Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology journal rankings 2009
951 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology has 951 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.95, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are Nature Genetics, Pharmacological Reviews, and Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14)
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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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 10.20Q1 | 26.81 2.65 up from 2008 | 971 | 62% | $12,690 | ||
2Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 9.58Q1 | 19.03 4.69 down from 2008 | 71 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
3CellCell Press · United States | 8.90Q1 | 22.26 0.06 down from 2008 | 1,784 | 98% | $11,400 | ||
4Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular StructureAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.57Q1 | 22.55 2.20 up from 2008 | 40 | — | — | ||
5NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.80Q1 | 10.99 0.45 up from 2008 | 9,771 | 26% | $12,690 | ||
6Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States | 5.85Q1 | 13.62 0.92 down from 2008 | 1,397 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
7Cell stem cellElsevier BV · United States | 5.68Q1 | 14.86 3.88 up from 2008 | 289 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
8Cell MetabolismCell Press · United States | 5.41Q1 | 14.10 1.30 up from 2008 | 392 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
9Biotechnology AdvancesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 10.37 3.22 up from 2008 | 147 | 10% | $5,460 | ||
10Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.26Q1 | 14.08 1.40 up from 2008 | 711 | 49% | $12,690 | ||
11FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 5.25Q1 | 11.05 1.32 up from 2008 | 149 | 68% | $3,297 | ||
12Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.23Q1 | 9.60 3.09 down from 2008 | 68 | 12% | $5,530 | ||
13ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 5.01Q1 | 6.94 0.27 up from 2008 | 13,888 | 20% | — | ||
14Nature BiotechnologyNature Portfolio · United States | 5.00Q1 | 10.51 1.56 up from 2008 | 1,134 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
15Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States | 4.83Q1 | 14.35 1.76 up from 2008 | 1,095 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
16Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States | 4.70Q1 | 10.80 0.09 up from 2008 | 11,119 | 100% | — | ||
17Molecular Systems BiologyOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.68Q1 | 12.61 0.82 up from 2008 | 231 | 100% | $7,990 | ||
18Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 4.67Q1 | 9.99 2.95 up from 2008 | 269 | 32% | $2,166 | ||
19The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.54Q1 | 11.61 1.31 up from 2008 | 806 | 98% | $5,150 | ||
20PLoS BiologyOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.39Q1 | 11.03 1.67 up from 2008 | 1,036 | 100% | $5,500 | ||
21PLoS GeneticsOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.36Q1 | 11.03 0.03 down from 2008 | 783 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
22Pharmacology & TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.33Q1 | 9.88 0.93 down from 2008 | 319 | 27% | $5,660 | ||
23Drug Resistance UpdatesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 11.55 3.08 up from 2008 | 64 | 38% | $5,410 | ||
24Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on CancerElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.18Q1 | 9.67 1.37 down from 2008 | 89 | 30% | $5,070 | ||
25Molecular Biology and EvolutionOAOxford University Press · United States | 4.08Q1 | 11.69 3.60 up from 2008 | 844 | 78% | $3,418 | ||
26Cell Host & MicrobeCell Press · United States | 4.06Q1 | 9.31 3.89 up from 2008 | 234 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
27Molecular Aspects of MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 8.12 1.80 up from 2008 | 97 | 26% | $5,220 | ||
28Developmental CellElsevier BV · United States | 3.84Q1 | 10.56 0.72 up from 2008 | 629 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
29Medicinal Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 3.72Q1 | 8.50 0.51 up from 2008 | 90 | 19% | $4,980 | ||
30The EMBO JournalOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.59Q1 | 10.30 0.88 up from 2008 | 1,286 | 94% | $7,990 | ||
31Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 7.95 2.52 up from 2008 | 108 | 9% | $4,160 | ||
