New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Microbiology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The 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 Papers
1 Frontiers in Microbiology16684
2 Open Forum Infectious Diseases11453
3 Microorganisms11003
4 Microbiology Spectrum7179
5 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology6316
6 Pathogens5555
7 Journal of Fungi4439
8 Clinical Infectious Diseases3230
9 mBio3178
10 Microbial Pathogenesis2455
11 Journal of Infectious Diseases2429
12 Applied and Environmental Microbiology2238
13 BMC Microbiology1961
14 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology1918
15 Archives of Microbiology1894
16 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1837
17 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy1804
18 Current Microbiology1779
19 Clinical Microbiology and Infection1694
20 mSystems1432
21 International Journal of Food Microbiology1364
22 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents1284
23 Gut Microbes1229
24 Environmental Microbiology1201
25 mSphere1178
26 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology1169
27 Veterinary Microbiology1164
28 Nature Microbiology1133
29 Microbiological Research1111
30 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease1069
31 Microbiome1057
32 Journal of Clinical Microbiology1055
33 Emerging Microbes & Infections1027
34 ISME Journal945
35 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology926
36 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases896
37 Microbial Biotechnology894
38 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins884
39 Journal of Bacteriology869
40 Microbial Genomics846
41 Cell Host & Microbe840
42 Food Microbiology800
43 Trends in Microbiology754
44 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica728
45 Virulence682
46 Molecular Microbiology653
47 Journal of Basic Microbiology651
48 Microbial Ecology647
49 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases644
- Journal of Microbiological Methods644
51 Journal of Medical Microbiology641
52 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection634
53 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control613
54 Nature Reviews Microbiology604
55 Journal of Applied Microbiology598
56 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology585
57 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes567
58 Journal of Water and Health563
59 Indian Journal of Microbiology533
60 Future Microbiology516
61 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology514
62 Microbiology-SGM513
63 Environmental Microbiology Reports506
64 APMIS468
65 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia467
- Current Opinion in Microbiology467
67 Microbiology453
68 Microbes and Infection430
69 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy424
70 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases423
71 Anaerobe412
72 Folia Microbiologica405
73 Helicobacter399
74 Tuberculosis393
75 Journal of Antibiotics391
76 Microbial Drug Resistance370
77 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials355
78 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology337
79 Microbiology and Immunology332
80 Letters in Applied Microbiology316
81 Journal of Microbiology306
82 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology289
83 Gut Pathogens288
84 Yeast286
85 Microbiologyopen282
86 Symbiosis268
87 Canadian Journal of Microbiology252
88 Research in Microbiology247
- Journal of Oral Microbiology247
90 Systematic and Applied Microbiology246
91 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia239
92 European Journal of Protistology235
93 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology229
94 Critical Reviews in Microbiology207
95 Phytobiomes Journal201
96 Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni197
97 Molecular Oral Microbiology185
98 Clinical Microbiology Reviews178
99 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica174
100 Food and Environmental Virology162
101 Extremophiles160
102 Annual Review of Microbiology158
103 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews148
104 Microbes and Environments147
105 Protist144
106 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology142
107 Pathogens and Disease138
- Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health138
109 Medical Microbiology and Immunology128
110 Microbial Cell127
111 International Journal of Medical Microbiology119
112 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology117
113 Microbial Risk Analysis108
114 Beneficial Microbes93
115 Cellular Microbiology87
116 Innate Immunity78
117 Plasmid73
118 Annals of Microbiology59
119 Aquatic Microbial Ecology49
120 FEMS Microbiology Letters25
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