Microbiology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	92
2	Nature Microbiology	86
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	80
4	Microorganisms	79
5	Cell Host & Microbe	78
6	Clinical Infectious Diseases	71
7	Microbiome	68
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	68
9	Gut Microbes	61
10	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	56
11	Pathogens	54
12	Microbiology Spectrum	53
-	Journal of Fungi	53
14	Microbiological Research	52
-	mBio	52
-	ISME Journal	52
17	Trends in Microbiology	51
18	Emerging Microbes & Infections	49
19	Journal of Infectious Diseases	48
20	Current Opinion in Microbiology	45
21	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	43
22	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	41
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	41
24	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	40
25	Annual Review of Microbiology	39
26	Microbial Pathogenesis	38
27	mSystems	37
-	Virulence	37
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	37
-	BMC Microbiology	37
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	37
32	Environmental Microbiology	36
33	Food Microbiology	35
-	Microbial Biotechnology	35
35	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	34
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
37	Archives of Microbiology	33
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	33
39	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	31
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	31
41	Current Microbiology	30
42	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	29
43	mSphere	27
-	Journal of Bacteriology	27
45	Microbial Ecology	26
-	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	26
-	Microbiology-SGM	26
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	26
49	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	25
50	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24

-	Helicobacter	24
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	24
-	Microbial Genomics	24
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	24
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	24
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	24
57	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	22
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	22
59	Journal of Water and Health	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	21
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	21
-	Gut Pathogens	21
64	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	20
-	Veterinary Microbiology	20
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	20
68	Folia Microbiologica	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
70	Microbes and Infection	18
-	Anaerobe	18
72	Microbiologyopen	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	17
-	Journal of Microbiology	17
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	17
-	Research in Microbiology	17
-	Future Microbiology	17
79	APMIS	16
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	16
-	Journal of Antibiotics	16
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	16
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	16
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
86	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
-	Extremophiles	15
-	Beneficial Microbes	15
-	Yeast	15
90	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Pathogens and Disease	14
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	14
94	Molecular Oral Microbiology	13
-	Symbiosis	13
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	13
-	Microbes and Environments	13
-	Phytobiomes Journal	13
-	Annals of Microbiology	13
-	Food and Environmental Virology	13
101	Microbial Cell	12
-	Innate Immunity	12
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	12
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
105	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	11
-	European Journal of Protistology	11
107	Protist	10
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
-	Microbiology	10
110	Plasmid	9
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	9
-	Cellular Microbiology	9
113	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
114	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	7
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	7
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	7
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
118	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
119	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4