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Best Genetics journals

357 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Genetics. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 89 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 Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 81.6 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
2 Nature Reviews Genetics 74.8 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Nature Genetics 38.6 99th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Cell Stem Cell 36.1 99th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Nucleic Acids Research 29.8 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
6 Nature Microbiology 28.8 98th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Trends in Genetics 25.1 98th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Cell Discovery 20.4 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 18.2 97th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Genome Medicine 18 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
11 Molecular Therapy 17.9 97th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 15.1 96th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Horticulture Research 14.7 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
14 Cell Genomics 14.6 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
15 Genome Biology 14.5 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
16 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer 14.1 95th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Oncogene 14 95th Q1 SCIE – No
18 Systematic Biology 14 95th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics 13.9 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
20 American Journal of Human Genetics 12.5 94th Q1 SCIE – No
21 MedComm 12.5 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
22 Molecular Ecology Resources 12.3 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
23 Annual Review of Genetics 12.2 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
24 Plant Physiology 12.2 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
25 Experientia Supplementum (2012) 12 93rd Q1 – – No
26 Journal of Genetics and Genomics 11.7 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
27 Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science 11.6 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
28 Nucleic Acid Therapeutics 11.4 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
29 Cancer Cell International 10.5 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 Gene Therapy 10.1 91st Q1 SCIE – No
31 Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy 10 91st Q1 SCIE – No
32 Plant Journal 10 91st Q1 SCIE – No
33 Molecular Biology and Evolution 9.9 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
34 Frontiers in Genome Editing 9.8 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
35 Genes and Development 9.7 90th Q1 SCIE – No
36 International Journal of Molecular Medicine 9.7 90th Q1 SCIE – No
37 IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 9.7 89th Q1 SCIE – No
38 Molecular Medicine 9.7 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
39 EMBO Reports 9.5 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
40 Molecular Oncology 9.4 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
41 Stem Cell Reports 9.3 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
42 Environmental DNA 9.2 88th Q1 ESCI – Yes
43 Phenomics 8.9 88th Q1 ESCI – No
44 European Journal of Human Genetics 8.8 87th Q1 SCIE – No
45 Genome Research 8.8 87th Q1 SCIE – No
46 Plant Methods 8.7 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
47 Genetics 8.7 86th Q1 SCIE – No
48 Human Genetics 8.7 86th Q1 SCIE – No
49 Human Mutation 8.7 86th Q1 SCIE – No
50 Plant Science 8.5 86th Q1 SCIE – No
51 aBIOTECH 8.5 85th Q1 ESCI – No
52 Journal of Medical Genetics 8.2 85th Q1 SCIE – No
53 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 8.2 85th Q1 SCIE – No
54 PLOS Pathogens 8.2 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
55 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 8.2 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
56 Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research 8.2 84th Q1 SCIE – No
57 Non-coding RNA Research 8.2 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
58 Clinical Epigenetics 8.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
59 mSystems 8.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
60 Environmental Microbiome 8 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
61 CRISPR Journal 7.9 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
62 American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics 7.8 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
63 Cell Reports Methods 7.8 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
64 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7.8 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
65 Journal of Dairy Science 7.8 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
