New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Microbiology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Frontiers in Microbiology16861
2 Clinical Infectious Diseases3268
3 Journal of Infectious Diseases2422
4 Microbial Pathogenesis2298
5 Applied and Environmental Microbiology2231
6 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology1966
7 Archives of Microbiology1924
8 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1847
9 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy1841
10 BMC Microbiology1807
11 Clinical Microbiology and Infection1702
- Current Microbiology1702
13 International Journal of Food Microbiology1351
14 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents1260
15 Environmental Microbiology1243
16 Gut Microbes1167
17 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology1165
18 Veterinary Microbiology1142
19 Microbiological Research1074
20 Journal of Clinical Microbiology1072
21 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease1054
22 ISME Journal939
23 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology898
24 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases895
25 Microbial Biotechnology870
26 Journal of Bacteriology864
27 Cell Host & Microbe830
28 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins813
29 Food Microbiology791
30 Trends in Microbiology745
31 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica722
32 Microbial Ecology698
33 Journal of Applied Microbiology692
34 Molecular Microbiology673
35 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases658
36 Journal of Basic Microbiology653
37 Journal of Medical Microbiology649
38 Journal of Microbiological Methods624
39 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection607
40 Nature Reviews Microbiology604
41 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology579
42 Journal of Water and Health556
43 Indian Journal of Microbiology538
44 Future Microbiology530
45 Microbiology-SGM513
46 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology501
47 Environmental Microbiology Reports480
48 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia469
49 APMIS460
- Current Opinion in Microbiology460
51 Microbiology452
52 Microbes and Infection428
- Anaerobe428
54 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy425
55 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases421
56 Helicobacter409
57 Microbial Drug Resistance406
58 Journal of Antibiotics399
59 Folia Microbiologica392
60 Tuberculosis390
61 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials353
62 Letters in Applied Microbiology348
63 Microbiology and Immunology341
64 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology335
65 Journal of Microbiology311
66 Yeast294
67 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology278
- Gut Pathogens278
69 Symbiosis271
70 Canadian Journal of Microbiology252
71 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology251
- Systematic and Applied Microbiology251
73 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia246
74 Research in Microbiology240
- European Journal of Protistology240
76 Journal of Oral Microbiology236
77 Critical Reviews in Microbiology213
78 Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni200
79 Molecular Oral Microbiology183
80 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica176
81 Clinical Microbiology Reviews167
82 Food and Environmental Virology161
83 Extremophiles153
84 Protist148
85 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews146
86 Annual Review of Microbiology145
87 Microbes and Environments140
88 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology139
89 Medical Microbiology and Immunology126
90 International Journal of Medical Microbiology121
91 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology115
92 Beneficial Microbes101
- Cellular Microbiology101
94 Innate Immunity80
95 Plasmid73
96 Annals of Microbiology69
97 Aquatic Microbial Ecology48
98 International Microbiology27
99 FEMS Microbiology Letters25
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