LibGuides: Biology: High impact journals

High impact journals

The following list of journals are those with the highest Journal Impact Factor (JIF)* in the BIOLOGY category in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

1.	Physics of Life Reviews
2.	Biological Reviews
3.	Bioscience
4.	Current biology
5.	Science in China: Life sciences
6.	PLoS biology
7.	Computers in biology and medicine
8.	ELife
9.	Current opinion in insect science
10.	Bioscience trends

Additional categories you can search in the field of BIOLOGY from the 2023 Journal Citation Report:

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

CELL BIOLOGY

GENETICS & HEREDITY

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

*The JIF is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. Please note that JIF is one metric for assessing the quality of research journals but not the only one.

Note: these results are based on data from the Web of Science Core collection only. For an in-depth explanation on its calculation and on Clarivate Journal Citation Reports please refer to this page.