Diamond open access journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
120 peer-reviewed journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology are free to publish in: no article processing charge and no other author fees, according to the DOAJ. All of them are indexed in Scopus and ranked below by their SCImago quartile and SJR score. Data snapshot: August 2026.
All 120 free-to-publish journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Sorted by best SCImago quartile, then SJR. Click a column header to sort by it; click a second column to add a tiebreak (sort levels combine in the order you pick them). Click a column again to reverse it, a third time to remove it. The search box narrows the list. Publication time is the journal's own DOAJ figure for the average number of weeks from submission to publication.
| # | Journal | Quartile | SJR | H-index | Publisher | Country | Time to publish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Biomedical Science 1423-0127 |
Q1 | 3.601 | 130 | BMC | United Kingdom | 14 wk |
| 2 | Life Medicine 2755-1733 |
Q1 | 1.754 | 16 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom | 9 wk |
| 3 | Horticulture Advances 2948-1104 |
Q1 | 1.601 | 12 | Springer | Singapore | 18 wk |
| 4 | Ultrafast Science 2765-8791 |
Q1 | 1.573 | 25 | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | United States | 17 wk |
| 5 | Journal of Ginseng Research 1226-8453 |
Q1 | 1.492 | 77 | Elsevier | Netherlands | 32 wk |
| 6 | Biofuel Research Journal 2292-8782 |
Q1 | 1.485 | 54 | Alpha Creation Enterprise | Malaysia | 8 wk |
| 7 | Life Metabolism 2755-0230 |
Q1 | 1.341 | 12 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom | 10 wk |
| 8 | Rice Science 1876-4762 |
Q1 | 1.308 | 65 | Elsevier | Netherlands | 40 wk |
| 9 | EXCLI Journal : Experimental and Clinical Sciences 1611-2156 |
Q1 | 1.162 | 68 | IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund | Germany | 9 wk |
| 10 | Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1551-4056 |
Q1 | 1.144 | 79 | Yale University | United States | 20 wk |
| 11 | Acta Materia Medica 2737-7946 |
Q1 | 1.133 | 23 | Compuscript Ltd | Ireland | 13 wk |
| 12 | Journal of Law and the Biosciences 2053-9711 |
Q1 | 1.077 | 38 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom | 13 wk |
| 13 | Biophysics Reports 2364-3420 |
Q1 | 1.008 | 12 | Science Press | China | 8 wk |
| 14 | Peer Community Journal 2804-3871 |
Q1 | 0.922 | 16 | Peer Community In | France | 24 wk |
| 15 | Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow 2288-8721 |
Q1 | 0.892 | 10 | Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society | Korea, Republic of | 15 wk |
| 16 | SLAS Discovery 2472-5560 |
Q1 | 0.872 | 93 | Elsevier | United States | 13 wk |
| 17 | Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering 2095-977X |
Q1 | 0.862 | 39 | Higher Education Press | China | 12 wk |
| 18 | BIO Integration 2712-0082 |
Q1 | 0.859 | 18 | Compuscript Ltd | Ireland | 17 wk |
| 19 | Laboratory Animal Research 2233-7660 |
Q1 | 0.842 | 30 | BMC | United Kingdom | 8 wk |
| 20 | Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 1864-8312 |
Q1 | 0.738 | 31 | Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung | Germany | 12 wk |
| 21 | Holistic Integrative Oncology 2731-4529 |
Q1 | 0.701 | 10 | Springer | Singapore | 25 wk |
| 22 | Forensic Sciences Research 2471-1411 |
Q1 | 0.588 | 38 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom | 26 wk |
| 23 | Pathogens and Immunity 2469-2964 |
Q2 | 0.753 | 26 | Case Western Reserve University | United States | 10 wk |
| 24 | BioMedicine 2211-8039 |
Q2 | 0.585 | 38 | China Medical University | Taiwan, Province of China | 24 wk |
| 25 | BioImpacts 2228-5660 |
Q2 | 0.568 | 50 | Tabriz University of Medical Sciences | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 5 wk |
| 26 | Journal of Cotton Research 2523-3254 |
Q2 | 0.552 | 24 | BMC | United Kingdom | 15 wk |
| 27 | Food Technology and Biotechnology 1334-2606 |
Q2 | 0.551 | 88 | University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology | Croatia | 24 wk |
| 28 | Biochemia Medica 1846-7482 |
Q2 | 0.55 | 60 | Croatian Society for Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine | Croatia | 10 wk |
| 29 | Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy 2083-4640 |
Q2 | 0.548 | 42 | Via Medica | Poland | 16 wk |
| 30 | BMC Proceedings 1753-6561 |
