21Journal of Animal Breeding and GeneticsWiley · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 3.13 0.23 down from 2003 | 162 | 17% | $4,750 | ||
22American Journal of Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.62 0.11 up from 2003 | 1,414 | 0% | — | ||
23SelectionHungary | 1.00Q2 | 1.88 0.49 up from 2003 | 46 | — | — | ||
24Comments® on Theoretical BiologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.27 0.90 up from 2003 | 37 | — | — | ||
25ToxiconElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 2.09 0.02 down from 2003 | 703 | 9% | $3,340 | ||
26Psychiatric GeneticsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.90Q2 | 2.24 0.51 down from 2003 | 125 | 4% | — | ||
27Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 0.88Q2 | 2.61 0.12 down from 2003 | 370 | 5% | $5,490 | ||
28Genetic EpidemiologyWiley · United States | 0.87Q2 | 3.50 1.49 up from 2003 | 360 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
29Insectes SociauxSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.85Q2 | 1.81 0.09 up from 2003 | 190 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
30Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.81Q2 | 1.69 0.11 down from 2003 | 1,017 | 3% | $4,580 | ||
31Journal of Forensic SciencesWiley · United States | 0.80Q2 | 1.36 0.02 up from 2003 | 843 | 2% | $4,330 | ||
32Animal BiotechnologyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.97 0.26 down from 2003 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
33Veterinary RecordWiley · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.20 0.12 up from 2003 | 972 | 9% | $3,980 | ||
34Annals of Human BiologyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.27 0.03 up from 2003 | 164 | 5% | $2,390 | ||
35Digestive and Liver DiseaseOAElsevier BV · Italy | 0.67Q3 | 1.59 0.25 up from 2003 | 580 | 2% | $3,300 | ||
36Annals of Carnegie MuseumUnited States | 0.63Q3 | 0.73 0.14 up from 2003 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
37Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 1.39 0.01 down from 2003 | 289 | 97% | $2,390 | ||
38Animal GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.67 0.37 up from 2003 | 382 | 14% | $3,570 | ||
39Molecular Ecology NotesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.36 0.14 up from 2003 | 577 | 9% | — | ||
40Molecular UrologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.59Q3 | —no 2003 value | 32 | — | — | ||
41Public Health GenomicsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.56Q3 | 1.09 0.34 up from 2003 | 112 | 33% | — | ||
42New Genetics and SocietyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.85 0.26 up from 2003 | 59 | 91% | $1,590 | ||
43Genetic TestingMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.30 0.09 up from 2003 | 171 | 4% | — | ||
44American Journal of Medical Genetics Part AWiley · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.21 0.23 up from 2003 | 838 | 6% | $4,710 | ||
45The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.43Q3 | 1.11 0.15 down from 2003 | 266 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
46Journal of ArachnologyAmerican Arachnological Society · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.98 0.40 up from 2003 | 169 | 97% | — | ||
47High Altitude Medicine & BiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.40Q3 | 1.12 0.29 up from 2003 | 178 | 0% | — | ||
48Journal of Genetic CounselingWiley · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.81 0.18 down from 2003 | 91 | 45% | $3,840 | ||
49SociobiologyOAState University of Feira de Santana · Brazil | 0.31Q3 | 0.62no change | 79 | 100% | — | ||
50Society and AnimalsBrill · Netherlands | 0.28Q3 | 0.24 0.08 down from 2003 | 91 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology650
- Genetics67
- Cancer Research16
- Cell Biology14
- Biophysics6
- Molecular Medicine5
- Biochemistry2
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Aging1
- Developmental Biology1
- Structural Biology1
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
- Physiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
27 additional Genetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,764 +14.8% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.693 +61.2% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.