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Best Biotechnology journals

319 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Biotechnology. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 81 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 Biotechnology 66.4 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Nature Biomedical Engineering 46.6 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 iMeta 43.7 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
4 Nature Methods 40 98th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Bioactive Materials 38.3 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
6 Trends in Food Science and Technology 27.3 98th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Biotechnology Advances 24.8 98th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Ageing Research Reviews 24.1 97th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Biofuel Research Journal 23.5 97th Q1 ESCI – Yes
10 Protein and Cell 22.6 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
11 Trends in Biotechnology 22.1 96th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 20.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Biosensors and Bioelectronics 19.2 96th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Nano Today 18.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 18.2 95th Q1 SCIE – No
16 Acta Biomaterialia 17.7 95th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Plant Communications 17.6 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
18 Current Opinion in Biotechnology 17.3 94th Q1 SCIE – No
19 OpenNano 17.3 94th Q1 – – Yes
20 Small 16.8 94th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Nanotheranostics 16.3 93rd Q1 – – Yes
22 Bioengineered 15.4 93rd Q1 – – No
23 Plant Biotechnology Journal 15.2 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
24 Phytochemistry Reviews 15.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
25 Bio-Design and Manufacturing 14.7 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
26 Food Control 14.7 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
27 Horticulture Research 14.7 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
28 Bioengineering and Translational Medicine 13.9 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
29 Metabolic Engineering 13.9 91st Q1 SCIE – No
30 BioDrugs 13.8 90th Q1 SCIE – No
31 Biofabrication 13 90th Q1 SCIE – No
32 Bioprinting 12.9 90th Q1 – – No
33 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 12.9 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
34 Nanotechnology Reviews 12.8 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
35 Nanophotonics 12.6 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
36 Supramolecular Materials 12.5 89th Q1 ESCI – Yes
37 Biotechnology Reports 12.5 88th Q1 – – Yes
38 Colloids and Interface Science Communications 12.5 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
39 Current Research in Food Science 12.5 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
40 IET Nanobiotechnology 12.4 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
41 Rice Science 12.4 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
42 Molecular Ecology Resources 12.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
43 Biosensors 12.1 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
44 Journal of Ginseng Research 12.1 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
45 Materials Today Bio 12 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
46 Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 11.9 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
47 Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X 11.3 85th Q1 – – Yes
48 Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 10.9 85th Q1 SCIE – No
49 Green Synthesis and Catalysis 10.7 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
50 Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 10.6 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
51 ACS Photonics 10.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
52 Biochip Journal 10.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
53 Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 10.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
54 Frontiers in Genome Editing 9.8 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
55 IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience 9.8 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
56 Bioresources and Bioprocessing 9.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
57 IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 9.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
58 Journal of Water Process Engineering 9.6 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
59 Journal of Bionic Engineering 9.5 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
60 Microbial Biotechnology 9.4 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
61 Microbial Cell Factories 9.4 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
62 New Biotechnology 9.2 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
63 GM Crops and Food 9.1 80th Q1 SCIE – Yes
64 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 9 80th Q1 SCIE – Yes
65 Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 9 80th Q1 SCIE – Yes
