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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Frontiers in Microbiology15644
2 Open Forum Infectious Diseases12284
3 Microorganisms11181
4 Microbiology Spectrum7217
5 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology6356
6 Pathogens5410
7 Journal of Fungi4120
8 mBio3207
9 Clinical Infectious Diseases3125
10 Microbial Pathogenesis2619
11 BMC Microbiology2614
12 Journal of Infectious Diseases2492
13 Applied and Environmental Microbiology2295
14 Current Microbiology2036
15 Archives of Microbiology1996
16 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1863
17 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology1769
18 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy1733
19 Clinical Microbiology and Infection1657
20 International Journal of Food Microbiology1523
21 mSystems1480
22 Gut Microbes1421
23 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease1284
24 Veterinary Microbiology1274
25 Nature Microbiology1234
26 mSphere1202
27 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology1193
28 Microbiome1157
- Microbiological Research1157
30 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents1115
31 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins1110
32 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases1079
33 Emerging Microbes & Infections1077
34 Journal of Clinical Microbiology1050
35 Environmental Microbiology1041
36 ISME Journal1022
37 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology1012
38 Microbial Biotechnology909
39 Microbial Genomics894
40 Cell Host & Microbe864
41 Journal of Bacteriology837
42 Food Microbiology817
43 Virulence811
44 Journal of Microbiological Methods766
45 Trends in Microbiology763
46 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica720
47 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes717
48 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control649
49 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology648
50 Journal of Medical Microbiology621
51 Environmental Microbiology Reports620
52 Journal of Basic Microbiology614
53 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology597
54 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases582
55 Molecular Microbiology574
56 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection572
57 Nature Reviews Microbiology567
58 APMIS557
59 Journal of Water and Health546
60 Microbiology542
61 Folia Microbiologica536
62 Indian Journal of Microbiology524
63 Microbiology-SGM517
64 Future Microbiology511
65 Microbiologyopen465
66 Microbial Ecology444
67 Current Opinion in Microbiology440
68 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy434
69 Helicobacter419
70 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia402
71 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases401
72 Tuberculosis394
73 Journal of Antibiotics393
74 Microbes and Infection391
75 Anaerobe386
76 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials352
77 Journal of Applied Microbiology341
78 Gut Pathogens340
- Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology340
80 Journal of Oral Microbiology332
81 Microbiology and Immunology328
82 Journal of Microbiology317
83 Symbiosis301
84 Microbial Drug Resistance290
85 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology276
86 Yeast264
87 Canadian Journal of Microbiology252
88 Systematic and Applied Microbiology237
89 European Journal of Protistology232
90 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia229
91 Research in Microbiology219
92 Phytobiomes Journal211
93 Critical Reviews in Microbiology200
94 Clinical Microbiology Reviews198
95 Letters in Applied Microbiology197
96 Molecular Oral Microbiology193
97 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica191
98 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews181
- Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni181
100 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology173
101 Food and Environmental Virology172
102 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology166
103 Extremophiles164
104 Protist153
105 International Journal of Medical Microbiology152
106 Annual Review of Microbiology142
107 Medical Microbiology and Immunology140
108 Microbes and Environments138
109 Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health135
110 Microbial Risk Analysis121
111 Microbial Cell117
112 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology98
113 Pathogens and Disease83
114 Innate Immunity73
115 Beneficial Microbes69
116 Cellular Microbiology68
117 Plasmid60
118 Aquatic Microbial Ecology43
119 Annals of Microbiology26
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