Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Domain ranking · 2010
Life Sciences journal rankings 2010
2,222 ranked journals · Domain
Life Sciences has 2,222 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.87, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are Nature Genetics, Ecology Letters, and Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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.
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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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 11.32Q1 | 31.40 4.60 up from 2009 | 920 | 58% | $12,690 | ||
2Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.48Q1 | 12.73 0.13 down from 2009 | 398 | 20% | $5,300 | ||
3CellCell Press · United States | 9.11Q1 | 23.30 1.04 up from 2009 | 1,786 | 99% | $11,400 | ||
4Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 8.92Q1 | 22.35 3.32 up from 2009 | 54 | 55% | $4,500 | ||
5NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.79Q1 | 11.40 0.41 up from 2009 | 9,876 | 27% | $12,690 | ||
6Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.31Q1 | 12.95 1.99 down from 2009 | 93 | 58% | $4,800 | ||
7Cell stem cellElsevier BV · United States | 6.25Q1 | 17.06 2.20 up from 2009 | 475 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
8Nature ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United States | 6.19Q1 | 18.20 1.01 up from 2009 | 682 | 56% | $12,690 | ||
9ImmunityCell Press · United States | 6.18Q1 | 19.60 2.21 up from 2009 | 626 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
10Biotechnology AdvancesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.10Q1 | 9.59 0.78 down from 2009 | 214 | 14% | $5,460 | ||
11FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 5.82Q1 | 13.07 2.01 up from 2009 | 154 | 66% | $3,297 | ||
12Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 5.68Q1 | 3.12 0.60 up from 2009 | 80 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
13Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States | 5.59Q1 | 13.19 0.43 down from 2009 | 1,397 | 100% | $5,200 | ||
14Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.49Q1 | 14.10 0.02 up from 2009 | 731 | 50% | $12,690 | ||
15Cell MetabolismCell Press · United States | 5.44Q1 | 14.75 0.65 up from 2009 | 401 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
16The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.26Q1 | 9.56 0.42 down from 2009 | 932 | 98% | $4,934 | ||
17ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 5.26Q1 | 7.40 0.47 up from 2009 | 13,564 | 23% | — | ||
18Nature BiotechnologyNature Portfolio · United States | 5.24Q1 | 10.30 0.20 down from 2009 | 1,087 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
19Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.22Q1 | 8.77 0.25 up from 2009 | 171 | 32% | — | ||
20Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 5.01Q1 | 12.71 0.22 up from 2009 | 836 | 68% | $12,690 | ||
21Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 4.97Q1 | 9.11 0.89 down from 2009 | 261 | 42% | $2,166 | ||
22Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States | 4.91Q1 | 13.39 0.95 down from 2009 | 1,097 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
23Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States | 4.79Q1 | 11.03 0.23 up from 2009 | 11,802 | 99% | — | ||
24The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.77Q1 | 11.29 0.32 down from 2009 | 737 | 95% | $5,150 | ||
25Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 10.69 1.09 up from 2009 | 74 | 36% | $5,530 | ||
26PLoS BiologyOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.74Q1 | 10.36 0.67 down from 2009 | 893 | 100% | $5,500 | ||
27Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.59Q1 | 6.63 0.32 down from 2009 | 710 | 32% | $3,900 | ||
28Molecular Biology and EvolutionOAOxford University Press · United States | 4.58Q1 | 5.99 5.70 down from 2009 | 879 | 78% | $3,418 | ||
29Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 4.56Q1 | 3.94 2.90 down from 2009 | 71 | 43% | $3,570 | ||
30Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 6.05 0.25 down from 2009 | 221 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
31Molecular Aspects of MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 14.55 6.44 up from 2009 | 110 | 37% | $5,220 | ||
32NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.53Q1 | 12.65 1.05 up from 2009 | 1,217 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
33Drug Resistance UpdatesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 11.12 0.43 down from 2009 | 62 | 20% | $5,410 | ||
34The Journal of Experimental MedicineRockefeller University Press · United States | 4.49Q1 | 12.31 0.30 down from 2009 | 1,113 | 87% | — | ||
35The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 7.83 0.18 down from 2009 | 1,122 | 59% | $5,450 | ||
36Molecular Systems BiologyOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 10.66 1.94 down from 2009 | 261 | 100% | $7,990 | ||
37Pharmacology & TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.40Q1 | 9.28 0.60 down from 2009 | 298 | 28% | $5,660 | ||
38Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.36Q1 | 11.13 0.05 up from 2009 | 207 | 24% | $5,190 | ||
39PLoS GeneticsOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.34Q1 | 10.87 0.16 down from 2009 | 1,062 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
40Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 6.05 1.22 down from 2009 | 52 | 16% | — | ||
41Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 4.23Q1 | —no 2009 value | 43 | — | — | ||
42Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 2.64 0.07 up from 2009 | 148 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
43Cell Host & MicrobeCell Press · United States | 4.18Q1 | 10.77 1.46 up from 2009 | 377 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
44Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 8.03 0.26 up from 2009 | 112 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
45Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 3.86 0.08 down from 2009 | 259 | 13% | $5,440 | ||
46New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 6.51 0.36 up from 2009 | 1,155 | 58% | $5,790 | ||
47PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 4.04Q1 | 7.46 0.43 up from 2009 | 1,608 | 100% | $3,851 | ||
48Briefings in BioinformaticsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 12.12 4.14 up from 2009 | 160 | 79% | $3,885 | ||
49Nature ProtocolsNature Portfolio · United States | 3.99Q1 | 10.82 2.79 up from 2009 | 737 | 37% | — | ||
50Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.97Q1 | 6.63 1.69 up from 2009 | 140 | 21% | — |
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
697 additional Life Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 2,222
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,291,816 +24.1% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.8675 +7.2% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 273
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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 | 1,416 | 1,528 | 1,615 | 1,712 | 1,731 | 1,801 | 1,865 | 1,956 | 2,004 | 2,096 | 2,222 | 2,355 | 2,484 | 2,599 | 2,705 | 2,838 | 2,923 | 2,983 | 3,027 | 3,037 | 3,015 | 3,000 | 3,030 | 3,032 | 3,014 | 3,016 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 681,698 | 747,894 | 789,157 | 838,563 | 854,790 | 911,302 | 969,983 | 1,041,301 | 1,106,285 | 1,194,995 | 1,291,816 | 1,389,175 | 1,451,151 | 1,495,499 | 1,547,978 | 1,608,280 | 1,646,156 | 1,651,790 | 1,653,566 | 1,677,661 | 1,731,463 | 1,821,734 | 1,907,316 | 1,955,191 | 1,960,779 | 2,008,547 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.69 | 0.71 | 0.74 | 0.778 | 0.810 | 0.813 | 0.869 | 0.8675 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 0.873 | 0.8678 | 0.83 | 0.8177 | 0.8180 | 0.80925 | 0.806 | 0.814 | 0.80931 | 0.80 | 0.784 | 0.77 | 0.79 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 2.5% | 2,489 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 3.276 per 1,000 | 2,252 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -7.1% | 2,737 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 99.1% | 3,016 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,258 | 1,900 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.1% | 2,917 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.3% | 3,016 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.79 | 2,965 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.6% | 3,016 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 42.9% | 3,011 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.