Biological Sciences 2026
2,027 journals in P1.06 Biological Sciences (Natural Sciences), ranked by PNCI. Snapshot September 2026. How the ranking works.
Showing the top 1,000 of 2,027 journals. The ranked journals CSV lists every ranked journal; the complete CSV has every journal of the edition, and the edition index lists one file per category.
| Rank | Journal | PNCI | Percentile | Citation Quartile | POSI Zone | AJR | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/2027 | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1471-0072 | 8.80 | 100.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/2027 | Cell Cell Press, ISSN 0092-8674 | 8.69 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/2027 | Annual Review of Immunology Annual Reviews, ISSN 0732-0582 | 7.89 | 99.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/2027 | Nature Reviews Microbiology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1740-1526 | 7.40 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/2027 | Cancer Cell Elsevier BV, ISSN 1535-6108 | 7.17 | 99.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/2027 | Molecular Cancer BioMed Central, ISSN 1476-4598 | 6.61 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/2027 | Cell Metabolism Elsevier BV, ISSN 1550-4131 | 6.35 | 99.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 8/2027 | Nature Reviews Methods Primers Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2662-8449 | 6.29 | 99.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 9/2027 | Experimental & Molecular Medicine Springer Nature, ISSN 1226-3613 | 5.81 | 99.6 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 10/2027 | Annual Review of Biochemistry Annual Reviews, ISSN 0066-4154 | 5.80 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 11/2027 | Nature reviews. Cancer Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1474-175X | 5.64 | 99.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 12/2027 | iMeta Wiley, ISSN 2770-596X | 5.35 | 99.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 13/2027 | Immunity Elsevier BV, ISSN 1074-7613 | 5.18 | 99.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 14/2027 | Nature Reviews Genetics Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1471-0056 | 4.89 | 99.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 15/2027 | Nature reviews. Immunology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1474-1733 | 4.88 | 99.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 16/2027 | Cellular and Molecular Immunology Springer Nature, ISSN 1672-7681 | 4.67 | 99.2 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 17/2027 | Nature Genetics Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1061-4036 | 4.45 | 99.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 18/2027 | Nature Methods Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1548-7091 | 4.42 | 99.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 19/2027 | The Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology Annual Reviews, ISSN 0362-1642 | 4.27 | 99.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 20/2027 | Fungal Diversity Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 1560-2745 | 4.08 | 99.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 21/2027 | Cell Stem Cell Elsevier BV, ISSN 1934-5909 | 3.91 | 99.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 22/2027 | Nature Biomedical Engineering Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2157-846X | 3.89 | 98.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 23/2027 | Nature Protocols Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1750-2799 | 3.86 | 98.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 24/2027 | Journal of Extracellular Vesicles Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2001-3078 | 3.84 | 98.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 25/2027 | Journal of Advanced Research Elsevier BV, ISSN 2090-1232 | 3.76 | 98.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 26/2027 | Nature Communications Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2041-1723 | 3.76 | 98.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 27/2027 | Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews Elsevier BV, ISSN 0169-409X | 3.71 | 98.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 28/2027 | Pharmacological Reviews Elsevier BV, ISSN 0031-6997 | 3.64 | 98.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 29/2027 | Progress in Lipid Research Elsevier BV, ISSN 0163-7827 | 3.61 | 98.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 30/2027 | Annual Review of Biophysics Annual Reviews, ISSN 1936-122X | 3.57 | 98.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 31/2027 | Nature Microbiology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2058-5276 | 3.55 | 98.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 32/2027 | Nucleic Acids Research Oxford University Press, ISSN 0305-1048 | 3.53 | 98.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 33/2027 | Nature Biotechnology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 0733-222X | 3.50 | 98.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 34/2027 | npj Antimicrobials and Resistance Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 2731-8745 | 3.48 | 98.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 35/2027 | Science Translational Medicine American Association for the Advancement of Science, ISSN 1946-6234 | 3.42 | 98.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 36/2027 | Cell Host & Microbe Elsevier BV, ISSN 1931-3128 | 3.34 | 98.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 37/2027 | Science Immunology American Association for the Advancement of Science, ISSN 2470-9468 | 3.31 | 98.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 38/2027 | Molecular Cell Elsevier BV, ISSN 1097-2765 | 3.25 | 98.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 39/2027 | Molecular Biomedicine Springer Nature, ISSN 2662-8651 | 3.19 | 98.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 40/2027 | Microbiome BioMed Central, ISSN 2049-2618 | 3.18 | 98.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 41/2027 | Seminars in Cancer Biology Elsevier BV, ISSN 1044-579X | 3.17 | 98.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 42/2027 | Biotechnology Advances Elsevier BV, ISSN 0734-9750 | 3.16 | 98.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 43/2027 | Theranostics Ivyspring International Publisher, ISSN 1838-7640 | 3.14 | 97.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 44/2027 | Redox Biology Elsevier BV, ISSN 2213-2317 | 3.12 | 97.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 45/2027 | Nature Immunology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1529-2908 | 3.12 | 97.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 46/2027 | Journal of Biomedical Science BioMed Central, ISSN 1021-7770 | 3.11 | 97.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 47/2027 | Trends in Cell Biology Elsevier BV, ISSN 0962-8924 | 3.09 | 97.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 48/2027 | Nature Cell Biology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1465-7392 | 3.06 | 97.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 49/2027 | Immunity & Inflammation ISSN 3059-4774 | 3.06 | 97.6 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 50/2027 | Science Advances American Association for the Advancement of Science, ISSN 2375-2548 | 3.04 | 97.