Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Biosensors are defined as analytical devices incorporating a biological material, a biologically derived material or a biomimic intimately associated with or integrated within a physicochemical transducer or transducing microsystem, which may be optical, electrochemical, thermometric, piezoelectric, magnetic or micromechanical (Turner et al., 1987; Turner, 1989). Biosensors & Bioelectronics is the principal international journal devoted to research, design, development and application of biosensors and bioelectronics. It is an interdisciplinary journal serving professionals with an interest in the exploitation of biological materials and designs in novel diagnostic and electronic devices including sensors, DNA chips, electronic noses, lab-on-a-chip and μ-TAS. Biosensors usually yield a digital electronic signal which is proportional to the concentration of a specific analyte or group of analytes. While the signal may in principle be continuous, devices can be configured to yield single measurements to meet specific market requirements. Examples of Biosensors include immunosensors, enzyme-based biosensors, organism- and whole cell-based biosensors. They have been applied to a wide variety of analytical problems including uses in medicine, biomedical research, drug discovery, the environment, food, process industries, security and defence. The design and study of molecular and supramolecular structures with molecular biorecognition and biomimetic properties for use in analytical devices is also included within the scope of the journal. Here the focus is on the complementary intersection between molecular recognition, nanotechnology, molecular imprinting and supramolecular chemistry to improve the analytical performance and robustness of devices.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Biomedical Engineering	1999	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2000	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2001	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2002	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2003	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2004	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2005	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2006	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2007	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2008	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2009	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2010	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2011	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2012	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2013	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2014	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2015	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2016	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2017	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2018	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2019	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2020	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2021	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2022	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2023	Q1
Biophysics	1999	Q2
Biophysics	2000	Q1
Biophysics	2001	Q1
Biophysics	2002	Q1
Biophysics	2003	Q1
Biophysics	2004	Q1
Biophysics	2005	Q1
Biophysics	2006	Q1
Biophysics	2007	Q1
Biophysics	2008	Q1
Biophysics	2009	Q1
Biophysics	2010	Q1
Biophysics	2011	Q1
Biophysics	2012	Q1
Biophysics	2013	Q1
Biophysics	2014	Q1
Biophysics	2015	Q1
Biophysics	2016	Q1
Biophysics	2017	Q1
Biophysics	2018	Q1
Biophysics	2019	Q1
Biophysics	2020	Q1
Biophysics	2021	Q1
Biophysics	2022	Q1
Biophysics	2023	Q1
Biotechnology	1999	Q1
Biotechnology	2000	Q1
Biotechnology	2001	Q1
Biotechnology	2002	Q1
Biotechnology	2003	Q1
Biotechnology	2004	Q1
Biotechnology	2005	Q1
Biotechnology	2006	Q1
Biotechnology	2007	Q1
Biotechnology	2008	Q1
Biotechnology	2009	Q1
Biotechnology	2010	Q1
Biotechnology	2011	Q1
Biotechnology	2012	Q1
Biotechnology	2013	Q1
Biotechnology	2014	Q1
Biotechnology	2015	Q1
Biotechnology	2016	Q1
Biotechnology	2017	Q1
Biotechnology	2018	Q1
Biotechnology	2019	Q1
Biotechnology	2020	Q1
Biotechnology	2021	Q1
Biotechnology	2022	Q1
Biotechnology	2023	Q1
Electrochemistry	1999	Q2
Electrochemistry	2000	Q1
Electrochemistry	2001	Q1
Electrochemistry	2002	Q2
Electrochemistry	2003	Q1
Electrochemistry	2004	Q1
Electrochemistry	2005	Q1
Electrochemistry	2006	Q1
Electrochemistry	2007	Q1
Electrochemistry	2008	Q1
Electrochemistry	2009	Q1
Electrochemistry	2010	Q1
Electrochemistry	2011	Q1
Electrochemistry	2012	Q1
Electrochemistry	2013	Q1
Electrochemistry	2014	Q1
Electrochemistry	2015	Q1
Electrochemistry	2016	Q1
Electrochemistry	2017	Q1
Electrochemistry	2018	Q1
Electrochemistry	2019	Q1
Electrochemistry	2020	Q1
Electrochemistry	2021	Q1
Electrochemistry	2022	Q1
Electrochemistry	2023	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	1999	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2000	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2001	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2002	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2003	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2004	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2005	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2006	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2007	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2008	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2009	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2010	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2011	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2012	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2013	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2014	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2015	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2016	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2017	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2018	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2019	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2020	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2021	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2022	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2023	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	1999	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2000	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2001	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2002	Q2
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2003	Q2
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2004	Q2
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2005	Q2
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2006	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2007	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2008	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2009	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2010	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2011	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2012	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2013	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2014	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2015	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2016	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2017	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2018	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2019	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2020	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2021	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2022	Q1
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	2023	Q1

