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| Journal | Subsubject | JIF | 5-Year JIF | JCI | Quartile | Publisher |
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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN 1740-1526 eISSN 1740-1534
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Microbiology | 103.300 | 99.100 | 9.860 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
ISSN 1471-0072 eISSN 1471-0080
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 90.200 | 128.700 | 7.940 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 1474-1733 eISSN 1474-1741
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Immunology | 60.900 | 77.600 | 7.860 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS
ISSN 1471-0056 eISSN 1471-0064
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Genetics & Genomics | 52.000 | 57.100 | 6.660 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN 1087-0156 eISSN 1546-1696
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 41.700 | 59.500 | 8.570 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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Annual Review of Immunology
ISSN 0732-0582 eISSN 1545-3278
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Immunology | 33.300 | 37.700 | 3.640 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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NATURE GENETICS
ISSN 1061-4036 eISSN 1546-1718
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Genetics & Genomics | 29.000 | 37.400 | 9.000 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 1529-2908 eISSN 1529-2916
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Immunology | 27.600 | 29.200 | 5.370 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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Annual Review of Plant Biology
ISSN 1543-5008 eISSN 1545-2123
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Botany & Plant Science | 26.500 | 30.500 | 2.750 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
ISSN 1360-1385 eISSN 1878-4372
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Botany & Plant Science | 20.800 | 21.300 | 1.990 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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Annual Review of Biochemistry
ISSN 0066-4154 eISSN 1545-4509
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 20.500 | 24.900 | 1.720 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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Cellular & Molecular Immunology
ISSN 1672-7681 eISSN 2042-0226
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Immunology | 19.800 | 22.600 | 2.740 | Q1 | CHIN SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY |
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Nature Microbiology
ISSN 2058-5276 eISSN 2058-5276
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Microbiology | 19.400 | 20.700 | 4.830 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
ISSN 0893-8512 eISSN 1098-6618
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Microbiology | 19.300 | 33.300 | 1.990 | Q1 | AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY |
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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
ISSN 1465-7392 eISSN 1476-4679
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 19.100 | 22.600 | 3.040 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY
ISSN 0962-8924 eISSN 1879-3088
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 18.100 | 20.100 | 1.450 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
ISSN 0169-5347 eISSN 1872-8383
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Ecology & Evolution | 17.300 | 18.700 | 2.130 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY
ISSN 0166-0616 eISSN 1872-9797
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Microbiology | 17.100 | 22.200 | 4.820 | Q1 | WESTERDIJK FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY INST |
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Science Immunology
ISSN 2470-9468 eISSN 2470-9468
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Immunology | 16.300 | 17.700 | 3.810 | Q1 | AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE |
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TRENDS IN GENETICS
ISSN 0168-9525 eISSN 1362-4555
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Genetics & Genomics | 16.300 | 13.700 | 1.970 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN 0167-7799 eISSN 1879-3096
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 14.900 | 16.600 | 1.680 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN 0966-842X eISSN 1878-4380
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Microbiology | 14.900 | 16.900 | 1.520 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
ISSN 2397-334X eISSN 2397-334X
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Ecology & Evolution | 14.500 | 17.600 | 3.970 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 1471-4906 eISSN 1471-4981
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Immunology | 13.900 | 15.200 | 1.380 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN N/A eISSN 1477-3155
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 12.600 | 12.300 | 1.800 | Q1 | BMC |
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BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
ISSN 0734-9750 eISSN 1873-1899
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 12.500 | 15.700 | 1.510 | Q1 | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
ISSN 0168-6445 eISSN 1574-6976
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Microbiology | 12.300 | 13.400 | 1.300 | Q1 | OXFORD UNIV PRESS |
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
ISSN 1089-778X eISSN 1941-0026
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Ecology & Evolution | 12.000 | 14.500 | 2.910 | Q1 | IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC |
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Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
ISSN 1543-592X eISSN 1545-2069
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Ecology & Evolution | 11.400 | 0.000 | 1.280 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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CLINICAL REVIEWS IN ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 1080-0549 eISSN 1559-0267
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Immunology | 11.300 | 11.800 | 1.740 | Q1 | HUMANA PRESS INC |
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JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 0091-6749 eISSN 1097-6825
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Immunology | 11.200 | 10.500 | 2.420 | Q1 | MOSBY-ELSEVIER |
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TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES
ISSN 0968-0004 eISSN 1362-4326
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 11.000 | 12.900 | 1.320 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
ISSN 1467-7644 eISSN 1467-7652
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 10.500 | 12.400 | 2.260 | Q1 | WILEY |
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SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
ISSN 0038-0717 eISSN 1879-3428
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 10.300 | 11.500 | 2.370 | Q1 | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
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CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LETTERS
ISSN 1425-8153 eISSN 1689-1392
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 10.200 | 9.400 | 1.470 | Q1 | BMC |
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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ISSN 1545-9993 eISSN 1545-9985
