Journal profile · MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science
ISSN 2574-3414 · Annual Reviews Inc.
Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 8.1 (journal website); subscription journal; 28 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is published by Annual Reviews Inc. and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, together about 24% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
AIMS AND SCOPE OF JOURNAL: The Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science provides comprehensive expert reviews in biomedical data science, focusing on advanced methods to store, retrieve, analyze, and organize biomedical data and knowledge. The scope of the journal encompasses informatics, computational, artificial intelligence (AI), and statistical approaches to biomedical data, including the sub-fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, biomedical informatics, clinical and clinical research informatics, biostatistics, and imaging informatics. The mission of the journal is to identify both emerging and established areas of biomedical data science, and the leaders in these fields. 
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomicsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9%
- Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.9%
- Bioinformatics and Genomic NetworksBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.2%
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationMedicine7.2%
- Cell Image Analysis TechniquesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.7%
- Machine Learning in HealthcareComputer Science5.7%
- Gene expression and cancer classificationBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.4%
- Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Mathematical & Computational Biology | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Mathematical & Computational Biology | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 8.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 11.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 3.63LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.96LetPub ·
- h-index
- 44OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 109OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 10.54OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 28LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 186 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25 | 24 | 11 |
| 2025 | 28 | 27 | 216 |
| 2024 | 21 | 20 | 553 |
| 2023 | 23 | 23 | 657 |
| 2022 | 19 | 10 | 638 |
| 2021 | 20 | 14 | 1,570 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews Inc.
- ISSN
- 2574-3414
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science
What CAS zone is Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Mathematical & Computational Biology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 8.1; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 11.6, h-index 44.
Which databases index Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science open access, and what is the APC?
Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .