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Journals for “RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RNA Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press · United States | 100% | 78.7 | #2,591 | 656 | 98% | Not recorded |
| 2 | RNA Biology Taylor & Francis · United States · DOAJ | 71% | 78.9 | #2,543 | 546 | 100% | US$3,650 |
| 3 | Current Opinion in Structural Biology Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 65% | 87.0 | #554 | 863 | 67% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA Wiley · United Kingdom | 71% | 75.9 | #3,735 | 309 | 51% | Not recorded |
| 5 | Nature Chemical Biology Nature Portfolio · United States | 61% | 90.1 | #242 | 1,405 | 44% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Annual Review of Biophysics Annual Reviews · United States | 58% | 80.4 | #2,044 | 123 | 88% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Molecular Biology Pleiades Publishing · The Netherlands | 65% | 60.7 | #12,466 | 867 | 27% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Molecular Cell Elsevier BV · United States | 46% | 94.2 | #58 | 2,037 | 75% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Biomolecular NMR Assignments Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands | 66% | 55.5 | #15,799 | 268 | 60% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Synthetic Biology Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 59% | 64.0 | #10,415 | 125 | 100% | US$3,171 |
| 11 | Nature Communications Nature Portfolio · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 39% | 98.7 | #5 | 47,557 | 100% | 6,150 EUR |
| 12 | Nature Protocols Nature Portfolio · United States | 41% | 94.5 | #52 | 844 | 48% | Not recorded |
| 13 | ACS Synthetic Biology American Chemical Society · United States | 47% | 82.2 | #1,448 | 2,036 | 44% | Not recorded |
| 14 | NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 50% | 73.7 | #4,798 | 755 | 100% | US$2,633 |
| 15 | DNA Research University of Oxford · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 50% | 70.0 | #6,794 | 187 | 100% | US$1,300 |
| 16 | Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Nature Portfolio · United States | 39% | 90.6 | #207 | 1,185 | 65% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press · United States | 41% | 85.4 | #761 | 354 | 89% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Methods Elsevier BV · United States | 44% | 80.6 | #1,969 | 852 | 37% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal Elsevier BV · Sweden · DOAJ | 41% | 84.3 | #976 | 2,695 | 100% | US$3,450 |
| 20 | Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Taylor & Francis · United States | 45% | 77.5 | #3,095 | 3,817 | 16% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Protein Science Wiley · United Kingdom | 42% | 81.1 | #1,801 | 1,777 | 94% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Nucleic Acids Research Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 33% | 97.0 | #18 | 6,700 | 100% | US$4,192 |
| 23 | Biology Direct BioMed Central · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 44% | 76.0 | #3,711 | 426 | 100% | 2,590 EUR |
| 24 | Molecules and Cells Springer Science+Business Media · Singapore · DOAJ | 40% | 81.1 | #1,783 | 506 | 100% | US$2,500 |
| 25 | Current Opinion in Chemical Biology Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 37% | 84.9 | #853 | 498 | 59% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Cell chemical biology Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 38% | 83.7 | #1,108 | 788 | 66% | Not recorded |
| 27 | FEBS Journal Wiley · United Kingdom | 39% | 81.6 | #1,620 | 2,210 | 69% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Current Research in Structural Biology Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 46% | 67.0 | #8,553 | 149 | 100% | US$3,060 |
| 29 | Transcription Taylor & Francis · United States | 49% | 60.5 | #12,611 | 66 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Biomolecules Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland · DOAJ | 34% | 87.2 | #531 | 9,071 | 100% | 2,700 CHF |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.