Microbiology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	42
2	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	37
3	Nature Microbiology	34
4	Microbiome	33
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	33
-	Cell Host & Microbe	33
7	Gut Microbes	29
8	ISME Journal	21
-	Current Opinion in Microbiology	21
10	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	20
-	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	20
-	Trends in Microbiology	20
13	Microbiological Research	18
14	Journal of Applied Microbiology	17
15	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	15
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	15
17	Food Microbiology	14
18	mBio	13
-	mSystems	13
-	Beneficial Microbes	13
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	13
-	Microbial Ecology	13
23	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	12
-	Frontiers in Microbiology	12
25	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	11
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	11
-	Microbial Biotechnology	11
-	Microbiology Spectrum	11
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	11
30	Research in Microbiology	10
-	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	10
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	10
-	Journal of Fungi	10
-	Microorganisms	10
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	10
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	10
-	Clinical Infectious Diseases	10
-	Helicobacter	10
39	mSphere	9
-	Pathogens	9
-	Gut Pathogens	9
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	9
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	9
-	Virulence	9
-	Environmental Microbiology	9
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	9
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	9
48	Microbiology-SGM	8
-	Molecular Microbiology	8
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	8

-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	8
-	Journal of Bacteriology	8
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	8
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	8
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	8
-	Pathogens and Disease	8
-	BMC Microbiology	8
-	Microbes and Infection	8
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	8
60	Anaerobe	7
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	7
-	Archives of Microbiology	7
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	7
-	Journal of Microbiology	7
-	Journal of Water and Health	7
-	Microbial Cell	7
67	Phytobiomes Journal	6
-	Veterinary Microbiology	6
-	Extremophiles	6
-	Food and Environmental Virology	6
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	6
-	Microbial Genomics	6
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	6
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	6
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	6
76	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	5
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	5
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	5
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	5
-	Current Microbiology	5
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	5
-	European Journal of Protistology	5
-	Future Microbiology	5
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	5
-	Protist	5
-	Symbiosis	5
-	Tuberculosis	5
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	5
-	Folia Microbiologica	5
-	Innate Immunity	5
-	Journal of Antibiotics	5
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	5
93	Yeast	4
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	4
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	4
-	Microbes and Environments	4
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	4
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	4
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	4
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	4
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	4
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	4
103	Microbiology	3
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	3
-	APMIS	3
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	3
-	Cellular Microbiology	3
-	Microbiology and Immunology	3
-	Microbiologyopen	3
-	Plasmid	3
111	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	2
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	2
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	2
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	2
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	2
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	2
117	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	1
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	1