Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Genetics journal rankings 2021
120 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 120 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.77, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. The top three are Nature Ecology & Evolution, Genome Medicine, and The American Journal of Human Genetics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
120 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Nature Ecology & EvolutionNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 14.73 3.05 up from 2020 | 834 | 49% | $12,690 | ||
2Genome MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 15.31 4.91 up from 2020 | 297 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
3The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 2.98Q1 | 9.27 0.65 down from 2020 | 642 | 91% | $5,150 | ||
4Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 2.38Q1 | 7.62 0.71 up from 2020 | 876 | 100% | $5,110 | ||
5Evolution LettersOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 6.05 1.11 up from 2020 | 151 | 100% | $2,678 | ||
6Animal FrontiersOAOxford University Press · United States | 2.32Q1 | 3.97 0.22 down from 2020 | 141 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
7npj Genomic MedicineOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 6.77 1.88 down from 2020 | 123 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
8Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 6.17 0.72 up from 2020 | 214 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
9Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 6.09 0.03 up from 2020 | 1,162 | 58% | $5,150 | ||
10Journal of Neurodevelopmental DisordersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 5.06 0.47 down from 2020 | 126 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
11Evolutionary ApplicationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 5.16 0.15 down from 2020 | 508 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
12Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.72Q1 | 6.65 2.06 up from 2020 | 349 | 62% | $3,690 | ||
13Journal of Crohn s and ColitisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 6.30 0.09 up from 2020 | 722 | 60% | $4,790 | ||
14Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical DevelopmentOACell Press · United States | 1.66Q1 | 5.83 0.58 down from 2020 | 516 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
15Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 4.69 1.34 down from 2020 | 421 | 56% | — | ||
16Molecular Therapy — OncolyticsOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.56Q1 | 6.01 1.05 down from 2020 | 291 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
17HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 4.23 0.50 up from 2020 | 338 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
18Therapeutic Advances in GastroenterologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 4.98 0.10 down from 2020 | 303 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
19Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 4.92 0.06 up from 2020 | 867 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
20European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 4.85 1.34 up from 2020 | 768 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
21United European Gastroenterology JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 5.11 0.68 up from 2020 | 456 | 91% | $2,930 | ||
22Human MutationWiley · United States | 1.37Q1 | 4.43 0.48 down from 2020 | 582 | 73% | $2,740 | ||
23American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.35Q1 | 3.63 0.25 down from 2020 | 233 | 25% | $3,460 | ||
24Human Gene Therapy Clinical DevelopmentMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.34Q1 | 4.29 0.11 down from 2020 | 37 | — | — | ||
25Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.34Q1 | 4.36 0.28 down from 2020 | 1,116 | 41% | $3,862 | ||
26Hormones and CancerSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.20Q1 | 4.65 0.75 up from 2020 | 78 | — | $3,260 | ||
27Forensic Science International GeneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q1 | 4.04 0.33 down from 2020 | 537 | 51% | $5,020 | ||
28American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.15Q1 | 3.24 0.37 down from 2020 | 147 | 52% | $3,920 | ||
29Intestinal ResearchOAKorean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases · South Korea | 1.14Q1 | 4.34 0.95 up from 2020 | 262 | 100% | — | ||
30AnthrozoösTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.13Q1 | 3.06 1.06 up from 2020 | 162 | 36% | — | ||
31Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.85 0.54 down from 2020 | 250 | 77% | $3,540 | ||
32Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.12Q2 | 3.00 0.26 up from 2020 | 268 | 33% | $3,790 | ||
33Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q2 | 2.81 0.19 down from 2020 | 1,345 | 36% | $4,580 | ||
34Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.11Q2 | 4.10 0.89 up from 2020 | 458 | 36% | $5,490 | ||
35Toxicon XOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 3.37 0.97 up from 2020 | 61 | 100% | $2,740 | ||
36Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.85 0.16 up from 2020 | 204 | 61% | $3,560 | ||
37The Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseasesOABioMed Central · Brazil | 1.08Q2 | 3.01 0.68 down from 2020 | 130 | 100% | $500 | ||
38Evolution Medicine and Public HealthOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 3.26 0.03 up from 2020 | 123 | 100% | $3,629 | ||
39Current Protocols in Human GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.02Q2 | 3.86 1.19 up from 2020 | 46 | — | $5,050 | ||
40Human Gene Therapy MethodsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.99Q2 | 4.48 2.24 up from 2020 | 50 | — | — | ||
41Journal of Animal Breeding and GeneticsWiley · Germany | 0.97Q2 | 2.87 0.56 up from 2020 | 199 | 48% | $4,750 | ||
42The Application of Clinical GeneticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 0.97Q2 | 3.32 0.73 up from 2020 | 74 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
43American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities · United States | 0.97Q2 | 2.09 0.07 up from 2020 | 148 | 21% | — | ||
44Tree Genetics & GenomesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.95Q2 | 2.62 0.20 up from 2020 | 267 | 29% | $3,690 | ||
45Journal of Community GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.94Q2 | 2.20 0.35 up from 2020 | 136 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
46ChemoecologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.91Q2 | 2.34 0.60 up from 2020 | 83 | 34% | $3,590 | ||
47Behavior GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.91Q2 | 2.43 0.02 up from 2020 | 156 | 49% | $3,390 | ||
48Translational Science of Rare DiseasesOAIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 3.60 2.05 up from 2020 | 33 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
49Digestive and Liver DiseaseOAElsevier BV · Italy | 0.89Q2 | 3.19 0.10 up from 2020 | 945 | 19% | $3,300 | ||
50Inflammatory Intestinal DiseasesOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.87Q2 | 2.13 0.23 down from 2020 | 81 | 100% | $990 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology1,136
- Genetics120
- Cancer Research27
- Cell Biology27
- Molecular Medicine9
- Biophysics8
- Clinical Biochemistry4
- Biochemistry2
- Endocrinology2
- Structural Biology2
- Developmental Biology1
- Physiology1
- Aging0
- Biotechnology0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
60 additional Genetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 120
- Window papers (baseline)
- 114,679 +5.5% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.766 -10.4% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.