Oxford University Press · ISSN 1467-5463 · 1477-4054
Brief Bioinform impact factor, and the open numbers behind it.
Short answer
The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 7.52 citations per paper for Brief Bioinform, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.
Key metrics
- Two-year mean citedness
- 7.52Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
- h-index
- 210Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
- Papers in 2025
- 7186,011 in totalSource: OpenAlex
- Access
- OpenAPC about $3,885Source: OpenAlex
Papers per year.
How many works Brief Bioinform published in each complete year, as indexed by OpenAlex.
Fig. 1Works per year from OpenAlex. Retrieved 23 Oct 2026.
What Brief Bioinform publishes.
Mostly Molecular Biology and Computational Theory and Mathematics, within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Gene expression and cancer classification
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.
Journals with a similar citation profile.
| Journal | Two-year mean citedness | h-index | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brief Bioinform | 7.52 | 210 | Open |
| Cell Systems | 7.49 | 133 | Subscription |
| AJHG | 7.44 | 385 | Subscription |
| EMBO Mol Med | 7.39 | 186 | Open |
| PLOS Biology | 7.25 | 383 | Open |
About Brief Bioinform.
Comment 1What is the Brief Bioinform impact factor?
The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 7.52 citations per paper for Brief Bioinform, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.
Comment 2Is Brief Bioinform open access?
Yes, Brief Bioinform is fully open access, with an article processing charge of about $3,885.
Comment 3How many papers does Brief Bioinform publish a year?
OpenAlex records 718 works in 2025, and 6,011 in total.
Sources
- 1. OpenAlex source record · retrieved 23 Oct 2026
The Journal Impact Factor is a Clarivate metric and is not reproduced here.