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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	90
2	Clinical Infectious Diseases	79
-	Cell Host & Microbe	79
4	Frontiers in Microbiology	78
5	Nature Microbiology	74
6	Microorganisms	71
7	Microbiome	67
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	65
-	ISME Journal	65
10	Gut Microbes	59
11	mBio	54
12	Journal of Fungi	53
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	53
14	Pathogens	51
15	Trends in Microbiology	50
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	50
17	Emerging Microbes & Infections	49
18	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	43
-	Microbiological Research	43
20	mSystems	42
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	42
22	Microbiology Spectrum	41
23	Microbial Pathogenesis	39
24	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	38
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	38
-	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	38
27	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	35
28	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	34
-	BMC Microbiology	34
30	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	33
-	Microbial Biotechnology	33
-	Virulence	33
33	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	32
-	Food Microbiology	32
-	mSphere	32
36	Current Microbiology	31
37	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	30
38	Archives of Microbiology	28
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	28
40	Annual Review of Microbiology	27
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	27
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	27
43	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	26
44	Journal of Bacteriology	25
-	Molecular Microbiology	25
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	25
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	25
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	25
49	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	24
50	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	23

-	Microbial Ecology	23
52	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
-	Veterinary Microbiology	22
54	Microbial Genomics	21
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	21
-	Helicobacter	21
57	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	20
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	20
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	20
60	Gut Pathogens	19
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Journal of Water and Health	19
-	Anaerobe	19
65	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	18
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	18
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	18
-	Microbiologyopen	18
69	Future Microbiology	17
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	17
-	Folia Microbiologica	17
-	Phytobiomes Journal	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
74	Indian Journal of Microbiology	16
-	Pathogens and Disease	16
-	FEMS Microbiology Ecology	16
-	Annals of Microbiology	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
79	Food and Environmental Virology	15
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	15
-	APMIS	15
-	Journal of Antibiotics	15
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	15
-	Beneficial Microbes	15
85	Research in Microbiology	14
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	14
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	14
-	Symbiosis	14
89	Molecular Oral Microbiology	13
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	13
-	Yeast	13
-	European Journal of Protistology	13
-	International Microbiology	13
-	Microbiology and Immunology	13
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
96	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	12
-	Microbial Cell	12
98	Microbial Risk Analysis	11
-	Microbiology	11
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	11
-	Innate Immunity	11
102	Plasmid	10
103	FEMS Yeast Research	9
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	9
105	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	7
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	7
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	7
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
109	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
110	FEMS Microbiology Letters	3