Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Genetics journal rankings 2018
125 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 125 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2017 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.42. The top three are Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Genetics in Medicine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
125 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Inflammatory Intestinal DiseasesOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 6.38Q1 | 13.07 10.54 down from 2017 | 45 | 100% | $990 | ||
2Nature Ecology & EvolutionNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.76Q1 | 9.80 0.64 up from 2017 | 384 | 52% | $12,690 | ||
3Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 3.89Q1 | 7.21 1.01 down from 2017 | 636 | 99% | $5,110 | ||
4The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.75Q1 | 10.29 1.68 up from 2017 | 677 | 97% | $5,150 | ||
5Genome MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 11.41 2.20 up from 2017 | 369 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
6Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 5.97 0.26 down from 2017 | 1,378 | 45% | $5,150 | ||
7American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 2.85Q1 | 6.03 2.42 up from 2017 | 142 | 42% | $3,460 | ||
8Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 6.65 0.27 up from 2017 | 346 | 55% | — | ||
9The Application of Clinical GeneticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.31Q1 | 4.77 1.44 down from 2017 | 59 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
10Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.29Q1 | 6.87 2.26 up from 2017 | 311 | 70% | $3,690 | ||
11Molecular Therapy — OncolyticsOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.28Q1 | 6.26 1.62 up from 2017 | 94 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
12Evolutionary ApplicationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 4.55 0.82 down from 2017 | 306 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
13Journal of Crohn s and ColitisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 6.07 1.50 up from 2017 | 682 | 33% | $4,790 | ||
14npj Genomic MedicineOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 5.25 0.55 up from 2017 | 67 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
15Molecular CytogeneticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 4.01 2.47 up from 2017 | 239 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
16HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 3.41 0.53 down from 2017 | 340 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
17Journal of Neurodevelopmental DisordersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.56 0.51 down from 2017 | 113 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
18Human MutationWiley · United States | 1.86Q1 | 4.20 1.40 down from 2017 | 530 | 84% | $2,740 | ||
19European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 4.08 0.42 up from 2017 | 656 | 93% | $2,790 | ||
20Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.96 0.82 down from 2017 | 282 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
21Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 4.66 0.31 up from 2017 | 542 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
22Therapeutic Advances in GastroenterologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 4.33 0.12 up from 2017 | 195 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
23Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.02 0.31 down from 2017 | 1,012 | 43% | $3,862 | ||
24American Journal of Medical Genetics Part AWiley · United States | 1.58Q1 | 3.79 1.61 up from 2017 | 1,546 | 34% | $4,710 | ||
25European Journal of Medical GeneticsElsevier BV · France | 1.53Q1 | 2.99 0.67 up from 2017 | 391 | 26% | $3,330 | ||
26ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.52Q1 | 3.45 0.89 up from 2017 | 62 | 17% | $3,590 | ||
27Evolution Medicine and Public HealthOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 3.70 0.76 up from 2017 | 93 | 100% | $3,629 | ||
28New Genetics and SocietyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 3.20 0.86 up from 2017 | 61 | 97% | $1,590 | ||
29American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.45Q1 | 3.46 0.35 down from 2017 | 294 | 57% | $3,920 | ||
30Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical DevelopmentOACell Press · United States | 1.43Q1 | 4.57 1.03 up from 2017 | 253 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
31Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.43Q1 | 3.66 0.28 up from 2017 | 459 | 31% | $5,490 | ||
32Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 3.43 0.01 up from 2017 | 237 | 72% | $3,540 | ||
33American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities · United States | 1.39Q2 | 1.69 0.82 down from 2017 | 136 | 23% | — | ||
34Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 2.58 0.18 up from 2017 | 1,249 | 23% | $4,580 | ||
35United European Gastroenterology JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 3.16 0.83 up from 2017 | 328 | 95% | $2,930 | ||
36Applied & Translational GenomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 4.97 1.94 up from 2017 | 65 | — | — | ||
37Canine Genetics and EpidemiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 3.58 0.20 up from 2017 | 41 | 100% | $1,180 | ||
38The Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseasesOABioMed Central · Brazil | 1.25Q2 | 3.36 0.94 up from 2017 | 134 | 100% | $500 | ||
39Sexual DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.21Q2 | 2.65 0.43 up from 2017 | 131 | 27% | — | ||
40Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.18 0.17 down from 2017 | 312 | 39% | $3,560 | ||
41Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 1.98 0.33 down from 2017 | 347 | 26% | $3,790 | ||
42Journal of Genetic CounselingWiley · United States | 1.17Q2 | 2.70 0.70 up from 2017 | 371 | 41% | $3,840 | ||
43Forensic Science International GeneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 4.22 0.28 down from 2017 | 528 | 33% | $5,020 | ||
44Annals of Human BiologyOAInforma · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.63 0.04 down from 2017 | 190 | 34% | $2,390 | ||
45BMC Medical GeneticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 2.49 0.08 down from 2017 | 361 | 100% | $2,380 | ||
46Intestinal ResearchOAKorean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases · South Korea | 1.10Q2 | 2.74 0.32 down from 2017 | 199 | 100% | — | ||
47AnthrozoösTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.17 0.21 up from 2017 | 160 | 23% | — | ||
48Genetic EpidemiologyWiley · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.85 0.13 up from 2017 | 210 | 70% | $4,150 | ||
49Molecular SyndromologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.07Q2 | 1.97 0.10 up from 2017 | 171 | 92% | — | ||
50Hormones and CancerSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.65 0.61 down from 2017 | 95 | 100% | $3,260 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology1,155
- Genetics125
- Cancer Research28
- Cell Biology26
- Molecular Medicine10
- Biophysics7
- Clinical Biochemistry6
- Structural Biology3
- Biochemistry2
- Aging1
- Developmental Biology1
- Physiology1
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
58 additional Genetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 125
- Window papers (baseline)
- 108,752 +2.8% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.8551 -5.9% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.