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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	93
2	Frontiers in Microbiology	91
3	Nature Microbiology	86
4	Microorganisms	85
5	Cell Host & Microbe	80
6	Gut Microbes	77
7	Microbiome	74
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	70
9	Clinical Infectious Diseases	63
10	Microbiological Research	59
11	ISME Journal	58
12	Pathogens	56
-	Trends in Microbiology	56
14	Journal of Fungi	55
-	Microbiology Spectrum	55
16	mBio	51
17	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	49
18	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	48
19	Emerging Microbes & Infections	47
20	Current Opinion in Microbiology	43
21	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	42
22	Journal of Infectious Diseases	40
23	mSystems	39
-	BMC Microbiology	39
25	International Journal of Food Microbiology	38
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	38
27	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	37
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
29	Microbial Biotechnology	36
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	36
-	Archives of Microbiology	36
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	36
33	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	35
-	Virulence	35
35	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
36	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	33
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	33
-	Food Microbiology	33
39	Current Microbiology	30
-	Microbial Ecology	30
-	Environmental Microbiology	30
42	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	29
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	29
44	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	28
-	mSphere	28
46	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	27
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	27
48	Journal of Bacteriology	26
-	Microbiology-SGM	26
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	26

51	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	25
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	25
53	Journal of Oral Microbiology	24
-	Microbial Genomics	24
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	24
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
57	Helicobacter	23
58	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	22
60	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Veterinary Microbiology	21
62	Gut Pathogens	20
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	20
-	Journal of Water and Health	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
67	Environmental Microbiology Reports	19
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	19
69	Research in Microbiology	18
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	18
-	Microbes and Infection	18
-	Anaerobe	18
-	Folia Microbiologica	18
74	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	17
-	Journal of Microbiology	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	17
78	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	16
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	16
-	Future Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Antibiotics	16
-	Microbiologyopen	16
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	16
84	Indian Journal of Microbiology	15
-	Phytobiomes Journal	15
-	APMIS	15
-	Yeast	15
88	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	14
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	14
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	14
-	Extremophiles	14
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	14
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	14
-	Symbiosis	14
-	Beneficial Microbes	14
97	Microbial Drug Resistance	13
-	European Journal of Protistology	13
-	Microbial Cell	13
100	Microbiology	12
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	12
-	Food and Environmental Virology	12
-	Microbiology and Immunology	12
-	Pathogens and Disease	12
-	Protist	12
106	Microbes and Environments	11
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	11
-	Annals of Microbiology	11
109	Innate Immunity	10
110	Microbial Risk Analysis	9
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	9
112	Cellular Microbiology	8
113	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	7
114	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	6
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
-	Plasmid	6
117	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	5
119	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4