Favorite Journals

Journal name (IF 2013 - 2016) (2016JCR top%)

Weekly press

• Nature (42.351, 41.456, 38.138, 40.137, 41.577)(0.8%)
• Science (31.477, 33.611, 34.661, 37.205, 41.058)(2.3%)

Biweekly press

• Cell (33.116, 32.242, 28.710, 30.410, 31.398)(0.5%)
• Nucleic Acids Research (8.808, 9.112, 9.202, 10.162, 11.561) (3.3%)**
• Clinical Cancer Research by AACR (8.193, 8.722, 8.738, 9.619, 10.199) (5.2%)**
• Cancer Research by AACR (9.284, 9.329, 8.556, 9.122, 9.130)(7.4%)
• Bioinformatics (4.621, 4.981, 5.766, 7.307, 5.481)(4.3%)
• Cell Reports (7.207, 8.358, 7.870, 8.282, 8.032)(14.5%)

Monthly press

- Published in the first week

• Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
• Nature Reviews Cancer
• Nature Reviews Immunology
• Nature Reviews Microbiology
• Nature Reviews Genetics
• Nature Immunology (24.973, 20.004, 19.381, 21.506, 21.809)(1.6%)
• Nature Methods (25.953, 32.072, 25.328, 25.062, 26.919)(0.6%)
• Nature Protocols (7.782, 9.673, 9.646, 10.032, 12.423)(1.9%)
• Nature Microbiology (-, -, -, -, 14.174)(2.8%)
• Genome Research (13.852, 14.630, 11.351, 11.922, 10.101)(3.5%)
• Cancer Discovery by AACR (19.453, 19.783, 20.011, 24.373)(2.5%)
• Cancer Immunology Research by AACR (-, 3.857, 6.665, 8.284, 9.188)(6.1%)

- Continuous publication (but check once per month)

• Genome Biology (10.465, 10.810, 11.313, 11.908, 13.214)(2.1%)
• Nature Communications (10.742, 11.470, 11.329, 12.124, 12.353)(3.9%)
• Science Advances(-, -, -, -, 11.511)(5.4%)
• Molecular Systems Biology (14.099, 10.872, 10.581, 9.750, 8.500)(7.1%)
• Genome Medicine (4.94, 5.338, 5.700, 7.071, 8.898)(6.2%)
• Scientific Reports (5.078, 5.578, 5.228, 4.259, 4.122)(17.9%)
• Communications Biology(a new life-science journal from Nature)
• iScience(a new interdisciplinary journal from Cell Press)

- Published in the forth week

• Nature Biotechnology (39.080, 41.514, 43.113, 41.667, 35.724)(0.9%)
• Nature Genetics (29.648, 29.352, 31.616, 27.959, 27.125)(0.9%)
• Cancer Cell (23.893, 23.523, 23.214, 27.407, 22.844) (2.4%)
• Cell Host and Microbe (12.194, 12.328, 12.552, 14.946, 17.872)(1.4%)
• Immunity (19.748, 21.561, 24.082, 22.845, 19.734)(2.3%)
• Annals of Oncology(-, 7.040, 9.269, 11.855, 13.926)(3.8%)
• Cell Systems (-, -, -, 8.406, 8.982)(6.4%)

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• PLoS Biology (11.771, 9.343, 8.668, 9.797, 9.163)(2.9%)
• PLoS Genetics (8.167, 7.528 , 6.661, 6.100, 5.540)(12.6%)
• PLoS Computational Biology (4.829, 4.620, 4.587, 4.542, 3.955)(7.6%)
• bioXriv Preprint server for Biology

Bimonthly press

• Briefings in Bioinformatics (5.919, 9.617, 8.399, 5.134)(4.4%)
• Current Opinion in Systems Biology a new journal

Others

-Bioinformatics/Systems biology

• BMC Genomics (4.041, 3.986, 3.867, 3.729)(20.6%)
• BMC Bioinformatics (2.672, 2.576, 2.435, 2.448)(16.6%)
• DATABASE: The journal of biological databases and curation (4.457, 3.372, 2.627, 3.290)(13.2%)

-Human Genetics

• Human Molecular Genetics (6.677, 6.393, 5.985, 5.340)(13.6%)
• DNA Research (4.975, 5.477, 5.267, 5.404)(13%)

-Plant biology

• Nature Plant(10.300)(1.6%)
• Molecular Plant (6.605, 6.337, 7.142, 8.827)(2.2%)
• Plant Cell (9.575, 9.338, 8.538, 8.688)(2.6%)
• Current Opinion in Plant Biology (9.385, 7.848, 6.780, 7.357)(3.6%)
• New Phytologist (6.373, 7.672, 7.210, 7.330) (4.1%)
• Plant Physiology (7.394, 6.841, 6.280, 6.456) (4.9%) accept Breakthrough Technology articles
• Plant Journal (6.815, 5.972, 5.468, 5.901) (5.9%) accept Resource Articles
• Molecular plant-microbe interactions(4.455, 3.944, 4.145, 4.332)(8.8%)

-Other journals

• Molecules and Cells (2.090, 2.670, 3.054)(Q2)
• BMB Reports (2.595, 2.782, 3.089)(Q2)
• Animal Cells and Systems (0.350, 0.440, 0.481, 0.376)(Q4)

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