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EMBO Journalopen access

Germany |Universities and research institutions |Media Ranking

Country

Universities and research institutions Media Ranking

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

SJR 2024

4.821 Q1

H-Index

441

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

02614189, 14602075

Coverage

1982-2025

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Scope

The EMBO Journal publishes papers describing original research of broad general interest in molecular and cell biology - a particular emphasis is placed on molecular mechanism and physiological relevance. The journal encourages and publishes articles that report novel findings of wide biological significance in the areas of: Ageing; Autophagy; Cancer; Cell Adhesion, Polarity & Cytoskeleton; Cell Cycle; Cell Death; Developmental Biology; DNA Replication, Repair & Recombination; Chromatin, Epigenetics & Genomics; Immunology; Membrane & Intracellular Transport; Metabolism; Microbiology, Virology & Host Pathogen Interaction; Molecular Biology of Disease; Neuroscience; Plant Biology; Post-translational Modifications, Proteolysis & Proteomics; RNA Biology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells; Structural Biology; Systems, Chemical & Computational Biology; Transcription; Protein Biosynthesis & Quality Control; Vascular Biology

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)1999Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2000Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2001Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2002Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2003Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2004Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2005Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2006Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2007Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2008Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2009Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2010Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2011Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2012Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2013Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2014Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2015Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2016Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2017Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2018Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2019Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2020Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2021Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2023Q1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)2024Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 1999Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2000Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2001Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2002Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2003Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2004Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2005Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2006Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2007Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2008Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2009Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2010Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2011Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2012Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2013Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2014Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2015Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2016Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2017Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2018Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2019Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2020Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2021Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2022Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2023Q1
Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) 2024Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)1999Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2000Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2001Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2002Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2003Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2004Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2005Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2006Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2007Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2008Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2009Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2010Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2011Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2012Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2013Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2014Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2015Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2016Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2017Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2018Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2019Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2020Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2021Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2023Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2024Q1
Molecular Biology1999Q1
Molecular Biology2000Q1
Molecular Biology2001Q1
Molecular Biology2002Q1
Molecular Biology2003Q1
Molecular Biology2004Q1
Molecular Biology2005Q1
Molecular Biology2006Q1
Molecular Biology2007Q1
Molecular Biology2008Q1
Molecular Biology2009Q1
Molecular Biology2010Q1
Molecular Biology2011Q1
Molecular Biology2012Q1
Molecular Biology2013Q1
Molecular Biology2014Q1
Molecular Biology2015Q1
Molecular Biology2016Q1
Molecular Biology2017Q1
Molecular Biology2018Q1
Molecular Biology2019Q1
Molecular Biology2020Q1
Molecular Biology2021Q1
Molecular Biology2022Q1
Molecular Biology2023Q1
Molecular Biology2024Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)1999Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2000Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2001Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2002Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2003Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2004Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2005Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2006Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2007Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2008Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2009Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2010Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2011Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2012Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2013Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2014Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2015Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2016Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2017Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2018Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2019Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2020Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2021Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2023Q1
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)2024Q1
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
199915.002
200013.298
200111.787
200210.695
200310.214
200410.164
20059.772
20069.818
20079.889
20089.337
20099.727
20109.481
20118.654
20128.427
20139.143
20148.272
20157.420
20166.758
20177.058
20187.579
20197.086
20207.484
20215.633
20225.484
20235.489
20244.821
Total Documents

