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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	96
2	Nature Microbiology	83
3	Cell Host & Microbe	80
4	Frontiers in Microbiology	78
5	Microbiome	73
6	Microorganisms	72
-	Clinical Infectious Diseases	72
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	64
9	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	57
10	ISME Journal	56
11	Pathogens	54
-	Journal of Fungi	54
-	mBio	54
14	Trends in Microbiology	53
15	Gut Microbes	52
16	Microbiological Research	48
-	Microbiology Spectrum	48
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	48
19	Emerging Microbes & Infections	45
20	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	42
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	42
22	mSystems	41
-	Current Opinion in Microbiology	41
24	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	40
-	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	40
26	Environmental Microbiology	39
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	39
28	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	37
30	BMC Microbiology	36
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	36
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	36
33	Virulence	35
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	35
35	Food Microbiology	34
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
-	Microbial Biotechnology	34
38	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	33
39	Archives of Microbiology	32
40	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	30
-	mSphere	30
42	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	29
-	Current Microbiology	29
44	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	28
45	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	26
-	Journal of Bacteriology	26
47	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	25
-	Microbial Ecology	25
-	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	25
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	25

51	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	24
52	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	23
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	23
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	23
55	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
-	Microbial Genomics	22
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	22
-	Helicobacter	22
59	Gut Pathogens	21
-	Microbiology-SGM	21
-	Veterinary Microbiology	21
62	Journal of Water and Health	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	20
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	20
-	Folia Microbiologica	20
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
68	Microbiologyopen	19
-	Journal of Microbiology	19
-	Microbes and Infection	19
-	Molecular Microbiology	19
72	Anaerobe	18
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	18
75	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	17
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	17
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	17
78	Tuberculosis	16
-	Future Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Antibiotics	16
81	Beneficial Microbes	15
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	15
-	Food and Environmental Virology	15
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	15
-	Research in Microbiology	15
-	APMIS	15
87	Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	14
-	Annals of Microbiology	14
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	14
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	14
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	14
-	Yeast	14
-	Cellular Microbiology	14
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	14
-	Extremophiles	14
97	Pathogens and Disease	13
-	Symbiosis	13
99	Indian Journal of Microbiology	12
-	Microbial Cell	12
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	12
-	European Journal of Protistology	12
-	Microbes and Environments	12
104	International Microbiology	11
-	Phytobiomes Journal	11
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	11
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	11
-	Innate Immunity	11
109	Protist	10
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
-	Microbiology	10
112	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	9
113	Plasmid	8
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	8
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	8
116	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
117	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	6
119	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	4