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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	94
2	Frontiers in Microbiology	91
3	Nature Microbiology	89
4	Microorganisms	84
5	Cell Host & Microbe	80
6	Gut Microbes	75
-	Microbiome	75
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	70
9	Clinical Infectious Diseases	64
10	Microbiological Research	58
11	ISME Journal	57
12	Trends in Microbiology	56
13	Pathogens	55
14	Microbiology Spectrum	54
-	Journal of Fungi	54
16	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	50
-	mBio	50
18	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	49
19	Emerging Microbes & Infections	47
20	Journal of Infectious Diseases	43
21	Current Opinion in Microbiology	42
22	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	41
23	International Journal of Food Microbiology	40
24	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	39
-	BMC Microbiology	39
26	mSystems	38
27	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	37
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	37
30	Journal of Applied Microbiology	36
-	Archives of Microbiology	36
-	Microbial Biotechnology	36
33	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	35
-	Virulence	35
-	Food Microbiology	35
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	35
37	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	34
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
39	Environmental Microbiology	33
40	Microbial Ecology	29
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	29
-	Current Microbiology	29
43	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	28
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	28
45	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	27
-	mSphere	27
47	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	26
-	Microbiology-SGM	26
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	26
-	Journal of Bacteriology	26

51	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	25
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	25
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	25
-	Microbial Genomics	25
55	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	24
56	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	23
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	23
58	Helicobacter	22
59	Journal of Basic Microbiology	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Veterinary Microbiology	21
62	Journal of Water and Health	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	20
-	Gut Pathogens	20
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
67	Journal of Medical Microbiology	19
68	Anaerobe	18
-	Folia Microbiologica	18
-	Microbes and Infection	18
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	18
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	18
73	Tuberculosis	17
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	17
-	Research in Microbiology	17
-	APMIS	17
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	17
78	Microbiologyopen	16
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Antibiotics	16
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Microbiology	16
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	16
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	16
-	Future Microbiology	16
86	Phytobiomes Journal	15
-	Yeast	15
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	15
89	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	14
-	Beneficial Microbes	14
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	14
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	14
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	14
94	Symbiosis	13
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	13
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	13
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	European Journal of Protistology	13
-	Extremophiles	13
100	Protist	12
-	Microbial Cell	12
-	Microbiology and Immunology	12
-	Food and Environmental Virology	12
104	Pathogens and Disease	11
-	Annals of Microbiology	11
-	Microbes and Environments	11
-	Microbiology	11
108	Innate Immunity	10
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	10
110	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	9
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	9
112	Plasmid	8
-	Cellular Microbiology	8
114	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	7
115	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	6
117	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	5
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
119	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4