66 Experimental Gerontology 7.7 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
67 Mutagenesis 7.7 81st Q1 SCIE – No
68 npj Genomic Medicine 7.7 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
69 Molecular Ecology 7.7 80th Q1 SCIE – No
70 Molecular Therapy Methods and Clinical Development 7.7 80th Q1 – – Yes
71 Plant Molecular Biology 7.7 80th Q1 SCIE – No
72 Theoretical and Applied Genetics 7.6 79th Q1 SCIE – No
73 Microbiology Spectrum 7.5 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
74 Planta 7.5 79th Q1 SCIE – No
75 Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology 7.5 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
76 Current Opinion in Lipidology 7.5 78th Q1 SCIE – No
77 Heredity 7.4 78th Q1 SCIE – No
78 Human Gene Therapy 7.4 78th Q1 SCIE – No
79 Matrix Biology Plus 7.3 78th Q1 – – Yes
80 Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE – No
81 Genes and Cancer 7.3 77th Q1 – – No
82 Journal of Molecular Cell Biology 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE – Yes
83 Molecular Medicine Reports 7.3 76th Q1 SCIE – No
84 BioData Mining 7.2 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
85 Human Molecular Genetics 7.2 76th Q1 SCIE – No
86 Microbial Genomics 7.1 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
87 Forensic Science International: Genetics 7 75th Q1 SCIE – No
88 Frontiers in Genetics 6.9 75th Q1 SCIE – Yes
89 Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics 6.8 75th Q1 SCIE – No
90 Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 6.8 74th Q2 SCIE – No
91 IUBMB Life 6.8 74th Q2 SCIE – No
92 Plant Genome 6.8 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
93 Current Gene Therapy 6.7 74th Q2 SCIE – No
94 PLOS Genetics 6.6 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
95 Genetics Selection Evolution 6.5 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
96 Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease 6.4 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
97 Genomics 6.4 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
98 Human Genomics 6.4 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
99 Briefings in Functional Genomics 6.3 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
100 Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 6.3 72nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
101 Epigenetics and Chromatin 6.3 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
102 EvoDevo 6.3 71st Q2 – – Yes
103 Evolutionary Applications 6.3 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
104 Current Plant Biology 6.2 71st Q2 ESCI – Yes
105 Genes and Nutrition 6.2 70th Q2 SCIE – Yes
106 PLOS Computational Biology 6.2 70th Q2 SCIE – Yes
107 Transcription 6.2 70th Q2 ESCI – No
108 Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 6.2 69th Q2 SCIE – No
109 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 6.1 69th Q2 SCIE – No
110 Molecular Human Reproduction 6.1 69th Q2 SCIE – No
111 Non-coding RNA 6.1 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
112 BMC Genomics 6 68th Q2 SCIE – Yes
113 Environmental Epigenetics 6 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
114 Genes Chromosomes and Cancer 6 68th Q2 SCIE – No
115 FASEB Journal 5.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
116 Frontiers in Aging 5.9 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
117 Functional and Integrative Genomics 5.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
118 Genes 5.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
119 Archives of Microbiology 5.9 66th Q2 SCIE – No
120 Genes and Immunity 5.9 66th Q2 SCIE – No
121 FEBS Letters 5.8 66th Q2 SCIE – No
122 Molecular Biology Reports 5.8 65th Q2 SCIE – No
123 Nucleus (India) 5.8 65th Q2 ESCI – No
124 Phytopathology Research 5.8 65th Q2 SCIE – Yes
125 Immunogenetics 5.7 65th Q2 SCIE – No
126 BMC Cancer 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – Yes
127 Mycorrhiza 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
128 Pharmacogenomics Journal 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
129 Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis 5.6 64th Q2 SCIE – No
130 Molecular Reproduction and Development 5.6 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
131 Traffic 5.6 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
132 Genes, Brain and Behavior 5.5 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
133 Cancer Genetics 5.5 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
134 Infection, Genetics and Evolution 5.5 62nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
135 Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 5.5 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
136 Molecular Breeding 5.4 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
137 Animal Bioscience 5.4 61st Q2 SCIE – Yes
138 Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 5.4 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
139 Physiologia Plantarum 5.4 61st Q2 SCIE – No
140 DNA Research 5.4 60th Q2 SCIE – Yes
