Favorite Journals

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

Weekly press

• Nature (43.070, 42.778, 49.962, 69.504, 64.8)(99.3%)
• Science (41.037, 41.845, 47.238, 63.798. 56.9)(97.9%)
• PNAS, Proceedings of the national academy of science of the USA (9.504, 9.580, 9.412, 11.250, 12.779)(88.51%)

Biweekly press

• Cell (31.398, 36.216, 38.637, 41.582, 66.850)(99.49%)
• Nucleic Acids Research (11.561, 11.147, 11.501, 16.971, 19.160)(97.47%)**
• Advanced Science (12.441, 15.804, 15.840, 16.806, 17.521)(94.06%) 3 issues/month(5/15/25)
• Clinical Cancer Research by AACR (10.199, 8.911, 10.107, 12.531, 13.801)(93.27%)
• Cancer Research by AACR (9.130, 8.378, 9.727, 12.701, 13.312)(92.04%)**
• Current Biology (9.251, 9.193, 9.601, 10.834, 10.900)(97.84%)**
• Bioinformatics (5.481, 4.531, 5.610, 6.937, 6.931)(92.11%)**

Monthly press

- Every first week of the month

• Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
• Nature Reviews Cancer
• Nature Reviews Immunology
• Nature Reviews Microbiology
• Nature Reviews Genetics
• Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
• Nature Microbiology (14.174, 14.300, 15.540, 17.745, 30.964)(96.69%)**
• Cancer Discovery by AACR (24.373, 26.370, 29.497, 39.397, 38.272)(96.53%)
• Gastroenterology(20.773, 19.809, 17.373, 22.682, 33.883)(97.31%)
• GUT(17.016, 17.943, 19.819, 23.059, 31.840)(96.24%)
• Am. J. Gastroenterology(10.231, 10.241, 10.171, 10.864, 12.045)(90.86%)
• Journal of Hepatology(15.040, 18.946, 20.582, 25.083, 30.083)(95.16%)
• Hepatology(14.079, 14.971, 14.679, 17.425, 17.298)(94.09%)
• Cancer Immunology Research by AACR (9.188, 8.619, 8.728, 11.151, 12.020)(89.18%)
• Journal of Clinical Investigation(13.251, 12.282, 11.864, 14.808, 19.456)(98.92%)
• Journal of Experimental Medicine(10.790, 10.892, 11.743, 14.307, 17.579)(97.48%)
• Journal of Thoracic Oncology(10.340, 12.460, 13.357, 15.609, 20.121)(94.90%)
• Cellular & Molecular Immunology(7.551, 8.213, 8.484, 11.530, 22.096)(96.58%)
• Cancer Communications(-, -, 5.627, 10.391, 15.253)(93.67%)

- Online publication (but check once per month)

• International Journal of Oral Science (4.138, 2.750, 3.047, 6.044, 29.897)(99.46%)**
• Molecular Cancer(7.776, 10.679, 15.302, 27.401, 44.444)(99.16%)**
• Genome Biology (13.214, 14.028, 10.806, 13.583, 18.011)(98.00%)**
• Microbiome(9.133, 10.465, 11.607, 14.650, 16.837)(93.75%)**
• Nature Communications (12.353, 11.878, 12.121, 14.919, 17.694)(92.47%)**
• Genome Medicine (8.898, 10.886, 10.675, 11.117, 15.266)(97.43%)**
• Molecular Systems Biology (8.500, 9.800, 8.991, 11.429, 13.068)(93.43%)
• Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (8.374, 8.676, 9.913,13.751, 12.487)(90.00%)
• Research (-, -, -, -, 11.036)(87.16%)
• Gut Microbes (-, 7.823, 7.740, 10.245, 9.434)(86.40%)**
• npj Biofilms and Microbiomes(4.128, 6.333, 7.067, 7.290, 8.462)(89.56%)
• Communications Biology(-, -, 4.165, 6.268, 6.548)(84.57%)**
• Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (4.148, 4.720, 6.018, 7.271, 6.155)(76.52%)

- Every second week of the month

• Nature Biotechnology (41.667, 35.724, 31.864, 36.558, 54.908)(99.06%)
• Nature Genetics (27.125, 25.455, 27.603, 38.330, 41.379)(99.14%)
• Nature Methods (26.919, 28.467, 30.822, 28.547, 47.990)(99.37%)**
• Nature Immunology (21.809, 23.530, 20.479, 25.606, 31.250)(97.83%)
• Nature Protocols (12.423, 11.334, 10.419, 13.491, 17.021)(98.10%)
• Cell Metabolism(20.565, 22.415, 21.567, 27.287, 31.373)(98.29%)
• Science Translational Medicine (16.710, 17.161, 16.304, 17.956, 19.359)(98.20%)
• Science Immunology (-, 10.551, 13.440, 17.727, 30.663)(97.20%)**
• Science Advances (11.511, 12.804, 13.116, 14.136, 14.972)(91.10%)**
• Clinical and Translational Medicine (-, -, 7.919, 11.492, 8.554)(83.47%)
• Cell Genomics Since Oct 2021

- Every third week of the month

• Nature Medicine (30.641, 36.130, 53.440, 68.164, 87.241) (99.83%)**
• Immunity (19.734, 21.522, 22.553, 31.745, 43.474)(99.07%)
• Nature Biomedical Engineering(-, 17.135, 18.952, 25.671, 29.234)(99.49%)
• Cancer Cell (22.844, 23.916, 26.602, 31.743, 38.585) (97.68%)
• Cell Host and Microbe (17.872, 15.753, 15.923, 21.023, 31.316)(98.72%)
• Cell Reports Medicine (-, -, -, -, 16.988) (96.76%)
• Cell Systems (8.982, 8.640, 8.673, 10.304, 11.091)(91.72%)
• Patterns By Cell; Since April 2020
• Med By Cell; Since Dec 2020
• Cell Reports Methods Since May 2021

- Every last week of the month

• Nature Metabolism (-, -, -, 13.511, 19.950)(96.92%)
• Nature Cancer (-, -, -, -, 23.177)(95.71%)
• Genome Research (10.101, 9.944, 11.093, 9.043, 9.438)(94.00%)
• Cell Reports (8.032, 7.815, 8.109, 9.413, 9.995)(83.33%)
• Experimental & Molecular Medicine(5.584, 4.743, 5.418, 8.718, 12.178)(93.07%)**
• iScience(-, -, 4.447, 5.458, 6.107)(80.14%)
• Nature Computational Science Since Jan 2021

- Email alert

• PLoS Biology (9.163, 8.386, 7.067, 8.029, 9.593)(94.15%)
• PLoS Computational Biology (3.955, 4.428, 4.700, 4.475, 4.779)(85.09%)
• bioRxiv Preprint server for Biology
• medRxiv Preprint server for Health Science

Bimonthly press

• Briefings in Bioinformatics (6.302, 9.101, 8.990, 11.622, 13.994)(99.12%)**
• Journal of Advanced Research (4.327, 5.045, 6.992, 10.479, 12.822)(89.73%)
• Microbiology Spectrum(-, 4.218, 5.465, 7.171, 9.043)(85.66%)**
• mSystems (5.750, 6.519, 6.633, 6.496, 7.331)(80.51%)**
• Immune Network (2.524, 3.111, 3.637, 6.303, 5.851)(64.91%)
• NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics new journal
• iMeta new journal (since 2022)

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