Journal Rankings in Molecular Biology
and Genetics, 1997-2007
Based on citations per paper among those journals with 50,000 or more
citations. Data from
Clarivate'sEssential
Science IndicatorsSM, January 1997 to December 2007.
Rank
Journal
Papers
Citations
Citations
Per
Paper
1
Cell
3,824
552,923
144.59
2
Science
1,353
179,561
132.71
3
Nature
1,695
224,271
132.31
4
Nature Genetics
2,244
254,603
113.46
5
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
613
56,838
92.72
6
Genes & Development
3,105
255,862
82.40
7
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
1,009
80,893
80.17
8
Nature Cell Biology
1,464
94,734
64.71
9
*Molecular Biology of the Cell
2,632
165,074
62.72
10
Journal of Cell Biology
4,879
293,060
60.07
11
EMBO Journal
6,675
393,721
58.98
12
Trends in Cell Biology
868
50,606
58.30
13
American Journal of Human Genetics
3,048
147,829
48.50
14
Development
5,427
225,293
41.51
15
Genome Research
2,011
79,314
39.44
16
Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA
5,260
203,904
38.77
17
Molecular and Cellular Biology
8,932
342,288
38.32
18
Human Molecular Genetics
3,589
129,823
36.17
19
Human Gene Therapy
1,903
54,307
28.54
20
Molecular Biology of the Cell
3,995
113,099
28.31
The data above were extracted from
Clarivate'sEssential
Science IndicatorsSM database. This database, currently
covering the period January 1997 to December 2007, surveys only journal
articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson
Reuters. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which
they were published and Clarivate’s journal-to-category field
definition scheme. Both articles tabulated and citation counts to those
articles are for the period indicated. Here our ranking of journals in
molecular biology and genetics is by citations per paper, among journals
that collected 50,000 or more citations, to reveal weighted impact.
Essential Science Indicators lists journals ranked in the top 50%
for a field over a given period, based on total citations. In molecular
biology and genetics, 135 journals are listed, meaning 270 journals in this
field were surveyed. Thirty journals earned at least 50,000 citations. This
ranking should be should recognized as distinctly different from Thomson
Reuters’s impact factor rankings, which are presented in the Journal
Citation Reports issued each year. The impact factor is calculated as
citations in Year 3 to a journal’s contents in Years 1 and 2, divided
by the number of so-called citable items (regular articles and reviews) in
Years 1 and 2. Thus, the above ranking reveals longer term impact
(citations per paper). The data for the multidisciplinary journals listed
– Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the
National Academy of the USA – take into account only those
articles that have been classified by Clarivate as molecular biology
and genetics papers. Visit
Essential
Science Indicators from Clarivate.
This item also appeared in the Times Higher Education magazine,
reprinted with their
permission.
* CORRECTION (February 17, 2009) - this journal name has
been corrected from Molecular and Cellular Biology to
Molecular Biology of the Cell.