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Best Biochemistry journals

444 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Biochemistry. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 112 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Catalysis 62.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science 42.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Nature Methods 40 99th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Annual Review of Biochemistry 35.3 99th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Progress in Lipid Research 34.6 98th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Chem 30.4 98th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts 26.1 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Annual Review of Biophysics 24.6 98th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Ageing Research Reviews 24.1 98th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Blood 22.8 97th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Experimental and Molecular Medicine 22.6 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
12 Protein and Cell 22.6 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
13 Journal of the American Chemical Society 22 97th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Molecular Aspects of Medicine 21.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Natural Product Reports 21.2 96th Q1 SCIE – No
16 Cell Discovery 20.4 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
17 Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity 20.1 96th Q1 – – No
18 Trends in Biochemical Sciences 20.1 96th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 18.3 95th Q1 SCIE – No
20 Acta Biomaterialia 17.7 95th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Plant Communications 17.6 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
22 Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters 17.1 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
23 Environmental Research 16.5 94th Q1 SCIE – No
24 Green Carbon 15.7 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
25 Journal of Membrane Science 15.6 94th Q1 SCIE – No
26 Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 15.6 94th Q1 SCIE – No
27 Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications 15.4 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
28 Antioxidants 14.7 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
29 Horticulture Research 14.7 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 Chemical Record 14.6 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
31 Antioxidants and Redox Signaling 14.1 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
32 Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 14 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
33 Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics 13.9 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
34 ChemBioEng Reviews 13.8 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
35 Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 13.7 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
36 Cell Chemical Biology 13.6 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
37 Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews 13.5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
38 Cell Communication and Signaling 13.3 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
39 Free Radical Biology and Medicine 13.2 91st Q1 SCIE – No
40 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA 13.2 91st Q1 SCIE – No
41 Biofabrication 13 90th Q1 SCIE – No
42 FEBS Journal 12.7 90th Q1 SCIE – No
43 Journal of Chemical Reviews 12.2 90th Q1 – – No
44 Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 11.9 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
45 Nucleic Acid Therapeutics 11.4 90th Q1 SCIE – No
46 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 11.4 89th Q1 SCIE – No
47 Essays in Biochemistry 11.3 89th Q1 SCIE – No
48 Bioinformatics 11.1 89th Q1 SCIE A Yes
49 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 11 89th Q1 SCIE – No
50 Analytica Chimica Acta 10.9 88th Q1 SCIE – No
51 BioFactors 10.8 88th Q1 SCIE – No
52 Chemical Biology Letters 10.8 88th Q1 ESCI – No
53 ChemTexts 10.7 88th Q1 ESCI – No
54 Lab on a Chip 10.6 88th Q1 SCIE – No
55 Redox Report 10.5 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
56 Genes and Diseases 10.4 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
57 Antibiotics 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
58 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE – No
59 EMBO Reports 9.5 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
60 Microbial Biotechnology 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
61 Sensors 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
62 Biological Trace Element Research 9.3 86th Q1 SCIE – No
63 Biomolecules 9.3 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
64 Biochemical Pharmacology 9.3 85th Q1 SCIE – No
65 Protein Science 9.3 85th Q1 SCIE – No
66 Stem Cell Reports 9.3 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
67 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology 9.2 85th Q1 SCIE – No
68 Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 9 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
69 Journal of Integrative Agriculture 9 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