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

YearDocuments
1999665
2000661
2001701
2002685
2003621
2004452
2005383
2006539
2007443
2008282
2009361
2010358
2011432
2012391
2013293
2014256
2015249
2016208
2017269
2018256
2019276
2020289
2021323
2022260
2023330
2024296
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 document199913.280
External Cites per document200013.261
External Cites per document200112.639
External Cites per document200211.116
External Cites per document200310.602
External Cites per document200410.736
External Cites per document200510.303
External Cites per document200610.296
External Cites per document20079.641
External Cites per document20088.820
External Cites per document20099.396
External Cites per document20109.358
External Cites per document20118.934
External Cites per document20129.437
External Cites per document20139.720
External Cites per document20149.264
External Cites per document20158.199
External Cites per document20167.699
External Cites per document20177.774
External Cites per document20188.404
External Cites per document20198.617
External Cites per document20209.532
External Cites per document202110.686
External Cites per document202210.384
External Cites per document20238.935
External Cites per document20248.673
Cites per document199913.842
Cites per document200013.777
Cites per document200113.142
Cites per document200211.555
Cites per document200310.911
Cites per document200410.962
Cites per document200510.489
Cites per document200610.587
Cites per document20079.839
Cites per document20088.949
Cites per document20099.549
Cites per document20109.517
Cites per document20119.110
Cites per document20129.608
Cites per document20139.837
Cites per document20149.365
Cites per document20158.312
Cites per document20167.815
Cites per document20177.872
Cites per document20188.521
Cites per document20198.707
Cites per document20209.645
Cites per document202110.834
Cites per document202210.486
Cites per document20239.070
Cites per document20248.752
% 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
199943.46
200040.85
200139.23
200218.83
200339.77
200441.59
200542.56
200645.27
200744.92
200845.04
200940.17
201040.50
201141.90
201242.46
201345.73
201437.89
201542.97
201642.79
201748.33
201851.56
201948.55
202053.63
202151.08
202250.77
202343.94
202451.35
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 documents199928
Uncited documents200025
Uncited documents200120
Uncited documents200230
Uncited documents200330
Uncited documents200427
Uncited documents200522
Uncited documents200619
Uncited documents200717
Uncited documents200810
Uncited documents200916
Uncited documents201027
Uncited documents201158
Uncited documents201274
Uncited documents201384
Uncited documents2014115
Uncited documents2015133
Uncited documents2016124
Uncited documents2017133
Uncited documents2018103
Uncited documents2019107
Uncited documents202096
Uncited documents202187
Uncited documents202286
Uncited documents202390
Uncited documents202474
Cited documents19992120
Cited documents20002063
Cited documents20012018
Cited documents20021997
Cited documents20032017
Cited documents20041980
Cited documents20051736
Cited documents20061437
Cited documents20071357
Cited documents20081355
Cited documents20091248
Cited documents20101059
Cited documents2011943
Cited documents20121077
Cited documents20131097
Cited documents20141001
Cited documents2015807
Cited documents2016674
Cited documents2017580
Cited documents2018623
Cited documents2019626
Cited documents2020705
Cited documents2021734
Cited documents2022802
Cited documents2023782
Cited documents2024839
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
199929.56
200030.22
200132.02
200231.72
200334.13
200431.10
200534.33
200633.99
200735.48
200835.41
200934.44
201035.50
201134.84
201235.42
201337.13
201437.34
201537.76
201639.28
201737.81
201837.81
201939.94
202040.70
202142.12
202240.02
202341.98
202441.88
Estimated APC

It estimates the article processing charges (APCs) a journal might charge, based on its visibility, prestige, and impact as measured by the SJR. It does not reflect the actual APC, but rather a calculated approximation based on journal quality.

YearEst. APC (USD)
19995486
20005427
20015370
20025319
20035280
20045200
20055139
20065103
20075088
20085071
20095063
20105057
20115034
20125005
20135001
20144971
20154927
20164886
20174854
20184817
20194789
20204790
20214762
20224722
20234666
20244601
Estimated financial value

It represents the potential financial worth of a journal. It is obtained by multiplying the journal's Estimated APC by the total number of citable documents published over the past five years. This value reflects the hypothetical revenue a journal could generate based on its estimated publication costs and scholarly output.

