Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Genetics journal rankings 2009
85 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 85 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2008 to 0.77, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are The American Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Ecology, and Evolutionary Applications.
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 of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14)
85 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 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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1The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.54Q1 | 11.61 1.31 up from 2008 | 806 | 98% | $5,150 | ||
2Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 6.46 0.38 down from 2008 | 1,206 | 30% | $5,150 | ||
3Evolutionary ApplicationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 5.33no 2008 value | 55 | 100% | $4,320 | — | |
4Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 7.77 2.43 up from 2008 | 134 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
5American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 2.42Q1 | 5.38 1.20 up from 2008 | 112 | 38% | $3,460 | ||
6Nuclear Receptor SignalingSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.39Q1 | 9.00 5.83 up from 2008 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
7Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 5.86 0.13 down from 2008 | 462 | 44% | — | ||
8Human MutationWiley · United States | 2.10Q1 | 5.88 0.39 up from 2008 | 674 | 70% | $2,740 | ||
9HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.84 0.26 up from 2008 | 420 | 92% | $2,690 | ||
10Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 4.47 0.21 down from 2008 | 465 | 47% | $3,690 | ||
11Tree Genetics & GenomesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 3.15 0.48 up from 2008 | 167 | 16% | $3,690 | ||
12Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 1.71Q1 | 3.77 0.39 down from 2008 | 381 | 100% | $5,110 | ||
13Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 4.26 0.69 up from 2008 | 285 | 69% | $3,540 | ||
14American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.66Q1 | 4.18 0.10 up from 2008 | 642 | 44% | $3,920 | ||
15Human HeredityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 3.66 0.08 down from 2008 | 170 | 73% | — | ||
16Genetic Vaccines and TherapyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 3.38 0.79 up from 2008 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
17Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.53 0.08 down from 2008 | 337 | 39% | $3,560 | ||
18European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 3.51 0.21 down from 2008 | 703 | 90% | $2,790 | ||
19Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 2.15 0.34 up from 2008 | 932 | 5% | $4,580 | ||
20Genetic EpidemiologyWiley · United States | 1.42Q1 | 3.58 0.63 up from 2008 | 255 | 64% | $4,150 | ||
21Sexual DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.39Q1 | 3.48 1.54 up from 2008 | 72 | 30% | — | ||
22Behavior GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 1.83 1.10 down from 2008 | 247 | 47% | $3,390 | ||
23BMC Medical GeneticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 3.22 0.12 down from 2008 | 298 | 100% | $2,380 | ||
24Journal of Forensic SciencesWiley · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.78 0.39 up from 2008 | 856 | 12% | $4,330 | ||
25Theoretical Population BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 2.03 0.07 up from 2008 | 242 | 23% | $2,840 | ||
26ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.12Q2 | 1.65no change | 88 | 13% | $3,590 | ||
27Annals of Human GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.61 0.10 up from 2008 | 254 | 48% | $3,190 | ||
28Molecular Ecology NotesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 3.16 1.50 up from 2008 | 694 | — | — | ||
29Digestive and Liver DiseaseOAElsevier BV · Italy | 1.05Q2 | 2.32 0.23 up from 2008 | 685 | 5% | $3,300 | ||
30ToxiconElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.39 0.07 up from 2008 | 803 | 23% | $3,340 | ||
31Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.00Q2 | 2.90 0.05 down from 2008 | 413 | 14% | $5,490 | ||
32Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.00Q2 | 2.13 0.60 down from 2008 | 1,398 | 38% | $3,862 | ||
33Journal of Animal Breeding and GeneticsWiley · Germany | 0.97Q2 | 2.15 0.80 up from 2008 | 192 | 23% | $4,750 | ||
34Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 1.35 0.71 down from 2008 | 731 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
35Psychiatric GeneticsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.27 0.77 down from 2008 | 198 | 24% | — | ||
36Annals of Human BiologyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.70 0.12 up from 2008 | 178 | 18% | $2,390 | ||
37Animal GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.40 0.01 up from 2008 | 415 | 16% | $3,570 | ||
38Journal of Genetic CounselingWiley · United States | 0.89Q2 | 2.05 0.48 up from 2008 | 179 | 64% | $3,840 | ||
39Forensic Science International GeneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.46 0.95 up from 2008 | 216 | 8% | $5,020 | ||
40Journal of Crohn s and ColitisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.91 1.38 up from 2008 | 75 | 68% | $4,790 | ||
41American Journal of Medical Genetics Part AWiley · United States | 0.87Q2 | 2.20 0.20 down from 2008 | 1,507 | 27% | $4,710 | ||
42Public Health GenomicsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.86Q2 | 1.56 0.21 down from 2008 | 148 | 45% | — | ||
43European Journal of Medical GeneticsElsevier BV · France | 0.77Q2 | 1.76 0.30 down from 2008 | 192 | 5% | $3,330 | ||
44Insectes SociauxSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.76Q3 | 1.56 0.30 up from 2008 | 214 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
45New Genetics and SocietyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.30 0.01 up from 2008 | 65 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
46Genetic TestingMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.69Q3 | 1.62 0.28 up from 2008 | 208 | 0% | — | ||
47Animal BiotechnologyOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.68Q3 | 1.03 0.37 down from 2008 | 82 | 6% | — | ||
48Current Protocols in Human GeneticsWiley · United States | 0.63Q3 | 1.57 0.96 up from 2008 | 75 | 16% | $5,050 | ||
49Congenital AnomaliesWiley · Japan | 0.63Q3 | 1.14 0.20 up from 2008 | 94 | 41% | $2,830 | ||
50AnthrozoösTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q3 | 1.27 0.20 up from 2008 | 106 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- 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.
33 additional Genetics 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
- 85
- Window papers (baseline)
- 88,092 +23.9% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.771 +17.6% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 | 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.