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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Clinical Infectious Diseases	72
2	Trends in Microbiology	52
3	Journal of Infectious Diseases	47
4	Microbiological Research	46
5	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	42
6	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	39
7	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	38
8	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
9	International Journal of Food Microbiology	36
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	36
11	Food Microbiology	35
12	Annual Review of Microbiology	34
13	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	33
14	Archives of Microbiology	32
15	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	30
16	Current Microbiology	29
17	Journal of Bacteriology	26
18	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	25
-	Microbial Ecology	25
20	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	24
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	24
22	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	23
23	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	22
25	Helicobacter	21
-	Veterinary Microbiology	21
27	Anaerobe	20
28	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	19
-	Folia Microbiologica	19
-	Molecular Microbiology	19
33	Microbial Drug Resistance	18
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	18
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
36	Journal of Antibiotics	16
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	16
38	Research in Microbiology	15
-	APMIS	15
40	Indian Journal of Microbiology	14
-	Yeast	14
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	14
43	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	13
-	Symbiosis	13
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	European Journal of Protistology	13
-	Microbiology and Immunology	13
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	13
49	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	10
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	10

51	Microbiology	9
52	Plasmid	8
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	8
54	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
55	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
56	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4
-	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	4