Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Genetics journal rankings 2023
120 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetics has 120 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Nature Ecology & Evolution, Genome Medicine, and The American Journal of Human Genetics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Nature Ecology & EvolutionNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 10.09 2.85 down from 2022 | 765 | 52% | $12,690 | ||
2Genome MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 11.48 1.71 down from 2022 | 431 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
3The American Journal of Human GeneticsElsevier BV · United States | 2.71Q1 | 7.93 1.13 down from 2022 | 570 | 100% | $5,150 | ||
4Genetics in MedicineElsevier BV · United States | 2.15Q1 | 6.19 0.73 down from 2022 | 807 | 100% | $5,110 | ||
5Journal of Crohn s and ColitisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 7.11 1.14 up from 2022 | 672 | 80% | $4,790 | ||
6Evolution LettersOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.99 1.83 down from 2022 | 132 | 100% | $2,678 | ||
7Journal of Neurodevelopmental DisordersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 4.90 0.80 down from 2022 | 162 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
8Molecular EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 4.82 0.57 down from 2022 | 1,395 | 78% | $5,150 | ||
9npj Genomic MedicineOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 5.33 0.76 down from 2022 | 229 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
10Genetics Selection EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 4.21 1.35 down from 2022 | 241 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
11Human GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.62Q1 | 4.31 1.26 down from 2022 | 380 | 59% | $3,690 | ||
12HereditySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 3.64 1.13 down from 2022 | 277 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
13United European Gastroenterology JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 4.29 0.62 down from 2022 | 426 | 93% | $2,930 | ||
14Molecular Therapy — OncolyticsOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.51Q1 | 5.73 0.17 down from 2022 | 489 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
15Evolutionary ApplicationsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 3.92 0.61 down from 2022 | 508 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
16Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical DevelopmentOACell Press · United States | 1.49Q1 | 4.75 0.50 down from 2022 | 607 | 100% | $3,900 | ||
17Therapeutic Advances in GastroenterologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 4.66 0.02 down from 2022 | 389 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
18Toxicon XOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 4.12 0.48 up from 2022 | 99 | 100% | $2,740 | ||
19Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 4.05 0.29 down from 2022 | 1,285 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
20Human Genetics and Genomics AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.31Q1 | 3.68 0.27 down from 2022 | 130 | 100% | $3,300 | ||
21Journal of Medical GeneticsBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 3.71 0.15 down from 2022 | 412 | 60% | — | ||
22European Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 3.43 1.24 down from 2022 | 651 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
23Animal FrontiersOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.25Q1 | 2.54 0.32 down from 2022 | 230 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
24American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical GeneticsWiley · United States | 1.13Q1 | 2.61 0.50 down from 2022 | 226 | 67% | $3,460 | ||
25Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesOxford University Press · United States | 1.12Q1 | 3.43 0.05 up from 2022 | 958 | 80% | $3,862 | ||
26Intestinal ResearchOAKorean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases · South Korea | 1.11Q1 | 3.37 2.01 down from 2022 | 178 | 100% | — | ||
27Evolution Medicine and Public HealthOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 3.32 0.17 down from 2022 | 140 | 100% | $3,629 | ||
28Forensic Science InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.09Q1 | 2.61 0.21 down from 2022 | 991 | 48% | $4,580 | ||
29Forensic Science International SynergyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q1 | 2.14 0.71 down from 2022 | 218 | 100% | $2,310 | ||
30The Application of Clinical GeneticsOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.06Q1 | 3.47 0.01 up from 2022 | 76 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
31BMC Ecology and EvolutionOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.73 0.12 up from 2022 | 353 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
32Journal of Human GeneticsSpringer Nature · Japan | 1.03Q2 | 2.85 0.97 down from 2022 | 364 | 30% | $5,490 | ||
33Human MutationWiley · United States | 1.03Q2 | 3.19 0.34 down from 2022 | 470 | 100% | $2,740 | ||
34Inflammatory Intestinal DiseasesOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.02Q2 | 2.61 0.40 up from 2022 | 78 | 100% | $990 | ||
35Journal of HeredityOxford University Press · United States | 0.98Q2 | 3.23 0.40 up from 2022 | 202 | 76% | $3,560 | ||
36AnthrozoösTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q2 | 2.20 0.18 down from 2022 | 179 | 47% | — | ||
37Genes Brain & BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 2.60 0.01 up from 2022 | 178 | 88% | $3,540 | ||
38Journal of Genetic CounselingWiley · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.59 0.40 up from 2022 | 432 | 86% | $3,840 | ||
39Forensic Science International GeneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.93Q2 | 3.72 0.14 up from 2022 | 416 | 49% | $5,020 | ||
40Lifestyle GenomicsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.92Q2 | 2.75 0.85 up from 2022 | 42 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
41Archives animal breeding/Archiv für TierzuchtOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.90Q2 | 2.16 0.12 down from 2022 | 144 | 100% | $258 | ||
42ToxiconElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.82 0.37 down from 2022 | 711 | 32% | $3,340 | ||
43The Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseasesOABioMed Central · Brazil | 0.88Q2 | 2.44 0.62 down from 2022 | 135 | 100% | $500 | ||
44Behavior GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.86Q2 | 2.67 0.33 up from 2022 | 128 | 74% | $3,390 | ||
45Journal of Community GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.84Q2 | 1.97 0.20 down from 2022 | 169 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
46Conservation GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 2.19 0.43 down from 2022 | 236 | 59% | $3,790 | ||
47Journal of Animal Breeding and GeneticsWiley · Germany | 0.83Q2 | 2.13 0.54 down from 2022 | 163 | 77% | $4,750 | ||
48Digestive and Liver DiseaseOAElsevier BV · Italy | 0.82Q2 | 2.72 0.03 up from 2022 | 932 | 23% | $3,300 | ||
49American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric GeneticsWiley · United States | 0.81Q2 | 2.09 0.52 down from 2022 | 97 | 83% | $3,920 | ||
50Tree Genetics & GenomesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.80Q2 | 2.29 0.22 down from 2022 | 172 | 46% | $3,690 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Genetics highlighted.
- Molecular Biology1,167
- Genetics120
- Cancer Research26
- Cell Biology26
- Molecular Medicine9
- Biophysics7
- Clinical Biochemistry4
- Biochemistry3
- Structural Biology2
- Developmental Biology1
- Physiology1
- Aging0
- Biotechnology0
- Endocrinology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
56 additional Genetics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 120
- Window papers (baseline)
- 119,863 +7.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.67 -10.6% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.