Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Genetics journal rankings 2019
127 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 127 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2018 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are Nature Ecology & Evolution, Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases, and Genome Medicine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
127 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Nature Ecology & EvolutionNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.27Q1 | 10.64 0.83 up from 2018 | 692 | 58% | $12,690 | ||
2Inflammatory Intestinal DiseasesOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.66Q1 | 2.04 11.02 down from 2018 | 71 | 100% | $990 | ||
3Genome MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 10.29 1.11 down from 2018 | 343 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
4The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 3.72Q1 | 10.50 0.22 up from 2018 | 678 | 93% | $5,150 | ||
5Evolution LettersOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 5.31 1.28 up from 2018 | 80 | 100% | $2,678 | ||
6Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 2.71Q1 | 6.15 1.06 down from 2018 | 788 | 99% | $5,110 | ||
7Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 5.64 0.32 down from 2018 | 1,314 | 42% | $5,150 | ||
8npj Genomic MedicineOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 6.75 1.50 up from 2018 | 103 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
9Journal of Crohn s and ColitisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 6.07no change | 672 | 31% | $4,790 | ||
10American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 2.29Q1 | 8.10 2.08 up from 2018 | 164 | 35% | $3,460 | ||
11Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 5.21 1.44 down from 2018 | 346 | 62% | — | ||
12Evolution Medicine and Public HealthOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 3.62 0.08 down from 2018 | 96 | 100% | $3,629 | ||
13Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.16Q1 | 6.24 0.63 down from 2018 | 309 | 59% | $3,690 | ||
14Evolutionary ApplicationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 4.20 0.35 down from 2018 | 374 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
15Molecular Therapy — OncolyticsOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q1 | 4.21 2.06 down from 2018 | 117 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
16Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.92 0.96 up from 2018 | 256 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
17Journal of Neurodevelopmental DisordersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 4.99 0.42 up from 2018 | 119 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
18Therapeutic Advances in GastroenterologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 4.29 0.04 down from 2018 | 210 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
19HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.53 0.12 up from 2018 | 354 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
20Human MutationWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 4.63 0.43 up from 2018 | 539 | 79% | $2,740 | ||
21Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.66Q1 | 4.06 0.04 up from 2018 | 1,108 | 26% | $3,862 | ||
22Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical DevelopmentOACell Press · United States | 1.65Q1 | 5.29 0.72 up from 2018 | 310 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
23Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 4.54 0.12 down from 2018 | 581 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
24Applied & Translational GenomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | —no 2018 value | 31 | — | — | ||
25Canine Genetics and EpidemiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 3.08 0.51 down from 2018 | 35 | 100% | $1,180 | ||
26The Application of Clinical GeneticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.57Q1 | 3.15 1.62 down from 2018 | 56 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
27American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.27 0.57 up from 2018 | 128 | 35% | — | ||
28Translational Science of Rare DiseasesOAIOS Press · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 2.32 1.46 down from 2018 | 31 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
29CiliaSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 3.63 0.03 up from 2018 | 33 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
30United European Gastroenterology JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.80 0.65 up from 2018 | 364 | 94% | $2,930 | ||
31European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 3.57 0.51 down from 2018 | 669 | 80% | $2,790 | ||
32Animal FrontiersOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.38Q1 | 1.97 0.25 up from 2018 | 127 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
33American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.35Q2 | 3.61 0.15 up from 2018 | 242 | 48% | $3,920 | ||
34Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q2 | 2.47 0.11 down from 2018 | 1,317 | 26% | $4,580 | ||
35Genetic EpidemiologyWiley · United States | 1.24Q2 | 2.01 0.84 down from 2018 | 212 | 72% | $4,150 | ||
36AnthrozoösTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.18 0.01 up from 2018 | 146 | 22% | — | ||
37Forensic Science International GeneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 4.75 0.53 up from 2018 | 558 | 32% | $5,020 | ||
38Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 3.13 0.30 down from 2018 | 241 | 62% | $3,540 | ||
39Human Gene Therapy Clinical DevelopmentMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.16Q2 | 3.67 0.73 up from 2018 | 69 | 12% | — | ||
40ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.16Q2 | 1.67 1.78 down from 2018 | 64 | 29% | $3,590 | ||
41Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.15Q2 | 2.68 0.50 up from 2018 | 278 | 52% | $3,560 | ||
42The Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseasesOABioMed Central · Brazil | 1.09Q2 | 2.97 0.39 down from 2018 | 123 | 100% | $500 | ||
43Human Gene Therapy MethodsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.09Q2 | 3.11 0.87 up from 2018 | 85 | 44% | — | ||
44Journal of Genetic CounselingWiley · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.76 0.06 up from 2018 | 366 | 35% | $3,840 | ||
45Current Protocols in Human GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.05Q2 | 2.59 0.13 up from 2018 | 74 | 40% | $5,050 | ||
46Hormones and CancerSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.05Q2 | 2.84 0.19 up from 2018 | 107 | 100% | $3,260 | ||
47Tree Genetics & GenomesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.04Q2 | 2.53 0.29 up from 2018 | 348 | 23% | $3,690 | ||
48Journal of Veterinary BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.04Q2 | 2.15 0.10 up from 2018 | 256 | 19% | $3,490 | ||
49Intestinal ResearchOAKorean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases · South Korea | 1.03Q2 | 2.43 0.31 down from 2018 | 249 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.03Q2 | 2.63 1.03 down from 2018 | 454 | 28% | $5,490 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology1,157
- Genetics127
- Cell Biology28
- Cancer Research27
- Molecular Medicine11
- Biophysics7
- Clinical Biochemistry5
- Structural Biology3
- Biochemistry2
- Developmental Biology1
- Physiology1
- Aging0
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
55 additional Genetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 127
- Window papers (baseline)
- 109,623 +1.3% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.8041 -6.0% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.