Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Field ranking · 2016
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology journal rankings 2016
1,311 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology has 1,311 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.96, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Nature Genetics, Cell, and Pharmacological Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
Up to Life Sciences1,311 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Nature GeneticsNature Portfolio · United States | 9.69Q1 | 23.44 0.12 down from 2015 | 904 | 70% | $12,690 | ||
2CellCell Press · United States | 9.42Q1 | 24.09 0.35 down from 2015 | 1,957 | 100% | $11,400 | ||
3Pharmacological ReviewsAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · United States | 8.85Q1 | 19.85 1.17 down from 2015 | 98 | 60% | $4,500 | ||
4NatureNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.06Q1 | 13.05 0.39 up from 2015 | 9,608 | 41% | $12,690 | ||
5FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 7.04Q1 | 14.62 0.49 up from 2015 | 128 | 88% | $3,297 | ||
6Nature BiotechnologyNature Portfolio · United States | 6.96Q1 | 15.83 1.10 up from 2015 | 1,079 | 30% | $12,690 | ||
7Science AdvancesOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 6.64Q1 | 12.70no 2015 value | 268 | 100% | $4,500 | — | |
8Molecular Biology and EvolutionOAOxford University Press · United States | 6.52Q1 | 5.61 8.44 down from 2015 | 992 | 88% | $3,418 | ||
9Journal of Extracellular VesiclesOATaylor & Francis · United States | 6.25Q1 | 17.95 3.19 up from 2015 | 107 | 100% | $4,410 | ||
10Nature Cell BiologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.16Q1 | 16.56 1.37 up from 2015 | 550 | 62% | $12,690 | ||
11Studies in MycologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.11Q1 | 16.47 4.49 up from 2015 | 53 | 100% | $1,430 | ||
12Nature CommunicationsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.04Q1 | 14.36 0.81 up from 2015 | 7,609 | 100% | $6,990 | ||
13Cell MetabolismCell Press · United States | 5.69Q1 | 14.77 0.68 down from 2015 | 698 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
14Cell stem cellElsevier BV · United States | 5.68Q1 | 15.05 0.33 down from 2015 | 620 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
15Nature ProtocolsNature Portfolio · United States | 5.52Q1 | 12.27 0.55 up from 2015 | 528 | 55% | — | ||
16Biotechnology AdvancesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.37Q1 | 12.12 0.44 up from 2015 | 374 | 16% | $5,460 | ||
17MicrobiomeOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 5.27Q1 | 11.22 0.79 down from 2015 | 148 | 100% | $4,990 | ||
18ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 5.10Q1 | 7.88 1.22 down from 2015 | 13,227 | 22% | — | ||
19Cell Host & MicrobeCell Press · United States | 5.03Q1 | 12.36 1.57 up from 2015 | 550 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
20Fungal DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.96Q1 | 13.91 5.53 up from 2015 | 128 | 23% | $3,490 | ||
21Journal of Clinical InvestigationOAAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation · United States | 4.91Q1 | 12.35 0.43 down from 2015 | 1,556 | 99% | $5,200 | ||
22Current Protocols in BioinformaticsWiley · United States | 4.89Q1 | 10.56 0.61 up from 2015 | 59 | 38% | $5,050 | ||
23Genome biologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.83Q1 | 12.37 1.23 up from 2015 | 873 | 100% | $5,490 | ||
24Molecular Aspects of MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.82Q1 | 8.12 5.45 down from 2015 | 115 | 31% | $5,220 | ||
25Human HeredityOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.71Q1 | 1.22 12.49 down from 2015 | 147 | 55% | — | ||
26Molecular CellElsevier BV · United States | 4.68Q1 | 14.31 0.62 up from 2015 | 1,122 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
27Pharmacology & TherapeuticsElsevier BV · United States | 4.65Q1 | 11.06 1.39 down from 2015 | 325 | 46% | $5,660 | ||
28Nature MethodsNature Portfolio · United States | 4.58Q1 | 10.82 0.39 down from 2015 | 1,326 | 32% | $12,690 | ||
29Progress in Lipid ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 9.69 3.67 down from 2015 | 91 | 20% | $5,530 | ||
30Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNational Academy of Sciences · United States | 4.46Q1 | 10.13 0.21 down from 2015 | 12,277 | 99% | — | ||
31Science Translational MedicineAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 4.14Q1 | 9.87 0.29 up from 2015 | 1,476 | 32% | — | ||
32Drug Resistance UpdatesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 12.08 2.84 up from 2015 | 47 | 23% | $5,410 | ||
33GigaScienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 8.53 0.19 down from 2015 | 114 | 100% | $2,638 | ||
34Systematic BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 3.85Q1 | 6.85 0.24 up from 2015 | 324 | 53% | $2,166 | ||
35Circulation ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.83Q1 | 11.83 2.39 up from 2015 | 1,026 | 43% | — | ||
36Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 3.80Q1 | 9.95 1.39 down from 2015 | 623 | 63% | $12,690 | ||
37The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.74Q1 | 9.27 1.56 down from 2015 | 654 | 97% | $5,150 | ||
38mBioOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 3.64Q1 | 8.10 0.11 up from 2015 | 1,078 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
39Nucleic Acids ResearchOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.59Q1 | 10.11no change | 4,315 | 100% | $3,992 | ||
40Physiological ReviewsAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 3.58Q1 | 33.09 4.32 down from 2015 | 109 | 64% | — | ||
41TrAC Trends in Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.56Q1 | 7.33no change | 606 | 20% | $5,150 | ||
42Cell ReportsOACell Press · United States | 3.51Q1 | 9.75 0.17 up from 2015 | 2,042 | 100% | $5,620 | ||
43PLoS BiologyOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 3.47Q1 | 8.71 0.66 up from 2015 | 818 | 100% | $5,500 | ||
44eLifeOAeLife Sciences Publications Ltd · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 8.91 0.01 up from 2015 | 1,905 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
45ACS Central ScienceOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.43Q1 | 7.68no 2015 value | 60 | 100% | $0 listed | — | |
46Molecular Systems BiologyOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 9.15 2.52 down from 2015 | 215 | 100% | $7,990 | ||
47EMBO Molecular MedicineOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 9.31 0.32 down from 2015 | 381 | 100% | $7,990 | ||
48Nature Chemical BiologyNature Portfolio · United States | 3.39Q1 | 8.97 1.28 up from 2015 | 758 | 51% | $12,690 | ||
49TheranosticsOAIvyspring International Publisher · Australia | 3.36Q1 | 9.13 0.12 up from 2015 | 330 | 100% | $1,671 | ||
50Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 6.54 0.24 up from 2015 | 1,344 | 47% | $5,150 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, compared.
- Molecular Biology1,109
- Genetics121
- Cancer Research26
- Cell Biology26
- Molecular Medicine10
- Biophysics7
- Clinical Biochemistry3
- Aging2
- Biochemistry2
- Physiology2
- Structural Biology2
- Developmental Biology1
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
459 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,311
- Window papers (baseline)
- 683,714 +8.3% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.96 -2.7% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 141Comparison-group list (141)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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 | 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.