YearEst. value (USD)
19993647904
20007195863
200110884446
200214425889
200317599272
200416225419
200514604018
200613675072
200712403499
200810643923
200910165653
201010027964
20119444246
20129129215
20139177057
20148600164
20157987294
20166825054
20176189170
20185963963
20196024099
20206217686
20216729010
20226629394
20236895801
20246892578
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 Cites19991207
Self Cites20001079
Self Cites20011024
Self Cites2002889
Self Cites2003631
Self Cites2004454
Self Cites2005327
Self Cites2006424
Self Cites2007272
Self Cites2008177
Self Cites2009194
Self Cites2010173
Self Cites2011176
Self Cites2012197
Self Cites2013138
Self Cites2014112
Self Cites2015106
Self Cites201692
Self Cites201770
Self Cites201885
Self Cites201966
Self Cites202091
Self Cites2021122
Self Cites202291
Self Cites2023118
Self Cites202473
Total Cites199929732
Total Cites200028767
Total Cites200126783
Total Cites200223422
Total Cites200322334
Total Cites200422001
Total Cites200518440
Total Cites200615415
Total Cites200713519
Total Cites200812216
Total Cites200912070
Total Cites201010336
Total Cites20119119
Total Cites201211059
Total Cites201311617
Total Cites201410451
Total Cites20157813
Total Cites20166236
Total Cites20175613
Total Cites20186186
Total Cites20196382
Total Cites20207726
Total Cites20218895
Total Cites20229312
Total Cites20237909
Total Cites20247991
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)199913.842
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200013.248
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200112.956
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200212.008
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200311.267
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200410.993
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200510.507
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200610.454
Cites / Doc. (4 years)200710.017
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20089.363
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20099.703
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20109.444
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20119.134
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20129.873
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20139.719
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20149.222
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20158.582
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20168.167
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20178.020
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20188.221
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20198.249
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20209.843
Cites / Doc. (4 years)202111.333
Cites / Doc. (4 years)202210.182
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20239.348
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20248.941
Cites / Doc. (3 years)199913.842
Cites / Doc. (3 years)200013.777
Cites / Doc. (3 years)200113.142
Cites / Doc. (3 years)200211.555
Cites / Doc. (3 years)200310.911
Cites / Doc. (3 years)200410.962
Cites / Doc. (3 years)200510.489
Cites / Doc. (3 years)200610.587
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20079.839
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20088.949
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20099.549
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20109.517
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20119.110
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20129.608
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20139.837
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20149.365
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20158.312
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20167.815
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20177.872
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20188.521
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20198.707
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20209.645
Cites / Doc. (3 years)202110.834
Cites / Doc. (3 years)202210.486
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20239.070
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20248.752
Cites / Doc. (2 years)199913.867
Cites / Doc. (2 years)200013.896
Cites / Doc. (2 years)200112.299
Cites / Doc. (2 years)200210.765
Cites / Doc. (2 years)200310.701
Cites / Doc. (2 years)200410.755
Cites / Doc. (2 years)200510.353
Cites / Doc. (2 years)200610.622
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20079.068
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20088.598
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20099.324
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20109.663
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20118.616
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20129.291
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20139.800
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20149.020
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20157.723
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20167.305
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20178.015
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20189.044
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20198.232
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20208.564
Cites / Doc. (2 years)202111.081
Cites / Doc. (2 years)202210.203
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20238.379
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20247.144
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 documents19990
Non-citable documents20000
Non-citable documents20010
Non-citable documents20020
Non-citable documents20030
Non-citable documents20040
Non-citable documents20051
Non-citable documents20062
Non-citable documents20073
Non-citable documents20082
Non-citable documents20092
Non-citable documents20104
Non-citable documents20118
Non-citable documents20128
Non-citable documents201313
Non-citable documents20149
Non-citable documents201511
Non-citable documents20168
Non-citable documents201725
Non-citable documents201863
Non-citable documents201988
Non-citable documents2020122
Non-citable documents2021119
Non-citable documents2022122
Non-citable documents202397
Non-citable documents202472
Citable documents19992148
Citable documents20002088
Citable documents20012038
Citable documents20022027
Citable documents20032047
Citable documents20042007
Citable documents20051757
Citable documents20061454
Citable documents20071371
Citable documents20081363
Citable documents20091262
Citable documents20101082
Citable documents2011993
Citable documents20121143
Citable documents20131168
Citable documents20141107
Citable documents2015929
Citable documents2016790
Citable documents2017688
Citable documents2018663
Citable documents2019645
Citable documents2020679
Citable documents2021702
Citable documents2022766
Citable documents2023775
Citable documents2024841
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

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

DocumentsYearValue
Overton199939
Overton200028
Overton200138
Overton200247
Overton200337
Overton200418
Overton200522
Overton200619
Overton200714
Overton200812
Overton200918
Overton201017
Overton201118
Overton201222
Overton201315
Overton20148
Overton201511
Overton201610
Overton201711
Overton201812
Overton201911
Overton20206
Overton20218
Overton20223
Overton20232
Overton20241
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

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

DocumentsYearValue
SDG201857
SDG201966
SDG202065
SDG202183
SDG202256
SDG202378
SDG202468
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