141 Microbial Cell 5.4 60th Q2 SCIE – Yes
142 Epigenomes 5.3 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
143 Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research 5.3 60th Q2 SCIE – No
144 Advances in Biological Regulation 5.3 59th Q2 ESCI – No
145 Current Bioinformatics 5.3 59th Q2 SCIE – No
146 Gene 5.3 59th Q2 SCIE – No
147 Chromosome Research 5.3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
148 Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 5.3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
149 Plant Pathology 5.3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
150 World Journal of Stem Cells 5.3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
151 Chromosoma 5.3 57th Q2 – – No
152 Current Stem Cell Reports 5.2 57th Q2 ESCI – No
153 Molecular Omics 5.2 57th Q2 SCIE – No
154 Yeast 5.2 57th Q2 SCIE – No
155 DNA and Cell Biology 5.1 56th Q2 SCIE – No
156 Journal of Animal Science 5.1 56th Q2 SCIE – No
157 Journal of Human Genetics 5.1 56th Q2 SCIE – No
158 Evolution Letters 5.1 55th Q2 SCIE – Yes
159 Fungal Biology 5.1 55th Q2 SCIE – No
160 Journal of Heredity 5.1 55th Q2 SCIE – No
161 Mycologia 5 55th Q2 SCIE – No
162 Genome Biology and Evolution 5 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
163 NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease 5 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
164 Cancer Genomics and Proteomics 4.9 54th Q2 SCIE – No
165 Insect Molecular Biology 4.9 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
166 Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 4.8 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
167 Journal of Gene Medicine 4.8 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
168 Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 4.8 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
169 Addiction Neuroscience 4.7 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
170 Genesis (United States) 4.7 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
171 Fungal Genetics and Biology 4.6 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
172 Current Pharmacology Reports 4.6 51st Q2 ESCI – No
173 Evolution 4.5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
174 G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 4.5 51st Q2 SCIE – Yes
175 Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 4.5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
176 Clinical Genetics 4.5 50th Q2 SCIE – No
177 American Journal of Botany 4.4 50th Q2 SCIE – No
178 BMC Genomic Data 4.4 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
179 Mammalian Genome 4.4 50th Q2 SCIE – No
180 Cancer Biomarkers 4.3 49th Q3 SCIE – No
181 Cereal Research Communications 4.3 49th Q3 SCIE – No
182 Molecular Genetics and Genomics 4.3 49th Q3 SCIE – No
183 European Journal of Medical Genetics 4.3 48th Q3 SCIE – No
184 BMC Medical Genomics 4.2 48th Q3 SCIE – Yes
185 OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology 4.2 48th Q3 SCIE – No
186 Zoologica Scripta 4.2 48th Q3 SCIE – No
187 Behavioral Sciences 4.1 47th Q3 SSCI – Yes
188 NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 4.1 47th Q3 ESCI – Yes
189 Current Genetics 4 47th Q3 – – No
190 Animal Genetics 4 46th Q3 SCIE – No
191 Behavior Genetics 4 46th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – No
192 Experimental Hematology 4 46th Q3 SCIE – No
193 JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology 4 45th Q3 – – Yes
194 Lifestyle Genomics 4 45th Q3 SCIE – Yes
195 Epigenomics 3.9 45th Q3 SCIE – No
196 Physiological Genomics 3.9 45th Q3 SCIE – No
197 Bioinformatics Advances 3.9 44th Q3 ESCI – Yes
198 Breeding Science 3.9 44th Q3 SCIE – No
199 Journal of Applied Genetics 3.9 44th Q3 SCIE – No
200 Virus Genes 3.9 44th Q3 SCIE – No
201 Biochemical Genetics 3.8 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
202 FEMS Microbiology Letters 3.8 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
203 Transgenic Research 3.8 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
204 Conservation Genetics 3.7 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
205 Current Genomics 3.7 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
206 Familial Cancer 3.7 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
207 Journal of Liquid Biopsy 3.7 42nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
208 Genes and Genomics 3.7 41st Q3 SCIE – No
209 Journal of Agricultural Science 3.7 41st Q3 SCIE – No
210 Journal of Forensic Sciences 3.7 41st Q3 SCIE – No
211 Canadian Journal of Microbiology 3.6 41st Q3 SCIE – No
212 Biologia 3.6 40th Q3 SCIE – No
213 Genes and Environment 3.6 40th Q3 SCIE – Yes
214 Plant Physiology Reports 3.6 40th Q3 ESCI – No
215 Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 3.6 39th Q3 SCIE – No
216 New Genetics and Society 3.6 39th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
217 American Journal of Human Biology 3.5 39th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – No
218 Journal of Molecular Evolution 3.5 39th Q3 SCIE – No
