Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Molecular Biology journal rankings 2013
996 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology has 996 ranked journals in 2013. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.01 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2012. A journal needs OJR 1.59 to reach Q1. The top three are Nature Genetics, Pharmacological Reviews, and Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
996 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 10.69Q1 | 25.10 4.35 down from 2012 | 877 | 62% | $12,690 | ||
2Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 10.16Q1 | 22.61 5.02 down from 2012 | 91 | 47% | $4,500 | ||
3CellCell Press · United States | 10.04Q1 | 27.64 2.22 up from 2012 | 1,645 | 100% | $11,400 | ||
4NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.42Q1 | 13.94 1.22 up from 2012 | 9,755 | 30% | $12,690 | ||
5FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 6.39Q1 | 15.19 2.44 up from 2012 | 162 | 64% | $3,297 | ||
6Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 6.35Q1 | 10.09 1.22 up from 2012 | 284 | 38% | $2,166 | ||
7Nature CommunicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.02Q1 | 13.30 0.81 up from 2012 | 1,314 | 99% | $6,990 | ||
8Cell stem cellElsevier BV · United States | 5.91Q1 | 15.98 2.32 down from 2012 | 584 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
9Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.77Q1 | 14.84 2.81 down from 2012 | 666 | 52% | $12,690 | ||
10Nature BiotechnologyNature Portfolio · United States | 5.57Q1 | 11.19 0.57 down from 2012 | 1,149 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
11Molecular Biology and EvolutionOAOxford University Press · United States | 5.54Q1 | 16.74 6.25 up from 2012 | 933 | 86% | $3,418 | ||
12ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 5.50Q1 | 8.50 0.19 up from 2012 | 12,089 | 20% | — | ||
13Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.43Q1 | 13.09 0.34 up from 2012 | 87 | 28% | $5,530 | ||
14Biotechnology AdvancesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 10.65 0.68 up from 2012 | 352 | 17% | $5,460 | ||
15Cell MetabolismCell Press · United States | 5.19Q1 | 15.13 1.95 up from 2012 | 551 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
16Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States | 5.06Q1 | 13.62 1.23 up from 2012 | 1,531 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
17Molecular Systems BiologyOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 15.85 2.26 up from 2012 | 285 | 100% | $7,990 | ||
18Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States | 4.78Q1 | 13.14 1.31 down from 2012 | 1,172 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
19Nature MethodsNature Portfolio · United States | 4.76Q1 | 11.45 0.72 up from 2012 | 1,156 | 35% | $12,690 | ||
20Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States | 4.73Q1 | 10.99 0.24 down from 2012 | 12,344 | 100% | — | ||
21Cell Host & MicrobeCell Press · United States | 4.69Q1 | 10.93 0.20 up from 2012 | 429 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
22Drug Resistance UpdatesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 12.06 0.28 down from 2012 | 67 | 23% | $5,410 | ||
23Molecular Aspects of MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 11.24 0.82 down from 2012 | 104 | 51% | $5,220 | ||
24Nature ProtocolsNature Portfolio · United States | 4.34Q1 | 10.36 0.03 down from 2012 | 505 | 48% | — | ||
25PLoS BiologyOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 4.16Q1 | 10.04 0.59 down from 2012 | 816 | 100% | $5,500 | ||
26TrAC Trends in Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.08Q1 | 6.35 0.19 up from 2012 | 496 | 10% | $5,150 | ||
27Pharmacology & TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.89Q1 | 9.74 0.55 up from 2012 | 315 | 32% | $5,660 | ||
28Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 3.77Q1 | 10.29 1.53 down from 2012 | 771 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
29Cell ReportsOACell Press · United States | 3.66Q1 | 9.20no 2012 value | 254 | 100% | $5,620 | ||
30PLoS GeneticsOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 3.64Q1 | 9.79 0.51 down from 2012 | 1,771 | 100% | $3,043 | ||