70 Natural Products and Bioprospecting 9 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
71 Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 8.9 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
72 Process Biochemistry 8.9 84th Q1 SCIE – No
73 Journal of Membrane Science Letters 8.9 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
74 Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry 8.6 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
75 Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 8.6 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
76 Reactive and Functional Polymers 8.6 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
77 Tissue Barriers 8.6 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
78 Bioscience Reports 8.4 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
79 BMC Bioinformatics 8.3 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
80 Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications 8.3 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
81 Communications Chemistry 8.3 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
82 Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling 8.3 81st Q1 SCIE – No
83 Biomaterials and Biosystems 8.2 81st Q1 – – Yes
84 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 8.2 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
85 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 8.2 81st Q1 SCIE – No
86 Journal of Investigative Dermatology 8.2 80th Q1 SCIE – No
87 Non-coding RNA Research 8.2 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
88 Metabolites 8.1 80th Q1 SCIE – Yes
89 mSystems 8.1 80th Q1 SCIE – Yes
90 Food Bioscience 8 80th Q1 SCIE – No
91 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 8 79th Q1 SCIE – No
92 Chemical Physics Impact 8 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
93 Biochemical Society Transactions 7.9 79th Q1 SCIE – No
94 Neurochemical Research 7.9 79th Q1 SCIE – No
95 European Journal of Clinical Investigation 7.9 78th Q1 SCIE – No
96 Cell Reports Methods 7.8 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
97 International Journal of Tryptophan Research 7.8 78th Q1 ESCI – No
98 Science Signaling 7.8 78th Q1 SCIE – No
99 Experimental Gerontology 7.7 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
100 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 7.7 77th Q1 SCIE – No
101 Organic Letters 7.7 77th Q1 SCIE – No
102 Biochemical Journal 7.6 77th Q1 SCIE – No
103 Enzyme and Microbial Technology 7.6 77th Q1 SCIE – No
104 Journal of Cluster Science 7.6 76th Q1 SCIE – No
105 ACS Bio and Med Chem Au 7.5 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
106 Amino Acids 7.5 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
107 Polymer Chemistry 7.5 76th Q1 SCIE – No
108 BioMetals 7.4 76th Q1 SCIE – No
109 Interface Focus 7.4 75th Q1 SCIE – No
110 Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 7.4 75th Q1 SCIE – No
111 Journal of Luminescence 7.4 75th Q1 SCIE – No
112 Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 7.4 75th Q1 SCIE – No
113 Matrix Biology Plus 7.3 74th Q2 – – Yes
114 Molecular Medicine Reports 7.3 74th Q2 SCIE – No
115 Neurobiology of Stress 7.3 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
116 Photosynthesis Research 7.3 74th Q2 SCIE – No
117 Journal of Cereal Science 7.3 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
118 Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry 7.2 73rd Q2 – – No
119 BioData Mining 7.2 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
120 Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering 7.2 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
121 Cytokine 7.2 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
122 Phytochemistry 7.1 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
123 Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre 6.9 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
124 European Food Research and Technology 6.9 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
125 Journal of Biological Chemistry 6.9 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
126 ACS Chemical Biology 6.9 71st Q2 SCIE – No
127 ACS Chemical Neuroscience 6.9 71st Q2 SCIE – No
128 Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology 6.9 71st Q2 – – No
129 Bioorganic Chemistry 6.9 71st Q2 SCIE – No
130 Journal of Chromatography A 6.9 71st Q2 SCIE – No
131 Journal of Dermatological Science 6.9 70th Q2 SCIE – No
132 Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry 6.8 70th Q2 – – No
133 IUBMB Life 6.8 70th Q2 SCIE – No
134 Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 6.8 70th Q2 SCIE – No
135 Metabolic Brain Disease 6.8 70th Q2 SCIE – No
136 BMB Reports 6.8 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
137 Peptides 6.8 69th Q2 SCIE – No
138 Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 6.7 69th Q2 SCIE – No
139 Water (Switzerland) 6.7 69th Q2 SCIE – No
140 Glycoconjugate Journal 6.7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
141 Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology 6.7 68th Q2 – – No
142 Plasmonics 6.7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
143 Proteomics 6.6 68th Q2 SCIE – No
144 Experimental Dermatology 6.6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
