Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Molecular Biology journal rankings 2004
650 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology has 650 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are Pharmacological Reviews, Cell, and Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology.
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)
650 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 11.19Q1 | 31.98 10.65 up from 2003 | 82 | 0% | $4,500 | ||
2CellCell Press · United States | 8.53Q1 | 24.78 0.41 down from 2003 | 1,216 | 97% | $11,400 | ||
3Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.40Q1 | 2.50 16.00 down from 2003 | 32 | — | — | ||
4Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 6.75Q1 | 18.13 1.21 up from 2003 | 1,046 | 21% | $12,690 | ||
5NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.74Q1 | 11.14 0.37 up from 2003 | 8,843 | 14% | $12,690 | ||
6Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular StructureAnnual Reviews · United States | 5.70Q1 | 15.83 1.91 up from 2003 | 60 | 12% | — | ||
7Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.42Q1 | 9.92 1.86 down from 2003 | 68 | 0% | $5,530 | ||
8Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States | 4.82Q1 | 14.20 0.33 down from 2003 | 970 | 98% | $10,400 | ||
9Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | 13.43 0.61 down from 2003 | 803 | 16% | $12,690 | ||
10ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 4.65Q1 | 6.90 0.19 up from 2003 | 13,879 | 4% | — | ||
11Nature BiotechnologyNature Portfolio · United States | 4.46Q1 | 8.95 1.15 up from 2003 | 1,121 | 16% | $12,690 | ||
12Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States | 4.38Q1 | 11.26 0.70 up from 2003 | 8,828 | 97% | — | ||
13Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on CancerElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.29Q1 | 14.43 5.25 up from 2003 | 65 | 3% | $5,070 | ||
14FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 4.20Q1 | 7.10 0.23 up from 2003 | 168 | 38% | $3,297 | ||
15Recent Progress in Hormone ResearchOAEndocrine Society · United States | 4.19Q1 | 9.42 0.25 down from 2003 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
16The EMBO JournalOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.93Q1 | 11.63 0.13 up from 2003 | 2,044 | 92% | $7,990 | ||
17Developmental CellElsevier BV · United States | 3.67Q1 | 11.82 0.47 down from 2003 | 507 | 98% | $10,400 | ||
18Journal of BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 9.23 0.10 down from 2003 | 35 | 100% | $2,686 | ||
19PLoS BiologyOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 3.51Q1 | 7.58no 2003 value | 95 | 100% | $5,500 | — | |
20Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States | 3.45Q1 | 8.88 0.35 up from 2003 | 2,907 | 81% | $5,200 | ||
21Medicinal Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 3.42Q1 | 7.60 0.77 down from 2003 | 90 | 8% | $4,980 | ||
22Circulation ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.37Q1 | 9.31 0.29 down from 2003 | 1,201 | 48% | — | ||
23Pharmacology & TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.35Q1 | 7.36 0.18 up from 2003 | 199 | 2% | $5,660 | ||
24Human Molecular GeneticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 8.20 1.54 down from 2003 | 1,134 | 26% | $4,390 | ||
25Molecular & Cellular ProteomicsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.17Q1 | 7.79 1.54 up from 2003 | 228 | 93% | $3,430 | ||
26Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 3.14Q1 | 7.55 7.55 up from 2003 | 204 | 16% | $12,690 | ||
27Cellular MicrobiologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 6.66 0.87 up from 2003 | 244 | 70% | $2,350 | ||
28TrAC Trends in Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 3.91 0.67 up from 2003 | 287 | 5% | $5,150 | ||
29BioinformaticsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 7.07 1.16 down from 2003 | 1,146 | 64% | $3,989 | ||
30Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.90Q1 | 5.34 0.01 up from 2003 | 371 | 25% | $2,166 | ||
31American Journal Of PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.78Q1 | 7.12 0.23 up from 2003 | 1,440 | 99% | $2,800 | ||
32Analytical ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.70Q1 | 4.59 0.38 up from 2003 | 3,360 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
33Physiological ReviewsAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 2.69Q1 | 40.90 0.63 down from 2003 | 104 | 9% | — | ||
34DNA ResearchOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 5.56 0.89 down from 2003 | 90 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
35Molecular and Cellular BiologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.64Q1 | 8.36 0.30 down from 2003 | 2,469 | 99% | — | ||
36Nucleic Acids ResearchOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 8.79 1.19 up from 2003 | 2,819 | 99% | $3,992 | ||
37Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular BiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.63Q1 | 6.70 0.05 up from 2003 | 1,154 | 48% | — | ||
38BMC BioinformaticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 7.43 0.98 up from 2003 | 116 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
39Journal of Computational BiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.49Q1 | 5.85 1.23 down from 2003 | 151 | 6% | — | ||
40Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 2.48Q1 | 4.57 0.12 up from 2003 | 2,835 | 98% | — | ||
41Molecular Biology and EvolutionOAOxford University Press · United States | 2.43Q1 | 6.18 0.13 up from 2003 | 789 | 71% | $3,418 | ||
42DevelopmentThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 8.01 0.52 down from 2003 | 1,595 | 36% | — | ||
43Annual Review of BiochemistryAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.41Q1 | 23.51 17.61 down from 2003 | 104 | 3% | — | ||
44Molecular MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 6.08 0.47 up from 2003 | 1,751 | 60% | $4,430 | ||
45Journal of Cell ScienceThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 6.77 0.09 down from 2003 | 1,584 | 22% | — | ||
46The FASEB JournalWiley · United States | 2.34Q1 | 6.34 0.18 up from 2003 | 1,637 | 8% | $3,740 | ||
47Molecular Aspects of MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 4.02 1.50 down from 2003 | 68 | 3% | $5,220 | ||
48Reviews in Molecular BiotechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 4.62 0.94 up from 2003 | 54 | — | — | ||
49OncogeneSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 6.71 0.09 up from 2003 | 2,969 | 8% | $5,990 | ||
50Cellular and Molecular Life SciencesOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 2.21Q1 | 5.39 0.08 down from 2003 | 617 | 99% | $4,290 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Molecular Biology 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.
165 additional Molecular Biology 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
- 650
- Window papers (baseline)
- 227,129 +17.0% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.82 +25.8% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 129
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 519 | 546 | 586 | 626 | 650 | 687 | 707 | 752 | 778 | 801 | 844 | 901 | 955 | 996 | 1,034 | 1,073 | 1,109 | 1,133 | 1,155 | 1,157 | 1,141 | 1,136 | 1,158 | 1,167 | 1,149 | 1,152 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 181,358 | 194,151 | 205,259 | 217,711 | 227,129 | 242,923 | 257,591 | 273,038 | 286,182 | 303,541 | 319,771 | 333,582 | 344,870 | 354,245 | 365,796 | 374,398 | 378,858 | 377,367 | 371,908 | 369,033 | 372,681 | 388,390 | 409,363 | 424,318 | 425,615 | 430,199 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.70 | 0.79 | 0.82 | 0.872 | 0.923 | 0.929 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 1.010 | 1.051 | 1.049 | 1.014 | 1.001 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.944 | 0.940 | 0.933 | 0.937 | 0.917 | 0.9097 | 0.870 | 0.89 | 0.9095 |
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.