Microbiology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Microbiology	39
2	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	38
3	Cell Host & Microbe	33
4	Nature Reviews Microbiology	31
-	Nature Microbiology	31
6	Microbiome	30
7	Gut Microbes	22
8	Current Opinion in Microbiology	21
9	ISME Journal	20
10	Trends in Microbiology	19
11	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	18
-	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	18
13	Journal of Applied Microbiology	14
-	Microbiological Research	14
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	14
16	Food Microbiology	13
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	13
18	mSystems	12
-	mBio	12
-	Annals of Microbiology	12
-	Beneficial Microbes	12
-	Clinical Infectious Diseases	12
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	12
24	Frontiers in Microbiology	11
-	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	11
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	11
-	Environmental Microbiology	11
28	Microbial Ecology	10
-	Microbiology Spectrum	10
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	10
-	Journal of Fungi	10
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	10
-	Microbial Biotechnology	10
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	10
35	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	9
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	9
-	Microorganisms	9
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	9
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	9
-	Virulence	9
-	Gut Pathogens	9
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	9
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	9
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	9
45	Helicobacter	8
-	Pathogens and Disease	8
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	8
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	8
-	Journal of Bacteriology	8
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	8

-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	8
-	Microbiology-SGM	8
-	Pathogens	8
-	Research in Microbiology	8
-	BMC Microbiology	8
56	Innate Immunity	7
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	7
-	Microbiologyopen	7
-	Archives of Microbiology	7
-	Microbial Genomics	7
-	Molecular Microbiology	7
-	mSphere	7
-	Anaerobe	7
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	7
65	Extremophiles	6
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	6
-	Journal of Microbiology	6
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	6
-	Microbes and Infection	6
-	Food and Environmental Virology	6
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	6
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	6
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	6
-	Veterinary Microbiology	6
75	European Journal of Protistology	5
-	Folia Microbiologica	5
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	5
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	5
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	5
-	Journal of Water and Health	5
-	Microbial Cell	5
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	5
-	Symbiosis	5
-	Tuberculosis	5
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	5
-	Current Microbiology	5
-	Future Microbiology	5
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	5
-	Microbes and Environments	5
-	Phytobiomes Journal	5
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	5
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	5
93	Journal of Antibiotics	4
-	Protist	4
-	APMIS	4
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	4
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	4
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	4
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	4
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	4
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	4
102	Microbiology and Immunology	3
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	3
-	Plasmid	3
-	Cellular Microbiology	3
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	3
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	3
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	3
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	3
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	3
-	Yeast	3
112	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	2
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	2
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	2
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	2
-	Microbiology	2
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	2
118	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	1
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	1
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	1