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Journal rankings · indicator year 2007

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Field ranking · 2007

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology journal rankings 2007

888 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology has 888 ranked journals in 2007. The median journal has an OJR of 0.89, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2006; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Pharmacological Reviews, Cell, and Briefings in Bioinformatics.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 score is computed on.

888
45% of Life Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.89+0.02 vs 2006
This fieldAll 0.86World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

23%
All fields: 16%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,790
Median positive listed APC: $3,790 among 529 journals. Another 3 list $0; 356 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14)

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ranking, 2007

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.

OJR

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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007.

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1Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States
9.38Q122.29 1.09 up from 2006860%$4,500
2CellCell Press · United States
8.31Q121.58 1.55 down from 20061,49598%$11,400
3Briefings in BioinformaticsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom
7.55Q14.97 12.71 down from 200613475%$3,885
4Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States
7.54Q120.29 2.43 up from 200695630%$12,690
5NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
6.53Q111.01 0.70 up from 20069,22418%$12,690
6.43Q119.70 5.06 up from 20066013%—
7Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.30Q111.83 1.06 up from 20065325%$5,530
8FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOAOxford University Press · Netherlands
4.92Q18.86 1.20 up from 200615255%$3,297
9Cell MetabolismCell Press · United States
4.82Q112.24 0.18 up from 2006238100%$10,400
10The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States
4.76Q110.52 1.29 down from 200684489%$5,150
11Nature BiotechnologyNature Portfolio · United States
4.57Q18.66 0.31 down from 20061,16418%$12,690
12Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States
4.49Q17.57 3.64 down from 200625528%$2,166
13Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
4.46Q112.25 0.09 up from 200676926%$12,690
14Critical Reviews in BiotechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States
4.45Q16.17 1.72 up from 2006300%—
15ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States
4.41Q16.26 0.05 up from 200614,39610%—
16Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States
4.40Q113.32 2.52 up from 20062,080100%$5,200
17Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States
4.40Q110.59 0.07 down from 200610,25399%—
18Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States
4.22Q112.40 0.79 down from 20061,116100%$10,400
19Molecular Aspects of MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.11Q19.91 2.86 up from 20067610%$5,220
20Pharmacology & TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States
3.76Q18.49 0.70 up from 200633025%$5,660
21Molecular Systems BiologyOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom
3.67Q19.50 4.02 up from 2006102100%$7,990
22The EMBO JournalOASpringer Nature · Germany
3.59Q19.47 1.51 down from 20061,42695%$7,990
23Circulation ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
3.53Q18.95 0.83 down from 20061,12452%—
24Molecular & Cellular ProteomicsOAElsevier BV · United States
3.51Q18.92 0.27 up from 200655999%$3,430
25PLoS BiologyOAPublic Library of Science · United States
3.50Q17.96 0.57 up from 20061,241100%$5,500
26Developmental CellElsevier BV · United States
3.45Q19.94 0.36 down from 2006629100%$10,400
27Quarterly Reviews of BiophysicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
3.44Q19.43 4.35 up from 20063613%$3,550
28Human Molecular GeneticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom
3.28Q18.95 0.79 down from 20061,08750%$4,390
29Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom
3.15Q16.45 0.26 up from 20061,09526%$5,150
30Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States
3.03Q18.32 0.01 up from 20064,35522%—
31Journal of NanobiotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.96Q14.35 1.03 down from 200635100%$3,790
32Biotechnology AdvancesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.94Q15.54 1.83 up from 20061266%$5,460
33TrAC Trends in Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.90Q14.07 0.52 up from 20064215%$5,150
34Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyNature Portfolio · United States
2.90Q18.06 0.16 down from 200670727%$12,690
35Journal of BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.85Q17.06 0.46 down from 200647100%$2,686
36Functional & Integrative GenomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.82Q15.30 0.78 up from 2006860%$2,690
37Medicinal Research ReviewsWiley · United States
2.79Q16.34 0.01 down from 20061004%$4,980
38Stem CellsOxford University Press · United States
2.74Q17.89 0.27 up from 200672737%$4,477
39Molecular Biology and EvolutionOAOxford University Press · United States
2.72Q17.01 1.04 down from 200684075%$3,418
2.72Q14.43 2.84 down from 20066512%$4,160
2.72Q17.86 1.54 up from 20069823%$5,070
42Evolutionary BioinformaticsOASAGE Publishing · United States
2.65Q15.40 2.48 down from 200642100%$2,650
43DevelopmentThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom
2.65Q17.63 1.06 down from 20061,54346%—
44Nature MethodsNature Portfolio · United States
2.63Q16.64 0.39 up from 200667322%$12,690
45Physiological ReviewsAmerican Physiological Society · United States
2.61Q138.70 2.27 up from 200610130%—
46Seminars in Cell and Developmental BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.59Q16.04 2.87 down from 200625232%$4,670
47Computer applications in the biosciencesOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.59Q18.30 2.72 up from 2006506——
48Nucleic Acids ResearchOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.59Q17.44 0.11 down from 20063,615100%$3,992
49PhysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States
2.58Q16.86 0.02 up from 20061763%—
50Drug Metabolism ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States
2.55Q13.59 1.59 down from 20061274%—

Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

213 additional Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
888
Window papers (baseline)
472,036 +21.5% from indicator year 2004
Median OJR
0.894 +10.8% from indicator year 2004
Rising journals (2025)
141Comparison-group list (141)

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals6096506967427658068358889199511,0031,0641,1251,1721,2171,2711,3111,3391,3651,3691,3491,3391,3581,3661,3551,367
Window papers (baseline)310,927335,262354,210375,343388,415415,247441,606472,036497,712532,780565,943595,190615,359631,115652,778672,042683,714684,441678,826679,352690,127717,801750,552768,440764,327768,613
Median OJR0.6280.6340.680.760.810.84650.8720.8940.9210.950.981.031.020.9900.9860.970.960.930.9250.9150.9120.900.8900.84740.8530.871
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 1.9%1,206 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 4.798 per 1,0001,059 journals
Output growthMedian: -6.4%1,233 journals
Open access shareMedian: 100.0%1,367 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,300943 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 24.4%1,335 journals
Review shareMedian: 0.3%1,367 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.871,336 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 22.7%1,367 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 42.1%1,363 journals

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.