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 10.100 | 12.100 | 2.520 | Q1 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
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Annual Review of Microbiology
ISSN 0066-4227 eISSN 1545-3251
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Microbiology | 9.900 | 13.300 | 1.050 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
ISSN 1672-9072 eISSN 1744-7909
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Botany & Plant Science | 9.300 | 10.800 | 2.070 | Q1 | WILEY |
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Cell Genomics
ISSN 2666-979X eISSN 2666-979X
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Genetics & Genomics | 9.000 | 9.300 | 2.090 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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Annual Review of Genetics
ISSN 0066-4197 eISSN 1545-2948
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Genetics & Genomics | 8.600 | 13.100 | 1.160 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
ISSN 2210-6502 eISSN 2210-6510
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Ecology & Evolution | 8.500 | 8.800 | 1.980 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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Annual Review of Virology
ISSN 2327-056X eISSN 2327-0578
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Microbiology | 8.300 | 11.900 | 1.710 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS
ISSN 0105-2896 eISSN 1600-065X
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Immunology | 8.300 | 9.100 | 0.920 | Q1 | WILEY |
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
ISSN 1939-5116 eISSN 1939-0041
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 8.200 | 8.800 | 0.700 | Q1 | WILEY |
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
ISSN 0002-9297 eISSN 1537-6605
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Genetics & Genomics | 8.100 | 9.600 | 2.300 | Q1 | CELL PRESS |
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Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
ISSN 1527-8204 eISSN 1545-293X
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Genetics & Genomics | 7.900 | 9.400 | 1.110 | Q1 | ANNUAL REVIEWS |
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ECOLOGY LETTERS
ISSN 1461-023X eISSN 1461-0248
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Ecology & Evolution | 7.900 | 9.400 | 2.010 | Q1 | WILEY |
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GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS
ISSN 1672-0229 eISSN 2210-3244
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Genetics & Genomics | 7.900 | 9.100 | 2.640 | Q1 | OXFORD UNIV PRESS |
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MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS
ISSN 1092-2172 eISSN 1098-5557
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Microbiology | 7.800 | 12.200 | 0.970 | Q1 | AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY |
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SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 1044-5323 eISSN 1096-3618
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Immunology | 7.800 | 9.300 | 0.920 | Q1 | ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN 0738-8551 eISSN 1549-7801
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 7.700 | 10.100 | 0.950 | Q1 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
ISSN 1350-4509 eISSN 1745-2627
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Ecology & Evolution | 7.700 | 6.300 | 1.760 | Q1 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
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FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
ISSN 1540-9295 eISSN 1540-9309
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Ecology & Evolution | 7.600 | 11.900 | 1.670 | Q1 | WILEY |
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Mucosal Immunology
ISSN 1933-0219 eISSN 1935-3456
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Immunology | 7.600 | 7.800 | 1.310 | Q1 | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC |
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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN 1369-5274 eISSN 1879-0364
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Microbiology | 7.500 | 8.300 | 0.790 | Q1 | CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD |
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CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
ISSN 1369-5266 eISSN 1879-0356
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Botany & Plant Science | 7.500 | 9.100 | 0.910 | Q1 | CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD |
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ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS
ISSN 0012-9615 eISSN 1557-7015
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Ecology & Evolution | 7.500 | 9.000 | 1.970 | Q1 | WILEY |
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Ecological Indicators
ISSN 1470-160X eISSN 1872-7034
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Ecology & Evolution | 7.400 | 7.200 | 1.730 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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Ecological Informatics
ISSN 1574-9541 eISSN 1878-0512
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Ecology & Evolution | 7.300 | 7.100 | 2.000 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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Acta Ecologica Sinica
ISSN 1872-2032 eISSN 1872-2032
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Ecology & Evolution | 7.100 | 11.500 | 0.820 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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Journal of Genetics and Genomics
ISSN 1673-8527 eISSN 1873-5533
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Genetics & Genomics | 7.100 | 6.400 | 1.200 | Q1 | SCIENCE PRESS |
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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN 0958-1669 eISSN 1879-0429
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 7.000 | 8.300 | 0.950 | Q1 | ELSEVIER SCI LTD |
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MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
ISSN 0944-5013 eISSN 1618-0623
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Microbiology | 6.900 | 7.200 | 1.310 | Q1 | ELSEVIER GMBH |
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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology-In Practice
ISSN 2213-2198 eISSN 2213-2201
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Immunology | 6.600 | 7.600 | 1.440 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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REVIEWS IN MEDICAL VIROLOGY
ISSN 1052-9276 eISSN 1099-1654
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Microbiology | 6.600 | 7.200 | 1.070 | Q1 | WILEY |
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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology
ISSN 1674-9782 eISSN 2049-1891
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 6.500 | 7.200 | 2.530 | Q1 | BMC |
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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ISSN 1040-9238 eISSN 1549-7798
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 6.400 | 8.200 | 0.670 | Q1 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
ISSN 0021-9525 eISSN 1540-8140
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 6.400 | 7.200 | 1.080 | Q1 | ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS |
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ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
ISSN 0921-8009 eISSN 1873-6106
