In this article, iLovePhD presents you the list of top 20 Scopus indexed journals in “Biotechnology” with impact factor based on Google Scholar Citation Score. Biotechnology is the study of technology based on biology. Biotechnology is a broad discipline in which biological processes, organisms, cells, or cellular components are studied to develop new technologies. Researchers, scientists conducting research on bioengineering, molecular engineering, genetic engineering, tissue engineering, genomics, computational biology, immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, and bioenergy can consider the following Scopus indexed journals to publish the research findings.
List of Top 20 Scopus Indexed Journals in Biotechnology
| Rank | Journal name | Scope of the journal | Impact factor | Journal Home Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature Biotechnology | Nature Biotechnology is a monthly journal covering the science and business of biotechnology. It publishes new concepts in technology/methodology of relevance to the biological, biomedical, agricultural, and environmental sciences as well as covers the commercial, political, ethical, legal, and societal aspects of this research. The core areas include molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins; molecular therapy (therapeutic genes, antisense, siRNAs, aptamers, DNAzymes, ribozymes, peptides, proteins); large-scale biology (genomics, functional genomics, proteomics, structural genomics, metabolomics, etc.); computational biology (algorithms and modeling), regenerative medicine (stem cells, tissue engineering, biomaterials); imaging technology; analytical biotechnology (sensors/detectors for analytes/macromolecules), applied immunology (antibody engineering, xenotransplantation, T-cell therapies); food and agricultural biotechnology; and environmental biotechnology. | 54.91 | View |
| 2 | Bioresource Technology | Bioresource Technology publishes original articles, review articles, case studies, and short communications on the fundamentals, applications, and management of bioresource technology. The journal’s aim is to advance and disseminate knowledge in all the related areas of biomass, biological waste treatment, bioenergy, bio-transformations, and bioresource systems analysis, and technologies associated with conversion or production. The topics include Biofuels: liquid and gaseous biofuels production, modeling, and economics; Bioprocesses and bioproducts: biocatalysis and fermentation; Biomass and feedstocks utilization: bioconversion of agro-industrial residues; Environmental protection: biological waste treatment; Thermochemical conversion of biomass: combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, catalysis. | 9.642 | View |
| 3 | Trends in Biotechnology | Trends in Biotechnology (TIB TECH) publishes reviews and perspectives on the applied biological sciences: useful science applied to, derived from, or inspired by living systems. The major themes that TIB TECH is interested in include: Bioprocessing: biochemical engineering, applied enzymology, industrial biotechnology, biofuels, metabolic engineering Omics: genome editing, single-cell technologies, bioinformatics, synthetic biology Materials, and devices:bio-nanotechnology, biomaterials, diagnostics/imaging/detection, soft robotics, biosensors/bioelectronics Therapeutics:biofabrication, stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, antibodies and other protein drugs, drug delivery Agroenvironment: environmental engineering, bioremediation, genetically modified crops, sustainable development We particularly seek articles that are relevant to more than one of these themes. Additionally, we welcome articles on law and intellectual property, policy and regulation, bioethics, scientific communication, and the economics of biotechnology. | 19.536 | View |
| 4 | Biotechnology Advances | Biotechnology Advances is a review journal that considers all aspects of the multidisciplinary field. The scope includes biotechnology principles and applications in industry, agriculture, medicine, environmental concerns, and regulatory issues. Authoritative articles on current developments and future trends in biotechnology empathize. Submissions of appropriate manuscripts are invited. A wide audience of scientists, engineers, and others is addressed: students, instructors, researchers, practitioners, managers, governments, and related stakeholders. Special issues are published on selections of presentations at recent relevant conferences as arranged with the organizations. | 14.227 | View |
| 5 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | Current Opinion in Biotechnology is part of the Current Opinion and Research suite of journals and is a companion to the new primary research, open-access journal, Current Research in Biotechnology (CRBIOT). The research themes include analytical biotechnology; plant biotechnology; food biotechnology; energy biotechnology; environmental biotechnology; systems biology; nanobiotechnology; tissue, cell, and pathway engineering; chemical biotechnology; and pharmaceutical biotechnology. | 9.740 | View |
| 6 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | The journal publishes two categories of articles: (i) Original Papers (preferred length of 6-8 printed pages) (ii) Mini-Reviews (preferred length of 5-6 printed pages). Mini-Reviews are short reviews critically summarizing the current state of and providing perspectives on biotechnological processes, products, microbial genomes, methods, and equipment. Papers should deal with the following aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology: Biotechnological products and process engineering; Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins; Bioenergy and biofuels; Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology; Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics; Applied microbial and cell physiology; Environmental biotechnology; Methods and protocols. | 4.813 | View |
