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 (9.580, 9.412, 11.250, 12.779, 11.1)(89.7%)

Biweekly press

• Cell (36.216, 38.637, 41.582, 66.850, 64.5)(99.5%)
• Nucleic Acids Research (11.147, 11.501, 16.971, 19.160, 14.9)(96.7%)**
• Clinical Cancer Research by AACR (8.911, 10.107, 12.531, 13.801, 11.5)(91.1%)
• Cancer Research by AACR (8.378, 9.727, 12.701, 13.312, 11.2)(89.8%)**
• Bioinformatics (4.531, 5.610, 6.937, 6.931, 5.8)(90.3%)**

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
• LANCET Microbe(-, -, -, 86.2, 38.2)(98.9%)**
• Nature Microbiology (14.300, 15.540, 17.745, 30.964, 28.3)(96.7%)**
• Cancer Discovery by AACR (26.370, 29.497, 39.397, 38.272, 28.2)(95.6%)
• Gastroenterology(19.809, 17.373, 22.682, 33.883, 29.4)(97.3%)
• GUT(17.943, 19.819, 23.059, 31.840, 24.5)(95.2%)
• Journal of Hepatology(18.946, 20.582, 25.083, 30.083, 25.7)(96.2%)
• Hepatology(14.971, 14.679, 17.425, 17.298, 13.5)(93.0%)
• Cancer Immunology Research by AACR (8.619, 8.728, 11.151, 12.020, 10.1)(88.5%)
• Journal of Thoracic Oncology(12.460, 13.357, 15.609, 20.121, 20.4)(94.8%)
• Cancer Communications(-, 5.627, 10.391, 15.253, 16.2)(94.0%)**
• Computers in Biology and Medicine(2.286, 3.434, 4.589, 6.698, 7.7)(93.6%)

- Online publication (but check once per month)

• Genome Biology (14.028, 10.806, 13.583, 18.011, 12.3)(97.4%)**
• Microbiome(10.465, 11.607, 14.650, 16.837, 15.5)(95.2%)**
• Nature Communications (11.878, 12.121, 14.919, 17.694, 16.6)(92.5%)**
• Genome Medicine (10.886, 10.675, 11.117, 15.266, 12.3)(97.4%)**
• Molecular Systems Biology (9.800, 8.991, 11.429, 13.068. 9.9)(90.4%)
• Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (8.676, 9.913,13.751, 12.487, 10.9)(89.1%)
• Gut Microbes (7.823, 7.740, 10.245, 9.434, 12.2)(92.2%)**
• npj Biofilms and Microbiomes(6.333, 7.067, 7.290, 8.462, 9.2)(92.0%)**
• Scientific Data(5.929, 5.941, 6.444, 8.501, 9.8)(85.6%)**
• Communications Biology(-, 4.165, 6.268, 6.548, 5.9)(87.5%)**
• Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (4.720, 6.018, 7.271, 6.155, 6.0)(79.1%)

- Every second week of the month

• Nature Biotechnology (35.724, 31.864, 36.558, 54.908, 46.9)(99.0%)
• Nature Genetics (25.455, 27.603, 38.330, 41.379, 30.8)(99.1%)
• Nature Methods (28.467, 30.822, 28.547, 47.990, 48.0)(99.4%)**
• Nature Immunology (23.530, 20.479, 25.606, 31.250, 30.5)(98.4%)
• Nature Protocols (11.334, 10.419, 13.491, 17.021, 14.8)(98.1%)
• Nature Aging (-, -. -. -. 16.6)(?%)
• Cell Metabolism(22.415, 21.567, 27.287, 31.373, 29.0)(98.3%)
• Science Translational Medicine (17.161, 16.304, 17.956, 19.359, 17.1)(98.9%)
• Science Immunology (10.551, 13.440, 17.727, 30.663, 24.8)(97.2%)**
• Science Advances (12.804, 13.116, 14.136, 14.972, 13.6)(91.1%)**
• Clinical and Translational Medicine (-, 7.919, 11.492, 8.554, 10.6)(90.1%)
• Cell Genomics Since Oct 2021

