New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Microbiology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)
Rank Journal Median citations
1 Microbiome15
2 Annual Review of Microbiology14
3 Gut Microbes13
4 Clinical Microbiology Reviews12
5 Nature Microbiology10
6 Current Opinion in Microbiology9
- Journal of Applied Microbiology9
8 ISME Journal8
- Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews8
- Microbiological Research8
- Beneficial Microbes8
12 Cell Host & Microbe7
- Emerging Microbes & Infections7
- Food Microbiology7
- Microbial Ecology7
16 mBio6
- npj Biofilms and Microbiomes6
- Critical Reviews in Microbiology6
- International Journal of Food Microbiology6
- Letters in Applied Microbiology6
- mSystems6
- Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials6
23 Journal of Fungi5
- Trends in Microbiology5
- Frontiers in Microbiology5
- Microbiology Spectrum5
27 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology4
- International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents4
- Journal of Bacteriology4
- Microbial Biotechnology4
- mSphere4
- Pathogens4
- Research in Microbiology4
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control4
- Environmental Microbiology4
- Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy4
- Helicobacter4
- Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection4
- Microorganisms4
- Pathogens and Disease4
- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy4
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology4
43 Clinical Microbiology and Infection3
- Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases3
- Gut Pathogens3
- Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy3
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology3
- Journal of Infectious Diseases3
- Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology3
- Microbiology-SGM3
- Molecular Microbiology3
- Phytobiomes Journal3
- Anaerobe3
- Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins3
- Systematic and Applied Microbiology3
- Archives of Microbiology3
- Clinical Infectious Diseases3
- Journal of Medical Microbiology3
- Journal of Microbiology3
- Journal of Water and Health3
- Microbes and Infection3
- Microbial Pathogenesis3
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases3
- Virulence3
- BMC Microbiology3
66 Canadian Journal of Microbiology2
- Current Microbiology2
- Environmental Microbiology Reports2
- European Journal of Protistology2
- Extremophiles2
- Food and Environmental Virology2
- Future Microbiology2
- Indian Journal of Microbiology2
- International Journal of Medical Microbiology2
- Journal of Oral Microbiology2
- Microbial Drug Resistance2
- Microbial Genomics2
- Microbial Risk Analysis2
- Veterinary Microbiology2
- Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health2
- Brazilian Journal of Microbiology2
- European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases2
- Innate Immunity2
- International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology2
- Journal of Antibiotics2
- Medical Microbiology and Immunology2
- Microbial Cell2
- Molecular Oral Microbiology2
- Plasmid2
- Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology2
- Tuberculosis2
- Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology2
93 Cellular Microbiology1
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease1
- Journal of Microbiological Methods1
- Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology1
- Microbes and Environments1
- Microbiology1
- Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia1
- APMIS1
- Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology1
- Folia Microbiologica1
- Journal of Basic Microbiology1
- Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology1
- Journal of General and Applied Microbiology1
- Nature Reviews Microbiology1
- Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica1
- Protist1
- Symbiosis1
- Aquatic Microbial Ecology1
111 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica0
- Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni0
- Yeast0
- Microbiology and Immunology0
- Microbiologyopen0
- Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology0
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases0
- Revista Argentina de Microbiologia0
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