What are the best journals for Biomedical Engineering?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Biomedical Engineering journals include Materials Today, Journal of Nanobiotechnology, Biomaterials, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Nano Today. The top 40 of 325 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Biomedical Engineering journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Biomedical Engineering come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Biomedical Engineering — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Biomedical Engineering — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (1 of the 325 journals ranked here is below that floor; it is not among the 40 shown). Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Biomedical Engineering journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Biomedical Engineering paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Biomedical Engineering · 325 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Biomedical Engineering

The top 40 of 325 Biomedical Engineering journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Biomedical Engineering is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 18 October 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

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Materials Today
14.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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2
Journal of Nanobiotechnology
13.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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3
Biomaterials
12.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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4
Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
11.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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5
Nano Today
11.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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6
ACS Sensors
10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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7
Bioactive Materials
10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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8
International Journal of Nanomedicine
9.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Dove Medical Press
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9
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
9.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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10
Research
9.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
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11
Microsystems & Nanoengineering
9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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12
Alexandria Engineering Journal
9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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13
Acta Biomaterialia
9.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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14
Engineering
8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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15
Advanced Healthcare Materials
7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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16
RSC Sustainability
7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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17
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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18
Regenerative Biomaterials
7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Oxford
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19
Fuel
7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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20
Biosensors
7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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21
Journal of the Energy Institute
7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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22
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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23
Bioresource Technology
7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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24
Biofabrication
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · IOP Publishing
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25
Energy & Fuels
6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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26
Industrial Crops and Products
6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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27
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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28
Nanotechnology Reviews
6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · De Gruyter
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29
Cleaner Engineering and Technology
6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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30
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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31
Fuel Processing Technology
6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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32
Materials Today Bio
6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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33
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
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34
Lab on a Chip
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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35
Applied Materials Today
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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36
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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37
BioMedical Engineering OnLine
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
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38
Biomaterials Science
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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39
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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40
ACS Applied Bio Materials
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.