Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Genetics journal rankings 2011
99 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 99 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are The American Journal of Human Genetics, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, and Molecular Cytogenetics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
99 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.75Q1 | 11.30 0.01 up from 2010 | 747 | 90% | $5,150 | ||
2Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 8.61 0.58 up from 2010 | 106 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
3Molecular CytogeneticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 11.10 7.84 up from 2010 | 77 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
4Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 10.02 3.18 up from 2010 | 434 | 41% | — | ||
5Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 5.87 0.61 down from 2010 | 1,324 | 32% | $5,150 | ||
6Evolutionary ApplicationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 4.76 1.55 down from 2010 | 157 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
7American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 2.50Q1 | 4.97 0.02 down from 2010 | 129 | 36% | $3,460 | ||
8Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.50Q1 | 5.68 0.23 up from 2010 | 439 | 55% | $3,690 | ||
9European Journal of Medical GeneticsElsevier BV · France | 2.45Q1 | 5.95 3.22 up from 2010 | 298 | 12% | $3,330 | ||
10Human MutationWiley · United States | 2.40Q1 | 6.12 0.13 up from 2010 | 730 | 75% | $2,740 | ||
11Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 2.36Q1 | 5.58 0.68 up from 2010 | 428 | 88% | $5,110 | ||
12European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 5.97 1.70 up from 2010 | 755 | 97% | $2,790 | ||
13HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.95 0.01 up from 2010 | 447 | 99% | $2,690 | ||
14Tree Genetics & GenomesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 3.19 0.38 up from 2010 | 228 | 17% | $3,690 | ||
15Journal of Neurodevelopmental DisordersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 4.00 1.71 up from 2010 | 64 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
16Genome MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 4.46 0.30 up from 2010 | 210 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
17American Journal of Medical Genetics Part AWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 4.37 2.01 up from 2010 | 1,600 | 28% | $4,710 | ||
18Genetic EpidemiologyWiley · United States | 1.83Q1 | 4.36 0.05 down from 2010 | 266 | 68% | $4,150 | ||
19Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 2.73 0.26 up from 2010 | 922 | 9% | $4,580 | ||
20American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.27 0.11 down from 2010 | 73 | 37% | — | ||
21American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.73Q1 | 4.30 0.40 down from 2010 | 469 | 39% | $3,920 | ||
22Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 4.18 0.15 up from 2010 | 296 | 65% | $3,540 | ||
23Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.86 0.32 up from 2010 | 362 | 34% | $3,560 | ||
24Sexual DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.47Q1 | 3.22 0.07 up from 2010 | 113 | 30% | — | ||
25BMC Medical GeneticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 3.52 0.22 up from 2010 | 441 | 100% | $2,380 | ||
26Behavior GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 2.56 0.24 up from 2010 | 263 | 57% | $3,390 | ||
27Annals of Human GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 3.08 0.21 up from 2010 | 222 | 37% | $3,190 | ||
27Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 4.15 2.22 up from 2010 | 172 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
29ToxiconElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 3.07 0.50 up from 2010 | 906 | 24% | $3,340 | ||
30Journal of Forensic SciencesWiley · United States | 1.23Q2 | 1.70 0.04 down from 2010 | 964 | 10% | $4,330 | ||
31Public Health GenomicsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.22Q2 | 3.00 0.50 up from 2010 | 192 | 78% | — | ||
32Annals of Human BiologyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 2.08 0.08 up from 2010 | 222 | 24% | $2,390 | ||
33Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.19Q2 | 2.99 0.14 up from 2010 | 427 | 23% | $5,490 | ||
34Theoretical Population BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 1.97 0.09 down from 2010 | 189 | 32% | $2,840 | ||
35Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.15Q2 | 3.50 1.05 up from 2010 | 1,407 | 41% | $3,862 | ||
36Current Protocols in Human GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.67 0.11 down from 2010 | 78 | 32% | $5,050 | ||
37ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.09Q2 | 1.65 0.06 up from 2010 | 82 | 18% | $3,590 | ||
38Journal of Crohn s and ColitisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 2.45 0.70 up from 2010 | 260 | 33% | $4,790 | ||
39Molecular SyndromologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.08Q2 | 2.21no 2010 value | 38 | 87% | — | — | |
40Forensic Science International GeneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 3.54 1.26 up from 2010 | 361 | 15% | $5,020 | ||
41Digestive and Liver DiseaseOAElsevier BV · Italy | 1.07Q2 | 2.46 0.47 up from 2010 | 633 | 4% | $3,300 | ||
42Journal of Community GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 2.17no 2010 value | 30 | 98% | $3,990 | — | |
43Human HeredityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.00Q2 | 2.43 0.25 up from 2010 | 137 | 84% | — | ||
44Genetic Vaccines and TherapyBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.55 0.84 down from 2010 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
45Animal GeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.41 0.41 up from 2010 | 501 | 15% | $3,570 | ||
46AnthrozoösTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.90Q2 | 1.24 0.21 up from 2010 | 110 | 5% | — | ||
47Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.89Q2 | 2.12 0.85 up from 2010 | 678 | 17% | $3,790 | ||
48New Genetics and SocietyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.48 0.07 up from 2010 | 80 | 93% | $1,590 | ||
49Psychiatric GeneticsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.80Q2 | 2.40 0.30 up from 2010 | 196 | 24% | — | ||
50Insectes SociauxSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.79Q2 | 1.61 0.24 down from 2010 | 204 | 22% | $3,990 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology901
- Genetics99
- Cell Biology21
- Cancer Research20
- Molecular Medicine7
- Biophysics6
- Biochemistry3
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Structural Biology2
- Developmental Biology1
- Endocrinology1
- Physiology1
- Aging0
- Biotechnology0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% 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 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 99
- Window papers (baseline)
- 99,614 +22.6% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.785 +10.7% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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 | 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.