Bioinformatics

Aims & Scope

The leading journal in its field, Bioinformatics publishes the highest quality scientific papers and review articles of interest to academic and industrial researchers.

Its main focus is on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology.

Two distinct sections within the journal - Discovery Notes and Application Notes - focus on shorter papers; the former reporting biologically interesting discoveries using computational methods, the latter exploring the applications used for experiments.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	5.4
2024	4.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.451

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	992

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	16178

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
• PubMed

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Computer Science and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

  Citation: 54602

  Authors: Anthony M., Marc, Bjoern

• The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

  Citation: 53879

  Authors: Heng, Bob, Alec, Tim, Jue, Nils, Gabor, Goncalo, Richard

• STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

  Citation: 44265

  Authors: Alexander, Carrie A., Felix, Jorg, Chris, Sonali, Philippe, Mark, Thomas R.

• Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

  Citation: 43340

  Authors: Heng, Richard

• <tt>edgeR</tt>: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

  Citation: 36188

  Authors: Mark D., Davis J., Gordon K.

• RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

  Citation: 27934

  Authors: Alexandros

• BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

  Citation: 24516

  Authors: Aaron R., Ira M.

• Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0

  Citation: 24260

  Authors: M.A., G., N.P., R., P.A., H., F., I.M., A., R., J.D., T.J., D.G.

• featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features

  Citation: 22247

  Authors: Yang, Gordon K., Wei

• MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models

  Citation: 21388

  Authors: Fredrik, John P.

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