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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	91
2	Cell Host & Microbe	81
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	80
4	Clinical Infectious Diseases	72
5	Gut Microbes	57
6	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	56
7	ISME Journal	54
8	Trends in Microbiology	51
9	Microbiological Research	49
10	Journal of Infectious Diseases	48
11	Current Opinion in Microbiology	44
12	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	42
13	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	40
14	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	39
15	Environmental Microbiology	38
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	38
17	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	37
19	BMC Microbiology	36
20	Food Microbiology	35
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	35
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	35
23	Journal of Applied Microbiology	34
-	Microbial Biotechnology	34
25	Archives of Microbiology	32
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	32
27	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	30
28	Current Microbiology	29
29	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	26
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	26
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	26
-	Journal of Bacteriology	26
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	26
34	Microbial Ecology	25
35	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	24
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	24
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
38	Journal of Basic Microbiology	23
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	23
-	Helicobacter	23
-	Microbiology-SGM	23
42	Gut Pathogens	22
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	22
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	22
45	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
47	Folia Microbiologica	20
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
-	Veterinary Microbiology	20
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	20

-	Journal of Water and Health	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
53	Journal of Oral Microbiology	19
-	Microbes and Infection	19
-	Anaerobe	19
-	Journal of Microbiology	19
57	Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
58	Environmental Microbiology Reports	17
-	Future Microbiology	17
-	Journal of Antibiotics	17
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
63	APMIS	16
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	16
65	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	15
-	Extremophiles	15
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	15
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	15
-	Research in Microbiology	15
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	15
-	Food and Environmental Virology	15
-	Beneficial Microbes	15
73	Annals of Microbiology	14
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	14
-	Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Symbiosis	14
-	Yeast	14
78	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	13
-	Microbes and Environments	13
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	13
82	Indian Journal of Microbiology	12
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	12
-	Innate Immunity	12
85	European Journal of Protistology	11
-	International Microbiology	11
-	Protist	11
88	Microbiology	10
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	10
-	Cellular Microbiology	10
91	Plasmid	9
92	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	8
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
94	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	7
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	7
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
97	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
98	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4
-	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4