BioMed Central · ISSN 1471-2105
BMC Bioinformatics 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: 4.78 citations per paper for BMC Bioinformatics, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.
Key metrics
- Two-year mean citedness
- 4.78Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
- h-index
- 306Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
- Papers in 2025
- 33613,324 in totalSource: OpenAlex
- Access
- OpenAPC about $2,990Source: OpenAlex
Papers per year.
How many works BMC Bioinformatics published in each complete year, as indexed by OpenAlex.
Fig. 1Works per year from OpenAlex. Retrieved 23 Oct 2026.
What BMC Bioinformatics publishes.
Mostly Molecular Biology, within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Gene expression and cancer classification
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.
Journals with a similar citation profile.
| Journal | Two-year mean citedness | h-index | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMC Bioinformatics | 4.78 | 306 | Open |
| Front Cell Dev Biol | 4.79 | 172 | Open |
| Open Biology | 4.79 | 109 | Open |
| Life Science Alliance | 4.75 | 61 | Open |
| PLOS Computational Biology | 4.72 | 282 | Open |
About BMC Bioinformatics.
Comment 1What is the BMC Bioinformatics 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: 4.78 citations per paper for BMC Bioinformatics, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.
Comment 2Is BMC Bioinformatics open access?
Yes, BMC Bioinformatics is fully open access, with an article processing charge of about $2,990.
Comment 3How many papers does BMC Bioinformatics publish a year?
OpenAlex records 336 works in 2025, and 13,324 in total.
Sources
- 1. OpenAlex source record · retrieved 23 Oct 2026
The Journal Impact Factor is a Clarivate metric and is not reproduced here.