31The EMBO JournalOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.63Q1 | 10.50 0.47 up from 2012 | 1,196 | 92% | $7,990 | ||
32Circulation ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.57Q1 | 10.05 1.75 down from 2012 | 1,128 | 45% | — | ||
33Developmental CellElsevier BV · United States | 3.55Q1 | 8.88 2.19 down from 2012 | 728 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
34Critical Reviews in BiotechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.55Q1 | 6.43 0.36 up from 2012 | 92 | 23% | — | ||
35TheranosticsOAIvyspring International Publisher · Australia | 3.54Q1 | 8.14 0.46 down from 2012 | 139 | 100% | $1,671 | ||
36Genome biologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 7.77 0.03 down from 2012 | 766 | 100% | $5,490 | ||
37Cancer ResearchAmerican Association for Cancer Research · United States | 3.45Q1 | 10.11 0.31 up from 2012 | 2,685 | 6% | — | ||
38mBioOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 3.43Q1 | 7.70 0.96 up from 2012 | 389 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
39Science Translational MedicineAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 3.41Q1 | 8.83 1.68 up from 2012 | 1,337 | 29% | — | ||
40Scientific ReportsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 6.94 2.32 up from 2012 | 1,003 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
41Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on CancerElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.31Q1 | 8.49 1.32 down from 2012 | 159 | 22% | $5,070 | ||
42eLifeOAeLife Sciences Publications Ltd · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 7.36no 2012 value | 45 | 100% | $2,500 | — | |
43Nucleic Acids ResearchOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 9.53 0.58 up from 2012 | 4,042 | 100% | $3,992 | ||
44Nature Chemical BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 3.26Q1 | 8.12 0.81 down from 2012 | 670 | 41% | $12,690 | ||
45Physiological ReviewsAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 3.20Q1 | 39.11 2.82 down from 2012 | 108 | 46% | — | ||
46Stem CellsOxford University Press · United States | 3.19Q1 | 8.45 0.74 down from 2012 | 721 | 66% | $4,477 | ||
47Molecular & Cellular ProteomicsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.15Q1 | 8.33 0.16 up from 2012 | 821 | 100% | $3,430 | ||
48Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 3.03Q1 | 6.19 0.39 up from 2012 | 428 | 30% | $3,670 | ||
49Expert Reviews in Molecular MedicineOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 7.66 1.01 down from 2012 | 96 | 71% | $3,550 | ||
50EMBO Molecular MedicineOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 7.99 0.89 up from 2012 | 256 | 100% | $7,990 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Molecular Biology highlighted.
- Molecular Biology996
- Genetics106
- Cancer Research24
- Cell Biology23
- Molecular Medicine7
- Biophysics6
- Biochemistry3
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Structural Biology2
- Aging1
- Developmental Biology1
- Physiology1
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
313 additional Molecular Biology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 996
- Window papers (baseline)
- 354,245 +10.8% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.014 +0.4% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 129
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 | 519 | 546 | 586 | 626 | 650 | 687 | 707 | 752 | 778 | 801 | 844 | 901 | 955 | 996 | 1,034 | 1,073 | 1,109 | 1,133 | 1,155 | 1,157 | 1,141 | 1,136 | 1,158 | 1,167 | 1,149 | 1,152 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 181,358 | 194,151 | 205,259 | 217,711 | 227,129 | 242,923 | 257,591 | 273,038 | 286,182 | 303,541 | 319,771 | 333,582 | 344,870 | 354,245 | 365,796 | 374,398 | 378,858 | 377,367 | 371,908 | 369,033 | 372,681 | 388,390 | 409,363 | 424,318 | 425,615 | 430,199 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.70 | 0.79 | 0.82 | 0.872 | 0.923 | 0.929 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 1.010 | 1.051 | 1.049 | 1.014 | 1.001 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.944 | 0.940 | 0.933 | 0.937 | 0.917 | 0.9097 | 0.870 | 0.89 | 0.9095 |
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.