32TrAC Trends in Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.49Q1 | 5.18 0.83 up from 2008 | 387 | 10% | $5,150 | ||
33Molecular & Cellular ProteomicsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.44Q1 | 8.64 0.23 down from 2008 | 627 | 100% | $3,430 | ||
34Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 6.46 0.38 down from 2008 | 1,206 | 30% | $5,150 | ||
35Nature MethodsNature Portfolio · United States | 3.39Q1 | 9.30 2.34 up from 2008 | 884 | 34% | $12,690 | ||
36BiofoulingTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 5.48 0.88 up from 2008 | 145 | 10% | — | ||
37Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 3.37Q1 | 9.72 1.37 up from 2008 | 697 | 60% | $12,690 | ||
38Circulation ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.26Q1 | 8.71 0.48 down from 2008 | 1,152 | 70% | — | ||
39Cellular MicrobiologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 7.14 0.15 down from 2008 | 612 | 74% | $2,350 | ||
40Human Molecular GeneticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 7.93 0.47 down from 2008 | 1,168 | 78% | $4,390 | ||
41Briefings in BioinformaticsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 7.98 2.33 up from 2008 | 158 | 85% | $3,885 | ||
42Stem CellsOxford University Press · United States | 3.17Q1 | 8.76 0.42 up from 2008 | 993 | 59% | $4,477 | ||
43Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 3.16Q1 | 8.51 0.09 up from 2008 | 4,344 | 20% | — | ||
44Cell Death and DifferentiationSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 8.33 0.52 up from 2008 | 643 | 41% | $5,790 | ||
45Nature Chemical BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 3.09Q1 | 7.57 0.57 up from 2008 | 578 | 50% | $12,690 | ||
46Evolutionary ApplicationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 5.33no 2008 value | 55 | 100% | $4,320 | — | |
47Drug Metabolism ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.07Q1 | 4.81 0.50 down from 2008 | 124 | 39% | — | ||
48Drug Discovery TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.03Q1 | 6.01 0.69 up from 2008 | 509 | 8% | $4,720 | ||
49Nature ProtocolsNature Portfolio · United States | 3.03Q1 | 8.02 2.36 up from 2008 | 969 | 45% | — | ||
50Critical Reviews in Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.01Q1 | 2.86 1.34 down from 2008 | 50 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, compared.
- Molecular Biology801
- Genetics85
- Cancer Research22
- Cell Biology18
- Molecular Medicine7
- Biophysics6
- Biochemistry3
- Aging2
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Structural Biology2
- Developmental Biology1
- Endocrinology1
- Physiology1
- Biotechnology0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
273 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 951
- Window papers (baseline)
- 532,780 +20.6% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.95 +8.8% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 141Comparison-group list (141)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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 | 609 | 650 | 696 | 742 | 765 | 806 | 835 | 888 | 919 | 951 | 1,003 | 1,064 | 1,125 | 1,172 | 1,217 | 1,271 | 1,311 | 1,339 | 1,365 | 1,369 | 1,349 | 1,339 | 1,358 | 1,366 | 1,355 | 1,367 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 310,927 | 335,262 | 354,210 | 375,343 | 388,415 | 415,247 | 441,606 | 472,036 | 497,712 | 532,780 | 565,943 | 595,190 | 615,359 | 631,115 | 652,778 | 672,042 | 683,714 | 684,441 | 678,826 | 679,352 | 690,127 | 717,801 | 750,552 | 768,440 | 764,327 | 768,613 | |
| Median OJR | 0.628 | 0.634 | 0.68 | 0.76 | 0.81 | 0.8465 | 0.872 | 0.894 | 0.921 | 0.95 | 0.98 | 1.03 | 1.02 | 0.990 | 0.986 | 0.97 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.925 | 0.915 | 0.912 | 0.90 | 0.890 | 0.8474 | 0.853 | 0.871 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 1.9% | 1,206 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 4.798 per 1,000 | 1,059 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -6.4% | 1,233 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 1,367 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,300 | 943 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 24.4% | 1,335 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.3% | 1,367 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.87 | 1,336 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 22.7% | 1,367 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 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.