66 BioDesign Research 8.9 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
67 Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 8.9 79th Q1 SCIE – No
68 Phenomics 8.9 79th Q1 ESCI – No
69 Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland) 8.8 78th Q1 – – No
70 Pharmaceutical Research 8.7 78th Q1 SCIE – No
71 Plant Methods 8.7 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
72 Current Research in Biotechnology 8.6 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
73 Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine and Biotechnology 8.5 77th Q1 SCIE – Yes
74 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 8.5 77th Q1 SCIE – No
75 Marine Life Science and Technology 8.5 77th Q1 SCIE – No
76 aBIOTECH 8.5 76th Q1 ESCI – No
77 Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications 8.3 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
78 Macromolecular Bioscience 8.3 76th Q1 SCIE – No
79 Biochemical Engineering Journal 8.2 75th Q1 SCIE – No
80 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 8.2 75th Q1 SCIE – Yes
81 Engineering in Life Sciences 8.2 75th Q1 SCIE – Yes
82 Biomaterials and Biosystems 8.2 74th Q2 – – Yes
83 European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics 8.1 74th Q2 SCIE – No
84 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 8.1 74th Q2 SCIE – No
85 CRISPR Journal 7.9 74th Q2 SCIE – No
86 AIChE Journal 7.9 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
87 Journal of Applied Microbiology 7.9 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
88 Cell Reports Methods 7.8 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
89 Biotechnology and Bioengineering 7.8 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
90 BMC Biology 7.8 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
91 International Journal of Bioprinting 7.8 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
92 Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology 7.7 71st Q2 ESCI – No
93 Health and Technology 7.7 71st Q2 ESCI – No
94 Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 7.7 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
95 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 7.7 70th Q2 SCIE – No
96 Enzyme and Microbial Technology 7.6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
97 Molecular Nutrition and Food Research 7.6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
98 Theoretical and Applied Genetics 7.6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
99 Interface Focus 7.4 69th Q2 SCIE – No
100 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 7.3 69th Q2 SCIE – No
101 Journal of Biotechnology 7.2 69th Q2 SCIE – No
102 Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 7.1 68th Q2 – – Yes
103 Bioconjugate Chemistry 7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
104 Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research 7 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
105 Biophysics Reviews 7 67th Q2 ESCI – No
106 European Food Research and Technology 6.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
107 Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry 6.8 67th Q2 – – No
108 Law, Innovation and Technology 6.8 66th Q2 – – No
109 Applied and Environmental Microbiology 6.7 66th Q2 SCIE – Yes
110 Plasmonics 6.7 66th Q2 SCIE – No
111 Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology 6.6 66th Q2 SCIE – No
112 Frontiers in Bioinformatics 6.6 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
113 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology 6.5 65th Q2 SCIE – Yes
114 Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6.4 65th Q2 SCIE – No
115 Biomedical Optics Express 6.3 64th Q2 SCIE – Yes
116 Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews 6.3 64th Q2 SCIE – No
117 Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 6.3 64th Q2 ESCI – Yes
118 Biomimetics 6.2 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
119 Transcription 6.2 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
120 Food and Bioproducts Processing 6.1 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
121 Science as Culture 6.1 62nd Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
122 BMC Genomics 6 62nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
123 Molecular Biotechnology 6 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
124 Food Science and Biotechnology 6 61st Q2 SCIE – No
125 Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 5.9 61st Q2 SCIE – No
126 FASEB Journal 5.9 61st Q2 SCIE – No
127 Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – No
128 Electronic Journal of Biotechnology 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – Yes
129 Food Bioengineering 5.8 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
130 Biotechnology Notes 5.8 59th Q2 – – Yes
131 3 Biotech 5.7 59th Q2 SCIE – No
132 Animal Biotechnology 5.7 59th Q2 SCIE – Yes
133 Advances in Nano Research 5.7 58th Q2 SCIE – No
134 Anatomical Record 5.6 58th Q2 SCIE – No
135 Biosafety and Health 5.6 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
136 BioTech 5.6 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
137 Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 5.6 57th Q2 SCIE – No
138 Molecular Breeding 5.4 57th Q2 SCIE – No