219 Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 3.5 38th Q3 SCIE – Yes
220 Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 3.4 38th Q3 SCIE – Yes
221 Tree Genetics and Genomes 3.4 38th Q3 SCIE – No
222 Application of Clinical Genetics 3.4 37th Q3 ESCI – Yes
223 Journal of Computational Biology 3.4 37th Q3 SCIE – No
224 Journal of Crop Improvement 3.4 37th Q3 ESCI – No
225 Plant Breeding 3.4 37th Q3 SCIE – No
226 American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A 3.4 36th Q3 SCIE – No
227 Current Medical Science 3.3 36th Q3 SCIE – No
228 Frontiers in Horticulture 3.3 36th Q3 ESCI – Yes
229 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics 3.3 35th Q3 SCIE – No
230 Journal of Endometriosis and Uterine Disorders 3.3 35th Q3 – – Yes
231 Molecular Cytogenetics 3.3 35th Q3 SCIE – Yes
232 Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis 3.3 35th Q3 – – No
233 Archives Animal Breeding 3.2 34th Q3 SCIE – Yes
234 Genetica 3.2 34th Q3 SCIE – No
235 Journal of Mammalogy 3.2 34th Q3 SCIE – No
236 Pharmacogenetics and Genomics 3.2 34th Q3 SCIE – No
237 Genetics and Molecular Biology 3.2 33rd Q3 SCIE – Yes
238 Plant Gene 3.2 33rd Q3 ESCI – No
239 Reproduction and Breeding 3.2 33rd Q3 – – Yes
240 Gene Expression Patterns 3.1 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
241 GigaByte 3.1 32nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
242 Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine 3.1 32nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
243 Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports 3.1 32nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
244 Evolutionary Bioinformatics 3.1 31st Q3 SCIE – No
245 Marine Genomics 3.1 31st Q3 SCIE – No
246 Reproduction, Fertility and Development 3.1 31st Q3 SCIE – No
247 Euphytica 3.1 30th Q3 SCIE – No
248 Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 3 30th Q3 SCIE – No
249 Genome 3 30th Q3 SCIE – No
250 Pharmacogenomics 3 30th Q3 SCIE – No
251 International Journal of Immunogenetics 3 29th Q3 SCIE – No
252 Genomics and Informatics 2.9 29th Q3 – – Yes
253 Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 2.9 29th Q3 SCIE – Yes
254 Journal of Neurogenetics 2.9 28th Q3 SCIE – No
255 Clinical and Translational Discovery 2.8 28th Q3 ESCI – Yes
256 Cytogenetic and Genome Research 2.8 28th Q3 SCIE – No
257 Iranian Journal of Biotechnology 2.8 28th Q3 SCIE – No
258 HLA 2.8 27th Q3 SCIE – No
259 IET Systems Biology 2.8 27th Q3 SCIE – Yes
260 International Journal of Genomics 2.8 27th Q3 SCIE – Yes
261 International Journal of Translational Medicine 2.8 27th Q3 – – Yes
262 Annals of Human Genetics 2.7 26th Q3 SCIE – No
263 Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression 2.7 26th Q3 SCIE – No
264 Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 2.7 26th Q3 SCIE – Yes
265 Ecological Genetics and Genomics 2.7 25th Q3 – – No
266 Gene Expression 2.6 25th Q3 – – No
267 Psychiatric Genetics 2.6 25th Q3 SCIE – No
268 Sabrao Journal of Breeding and Genetics 2.6 25th Q3 ESCI – No
269 Annals of Human Biology 2.5 24th Q4 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
270 Discover Developmental Biology 2.5 24th Q4 SCIE – No
271 Journal of Translational Genetics and Genomics 2.5 24th Q4 ESCI – No
272 Advances in Genetics 2.5 23rd Q4 – – No
273 Egyptian Journal of Botany 2.5 23rd Q4 ESCI – No
274 Genetics in Medicine Open 2.5 23rd Q4 – – Yes
275 IJID One Health 2.4 23rd Q4 – – Yes
276 Neurogenetics 2.4 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
277 Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 2.3 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
278 Systematic Botany 2.3 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
279 Expert Review of Precision Medicine and Drug Development 2.3 21st Q4 ESCI – No
280 Genes and Genetic Systems 2.3 21st Q4 SCIE – Yes
281 Human Genome Variation 2.3 21st Q4 ESCI – Yes
282 Medizinische Genetik 2.3 21st Q4 SCIE – No
283 Hereditas 2.3 20th Q4 SCIE – Yes
284 Journal of Genetics 2.3 20th Q4 SCIE – No
285 Tropical Plant Biology 2.3 20th Q4 SCIE – No
286 Human Heredity 2.2 20th Q4 SCIE – Yes
287 Dermatology Practical and Conceptual 2.2 19th Q4 SCIE – Yes
288 Genes to Cells 2.2 19th Q4 SCIE – No
289 Methods in Molecular Biology 2.2 19th Q4 – – No
290 Folia Biologica (Czech Republic) 2.1 18th Q4 SCIE – No
291 Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 2.1 18th Q4 SCIE – No
292 Research Results in Biomedicine 2.1 18th Q4 – – No
293 Eurobiotech Journal 2 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
294 Conservation Genetics Resources 2 17th Q4 SCIE – No
295 Gene Reports 2 17th Q4 ESCI – No
296 Journal of Phytopathology 2 17th Q4 SCIE – No
297 Holistic Integrative Oncology 2 16th Q4 – – Yes
298 International Journal of Molecular and Cellular Medicine 1.9 16th Q4 ESCI – No
299 Molecular Syndromology 1.9 16th Q4 SCIE – No
300 Pharmacoepidemiology 1.9 16th Q4 ESCI – Yes

All remaining Genetics journals (57)

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