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Journals for “Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction”
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 | Metabolic Engineering Elsevier BV · United States | 100% | 85.3 | #780 | 750 | 47% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Metabolic Engineering Communications Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 99% | 69.2 | #7,270 | 106 | 100% | US$4,040 |
| 3 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 76% | 88.0 | #433 | 811 | 63% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Microbial Cell Factories BioMed Central · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 75% | 85.7 | #728 | 1,414 | 100% | 2,990 EUR |
| 5 | Biotechnology Notes Elsevier BV · China · DOAJ | 83% | 63.8 | #10,534 | 93 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology Elsevier BV · China · DOAJ | 72% | 74.1 | #4,531 | 542 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Engineering Biology Institution of Engineering and Technology · United States · DOAJ | 79% | 52.7 | #17,577 | 51 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing Springer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 70% | 67.2 | #8,456 | 387 | 8% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Critical Reviews in Biotechnology Taylor & Francis · United States | 57% | 84.9 | #854 | 382 | 20% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology Springer Science+Business Media · Germany · DOAJ | 60% | 78.8 | #2,585 | 254 | 100% | US$2,756 |
| 11 | Trends in biotechnology Elsevier BV · United States | 55% | 87.7 | #466 | 963 | 43% | Not recorded |
| 12 | SynBio Switzerland · DOAJ | 74% | 49.1 | #20,193 | 60 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 13 | Bioresources and Bioprocessing Springer Science+Business Media · Germany · DOAJ | 58% | 79.4 | #2,356 | 633 | 100% | 1,690 EUR |
| 14 | Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering Springer Science+Business Media · Germany | 58% | 79.0 | #2,476 | 789 | 18% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Biotechnology Advances Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 49% | 89.8 | #267 | 842 | 36% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Microbial Biotechnology Wiley · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 51% | 83.9 | #1,052 | 1,184 | 100% | US$4,260 |
| 17 | Engineering Microbiology Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 58% | 66.8 | #8,683 | 156 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering Springer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 55% | 72.7 | #5,322 | 487 | 12% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology Springer Science+Business Media · United States | 48% | 78.9 | #2,529 | 1,961 | 12% | Not recorded |
| 20 | ACS Synthetic Biology American Chemical Society · United States | 46% | 82.2 | #1,448 | 2,036 | 44% | Not recorded |
| 21 | New Biotechnology Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 51% | 71.7 | #5,830 | 820 | 98% | US$3,180 |
| 22 | AMB Express Springer Nature · Germany · DOAJ | 45% | 77.5 | #3,096 | 832 | 100% | 2,690 EUR |
| 23 | Engineering in Life Sciences Wiley · Germany · DOAJ | 47% | 70.0 | #6,804 | 420 | 100% | 2,810 EUR |
| 24 | Biotechnology Journal Wiley · Germany | 41% | 80.7 | #1,931 | 1,069 | 48% | Not recorded |
| 25 | FEMS Yeast Research Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 42% | 76.8 | #3,379 | 309 | 93% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering Wiley · United States | 39% | 82.1 | #1,490 | 1,593 | 55% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Electronic Journal of Biotechnology Elsevier BV · Chile · DOAJ | 44% | 71.6 | #5,906 | 227 | 100% | US$2,700 |
| 28 | Biochemical Engineering Journal Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 37% | 80.7 | #1,922 | 1,730 | 23% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Fermentation Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland · DOAJ | 35% | 81.6 | #1,635 | 3,496 | 100% | 2,600 CHF |
| 30 | Biotechnology Reports Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 36% | 79.7 | #2,261 | 350 | 100% | US$3,630 |
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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.