139 Protein Engineering, Design and Selection 5.4 57th Q2 SCIE – No
140 Mycotoxin Research 5.4 56th Q2 SCIE – No
141 Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 5.3 56th Q2 SCIE – No
142 Biotechnology Progress 5.2 56th Q2 SCIE – No
143 Yeast 5.2 55th Q2 SCIE – No
144 Journal of Heredity 5.1 55th Q2 SCIE – No
145 BMC Biotechnology 5 55th Q2 SCIE – Yes
146 Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology 5 54th Q2 – – No
147 Biotechnologia 5 54th Q2 – – Yes
148 Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology 5 54th Q2 SCIE – No
149 Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 4.9 54th Q2 SCIE – No
150 BIO Integration 4.8 53rd Q2 – – Yes
151 IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society 4.8 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
152 SLAS Discovery 4.8 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
153 Current Nanoscience 4.7 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
154 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 4.7 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
155 Molecular Imaging 4.7 52nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
156 Horticulture Environment and Biotechnology 4.7 51st Q2 SCIE – No
157 Biotechnology Letters 4.5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
158 Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists 4.5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
159 Food Technology and Biotechnology 4.4 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
160 Frontiers in Food Science and Technology 4.4 50th Q2 ESCI – Yes
161 Marine Biotechnology 4.4 50th Q2 SCIE – No
162 Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 4.3 50th Q2 SCIE – No
163 BioTechniques 4.3 49th Q3 SCIE – Yes
164 In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant 4.3 49th Q3 SCIE – No
165 Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 4.3 49th Q3 SCIE – No
166 IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications 4.2 48th Q3 ESCI – No
167 OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology 4.2 48th Q3 SCIE – No
168 European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology 4.1 48th Q3 SCIE – No
169 Biophysical Reports 4 47th Q3 ESCI – Yes
170 European Physical Journal E 4 47th Q3 SCIE – No
171 Nanofabrication 4 47th Q3 ESCI – No
172 JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology 4 46th Q3 – – Yes
173 Transgenic Research 3.8 46th Q3 SCIE – No
174 Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment 3.7 46th Q3 SCIE – Yes
175 Food Science and Applied Biotechnology 3.7 46th Q3 – – No
176 Microbial Physiology 3.7 45th Q3 SCIE – Yes
177 Recent Patents on Biotechnology 3.7 45th Q3 – – No
178 Synthetic Biology 3.6 45th Q3 SCIE – Yes
179 Periodica Polytechnica Chemical Engineering 3.6 44th Q3 SCIE – Yes
180 Biocatalysis and Biotransformation 3.5 44th Q3 SCIE – No
181 Biological Cybernetics 3.5 44th Q3 SCIE – No
182 Journal of Electrostatics 3.5 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
183 Methods and Protocols 3.4 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
184 Reproduction in Domestic Animals 3.4 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
185 Biologicals 3.4 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
186 Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology 3.4 42nd Q3 ESCI – No
187 Plant Biotechnology Reports 3.4 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
188 Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology 3.3 42nd Q3 – – No
189 Acta Naturae 3.3 41st Q3 SCIE – No
190 Journal fur Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit 3.3 41st Q3 SCIE – No
191 Future Science OA 3.2 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
192 International Journal of Food Engineering 3.2 40th Q3 SCIE – No
193 Plant Gene 3.2 40th Q3 ESCI – No
194 Cellular Reprogramming 3.1 40th Q3 SCIE – No
195 GigaByte 3.1 39th Q3 ESCI – Yes
196 Reproduction, Fertility and Development 3.1 39th Q3 SCIE – No
197 Genome 3 39th Q3 SCIE – No
198 International Journal of Nanoscience 3 38th Q3 ESCI – No
199 Nanomedicine Research Journal 3 38th Q3 – – Yes
200 Protein Expression and Purification 3 38th Q3 SCIE – No
201 Journal of Biochemical Technology 2.9 38th Q3 – – No
202 Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology 2.8 37th Q3 – – No
203 Iranian Journal of Biotechnology 2.8 37th Q3 SCIE – No
204 Phytochemistry Letters 2.8 37th Q3 SCIE – No
205 Applied Food Biotechnology 2.8 36th Q3 ESCI – Yes
206 Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry 2.8 36th Q3 SCIE – No
207 IET Systems Biology 2.8 36th Q3 SCIE – Yes
208 Law, Technology and Humans 2.7 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
209 Biophysics Reports 2.6 35th Q3 – – Yes
210 Iraqi Journal of Science 2.6 35th Q3 – – No
211 Food Biotechnology 2.6 34th Q3 SCIE – No
212 Plant Breeding and Biotechnology 2.6 34th Q3 – – No
213 Sabrao Journal of Breeding and Genetics 2.6 34th Q3 ESCI – No
214 AIMS Bioengineering 2.5 34th Q3 ESCI – No
215 Acta Agronomica Sinica (China) 2.5 33rd Q3 – – Yes
216 Egyptian Journal of Botany 2.5 33rd Q3 ESCI – No
217 Image Analysis and Stereology 2.4 33rd Q3 SCIE – Yes
218 Journal of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine 2.4 32nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
