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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.

120journals with no APC
22ranked Q1 (top 25%)
19ranked Q2
79ranked Q3 or Q4
627more journals charge an APC
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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.

#JournalQuartileSJRH-indexPublisherCountryTime 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

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Where these journals come from

Top countries of publication

  1. Russian Federation 12
  2. United Kingdom 11
  3. United States 7
  4. India 7
  5. Ukraine 6

Top publishers

  1. Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 5
  2. Oxford University Press 4
  3. BMC 4
  4. Elsevier 3
  5. Endocrinology Research Centre 2

Main manuscript languages

  1. English 97
  2. Spanish 9
  3. Russian 7
  4. 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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