| 7 | Biotechnology for Biofuels | Biotechnology for Biofuels is an open-access peer-reviewed journal featuring studies describing advancements in fundamental understanding, technological capabilities, and techno-economic & life cycle assessment of the production of biofuels, biochemicals, and biomaterials. Biotechnology for Biofuels focuses on the following areas: Anaerobic digestion of waste; Bacterial and fungal/yeast genetics, physiology, and metabolic engineering; Biohydrogen and bioelectricity (fuel cells); Biological and chemical upgrading of biomass sugars, lignins, and other biomass-derived intermediates; Biomass pretreatment, fractionation, and extraction; Bioprocess integration, biohybrid processes, and technoeconomic analysis; Cell-free and immobilized enzyme processes; Development of terrestrial plant and algal feedstocks; Enzyme engineering, production, and analysis; Fermentation, biocatalytic conversion, and reaction dynamics; Life cycle assessment and environmental impact analysis | 6.040 | View |
| 8 | Metabolic Engineering | Metabolic Engineering (MBE) is devoted to the publication of original research papers on the directed modulation of metabolic pathways for metabolite overproduction or the improvement of cellular properties. Experimental, computational, and modeling approaches for the elucidation of metabolic pathways and their manipulation by genetic, media, or other environmental means are presented. Efficient probing of metabolic pathways requires the application of appropriate methods from molecular biology and biochemistry, along with modeling and data analysis techniques from engineering. MBE provides a forum for communicating such interdisciplinary research, as well as relevant results in the constituent areas of biochemistry, molecular biology, applied microbiology, cellular physiology, cellular nutrition in health and disease, and biochemical engineering. | 9.783 | View |
| 9 | Algal Research | Algal Research is an international phycology journal covering all areas of emerging technologies in algae biology, biomass production, cultivation, harvesting, extraction, bioproducts, biorefinery, engineering, and econometrics. Algae is defined to include cyanobacteria, microalgae, macroalgae, and protists and symbionts of interest in biotechnology. The journal publishes original research and reviews for the following scope: algal biology, including but not exclusive to: phylogeny, biodiversity, molecular traits, metabolic regulation, and genetic engineering, algal cultivation, e.g. phototrophic systems, heterotrophic systems, and mixotrophic systems, algal harvesting and extraction systems, biotechnology to convert algal biomass and components into biofuels and bioproducts, e.g., nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, animal feed, plastics, etc. algal products and their economic assessment | 4.401 | View |
| 10 | Critical Reviews in Biotechnology | Biotechnological techniques, from fermentation to genetic manipulation, have become increasingly relevant to the food and beverage, fuel production, chemical and pharmaceutical, and waste management industries. Consequently, academic as well as industrial institutions need to keep abreast of the concepts, data, and methodologies evolved by continuing research. This journal provides a forum of critical evaluation of recent and current publications and, periodically, for state-of-the-art reports from various geographic areas around the world. | 8.108 | View |
| 11 | ACS Synthetic Biology | ACS Synthetic Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research in synthetic biology and biological systems. The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Design and optimization of genetic systems; Genetic circuit design and their principles for their organization into programs; Computational methods to aid the design of genetic systems; Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes; Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation; Protein engineering including computational design; Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion; Natural product access, engineering, and production; Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming; Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells; Minimal cell design and construction; Genomics and genome replacement strategies; Viral engineering; Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology; DNA synthesis methodologies; Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis; Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction; Gene optimization; Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics; Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources; in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming; Nucleic acid engineering | 5.571 | View |
| 12 | Microbial Cell Factories | Microbial Cell Factories is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that covers any topic related to the development, use, and investigation of microbial cells as producers of recombinant proteins and natural products, or as catalyzers of biological transformations of industrial interest. Microbial Cell Factories is the world-leading, primary research journal fully focusing on Applied Microbiology. The journal is divided into the following editorial sections: Metabolic engineering; Synthetic biology; Whole-cell biocatalysis; Microbial regulations; Recombinant protein production/bioprocessing; Production of natural compounds; Systems biology of cell factories; Microbial production processes; Cell-free systems | 3.360 | View |