219 Cytotechnology 2.3 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
220 Plant Biotechnology 2.3 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
221 Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal 2.3 31st Q3 ESCI – Yes
222 Shengwu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2.3 31st Q3 – – No
223 Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences 2.2 31st Q3 ESCI – No
224 Applied Biosafety 2.1 30th Q3 ESCI – No
225 Applied Environmental Biotechnology 2.1 30th Q3 – – No
226 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2.1 30th Q3 ESCI – Yes
227 Squalen Bulletin of Marine and Fisheries Postharvest and Biotechnology 2.1 30th Q3 – – Yes
228 Eurobiotech Journal 2 29th Q3 ESCI – Yes
229 Industrial Biotechnology 2 29th Q3 ESCI – No
230 Enzymes 2 28th Q3 – – No
231 International Journal of Secondary Metabolite 2 28th Q3 – – Yes
232 International Journal of Molecular and Cellular Medicine 1.9 28th Q3 ESCI – No
233 Current Applied Science and Technology 1.9 27th Q3 – – No
234 Innovative Biosystems and Bioengineering 1.9 27th Q3 – – Yes
235 Food and Feed Research 1.8 27th Q3 – – Yes
236 Animal Science Papers and Reports 1.8 26th Q3 SCIE – No
237 Journal of Biomimetics, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering 1.8 26th Q3 ESCI – No
238 Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology 1.8 26th Q3 – – No
239 Open Biotechnology Journal 1.8 26th Q3 – – No
240 Food Science and Technology Research 1.7 25th Q3 SCIE – No
241 Letters in Applied NanoBioScience 1.7 25th Q3 – – No
242 Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 1.6 25th Q3 SCIE – Yes
243 Indonesian Journal of Biotechnology 1.6 24th Q4 – – Yes
244 Journal of Plant Biotechnology 1.6 24th Q4 – – No
245 Journal of Fruit Science 1.5 23rd Q4 – – Yes
246 Mycota 1.5 23rd Q4 – – No
247 South China Fisheries Science 1.5 23rd Q4 – – No
248 Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment 1.4 22nd Q4 SCIE – Yes
249 Biotropia 1.4 22nd Q4 – – Yes
250 Journal of Cellular Biotechnology 1.4 22nd Q4 – – No
251 Journal of Tropical Biodiversity and Biotechnology 1.4 22nd Q4 – – No
252 Cytology and Genetics 1.4 21st Q4 SCIE – No
253 European Journal of Biology 1.4 21st Q4 ESCI – Yes
254 Journal of Applied Biotechnology Reports 1.4 21st Q4 – – No
255 Biotech Studies 1.4 20th Q4 – – No
256 Minerva Biotechnology and Biomolecular Research 1.3 20th Q4 SCIE – No
257 Synthetic Biology Journal 1.2 20th Q4 – – No
258 Advanced Biomedical Engineering 1.2 19th Q4 ESCI – Yes
259 BrewingScience 1.2 19th Q4 ESCI – No
260 Research in Plant Disease 1.2 19th Q4 – – Yes
261 Biotechnology Bulletin 1.2 18th Q4 – – No
262 Borneo Journal of Resource Science and Technology 1.2 18th Q4 – – No
263 Outlooks on Pest Management 1.2 18th Q4 – – No
264 WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine 1.2 18th Q4 – – No
265 Health Biotechnology and Biopharma 1.2 17th Q4 – – No
266 Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology 1.2 17th Q4 – – No
267 Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering 1.1 17th Q4 – – No
268 Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal 1.1 16th Q4 – – No
269 Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo 1.1 16th Q4 – – Yes
270 Series on Biomechanics 1.1 16th Q4 – – No
271 Ecological Genetics 1 15th Q4 – – No
272 Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly 1 15th Q4 SCIE – No
273 Mexican Journal of Biotechnology 1 15th Q4 – – No
274 e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology 1 14th Q4 ESCI – Yes
275 Journal of Transformative Technologies and Sustainable Development 1 14th Q4 – – No
276 Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters 1 14th Q4 – – No
277 International Journal Bioautomation 0.9 14th Q4 – – Yes
278 Current Trends in Biotechnology and Pharmacy 0.9 13th Q4 – – No
279 International Journal of Medical Biochemistry 0.9 13th Q4 ESCI – Yes
280 Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 0.9 13th Q4 – – Yes
281 Journal of Crop Breeding 0.9 12th Q4 – – Yes
282 Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology 0.9 12th Q4 – – No
283 Philippine Agricultural Scientist 0.8 12th Q4 – – No
284 Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology 0.8 11th Q4 – – No
285 Plant Biotechnology and Breeding 0.8 11th Q4 – – Yes
286 SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology 0.8 11th Q4 – – No
287 American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 0.7 10th Q4 – – No
288 Biofunctional Materials 0.7 10th Q4 – – Yes
289 Cell and Organ Transplantology 0.7 10th Q4 – – No
290 Research Journal of Biotechnology 0.7 10th Q4 ESCI – No
291 Analele Universitatii din Oradea, Fascicula Biologie 0.6 9th Q4 – – No
292 Journal of Applied Horticulture 0.6 9th Q4 – – No
293 Proceedings on Applied Botany, Genetics and Breeding 0.6 9th Q4 – – Yes
294 Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 0.6 8th Q4 – – No
295 Environmental Stresses in Crop Sciences 0.6 8th Q4 – – Yes
296 Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs 0.6 8th Q4 – – No
297 International Library of Bioethics 0.6 7th Q4 – – No
298 Biotechnology Law Report 0.5 7th Q4 SCIE – No
299 High Technology Letters 0.5 7th Q4 – – No
300 BioLaw Journal 0.5 6th Q4 ESCI – No

All remaining Biotechnology journals (19)

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