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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2023Q2
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20230.724
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
201525
201636
201741
201841
201932
202042
202132
202241
202335
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20150.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20160.960
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20171.492
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20181.333
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20191.168
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20201.533
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20212.032
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20222.694
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20232.714
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20150.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20160.960
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20171.492
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20181.333
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20191.127
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20201.561
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20212.287
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20222.660
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20232.852
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20150.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20160.960
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20171.492
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20181.247
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20191.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20201.644
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20211.865
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20222.838
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20232.808
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20150
Self Cites20160
Self Cites201715
Self Cites20189
Self Cites20199
Self Cites202010
Self Cites20214
Self Cites20226
Self Cites20234
Total Cites20150
Total Cites201624
Total Cites201791
Total Cites2018136
Total Cites2019133
Total Cites2020178
Total Cites2021263
Total Cites2022282
Total Cites2023328
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20150
External Cites per document20160.960
External Cites per document20171.246
External Cites per document20181.245
External Cites per document20191.051
External Cites per document20201.474
External Cites per document20212.252
External Cites per document20222.604
External Cites per document20232.817
Cites per document20150.000
Cites per document20160.960
Cites per document20171.492
Cites per document20181.333
Cites per document20191.127
Cites per document20201.561
Cites per document20212.287
Cites per document20222.660
Cites per document20232.852
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
20150.00
20162.78
20172.44
20180.00
20196.25
20204.76
20219.38
20227.32
202311.43
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20150
Non-citable documents20167
Non-citable documents201710
Non-citable documents201810
Non-citable documents20194
Non-citable documents20202
Non-citable documents20212
Non-citable documents20221
Non-citable documents20230
Citable documents20150
Citable documents201618
Citable documents201751
Citable documents201892
Citable documents2019114
Citable documents2020112
Citable documents2021113
Citable documents2022105
Citable documents2023115
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20150
Uncited documents20167
Uncited documents201718
Uncited documents201841
Uncited documents201949
Uncited documents202047
Uncited documents202144
Uncited documents202230
Uncited documents202338
Cited documents20150
Cited documents201618
Cited documents201743
Cited documents201861
Cited documents201969
Cited documents202067
Cited documents202171
Cited documents202276
Cited documents202377
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201539.51
201633.73
201733.12
201840.00
201934.87
202041.90
202138.06
202241.60
202340.88
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20151
Overton20161
Overton20170
Overton20181
Overton20190
Overton20201
Overton20210
Overton20221
Overton20230
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG201816
SDG201911
SDG202011
SDG202111
SDG202213
SDG202315
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