- Every third week of the month

• Nature Medicine (36.130, 53.440, 68.164, 87.241, 82.9) (99.8%)**
• Immunity (21.522, 22.553, 31.745, 43.474, 32.4)(99.1%)
• Cancer Cell (23.916, 26.602, 31.743, 38.585, 50.3) (98.2%)
• Cell Host and Microbe (15.753, 15.923, 21.023, 31.316, 30.3)(98.6%)
• Patterns (-, -, -, -, 6.5)(~97%)
• Med By Cell(-, -, -, -, 17.0)(~97%)

- Every last week of the month

• Nature Machine Intelligence (-, -, 15.508, 25.898, 23.8) (99.7%)**
• Nature Metabolism (-, -, 13.511, 19.950, 20.8)(97.6%)
• Nature Cancer (-, -, -, 23.177, 22.7)(95.2%)
• Cell Reports Medicine (-, -, -, 16.988, 14.3) (96.7%)
• Cell Systems (8.640, 8.673, 10.304, 11.091, 9.3)(89.6%)
• Genome Research (9.944, 11.093, 9.043, 9.438, 7.0)(88.8%)
• Cell Reports (7.815, 8.109, 9.413, 9.995, 8.8)(83.5%)
• Experimental & Molecular Medicine(4.743, 5.418, 8.718, 12.178, 12.8)(95.2%)**
• iScience(-, 4.447, 5.458, 6.107, 5.8)(80.1%)
• Nature Computational Science (-, -, -, -, 11.3)(~97%)
• Cell Reports Methods(-, -, -, -, 3.8)(?%)

- Email alert

• PLoS Biology (8.386, 7.067, 8.029, 9.593, 9.8)(96.2%)
• PLoS Computational Biology (4.428, 4.700, 4.475, 4.779, 4.3)(82.7%)
• bioRxiv Preprint server for Biology
• medRxiv Preprint server for Health Science

Bimonthly press

• Briefings in Bioinformatics (9.101, 8.990, 11.622, 13.994, 9.5)(96.8%)**
• Journal of Advanced Research (5.045, 6.992, 10.479, 12.822, 10.7)(87.0%)
• mSystems (6.519, 6.633, 6.496, 7.331, 6.4)(82.6%)**
• GigaScience (4.688, 5.993, 6.524, 7.658, 9.2)(82.9%)
• NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics (-, -, -, -, 4.6)(?%)
• iMeta new journal (since 2022)

Other Journals

• Advanced Science (15.804, 15.840, 16.806, 17.521, 15.1)(93.1%) 3 issues/month(5/15/25)
• Am. J. Gastroenterology(10.241, 10.171, 10.864, 12.045, 9.8)(89.8%)
• Cellular & Molecular Immunology(8.213, 8.484, 11.530, 22.096, 24.1)(96.6%)
• eBioMedicine(6.680, 5.730, 8.143, 11.205, 11.1)(93%)**
• EMBO Molecular Medicine(10.624, 8.821, 12.237, 14.005, 11.1)(93%)**
• ISME Journal(9.493, 9.180, 10.302, 11.217, 11.0)(97.3%)
• Protein Science(2.420, 3.876, 6.725, 6.993, 8.0)(87.0%)
• International Journal of Oral Science (2.750, 3.047, 6.044, 29.897, 14.9)(98.4%)**
• Molecular Cancer(10.679, 15.302, 27.401, 44.444, 37.3)(98.4%)**
• Journal of Hematology & Oncology(8.731, 11.059, 17.388, 23.168, 28.5)(99.4%)**
• Research (-, -, -, 11.036, 11.0)(88.4%)
• Nature Biomedical Engineering(17.135, 18.952, 25.671, 29.234, 28.1)(99.5%)

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