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	0.985
2000	1.573
2001	1.188
2002	1.103
2003	1.245
2004	1.436
2005	1.455
2006	1.911
2007	2.111
2008	2.495
2009	1.991
2010	2.143
2011	2.126
2012	2.397
2013	2.029
2014	2.057
2015	2.044
2016	2.095
2017	2.373
2018	2.553
2019	2.680
2020	2.546
2021	2.113
2022	2.194
2023	2.052

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	84
2000	101
2001	136
2002	156
2003	218
2004	310
2005	298
2006	287
2007	480
2008	341
2009	601
2010	579
2011	704
2012	447
2013	859
2014	820
2015	975
2016	993
2017	949
2018	887
2019	882
2020	700
2021	759
2022	928
2023	780

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	1.884
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	2.559
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	2.727
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	2.972
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	3.820
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	3.938
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	4.195
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	4.619
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	5.476
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	5.873
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	6.255
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	5.912
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	6.429
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	6.409
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	6.757
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	6.865
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	7.496
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	7.654
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	7.899
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	8.953
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	9.678
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	9.884
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	11.068
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	12.617
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	11.138
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	1.884
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	2.731
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	2.816
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	2.894
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	3.623
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	3.671
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	4.162
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	4.564
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	5.569
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	5.962
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	6.080
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	5.925
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	6.433
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	6.344
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	6.792
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	6.969
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	7.690
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	7.856
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	8.265
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	9.400
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	10.163
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	10.468
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	11.495
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	13.041
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	11.473
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	1.825
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	2.857
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	2.724
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	2.620
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	3.045
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	3.508
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	3.850
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	4.539
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	5.573
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	5.536
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	6.056
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	5.812
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	6.136
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	6.129
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	6.867
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	6.850
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	7.908
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	8.129
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	8.444
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	9.817
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	10.767
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	10.575
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	11.671
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	13.641
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	11.190

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	74
Self Cites	2000	99
Self Cites	2001	92
Self Cites	2002	109
Self Cites	2003	181
Self Cites	2004	187
Self Cites	2005	300
Self Cites	2006	359
Self Cites	2007	647
Self Cites	2008	567
Self Cites	2009	924
Self Cites	2010	1086
Self Cites	2011	1208
Self Cites	2012	863
Self Cites	2013	1577
Self Cites	2014	1740
Self Cites	2015	2177
Self Cites	2016	2677
Self Cites	2017	2895
Self Cites	2018	3061
Self Cites	2019	2792
Self Cites	2020	1852
Self Cites	2021	1652
Self Cites	2022	1889
Self Cites	2023	1441
Total Cites	1999	744
Total Cites	2000	964
Total Cites	2001	935
Total Cites	2002	929
Total Cites	2003	1424
Total Cites	2004	1872
Total Cites	2005	2847
Total Cites	2006	3770
Total Cites	2007	4984
Total Cites	2008	6350
Total Cites	2009	6737
Total Cites	2010	8426
Total Cites	2011	9785
Total Cites	2012	11953
Total Cites	2013	11751
Total Cites	2014	14008
Total Cites	2015	16349
Total Cites	2016	20849
Total Cites	2017	23042
Total Cites	2018	27420
Total Cites	2019	28751
Total Cites	2020	28453
Total Cites	2021	28381
Total Cites	2022	30529
Total Cites	2023	27387

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	1.696
External Cites per document	2000	2.450
External Cites per document	2001	2.539
External Cites per document	2002	2.555
External Cites per document	2003	3.163
External Cites per document	2004	3.304
External Cites per document	2005	3.724
External Cites per document	2006	4.130
External Cites per document	2007	4.846
External Cites per document	2008	5.430
External Cites per document	2009	5.246
External Cites per document	2010	5.162
External Cites per document	2011	5.639
External Cites per document	2012	5.886
External Cites per document	2013	5.881
External Cites per document	2014	6.103
External Cites per document	2015	6.666
External Cites per document	2016	6.847
External Cites per document	2017	7.226
External Cites per document	2018	8.351
External Cites per document	2019	9.176
External Cites per document	2020	9.787
External Cites per document	2021	10.826
External Cites per document	2022	12.234
External Cites per document	2023	10.870
Cites per document	1999	1.884
Cites per document	2000	2.731
Cites per document	2001	2.816
Cites per document	2002	2.894
Cites per document	2003	3.623
Cites per document	2004	3.671
Cites per document	2005	4.162
Cites per document	2006	4.564
Cites per document	2007	5.569
Cites per document	2008	5.962
Cites per document	2009	6.080
Cites per document	2010	5.925
Cites per document	2011	6.433
Cites per document	2012	6.344
Cites per document	2013	6.792
Cites per document	2014	6.969
Cites per document	2015	7.690
Cites per document	2016	7.856
Cites per document	2017	8.265
Cites per document	2018	9.400
Cites per document	2019	10.163
Cites per document	2020	10.468
Cites per document	2021	11.495
Cites per document	2022	13.041
Cites per document	2023	11.473