145 Frontiers in Bioinformatics 6.6 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
146 Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry 6.6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
147 Current Medicinal Chemistry 6.5 67th Q2 SCIE – No
148 Journal of Lipid Research 6.5 67th Q2 SCIE – Yes
149 Biological Chemistry 6.4 66th Q2 SCIE – No
150 Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 6.4 66th Q2 SCIE – No
151 Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6.4 66th Q2 SCIE – No
152 Proteomes 6.4 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
153 Biomolecules and Therapeutics 6.4 65th Q2 SCIE – No
154 Channels 6.4 65th Q2 SCIE – Yes
155 Advanced Biotechnology 6.3 65th Q2 ESCI – No
156 Analyst 6.3 65th Q2 SCIE – No
157 Briefings in Functional Genomics 6.3 65th Q2 SCIE – No
158 Biochimie 6.2 64th Q2 SCIE – No
159 Current Plant Biology 6.2 64th Q2 ESCI – Yes
160 Journal of Neurochemistry 6.2 64th Q2 SCIE – No
161 Transcription 6.2 64th Q2 ESCI – No
162 BBA Advances 6.2 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
163 Biomimetics 6.2 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
164 Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 6.2 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
165 Cell Stress and Chaperones 6.1 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
166 Non-coding RNA 6.1 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
167 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 6.1 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
168 Food and Bioproducts Processing 6.1 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
169 Journal of Proteomics 6.1 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
170 Microvascular Research 6.1 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
171 Chemical Biology and Drug Design 6.1 61st Q2 SCIE – No
172 RSC Chemical Biology 6.1 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
173 Metallomics 6 61st Q2 SCIE – No
174 Molecular Biotechnology 6 61st Q2 SCIE – No
175 Photochemistry and Photobiology 6 61st Q2 SCIE – No
176 Clinica Chimica Acta 6 60th Q2 SCIE – No
177 Archives of Microbiology 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – No
178 FASEB Journal 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – No
179 Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – No
180 Analytical Biochemistry 5.9 59th Q2 SCIE – No
181 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes 5.9 59th Q2 SCIE – No
182 Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 5.9 59th Q2 SCIE – No
183 Tissue Engineering - Part A 5.9 59th Q2 SCIE – No
184 FEBS Letters 5.8 59th Q2 SCIE – No
185 International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 5.8 58th Q2 SCIE – No
186 ChemMedChem 5.7 58th Q2 SCIE – No
187 IUCrJ 5.7 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
188 Journal of Proteome Research 5.7 58th Q2 SCIE – No
189 Biochemistry Research International 5.7 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
190 RSC Medicinal Chemistry 5.7 57th Q2 SCIE – No
191 BioTech 5.6 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
192 Electrophoresis 5.6 57th Q2 SCIE – No
193 ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters 5.6 56th Q2 SCIE – No
194 Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica 5.6 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
195 Advances in Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences 5.6 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
196 Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry 5.6 56th Q2 SCIE – No
197 Traffic 5.6 56th Q2 SCIE – No
198 Metabolomics 5.5 55th Q2 SCIE – No
199 Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 5.5 55th Q2 SCIE – No
200 Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 5.4 55th Q2 SCIE – No
201 Journal of Thermal Biology 5.4 55th Q2 SCIE – No
202 Protein Engineering, Design and Selection 5.4 55th Q2 SCIE – No
203 Analysis and Sensing 5.3 54th Q2 ESCI – No
204 Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 5.3 54th Q2 SCIE – No
205 Epigenomes 5.3 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
206 Glycobiology 5.3 54th Q2 SCIE – No
207 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics 5.3 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
208 Current Bioinformatics 5.3 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
209 International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics 5.3 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
210 Small GTPases 5.3 53rd Q2 – – No
211 Cell Biochemistry and Function 5.2 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
212 Cell Division 5.2 52nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
213 Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 5.2 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
214 Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences 5.2 52nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
215 Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology 5.2 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
216 Computational Biology and Chemistry 5.2 51st Q2 SCIE – No
217 Molecular Omics 5.2 51st Q2 SCIE – No
218 Phytochemical Analysis 5.2 51st Q2 SCIE – No
219 Yeast 5.2 51st Q2 SCIE – No
220 Biophysical Chemistry 5.1 51st Q2 SCIE – No
221 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects 5 50th Q2 SCIE – No