Q2 | 0.519 | 29 | BMC | United Kingdom | 10 wk |
| 31 | Dermatology Practical & Conceptual 2160-9381 |
Q2 | 0.504 | 23 | Mattioli1885 | Italy | 15 wk |
| 32 | Turkish Journal of Biology 1300-0152 |
Q2 | 0.424 | 58 | The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) | Türkiye | 24 wk |
| 33 | Advances in Physiology Education 1522-1229 |
Q2 | 0.418 | 82 | The American Physiological Society | United States | 29 wk |
| 34 | South African Journal of Science 1996-7489 |
Q2 | 0.407 | 75 | Academy of Science of South Africa | South Africa | 52 wk |
| 35 | Oilseeds and fats, crops and lipids 2257-6614 |
Q2 | 0.393 | 43 | EDP Sciences | France | 10 wk |
| 36 | Tropical Life Sciences Research 2180-4249 |
Q2 | 0.368 | 32 | Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia | Malaysia | 20 wk |
| 37 | Law, Technology and Humans 2652-4074 |
Q2 | 0.359 | 11 | Queensland University of Technology | Australia | 9 wk |
| 38 | Karbala International Journal of Modern Science 2405-6103 |
Q2 | 0.349 | 35 | University of Kerbala | Iraq | 12 wk |
| 39 | Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции 2500-3259 |
Q2 | 0.342 | 20 | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders | Russian Federation | 8 wk |
| 40 | Comptes Rendus Biologies 1768-3238 |
Q2 | 0.299 | 103 | Académie des sciences | France | 9 wk |
| 41 | Physiology and Pharmacology 2476-5244 |
Q2 | 0.215 | 17 | Iranian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 22 wk |
| 42 | Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute 2589-0409 |
Q3 | 0.551 | 33 | SpringerOpen | United Kingdom | 11 wk |
| 43 | Redox Experimental Medicine 2755-158X |
Q3 | 0.545 | 8 | Bioscientifica | United Kingdom | 5 wk |
| 44 | Journal of Pancreatology 2577-3577 |
Q3 | 0.461 | 15 | Wolters Kluwer Health/LWW | United States | 11 wk |
| 45 | Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies 2308-118X |
Q3 | 0.449 | 13 | ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies | Philippines | 8 wk |
| 46 | Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2588-9222 |
Q3 | 0.398 | 95 | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications | India | 12 wk |
| 47 | Endocrine Oncology 2634-4793 |
Q3 | 0.397 | 4 | Bioscientifica | United Kingdom | 26 wk |
| 48 | Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2230-9500 |
Q3 | 0.386 | 50 | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications | India | 24 wk |
| 49 | Iranian Biomedical Journal 2008-823X |
Q3 | 0.376 | 45 | Pasteur Institute of Iran | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 8 wk |
| 50 | Nowotwory 2300-2115 |
Q3 | 0.37 | 12 | Via Medica | Poland | 11 wk |
| 51 | Journal of Bio-X Research 2577-3585 |
Q3 | 0.367 | 10 | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | United States | 16 wk |
| 52 | Periodica Polytechnica: Chemical Engineering 1587-3765 |
Q3 | 0.351 | 32 | Budapest University of Technology | Hungary | 15 wk |
| 53 | Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology 2322-5726 |
Q3 | 0.339 | 11 | Mashhad University of Medical Sciences | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 12 wk |
| 54 | Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 1984-7033 |
Q3 | 0.331 | 35 | Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding | Brazil | 24 wk |
| 55 | ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University 2307-549X |
Q3 | 0.311 | 12 | Koya University | Iraq | 8 wk |
| 56 | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly 1846-5153 |
Q3 | 0.309 | 56 | Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers | Croatia | 48 wk |
| 57 | South Asian Journal of Cancer 2278-4306 |
Q3 | 0.307 | 30 | Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. | India | 35 wk |
| 58 | Journal of Medical Physics 1998-3913 |
Q3 | 0.278 | 35 | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications | India | 25 wk |
| 59 | International Journal of Secondary Metabolite 2148-6905 |
Q3 | 0.277 | 14 | izzet kara | Türkiye | 24 wk |
| 60 | Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud 2590-7379 |
Q3 | 0.271 | 37 | Instituto Nacional de Salud | Colombia | 32 wk |
| 61 | Food and Feed Research 2217-5660 |
Q3 | 0.263 | 10 | Institute for Food Technology, Novi Sad | Serbia | 4 wk |
| 62 | Squalen 2406-9272 |
Q3 | 0.253 | 11 | Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan | Indonesia | 16 wk |
| 63 | Communication in Biomathematical Sciences 2549-2896 |
