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Biology SCI Journals: Top
Biology SCI Journals: Top: 139 journals, each with impact factor, CAS zone, review time, APC, open-access status, annual volume and database indexing, and filterable by all of them.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
IF 5.23CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 158 days to acceptanceHybrid OA440 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusSynthetic and Systems Biotechnology
IF 4.81CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 85 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 1,500Gold OA172 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJStructure
IF 4.37CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 156 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 9,350Hybrid OA220 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusWater Biology and Security
IF 4.3CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: about 174 days (submission to acceptance, publisher)APC about USD 1,000Gold OA135 articles/yrESCI · Scopus · DOAJEvolution Letters
IF 4.28CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 144 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 2,575Gold OA55 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJHarmful Algae
IF 4.09CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 111 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 4,910Hybrid OA182 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusAnnals of Botany
IF 4.07CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 146 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,617Hybrid OA346 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
IF 4.02CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 160 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,830Hybrid OA162 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusMovement Ecology
IF 3.95CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 176 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 2,890Gold OA95 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJIMA Fungus
IF 3.92CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 79 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 2,490Gold OA85 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJPLoS Genetics
IF 3.84CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 156 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,165Gold OA406 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJPLoS Genetics
IF 3.84CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 156 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,165Gold OA406 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJMolecular Ecology
IF 3.66CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 175 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 5,150Hybrid OA470 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusIntegrative Zoology
IF 3.64CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: median 144 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,760Hybrid OA161 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
IF 3.6CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 141 days to acceptanceHybrid OA605 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusEvolutionary Applications
IF 3.15CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 201 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 4,320Gold OA150 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJEvolution
IF 2.96CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: median 178 days to acceptanceAPC about USD 3,214Hybrid OA265 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusZoological Journal of the Linnean Society
IF 2.87CAS Zone 2 · Biology · TopReview: 6–12 weeksAPC about USD 3,541Hybrid OA199 articles/yrSCIE · ScopusAvian Research
IF 2.19CAS Zone 1 · Biology · TopReview: about 12 weeksAPC about USD 1,000Gold OA113 articles/yrSCIE · Scopus · DOAJ
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About these figures
- Impact factor is the latest value LetPub lists. CAS zone is the major-category zone of the Chinese Academy of Sciences journal ranking, 2025 upgraded edition by default and switchable to the 2026 Xinrui edition; Top and review-journal flags are kept per edition.
- Review time is first the median from submission to acceptance of the journal's own articles from the last 24 months (Crossref / PubMed dates, at least 10 articles), then the publisher's stated submission-to-acceptance, final-decision or post-review decision time, then the community's average report. A publisher's "time to first decision" includes desk rejections and is used only when nothing else exists. Each source is labelled.
- APC is taken from DOAJ, OpenAlex, the publisher's website and LetPub, in that order; a hybrid journal's APC applies only to articles published open access.
- Articles per year is OpenAlex's count for the last complete year, or LetPub's annual article count when that is missing.