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	17.86
2000	18.81
2001	18.38
2002	27.56
2003	17.89
2004	20.00
2005	18.12
2006	18.47
2007	18.13
2008	13.49
2009	13.31
2010	20.38
2011	15.63
2012	17.90
2013	18.04
2014	16.22
2015	16.62
2016	17.42
2017	19.70
2018	25.25
2019	19.61
2020	26.57
2021	22.53
2022	19.61
2023	21.41

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	7
Non-citable documents	2000	6
Non-citable documents	2001	5
Non-citable documents	2002	5
Non-citable documents	2003	3
Non-citable documents	2004	2
Non-citable documents	2005	3
Non-citable documents	2006	6
Non-citable documents	2007	7
Non-citable documents	2008	5
Non-citable documents	2009	2
Non-citable documents	2010	3
Non-citable documents	2011	4
Non-citable documents	2012	4
Non-citable documents	2013	2
Non-citable documents	2014	1
Non-citable documents	2015	1
Non-citable documents	2016	14
Non-citable documents	2017	15
Non-citable documents	2018	17
Non-citable documents	2019	4
Non-citable documents	2020	2
Non-citable documents	2021	2
Non-citable documents	2022	7
Non-citable documents	2023	9
Citable documents	1999	388
Citable documents	2000	347
Citable documents	2001	327
Citable documents	2002	316
Citable documents	2003	390
Citable documents	2004	508
Citable documents	2005	681
Citable documents	2006	820
Citable documents	2007	888
Citable documents	2008	1060
Citable documents	2009	1106
Citable documents	2010	1419
Citable documents	2011	1517
Citable documents	2012	1880
Citable documents	2013	1728
Citable documents	2014	2009
Citable documents	2015	2125
Citable documents	2016	2640
Citable documents	2017	2773
Citable documents	2018	2900
Citable documents	2019	2825
Citable documents	2020	2716
Citable documents	2021	2467
Citable documents	2022	2334
Citable documents	2023	2378

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	127
Uncited documents	2000	81
Uncited documents	2001	74
Uncited documents	2002	70
Uncited documents	2003	59
Uncited documents	2004	73
Uncited documents	2005	97
Uncited documents	2006	85
Uncited documents	2007	101
Uncited documents	2008	90
Uncited documents	2009	76
Uncited documents	2010	92
Uncited documents	2011	73
Uncited documents	2012	118
Uncited documents	2013	71
Uncited documents	2014	88
Uncited documents	2015	69
Uncited documents	2016	104
Uncited documents	2017	87
Uncited documents	2018	84
Uncited documents	2019	55
Uncited documents	2020	76
Uncited documents	2021	66
Uncited documents	2022	58
Uncited documents	2023	63
Cited documents	1999	268
Cited documents	2000	272
Cited documents	2001	258
Cited documents	2002	251
Cited documents	2003	334
Cited documents	2004	437
Cited documents	2005	587
Cited documents	2006	741
Cited documents	2007	794
Cited documents	2008	975
Cited documents	2009	1032
Cited documents	2010	1330
Cited documents	2011	1448
Cited documents	2012	1766
Cited documents	2013	1659
Cited documents	2014	1922
Cited documents	2015	2057
Cited documents	2016	2550
Cited documents	2017	2701
Cited documents	2018	2833
Cited documents	2019	2774
Cited documents	2020	2642
Cited documents	2021	2403
Cited documents	2022	2283
Cited documents	2023	2324

% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

Year	Female Percent
1999	24.72
2000	22.19
2001	25.88
2002	27.14
2003	27.19
2004	26.47
2005	29.54
2006	30.87
2007	31.84
2008	31.85
2009	33.84
2010	34.69
2011	36.08
2012	35.38
2013	37.10
2014	38.71
2015	40.01
2016	40.75
2017	39.12
2018	39.05
2019	39.54
2020	39.04
2021	37.81
2022	40.50
2023	40.28

Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

Documents	Year	Value
Overton	1999	0
Overton	2000	0
Overton	2001	0
Overton	2002	0
Overton	2003	0
Overton	2004	7
Overton	2005	14
Overton	2006	16
Overton	2007	16
Overton	2008	9
Overton	2009	11
Overton	2010	21
Overton	2011	22
Overton	2012	11
Overton	2013	19
Overton	2014	17
Overton	2015	24
Overton	2016	16
Overton	2017	24
Overton	2018	12
Overton	2019	6
Overton	2020	12
Overton	2021	9
Overton	2022	4
Overton	2023	1