Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Molecular Biology journal rankings 2005
687 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology has 687 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2004 to 0.87, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are Pharmacological Reviews, Cell, and Nature Genetics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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)
687 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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 10.48Q1 | 26.71 5.27 down from 2004 | 72 | 6% | $4,500 | ||
2CellCell Press · United States | 8.30Q1 | 22.71 2.07 down from 2004 | 1,218 | 97% | $11,400 | ||
3Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 6.71Q1 | 17.73 0.40 down from 2004 | 968 | 20% | $12,690 | ||
4NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.49Q1 | 10.38 0.76 down from 2004 | 8,602 | 15% | $12,690 | ||
5Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular StructureAnnual Reviews · United States | 5.37Q1 | 15.07 0.76 down from 2004 | 64 | 30% | — | ||
6Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.37Q1 | 12.19 2.26 up from 2004 | 65 | 9% | $5,530 | ||
7ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 4.70Q1 | 6.62 0.28 down from 2004 | 14,164 | 5% | — | ||
8Nature BiotechnologyNature Portfolio · United States | 4.50Q1 | 8.80 0.16 down from 2004 | 1,152 | 17% | $12,690 | ||
9Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States | 4.39Q1 | 11.00 0.26 down from 2004 | 9,180 | 97% | — | ||
10Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 12.24 1.20 down from 2004 | 766 | 20% | $12,690 | ||
11Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States | 4.34Q1 | 13.27 0.93 down from 2004 | 1,090 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
12Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 4.29Q1 | 6.85 1.51 up from 2004 | 312 | 26% | $2,166 | ||
13FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 4.17Q1 | 8.98 1.88 up from 2004 | 154 | 34% | $3,297 | ||
14Recent Progress in Hormone ResearchOAEndocrine Society · United States | 4.00Q1 | 7.46 1.96 down from 2004 | 58 | — | — | ||
15Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on CancerElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 10.45 3.99 down from 2004 | 64 | 2% | $5,070 | ||
16The EMBO JournalOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.68Q1 | 10.87 0.76 down from 2004 | 1,815 | 88% | $7,990 | ||
17Developmental CellElsevier BV · United States | 3.66Q1 | 10.81 1.02 down from 2004 | 629 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
18Pharmacology & TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.58Q1 | 7.99 0.63 up from 2004 | 225 | 5% | $5,660 | ||
19Circulation ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.53Q1 | 9.70 0.39 up from 2004 | 1,181 | 54% | — | ||
20Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States | 3.36Q1 | 9.85 0.98 up from 2004 | 3,178 | 87% | $5,200 | ||
21PLoS BiologyOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 3.33Q1 | 6.93 0.65 down from 2004 | 546 | 100% | $5,500 | ||
22Journal of BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 8.68 0.55 down from 2004 | 50 | 100% | $2,686 | ||
23Molecular & Cellular ProteomicsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.17Q1 | 7.55 0.24 down from 2004 | 360 | 93% | $3,430 | ||
24Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 3.10Q1 | 7.77 7.52 up from 2004 | 1,282 | 22% | — | ||
25Medicinal Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 3.07Q1 | 7.43 0.17 down from 2004 | 90 | 10% | $4,980 | ||
26Human Molecular GeneticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 8.66 0.46 up from 2004 | 1,131 | 32% | $4,390 | ||
27TrAC Trends in Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 3.69 0.22 down from 2004 | 359 | 4% | $5,150 | ||
28Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 2.93Q1 | 8.03 0.48 up from 2004 | 440 | 15% | $12,690 | ||
29Cellular MicrobiologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 6.54 0.12 down from 2004 | 291 | 72% | $2,350 | ||
30Molecular Aspects of MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 6.65 2.64 up from 2004 | 88 | 3% | $5,220 | ||
31Analytical ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.79Q1 | 4.97 0.39 up from 2004 | 3,416 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
32Drug Metabolism ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.73Q1 | 4.44 0.82 down from 2004 | 97 | 5% | — | ||
33Nucleic Acids ResearchOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 8.97 0.18 up from 2004 | 3,225 | 100% | $3,992 | ||
34Reviews in Molecular BiotechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | —no 2004 value | 37 | — | — | ||
35Molecular Biology and EvolutionOAOxford University Press · United States | 2.69Q1 | 6.55 0.37 up from 2004 | 831 | 67% | $3,418 | ||
36Physiological ReviewsAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 2.63Q1 | 31.77 9.14 down from 2004 | 105 | 9% | — | ||
37BioinformaticsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 6.97 0.10 down from 2004 | 1,700 | 65% | $3,989 | ||
38American Journal Of PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.54Q1 | 6.55 0.57 down from 2004 | 1,377 | 99% | $2,800 | ||
39DevelopmentThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 8.19 0.18 up from 2004 | 1,679 | 44% | — | ||
40Molecular and Cellular BiologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.44Q1 | 7.54 0.82 down from 2004 | 2,606 | 99% | — | ||
41The FASEB JournalWiley · United States | 2.43Q1 | 6.60 0.26 up from 2004 | 1,564 | 9% | $3,740 | ||
42Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.52 0.05 down from 2004 | 2,979 | 98% | — | ||
43Journal of Chemical Information and ModelingAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.42Q1 | 2.68 2.68 up from 2004 | 35 | 5% | $4,500 | ||
44The Journal of PathologyPublisher not listed | 2.42Q1 | 6.77 1.33 up from 2004 | 610 | 15% | $5,450 | ||
45Molecular MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 6.35 0.26 up from 2004 | 1,787 | 57% | $4,430 | ||
46Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular BiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.37Q1 | 6.66 0.04 down from 2004 | 1,293 | 49% | — | ||
47OncogeneSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 7.33 0.62 up from 2004 | 3,124 | 10% | $5,990 | ||
48DNA ResearchOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 4.82 0.74 down from 2004 | 95 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
49PROTEOMICSWiley · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 6.54 0.84 up from 2004 | 957 | 10% | $4,650 | ||
50Briefings in BioinformaticsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 5.76 1.29 up from 2004 | 133 | 70% | $3,885 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Molecular Biology highlighted.
- Molecular Biology687
- Genetics66
- Cancer Research19
- Cell Biology15
- Biophysics6
- Molecular Medicine6
- Biochemistry2
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Aging1
- Developmental Biology1
- Structural Biology1
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
- Physiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
160 additional Molecular Biology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 687
- Window papers (baseline)
- 242,923 +18.3% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 0.872 +24.3% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 129
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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 | 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.