| 13 | Biomass and Bioenergy | Biomass & Bioenergy is an international journal publishing original research papers and short communications, review articles, and case studies on biological resources, chemical and biological processes, and biomass products for new renewable sources of energy and materials. The scope of the journal extends to the environmental, management, and economic aspects of biomass and bioenergy. | 5.061 | View |
| 14 | Microbial Biotechnology | Microbial Biotechnology is published jointly with the Society for Applied Microbiology. Microbial Biotechnology publishes papers of original research reporting significant advances in any aspect of microbial applications | 5.813 | View |
| 15 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | Biotechnology & Bioengineering publishes Perspectives, Articles, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, and Communications to the Editor that embrace all aspects of biotechnology. These include: Enzyme systems and their applications, including enzyme reactors, purification, and applied aspects of protein engineering; Animal-cell biotechnology, including media development; Applied aspects of cellular physiology, metabolism, and energetics; Biocatalysis and applied enzymology, including enzyme reactors, protein engineering, and nano-biotechnology; Biothermodynamics; Biofuels, including biomass and renewable resource engineering; Biomaterials, including delivery systems and materials for tissue engineering; Bioprocess engineering, including kinetics and modeling of biological systems, transport phenomena in bioreactors, bioreactor design, monitoring, and control; Biosensors and instrumentation; Computational and systems biology, including bioinformatics and genomic/proteomic studies; Environmental biotechnology, including biofilms, algal systems, and bioremediation; Metabolic and cellular engineering; Plant-cell biotechnology; Spectroscopic and other analytical techniques for biotechnological applications; Synthetic biology; Tissue engineering, stem-cell bioengineering, regenerative medicine, gene therapy and delivery systems. | 4.530 | View |
| 16 | Journal of Biotechnology | Journal of Biotechnology provides a medium for the rapid publication of both full-length articles and short communications on novel and innovative aspects of biotechnology. The Journal will accept papers ranging from genetic or molecular biological positions to those covering biochemical, chemical or bioprocess engineering aspects as well as computer application of new software concepts, provided that in each case the material is directly relevant to biotechnological systems. Papers presenting information of a multidisciplinary nature that would not be suitable for publication in a journal devoted to a single discipline, are particularly welcome. The following areas are covered in the Journal: * Nucleic Acids/Molecular Biology * Physiology/Biochemistry * Biochemical Engineering/Bioprocess Engineering * Industrial Processes/New Products * Medical Biotechnology * Agro- and Food Biotechnology * Genomics and Bioinformatics | 3.307 | View |
| 17 | Biochemical Engineering Journal | Biochemical Engineering Journal aims to promote progress in the crucial chemical engineering aspects of the development of biological processes associated with everything from raw materials preparation to product recovery relevant to industries as diverse as medical/healthcare, industrial biotechnology, and environmental biotechnology. | 3.978 | View |
| 18 | Global Change Biology-Bioenergy | Global Change Biology-Bioenergy: Bio-products for a Sustainable Bio-economy exists to promote understanding of the interface between biological sciences and the production of fuels and bio-products directly from plants, algae, and waste. The journal focuses on topics in the context of biological implications: Bioenergy, bio-oil, and bio-products from energy crops, algae, and biological residues. Feedstock management, genomics, breeding, production modeling, composition, pests, diseases, and weeds. Sustainability, biodiversity, and ecosystem services of bioenergy systems. The socioeconomics of crops, crops systems, and their processing. Policy and legislative developments affecting biofuels, bio-products, and bioenergy. Microbial and thermal deconstruction and synthesis of fuels and bio-products from biological feedstocks. System analysis from life-cycle assessment (LCA), material flow analysis (MFA), techno-economic analysis (TEA). | 4.745 | View |
| 19 | Biotechnology Journal | Biotechnology Journal is fully comprehensive in its scope and publishes strictly peer-reviewed papers covering novel aspects and methods in all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering. Some issues are devoted to a special topic, providing the latest information on the most crucial areas of research and technological advances. The journal welcomes submissions of Perspectives, Research Articles, and Reviews primarily. | 4.677 | View |
| 20 | Process Biochemistry | Process Biochemistry is an application-orientated research journal devoted to reporting advances with originality and novelty, in the science and technology of the processes involving bioactive molecules and living organisms. These processes concern the production of useful metabolites or materials or the removal of toxic compounds using tools and methods of current biology and engineering. Its main areas of interest include novel bioprocesses and enabling technologies (such as nanobiotechnology, tissue engineering, directed evolution, metabolic engineering, systems biology, and synthetic biology) applicable in food (nutraceutical), healthcare (medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic), energy (biofuels), environmental, and biorefinery industries and their underlying biological and engineering principles. | 3.757 | View |
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