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Ecology & Evolution | 6.300 | 7.300 | 1.560 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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OncoImmunology
ISSN 2162-402X eISSN 2162-402X
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Immunology | 6.300 | 6.500 | 1.360 | Q1 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution
ISSN 2041-210X eISSN 2041-2096
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Ecology & Evolution | 6.200 | 9.300 | 1.670 | Q1 | WILEY |
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GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
ISSN 1466-822X eISSN 1466-8238
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Ecology & Evolution | 6.000 | 7.100 | 1.620 | Q1 | WILEY |
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CELL BIOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
ISSN 0742-2091 eISSN 1573-6822
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 5.900 | 6.100 | 1.110 | Q1 | SPRINGER |
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Frontiers in Immunology
ISSN 1664-3224 eISSN 1664-3224
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Immunology | 5.900 | 6.800 | 1.020 | Q1 | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA |
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Journal of Molecular Cell Biology
ISSN 1674-2788 eISSN 1759-4685
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 5.900 | 6.700 | 0.740 | Q2 | OXFORD UNIV PRESS |
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CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 0952-7915 eISSN 1879-0372
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Immunology | 5.800 | 6.500 | 0.720 | Q1 | CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD |
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Essays in Biochemistry
ISSN 0071-1365 eISSN 1744-1358
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 5.700 | 0.000 | 0.670 | Q1 | PORTLAND PRESS LTD |
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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 0271-9142 eISSN 1573-2592
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Immunology | 5.700 | 5.600 | 1.190 | Q1 | SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS |
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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
ISSN 0022-0957 eISSN 1460-2431
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Botany & Plant Science | 5.700 | 6.800 | 1.260 | Q1 | OXFORD UNIV PRESS |
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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
ISSN 0981-9428 eISSN 1873-2690
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 5.700 | 6.400 | 1.700 | Q1 | ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER |
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JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
ISSN 0022-0477 eISSN 1365-2745
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Ecology & Evolution | 5.600 | 6.500 | 1.400 | Q1 | WILEY |
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Journal of Oral Microbiology
ISSN N/A eISSN 2000-2297
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Microbiology | 5.500 | 5.100 | 1.150 | Q1 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
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Molecular Ecology Resources
ISSN 1755-098X eISSN 1755-0998
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Ecology & Evolution | 5.500 | 8.000 | 1.500 | Q1 | WILEY |
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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN 0095-1137 eISSN 1098-660X
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Microbiology | 5.400 | 5.500 | 1.350 | Q1 | AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY |
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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
ISSN 1088-1980 eISSN 1530-9290
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Ecology & Evolution | 5.400 | 7.100 | 0.860 | Q1 | WILEY |
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Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
ISSN 2642-9128 eISSN 2642-9128
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 5.300 | 3.400 | 1.130 | Q1 | FORTUNE JOURNALS |
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
ISSN 0737-4038 eISSN 1537-1719
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Molecular & Cell Biology | 5.300 | 11.900 | 2.230 | Q1 | OXFORD UNIV PRESS |
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Biodiversity Informatics
ISSN N/A eISSN 1546-9735
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Ecology & Evolution | 5.200 | 4.600 | 0.670 | Q1 | UNIV KANSAS, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM & BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CTR |
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN 0168-1605 eISSN 1879-3460
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Microbiology | 5.200 | 5.300 | 1.210 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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Microbial Biotechnology
ISSN 1751-7915 eISSN 1751-7915
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 5.200 | 5.900 | 1.000 | Q1 | WILEY |
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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN 1040-841X eISSN 1549-7828
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Microbiology | 5.100 | 7.500 | 0.640 | Q1 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
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Current Opinion in Virology
ISSN 1879-6257 eISSN 1879-6265
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Microbiology | 5.100 | 5.500 | 1.360 | Q1 | ELSEVIER SCI LTD |
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FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
ISSN 0269-8463 eISSN 1365-2435
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Ecology & Evolution | 5.100 | 5.700 | 1.240 | Q1 | WILEY |
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GENETICS
ISSN 0016-6731 eISSN 1943-2631
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Genetics & Genomics | 5.100 | 4.100 | 1.220 | Q1 | OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC |
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APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
ISSN 0929-1393 eISSN 1873-0272
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Ecology & Evolution | 5.000 | 5.400 | 1.130 | Q1 | ELSEVIER |
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Fire Ecology
ISSN 1933-9747 eISSN 1933-9747
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Ecology & Evolution | 5.000 | 5.700 | 1.540 | Q1 | SPRINGER |
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IMMUNOLOGY
ISSN 0019-2805 eISSN 1365-2567
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Immunology | 5.000 | 5.700 | 0.800 | Q1 | WILEY |
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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES
ISSN 0735-2689 eISSN 1549-7836
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Botany & Plant Science | 4.900 | 6.700 | 0.570 | Q1 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
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IET Nanobiotechnology
ISSN 1751-8741 eISSN 1751-875X
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 4.900 | 3.800 | 0.650 | Q1 | WILEY |
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JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY
ISSN 0955-2863 eISSN 1873-4847
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Biochemistry & Biotechnology | 4.900 | 5.500 | 1.080 | Q1 | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC |
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