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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	92
2	Nature Microbiology	85
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	79
4	Cell Host & Microbe	78
5	Microorganisms	77
6	Clinical Infectious Diseases	71
7	Microbiome	68
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	66
9	Gut Microbes	60
10	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	56
11	Pathogens	55
12	Journal of Fungi	54
-	mBio	54
14	ISME Journal	53
15	Microbiology Spectrum	52
16	Trends in Microbiology	51
17	Emerging Microbes & Infections	49
-	Microbiological Research	49
19	Journal of Infectious Diseases	48
20	Current Opinion in Microbiology	45
21	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	41
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	41
23	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	40
-	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	40
-	mSystems	40
26	Annual Review of Microbiology	39
27	Environmental Microbiology	38
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	38
29	BMC Microbiology	37
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
31	International Journal of Food Microbiology	36
-	Virulence	36
33	Microbial Biotechnology	35
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	35
-	Food Microbiology	35
36	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
37	Journal of Applied Microbiology	33
38	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	32
-	Archives of Microbiology	32
40	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	31
41	mSphere	30
42	Current Microbiology	29
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	29
44	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	28
45	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	27
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	27
47	Journal of Bacteriology	26
-	Microbial Ecology	26
49	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	25
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	25

51	Microbial Genomics	24
-	Microbiology-SGM	24
-	Helicobacter	24
54	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	23
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	23
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	23
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	23
58	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	22
59	Gut Pathogens	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Folia Microbiologica	21
-	Journal of Water and Health	21
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
64	Anaerobe	20
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	20
-	Veterinary Microbiology	20
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
69	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	19
-	Journal of Microbiology	19
72	Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
-	Microbes and Infection	18
74	Future Microbiology	17
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	17
-	Journal of Antibiotics	17
-	Microbiologyopen	17
78	Research in Microbiology	16
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	16
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	16
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	16
-	APMIS	16
-	Tuberculosis	16
86	Beneficial Microbes	15
-	Yeast	15
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
-	Extremophiles	15
90	Food and Environmental Virology	14
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	14
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Pathogens and Disease	14
-	Symbiosis	14
96	Microbes and Environments	13
-	Phytobiomes Journal	13
-	Annals of Microbiology	13
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	13
100	Indian Journal of Microbiology	12
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
-	Innate Immunity	12
-	Microbial Cell	12
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	12
105	European Journal of Protistology	11
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	11
107	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
-	Microbiology	10
-	Protist	10
110	Cellular Microbiology	9
-	Plasmid	9
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	9
113	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
114	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	7
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	7
117	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
118	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
119	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4
-	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4