Q3 | 0.252 | 11 | Indonesian Bio-Mathematical Society | Indonesia | 24 wk |
| 64 | Uniciencia 2215-3470 |
Q3 | 0.252 | 11 | Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica | Costa Rica | 40 wk |
| 65 | The EuroBiotech Journal 2564-615X |
Q3 | 0.251 | 16 | Sciendo | Poland | 10 wk |
| 66 | Archives of Biological Sciences 1821-4339 |
Q3 | 0.249 | 35 | University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad | Serbia | 20 wk |
| 67 | European Journal of Biology 2618-6144 |
Q3 | 0.23 | 7 | Istanbul University Press | Türkiye | 23 wk |
| 68 | Mongolian Journal of Chemistry 2414-0082 |
Q3 | 0.225 | 8 | Mongolian Academy of Sciences | Mongolia | 25 wk |
| 69 | Сахарный диабет 2072-0378 |
Q3 | 0.222 | 22 | Endocrinology Research Centre | Russian Federation | 7 wk |
| 70 | Notulae Scientia Biologicae 2067-3264 |
Q3 | 0.219 | 13 | Society of Land Measurements and Cadastre from Transylvania (SMTCT) | Romania | 8 wk |
| 71 | Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement 1780-4507 |
Q3 | 0.215 | 50 | Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux | Belgium | 15 wk |
| 72 | MHSalud 1659-097X |
Q3 | 0.206 | 7 | Universidad Nacional | Costa Rica | 54 wk |
| 73 | La Granja: Revista de Ciencias de la Vida 1390-8596 |
Q3 | 0.203 | 11 | Universidad Politécnica Salesiana | Ecuador | 12 wk |
| 74 | Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica 1853-6387 |
Q3 | 0.19 | 6 | Asociación de Antropología Biológica Argentina | Argentina | 6 wk |
| 75 | Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology 1907-770X |
Q3 | 0.187 | 17 | SEAMEO, BIOTROP | Indonesia | 30 wk |
| 76 | Journal of Nature and Science of Medicine 2589-6288 |
Q3 | 0.183 | 12 | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications | India | 28 wk |
| 77 | Natures Sciences Sociétés 1765-2979 |
Q3 | 0.179 | 24 | EDP Sciences | France | 52 wk |
| 78 | Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 2382-4980 |
Q3 | 0.162 | 14 | Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales | Colombia | 28 wk |
| 79 | Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences 2528-9691 |
Q4 | 0.225 | 7 | Trakya University | Türkiye | 12 wk |
| 80 | Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics 0975-0959 |
Q4 | 0.216 | 53 | CSIR-NIScPR | India | 16 wk |
| 81 | ExRNA 2398-0060 |
Q4 | 0.207 | 16 | ELS Publishing (ELSP) | Hong Kong | 8 wk |
| 82 | Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo 2217-8392 |
Q4 | 0.193 | 7 | Institute of field and vegetable crops, Novi Sad | Serbia | 4 wk |
| 83 | Ukrainian Food Journal 2313-5891 |
Q4 | 0.184 | 14 | National university of food technologies | Ukraine | 10 wk |
| 84 | Ожирение и метаболизм 2306-5524 |
Q4 | 0.182 | 15 | Endocrinology Research Centre | Russian Federation | 21 wk |
| 85 | Биотехнология и селекция растений 2658-6258 |
Q4 | 0.179 | 6 | N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources | Russian Federation | 8 wk |
| 86 | Bonplandia 1853-8460 |
Q4 | 0.178 | 6 | Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste | Argentina | 8 wk |
| 87 | Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология 2313-5530 |
Q4 | 0.178 | 6 | Siberian Federal University | Russian Federation | 24 wk |
| 88 | Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Физика 2542-193X |
Q4 | 0.176 | 7 | Saratov State University | Russian Federation | 22 wk |
| 89 | Український антарктичний журнал 2415-3087 |
Q4 | 0.175 | 6 | State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center | Ukraine | 10 wk |
| 90 | Biomath 1314-7218 |
Q4 | 0.173 | 8 | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics | Bulgaria | 20 wk |
| 91 | International Journal of Medical Biochemistry 2618-642X |
Q4 | 0.173 | 7 | KARE Publishing | Türkiye | 18 wk |
| 92 | The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal 2413-5003 |
Q4 | 0.172 | 23 | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry | Ukraine | 16 wk |
| 93 | Ukrainian Botanical Journal 2415-8860 |
Q4 | 0.167 | 6 | Publishing House "Akademperiodyka" | Ukraine | 10 wk |
| 94 | International Journal Bioautomation 1314-2321 |
Q4 | 0.161 | 17 | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Bulgaria | 12 wk |
| 95 | Праці Наукового товариства імені Шевченка. Медичні науки 2708-8642 |
Q4 | 0.161 | 7 | Shevchenko Scientific Society | Ukraine | 6 wk |
| 96 | Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences 1807-863X |
Q4 | 0.158 | 29 | Universidade Estadual de Maringá | Brazil | 32 wk |
