Journal profile

BMC bioinformatics

Publisher: BioMed Central
ISSN1471-2105 FormatOnline StatusCurrently indexed

Journal Citation Impact

Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.

Impact Factor
4.52
Citation rate 7.52 6,168 total citations
h5-index 77 h5 depth signal
Cited share 84.9% 754 of 888
Total citations 6,168 Citation footprint
Metric signal 5.41 External metric anchor
Self-citation 1.3% 78 self-citations

Citations Trend

Monthly Publications Cadence

Citing Geographic Demographics

United States 1,786
China 1,555
Germany 431
United Kingdom 338
Italy 296

Citing Fields of Research

Genetics & Genomics 3,395
AI & Machine Learning 1,898
Protein Structure & Folding 744
Statistical Methods 405
Noncoding RNA 390

Publishing Activity & Reach

Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.

All-time article footprint 13,270 Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set 888 754 cited publications
Last 12 months 411 34.3 publications/month
Open access share 100.0% 411 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country United States 1,786 citing publications
Leading citing field Genetics & Genomics 3,395 citing publications
Latest tracked publication 19 October 2026 10 recent records available

Coverage & Indexing History

MEDLINE
v1n1, 2000-
PubMed
v1n1, 2000-
PMC
Active Coverage
Index medicus
Active Coverage

Research Focus & Classification

Indexed Subjects

Genetics & Genomics AI & Machine Learning Protein Structure & Folding Noncoding RNA

Broad Categories

Computational Biology Genetics & Genomics

MeSH Descriptors

Computational Biology

Latest Publications

Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.

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Dimosthenis Tzimotoudis, Rosienne Farrugia, Jeremy Zammit et al.
Background: Genes with highly similar genomic copies (paralogs, tandem duplications and pseudogenes) pose a major challenge for Short-Read High Throughput Sequencing (srHTS). High sequence similarity makes it difficult to unambiguously i...

Bibliographical & Catalog Notes

Title from BioMed Central archive screen (viewed Dec. 17, 2001).

Articles added consecutively to the current annual v.

Mode of access: Internet.