Journal profile
BMC Bioinformatics
BMC Bioinformatics is published by BioMed Central under ISSN 1471-2105. It holds an h-index of 315 across 13,266 indexed works, with a two-year mean citedness of 4.71, and is open access. Its main subject areas are Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Gene expression and cancer classification, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.
Below: the full publication record, and one real article from the journal formatted in IEEE, APA, and BibTeX so you can match field order against a source you can check.
Publication record and impact metrics
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN-L | 1471-2105 |
| Indexed works | 13,266 |
| Total citations | 875,298 |
| h-index | 315 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.71 |
| Open access | Open access, listed in DOAJ |
| Main topics | Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks · Gene expression and cancer classification · Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · Machine Learning in Bioinformatics · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies |
Publication figures come from this journal's OpenAlex record, released under CC0, and are a dated snapshot rather than a live count. Check the publisher for current scope and submission requirements.
A worked example from this journal
The source
WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis
- Authors
- Peter Langfelder, Steve Horvath
- Year
- 2008
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 559
IEEE
P. Langfelder, S. Horvath "WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis," BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 559, 2008, doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-559.
IEEE prints author initials before the surname and abbreviates the periodical title. Check the abbreviation for BMC Bioinformatics against your target publication's reference list before submitting.
APA
Langfelder, P., & Horvath, S. (2008). WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis. BMC Bioinformatics, 9(1), 559. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-559
APA puts the year directly after the authors, keeps the full journal title in italics, and renders the DOI as a URL.
BibTeX
@article{langfelder2008,
author = {Peter Langfelder and Steve Horvath},
title = {WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis},
journal = {BMC Bioinformatics},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {559},
year = {2008},
issn = {1471-2105},
doi = {10.1186/1471-2105-9-559}
}The citation key is the first author's surname and the year. Keep it stable once it appears in a draft, because renaming it breaks every cite that used it.
What to verify before you submit
- The volume and page range. BMC Bioinformatics records 13,266 works, and articles published online first can carry a different volume from the final issue. Cite the version you read.
- The abbreviated title. IEEE style uses standard periodical abbreviations, and registry metadata almost always returns the full name instead.
- Author name order. Registry records store full given names; IEEE and APA both want initials, formatted differently from each other.
- Whether the article is open access. This journal is open access and listed in DOAJ, which affects whether a reader can reach the version you cited.
- That the source supports your claim. A correctly formatted reference says nothing about whether the passage backs the sentence citing it.
How this journal sits in the record
BMC Bioinformatics carries an h-index of 315, which is above 37% of the journals covered here, and its articles have accumulated 875,298 citations across 13,266 indexed works. Its two-year mean citedness is 4.71.
4 of the journals covered here are published by BioMed Central. Reference style is set per title rather than per publisher, so do not carry a format across from a sibling journal without checking.
These are indexing figures describing how often work in this venue is cited. They say nothing about whether a particular article is sound, and they are not a substitute for reading it.
Questions about BMC Bioinformatics
What is the ISSN of BMC Bioinformatics?
The linking ISSN is 1471-2105. Use it in a BibTeX issn field so the entry stays resolvable.
Who publishes BMC Bioinformatics?
BioMed Central publishes it. 4 journals covered here come from the same publisher, and they do not all share one reference style, so check the requirements for this title rather than the publisher.
Is BMC Bioinformatics open access?
OpenAlex records it as open access and it is listed in DOAJ. An open-access article is reachable by any reader, so a reviewer can check the passage you cited without a subscription.
How do I cite an article from BMC Bioinformatics in LaTeX?
Use the BibTeX entry above as the pattern. The entry type is article, the journal field holds the full title, and the citation key langfelder2008 follows the first author's surname and the year. Brace any acronym in the title so your bibliography style does not lowercase it.
Does BMC Bioinformatics use page numbers or article numbers?
The example article runs from page 559, so this journal used page ranges at least for that volume. Newer issues in many journals switched to article numbers, so check the version you are citing.
How influential is BMC Bioinformatics?
Its h-index is 315, above 37% of the journals covered here, and its articles have been cited 875,298 times in total. Its two-year mean citedness is 4.71. These are indexing figures, not a judgement of whether a specific article is sound.
Does BMC Bioinformatics have a Journal Impact Factor?
Not one shown here. The Journal Impact Factor is Clarivate's metric, published in Journal Citation Reports and readable only with a JCR subscription, so this page does not restate it. The figures above come from OpenAlex: an h-index of 315 and a two-year mean citedness of 4.71 across 13,266 indexed works, captured on 2026-09-18. Mean citedness averages citations per work over a two-year window, which makes it closer in construction to CiteScore than to the Impact Factor. The three are not interchangeable, so quote whichever one your target venue actually asks for.