| 97 | Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Assiut University 3009-7703 |
Q4 | 0.158 | 11 | Assiut University, Faculty of Pharmacy | Egypt | 10 wk |
| 98 | Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Biologia 2065-9512 |
Q4 | 0.158 | 4 | Cluj University Press | Romania | 34 wk |
| 99 | Біофізичний вісник 2075-3829 |
Q4 | 0.157 | 4 | V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University | Ukraine | 12 wk |
| 100 | Mass Spectrometry Letters 2093-8950 |
Q4 | 0.156 | 13 | Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry | Korea, Republic of | 6 wk |
| 101 | Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica 2619-2551 |
Q4 | 0.152 | 8 | Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales | Colombia | 20 wk |
| 102 | Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции 2619-0982 |
Q4 | 0.152 | 8 | N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources | Russian Federation | 12 wk |
| 103 | Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences 1807-8648 |
Q4 | 0.151 | 14 | Universidade Estadual de Maringá | Brazil | 40 wk |
| 104 | Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine 2353-2807 |
Q4 | 0.151 | 7 | Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego | Poland | 12 wk |
| 105 | Indian Journal of Pain 2321-7820 |
Q4 | 0.151 | 3 | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications | India | 23 wk |
| 106 | World Cancer Research Journal 2372-3416 |
Q4 | 0.147 | 16 | Verduci Editore | Italy | 8 wk |
| 107 | Applied and Computational Mechanics 2336-1182 |
Q4 | 0.141 | 9 | University of West Bohemia in Pilsen | Czechia | 16 wk |
| 108 | Biologica Nyssana 2217-4605 |
Q4 | 0.14 | 5 | University of Niš | Serbia | 16 wk |
| 109 | Учёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки 2500-218X |
Q4 | 0.14 | 10 | Kazan Federal University | Russian Federation | 17 wk |
| 110 | Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 1339-004X |
Q4 | 0.137 | 15 | SciCell s.r.o. | Slovakia | 24 wk |
| 111 | Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias 2357-5549 |
Q4 | 0.13 | 4 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín | Colombia | 10 wk |
| 112 | VacciMonitor 1025-0298 |
Q4 | 0.129 | 7 | Finlay Ediciones | Cuba | 16 wk |
| 113 | Сибирский научный медицинский журнал 2410-2520 |
Q4 | 0.128 | 7 | Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch Publishing House | Russian Federation | 12 wk |
| 114 | Сибирский онкологический журнал 2312-3168 |
Q4 | 0.127 | 10 | Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk National Research Medical Center | Russian Federation | 8 wk |
| 115 | Клинический разбор в общей медицине 2713-2552 |
Q4 | 0.122 | 5 | LLC "MEDIAFORMAT" | Russian Federation | 5 wk |
| 116 | Revista de Biologia Neotropical 2178-0579 |
Q4 | 0.121 | 3 | Universidade Federal de Goiás | Brazil | 32 wk |
| 117 | Revista Investigaciones y Estudios de la UNA 2709-0817 |
Q4 | 0.12 | 3 | Universidad Nacional de Asunción | Paraguay | 20 wk |
| 118 | Бюллетень сибирской медицины 1819-3684 |
Q4 | 0.119 | 12 | Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk) | Russian Federation | 8 wk |
| 119 | Gaceta Mexicana de Oncología 2565-005X |
Q4 | 0.112 | 9 | Permanyer | Mexico | 40 wk |
| 120 | SPERMOVA 2308-4928 |
Q4 | 0.104 | 4 | Asociación Peruana de Reproducción Animal | Peru | 9 wk |
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Where these journals come from
Top countries of publication
- Russian Federation 12
- United Kingdom 11
- United States 7
- India 7
- Ukraine 6
Top publishers
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 5
- Oxford University Press 4
- BMC 4
- Elsevier 3
- Endocrinology Research Centre 2
Main manuscript languages
- English 97
- Spanish 9
- Russian 7
- French 4
About this list
Diamond open access (also called Platinum) means the journal is free to read and free to publish in. The journals above are those the DOAJ records with "APC: no" and "other fees: no" and that SCImago lists under the subject area Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (a journal can belong to several areas). Quartiles come from SCImago's SJR ranking for the latest edition: Q1 is the top 25% of journals in a category, Q4 the bottom 25%. Journals that are in the DOAJ but not in Scopus have no quartile and are not counted here; the finder can show them too.
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