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 51/2027 | Cell Research Springer Nature, ISSN 1001-0602 | 3.02 | 97.5 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 52/2027 | Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews Elsevier BV, ISSN 1359-6101 | 3.00 | 97.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 53/2027 | Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology Annual Reviews, ISSN 1081-0706 | 2.95 | 97.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 54/2027 | Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Elsevier BV, ISSN 2211-3835 | 2.90 | 97.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 55/2027 | Pharmacology & Therapeutics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0163-7258 | 2.87 | 97.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 56/2027 | Cell Death and Differentiation Springer Nature, ISSN 1350-9047 | 2.74 | 97.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 57/2027 | Trends in Cancer Elsevier BV, ISSN 2405-8033 | 2.70 | 97.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 58/2027 | Cell Biomaterials Elsevier BV, ISSN 3050-5623 | 2.69 | 97.2 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 59/2027 | Seminars in Immunopathology Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN 1863-2297 | 2.66 | 97.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 60/2027 | Annual Review of Microbiology Annual Reviews, ISSN 0066-4227 | 2.65 | 97.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 61/2027 | Journal of Controlled Release Elsevier BV, ISSN 0168-3659 | 2.61 | 97.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 62/2027 | MedComm Wiley, ISSN 2688-2663 | 2.61 | 97.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 63/2027 | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2055-5008 | 2.61 | 96.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 64/2027 | Genome Medicine BioMed Central, ISSN 1756-994X | 2.59 | 96.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 65/2027 | Biosensors and Bioelectronics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0956-5663 | 2.57 | 96.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 66/2027 | Trends in Pharmacological Sciences Elsevier BV, ISSN 0165-6147 | 2.54 | 96.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 67/2027 | Genome biology BioMed Central, ISSN 1465-6906 | 2.49 | 96.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 68/2027 | Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research BioMed Central, ISSN 0392-9078 | 2.49 | 96.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 69/2027 | npj Drug Discovery. News UK, ISSN 3005-1452 | 2.47 | 96.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 70/2027 | Annual Review of Animal Biosciences Annual Reviews, ISSN 2165-8102 | 2.41 | 96.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 71/2027 | Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters BioMed Central, ISSN 1425-8153 | 2.39 | 96.5 | Provisional C-Q1 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 72/2027 | Medicinal Research Reviews Wiley, ISSN 0198-6325 | 2.37 | 96.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 73/2027 | International Journal of Biological Sciences Ivyspring International Publisher, ISSN 1449-2288 | 2.37 | 96.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 74/2027 | Developmental Cell Elsevier BV, ISSN 1534-5807 | 2.32 | 96.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 75/2027 | Trends in Biotechnology Elsevier BV, ISSN 0167-7799 | 2.32 | 96.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 76/2027 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews American Society for Microbiology, ISSN 1092-2172 | 2.32 | 96.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 77/2027 | Trends in Microbiology Elsevier BV, ISSN 0966-842X | 2.29 | 96.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 78/2027 | Cell Discovery Springer Nature, ISSN 2056-5968 | 2.27 | 96.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 79/2027 | EBioMedicine Elsevier BV, ISSN 2352-3964 | 2.25 | 96.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 80/2027 | Cell Communication and Signaling BioMed Central, ISSN 1478-811X | 2.24 | 96.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 81/2027 | Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science Annual Reviews, ISSN 2574-3414 | 2.23 | 96.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 82/2027 | Immunological Reviews Wiley, ISSN 0105-2896 | 2.18 | 96.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 83/2027 | Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics Annual Reviews, ISSN 1527-8204 | 2.16 | 95.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 84/2027 | Phytomedicine Elsevier BV, ISSN 0944-7113 | 2.12 | 95.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 85/2027 | Cell Death and Disease Springer Nature, ISSN 2041-4889 | 2.12 | 95.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 86/2027 | Annual Review of Genetics Annual Reviews, ISSN 0066-4197 | 2.11 | 95.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 87/2027 | The Journal of Experimental Medicine Rockefeller University Press, ISSN 0022-1007 | 2.09 | 95.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 88/2027 | Cell Death Discovery Springer Nature, ISSN 2058-7716 | 2.08 | 95.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 89/2027 | Cancer Letters Elsevier BV, ISSN 0304-3835 | 2.08 | 95.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 90/2027 | Trends in Molecular Medicine Elsevier BV, ISSN 1471-4914 | 2.06 | 95.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 91/2027 | Soil and Tillage Research Elsevier BV, ISSN 0167-1987 | 2.05 | 95.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 92/2027 | Seminars in Immunology Elsevier BV, ISSN 1044-5323 | 2.05 | 95.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 93/2027 | Natural Product Reports Royal Society of Chemistry, ISSN 0265-0568 | 2.05 | 95.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 94/2027 | Nature Chemical Biology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1552-4450 | 2.02 | 95.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 95/2027 | Cell Genomics Elsevier BV, ISSN 2666-979X | 2.02 | 95.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 96/2027 | Molecular Therapy Elsevier BV, ISSN 1525-0016 | 2.01 | 95.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 97/2027 | The EMBO Journal Springer Nature, ISSN 0261-4189 | 2.00 | 95.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 98/2027 | Trends in Genetics Elsevier BV, ISSN 0168-9525 | 1.99 | 95.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 99/2027 | Nature Computational Science Nature Portfolio, ISSN 2662-8457 | 1.99 | 95.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 100/2027 | Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Nature Portfolio, ISSN 1545-9985 | 1.98 | 95.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
CITATION-RANK-1.0. Provisional rankings (dashed) have 10–19 eligible items or items from a single publication year, and carry no zone. 3,702 further journals in this category have citation data but no rank (too few items, incomplete citation coverage, or category too small); their PNCI is shown on their journal pages.