New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Microbiology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Nature Reviews Microbiology64.547
2 Clinical Microbiology Reviews28.288
3 Cell Host & Microbe26.802
4 Nature Microbiology26.434
5 Annual Review of Microbiology26.352
6 Microbiome24.435
7 Gut Microbes22.982
8 Current Opinion in Microbiology16.884
9 Trends in Microbiology16.675
10 ISME Journal16.594
11 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews16.564
12 Annals of Microbiology15.885
13 Microbiological Research15.604
14 Journal of Applied Microbiology15.575
15 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes14.121
16 Emerging Microbes & Infections12.461
17 Beneficial Microbes11.493
18 Microbial Ecology10.705
19 Critical Reviews in Microbiology10.485
20 Clinical Infectious Diseases10.347
21 Food Microbiology10.190
22 mBio9.757
23 Frontiers in Microbiology9.626
24 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials9.526
25 Clinical Microbiology and Infection9.231
26 Letters in Applied Microbiology9.173
27 mSystems9.164
28 International Journal of Food Microbiology9.051
29 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology8.945
30 Microorganisms8.655
31 Microbial Biotechnology8.443
32 Journal of Fungi8.246
33 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.186
34 Microbiology Spectrum8.093
35 Journal of Oral Microbiology8.090
36 Virulence7.808
37 Research in Microbiology7.689
38 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy7.275
39 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents7.168
40 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy7.094
41 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection7.086
42 Microbiology-SGM7.025
43 Journal of Clinical Microbiology7.022
44 Pathogens6.962
45 Environmental Microbiology6.921
46 Gut Pathogens6.876
47 Helicobacter6.761
48 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases6.541
49 Applied and Environmental Microbiology6.458
50 Journal of Infectious Diseases6.374
51 Journal of Bacteriology6.307
52 mSphere6.288
53 BMC Microbiology6.281
54 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy6.179
55 Microbial Pathogenesis6.019
56 Systematic and Applied Microbiology5.911
57 Microbial Cell5.897
58 Anaerobe5.837
59 Pathogens and Disease5.831
60 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins5.808
61 Archives of Microbiology5.717
62 Microbes and Infection5.402
63 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology5.360
64 Journal of Water and Health5.289
65 Molecular Microbiology5.280
66 Molecular Oral Microbiology5.098
67 Journal of Microbiology5.044
68 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology4.856
69 Phytobiomes Journal4.796
70 Innate Immunity4.781
71 Microbial Genomics4.699
72 Medical Microbiology and Immunology4.657
73 Food and Environmental Virology4.436
74 Current Microbiology4.324
75 International Journal of Medical Microbiology4.316
76 Journal of Basic Microbiology4.311
77 Tuberculosis4.307
78 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases4.262
79 Journal of Antibiotics4.244
80 Extremophiles4.238
81 Veterinary Microbiology4.075
82 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology4.070
83 Journal of Medical Microbiology3.960
84 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases3.948
85 Symbiosis3.887
86 Future Microbiology3.843
87 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology3.764
88 European Journal of Protistology3.733
89 Environmental Microbiology Reports3.732
90 Canadian Journal of Microbiology3.694
91 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology3.640
92 Folia Microbiologica3.575
93 Microbial Drug Resistance3.528
94 Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health3.511
95 Indian Journal of Microbiology3.489
96 Plasmid3.400
97 Protist3.333
98 Yeast3.250
- Cellular Microbiology3.250
100 Microbes and Environments3.225
101 Journal of Microbiological Methods3.185
102 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia3.020
103 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology2.993
104 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease2.740
105 Microbial Risk Analysis2.702
106 Microbiologyopen2.611
107 APMIS2.583
108 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica2.461
109 Microbiology and Immunology2.305
110 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology2.077
111 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia1.978
112 Microbiology1.943
113 Aquatic Microbial Ecology1.744
114 Open Forum Infectious Diseases1.569
115 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica1.554
116 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology1.301
117 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology1.235
118 Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni1.138
119 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology0.596
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