BI Journals with at least 3-4 impact factor

Question

[BI]

I am looking for a journal with at least 3-4 impact factor for publishing data related to epitope mapping using bioinformatics algorithms. I have tried many good journals but all are asking for the validation of my results. I cannot go for the wet lab validation due to some unavoidable circumstances. Can anyone please suggest me some good journals with IF with or around 3. Thanks in advance.

[Manvendra Singh]

How about BMC bioinformatics or Scientific Reports ?

[Chirag Nepal]

Try PloS One

[BI]

Thanks Chirag. But the problem is we don't have funding. We need a journal with no publication charges.

[mikhail.shugay]

Where are you from? As far as I remember, PLoS has some special policy for low-income countries. Also check this out: http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/plos-publication-fee-assistance/

[BI]

Thanks for the link. But I am really worried that they might reject my work because I don't have wet lab validation of my data. As when I went through the articles they have published, bioinformatics work with experimental validation . But I will give it a try. Thanks.

[Chirag Nepal]

You should communicate (put forward financial situations of your lab, if your lab is hosted in low-income countries) with PloS.

Answer 1

[Saeid Kadkhodaei]

Bioinformatics journals sorted based on the impact factor:

Computational Molecular Science : 11.885

Molecular Systems Biology : 10.872

Briefings In Bioinformatics : 9.617

Nucleic Acids Research : 9.112

Dna Research : 5.477

Bioinformatics : 4.981

PLOS Computational Biology : 4.829

Statistical Methods in Medical Research : 4.472

BMC Genomics : 3.986

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation : 3.969

Database : 3.372

Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design : 2.990

Neuroinformatics : 2.825

Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics : 2.627

BMC Bioinformatics : 2.576

BMC Systems Biology : 2.435

Journal of Biomedical Informatics : 2.194

Journal of Theoretical Biology : 2.116

BioData Mining : 2.024

Journal of Mathematical Biology : 1.846

Journal of Computational Neuroscience : 1.739

Journal of Computational Biology: 1.737

Algorithms for Molecular Biology : 1.463

Evolutionary Bioinformatics : 1.452

IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics : 1.438

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology : 1.389

Mathematical Biosciences : 1.303

Computers in Biology and Medicine : 1.240

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology : 1.127

Computational Biology and Chemistry : 1.117

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling : 0.95

Current Bioinformatics : 0.921

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology : 0.873

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering : 0.840

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics : 0495

Answer 2

[Jose Manuel Duarte]

I'd just like to say that it is widely acknowledged that the concept of Impact Factor is in itself very flawed. See for instance wikipedia or this blog entry in nature where the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment is discussed.

So my recommendation: do not worry about impact factors at all. Make sure your paper is sound: citations will eventually decide if it is good or not, but not the IF of the journal where it happens to be accepted.

Answer 3

[Chirag Nepal]

You can search the impact factor of any journal and the number of papers in published every year can be found here

http://www.bioxbio.com/if/