222 Chemical Papers 5 50th Q2 SCIE – No
223 Free Radical Research 5 50th Q2 SCIE – No
224 Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology 5 50th Q2 SCIE – No
225 Cancer Genomics and Proteomics 4.9 49th Q3 SCIE – No
226 Current Molecular Medicine 4.9 49th Q3 SCIE – No
227 International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology 4.9 49th Q3 – – No
228 Steroids 4.8 49th Q3 SCIE – No
229 Animal Models and Experimental Medicine 4.8 48th Q3 ESCI – Yes
230 BIO Integration 4.8 48th Q3 – – Yes
231 Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 4.8 48th Q3 SCIE – No
232 Journal of Chromatography B: Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences 4.8 48th Q3 SCIE – No
233 Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 4.8 48th Q3 SCIE – No
234 Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 4.8 47th Q3 SCIE – No
235 SLAS Discovery 4.8 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
236 Chemistry - An Asian Journal 4.7 47th Q3 SCIE – No
237 DNA Repair 4.7 47th Q3 SCIE – No
238 ChemBioChem 4.6 46th Q3 SCIE – No
239 Connective Tissue Research 4.6 46th Q3 SCIE – No
240 Current Pharmacology Reports 4.6 46th Q3 ESCI – No
241 Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 4.6 46th Q3 SCIE – No
242 Journal of Fluorescence 4.6 45th Q3 SCIE – No
243 Biochemistry 4.5 45th Q3 SCIE – No
244 Biomarkers 4.5 45th Q3 SCIE – No
245 Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators 4.5 45th Q3 SCIE – No
246 Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 4.5 44th Q3 SCIE – No
247 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 4.4 44th Q3 SCIE – No
248 Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 4.4 44th Q3 SCIE – No
249 Journal of Magnetic Resonance 4.4 44th Q3 SCIE – No
250 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics 4.3 44th Q3 SCIE – No
251 Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry 4.3 43rd Q3 – – No
252 ChemSystemsChem 4.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
253 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology 4.3 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
254 Frontiers in Analytical Science 4.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
255 Expert Review of Proteomics 4.3 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
256 Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 4.3 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
257 Current Organic Synthesis 4.2 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
258 Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology 4.2 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
259 OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology 4.2 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
260 Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 4.1 41st Q3 SCIE – No
261 Hormone and Metabolic Research 4.1 41st Q3 SCIE – No
262 Receptors (Switzerland) 4.1 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
263 Proteome Science 4 41st Q3 – – No
264 Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology 4 40th Q3 – – No
265 Analytical Letters 4 40th Q3 SCIE – No
266 Biochemistry (Moscow) 4 40th Q3 SCIE – No
267 Biophysical Reports 4 40th Q3 ESCI – Yes
268 European Cells and Materials 4 40th Q3 SCIE – Yes
269 Biochemistry and Cell Biology 4 39th Q3 SCIE – No
270 Current Protein and Peptide Science 4 39th Q3 SCIE – No
271 Journal of Essential Oil-Bearing Plants 3.9 39th Q3 SCIE – No
272 Prion 3.9 39th Q3 SCIE – Yes
273 Alcohol 3.9 38th Q3 SCIE – No
274 Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 3.9 38th Q3 SCIE – No
275 Bioinformatics and Biology Insights 3.8 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
276 Crystallography Reviews 3.8 38th Q3 SCIE – No
277 Redox Experimental Medicine 3.8 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
278 Biochemical Genetics 3.8 37th Q3 SCIE – No
279 Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 3.8 37th Q3 SCIE – No
280 Journal of Biochemistry 3.8 37th Q3 SCIE – No
281 Journal of Nucleic Acids 3.8 37th Q3 ESCI – Yes
282 Journal of Peptide Science 3.8 36th Q3 SCIE – No
283 Biopolymers 3.7 36th Q3 SCIE – No
284 Chemistry and Biodiversity 3.7 36th Q3 SCIE – No
285 Journal of Biomolecular NMR 3.7 36th Q3 SCIE – No
286 Tetrahedron 3.7 36th Q3 SCIE – No
287 Carbohydrate Research 3.7 35th Q3 SCIE – No
288 Genes and Genomics 3.7 35th Q3 SCIE – No
289 Microbial Physiology 3.7 35th Q3 SCIE – Yes
290 OCL - Oilseeds and Fats, Crops and Lipids 3.6 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
291 Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 3.6 34th Q3 SCIE – No
292 Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports 3.6 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
293 Biologia 3.6 34th Q3 SCIE – No
294 Trends in Phytochemical Research 3.6 34th Q3 – – No
295 Biocatalysis and Biotransformation 3.5 34th Q3 SCIE – No
296 Journal of Berry Research 3.4 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
297 Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility 3.4 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
298 Sub-cellular Biochemistry 3.4 33rd Q3 – – No
299 Functional Foods in Health and Disease 3.3 33rd Q3 ESCI – No
300 Acta Naturae 3.3 32nd Q3 SCIE – No

All remaining Biochemistry journals (144)

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