New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Microbiology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Nature Reviews Microbiology68.030
2 Clinical Microbiology Reviews28.561
3 Annual Review of Microbiology27.479
4 Cell Host & Microbe27.149
5 Nature Microbiology26.562
6 Microbiome24.953
7 Gut Microbes24.017
8 Annals of Microbiology18.667
9 Current Opinion in Microbiology17.572
10 Trends in Microbiology16.780
11 ISME Journal16.564
12 Microbiological Research16.074
13 Journal of Applied Microbiology15.874
14 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews15.779
15 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes14.322
16 Emerging Microbes & Infections12.454
17 Microbial Ecology11.181
18 Beneficial Microbes10.706
19 Food Microbiology10.407
20 Critical Reviews in Microbiology10.243
21 Frontiers in Microbiology9.800
22 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials9.537
23 Letters in Applied Microbiology9.478
24 mBio9.405
25 Clinical Microbiology and Infection9.395
26 International Journal of Food Microbiology9.325
27 mSystems8.992
28 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology8.903
29 Microbial Biotechnology8.879
30 Microorganisms8.827
31 Journal of Fungi8.298
32 Virulence8.151
33 Research in Microbiology8.128
34 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.080
35 Journal of Oral Microbiology7.934
36 Microbiology Spectrum7.797
37 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents7.454
38 Microbiology-SGM7.303
39 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy7.242
40 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy7.186
41 Journal of Clinical Microbiology7.128
42 Pathogens7.045
43 Helicobacter7.029
44 Environmental Microbiology7.010
45 Gut Pathogens6.896
46 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection6.837
47 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases6.763
48 Applied and Environmental Microbiology6.655
49 Journal of Bacteriology6.490
50 Journal of Infectious Diseases6.442
51 BMC Microbiology6.441
52 mSphere6.321
53 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy6.294
54 Pathogens and Disease6.241
55 Microbial Pathogenesis6.206
56 Microbial Cell6.125
57 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins5.995
58 Systematic and Applied Microbiology5.980
59 Archives of Microbiology5.838
60 Anaerobe5.597
61 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology5.544
62 Microbes and Infection5.530
63 Molecular Microbiology5.490
64 Journal of Water and Health5.383
65 Journal of Microbiology5.352
66 Molecular Oral Microbiology5.222
67 Innate Immunity5.127
68 Phytobiomes Journal4.949
69 Microbial Genomics4.716
70 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology4.696
71 Medical Microbiology and Immunology4.681
72 International Journal of Medical Microbiology4.546
73 Food and Environmental Virology4.491
74 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases4.486
75 Tuberculosis4.446
76 Current Microbiology4.420
77 Journal of Antibiotics4.313
78 Extremophiles4.276
79 Veterinary Microbiology4.108
80 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology4.050
81 Journal of Medical Microbiology4.049
82 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology4.033
83 Symbiosis4.017
84 Future Microbiology3.961
85 Environmental Microbiology Reports3.930
86 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases3.844
87 Indian Journal of Microbiology3.747
- Brazilian Journal of Microbiology3.747
89 Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health3.710
90 Folia Microbiologica3.606
91 Canadian Journal of Microbiology3.603
92 European Journal of Protistology3.553
93 Plasmid3.533
94 Microbes and Environments3.411
95 Protist3.378
96 Yeast3.323
97 Journal of Microbiological Methods3.241
98 Cellular Microbiology3.221
99 Microbial Drug Resistance3.188
100 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia3.108
101 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology3.101
102 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease2.822
103 Microbial Risk Analysis2.811
104 APMIS2.740
105 Microbiologyopen2.544
106 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica2.543
107 Microbiology and Immunology2.334
108 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology2.109
109 Microbiology1.949
110 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia1.915
111 Aquatic Microbial Ecology1.762
112 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica1.597
113 Open Forum Infectious Diseases1.582
114 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology1.291
115 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology1.262
116 Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni1.210
117 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology0.613
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