Microbiology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	38
2	Annual Review of Microbiology	36
3	Cell Host & Microbe	35
4	Microbiome	29
-	Nature Microbiology	29
6	Nature Reviews Microbiology	26
7	ISME Journal	24
8	Trends in Microbiology	20
-	Current Opinion in Microbiology	20
10	Gut Microbes	18
11	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	17
-	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	17
13	Microbiological Research	14
14	Food Microbiology	13
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	13
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	13
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	13
18	mBio	12
-	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	12
-	International Microbiology	12
-	Clinical Infectious Diseases	12
-	Environmental Microbiology	12
23	International Journal of Food Microbiology	11
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	11
-	mSystems	11
-	Annals of Microbiology	11
-	Virulence	11
28	Frontiers in Microbiology	10
-	Journal of Fungi	10
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	10
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	10
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	10
-	Beneficial Microbes	10
34	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	9
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	9
-	Microbial Biotechnology	9
-	Microbial Ecology	9
-	Microorganisms	9
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	9
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	9
41	Helicobacter	8
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	8
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	8
-	mSphere	8
-	Pathogens	8
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	8
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	8
-	Gut Pathogens	8
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	8
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	8

-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	8
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	8
-	Microbiology Spectrum	8
-	Pathogens and Disease	8
-	BMC Microbiology	8
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	8
57	Innate Immunity	7
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	7
-	Journal of Bacteriology	7
-	Microbiology-SGM	7
-	Molecular Microbiology	7
-	Research in Microbiology	7
-	Archives of Microbiology	7
-	Cellular Microbiology	7
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	7
-	Microbiologyopen	7
-	Anaerobe	7
-	Food and Environmental Virology	7
69	Microbial Drug Resistance	6
-	Microbial Genomics	6
-	Veterinary Microbiology	6
-	Folia Microbiologica	6
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	6
-	Journal of Microbiology	6
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	6
76	Journal of Microbiological Methods	5
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	5
-	Microbes and Environments	5
-	Current Microbiology	5
-	European Journal of Protistology	5
-	Extremophiles	5
-	Journal of Water and Health	5
-	Microbes and Infection	5
-	Microbial Cell	5
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	5
-	Tuberculosis	5
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	5
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	5
89	Microbial Risk Analysis	4
-	Phytobiomes Journal	4
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	4
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	4
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	4
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	4
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	4
-	Future Microbiology	4
-	Journal of Antibiotics	4
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	4
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	4
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	4
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	4
-	Symbiosis	4
103	APMIS	3
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	3
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	3
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	3
-	Microbiology and Immunology	3
-	Plasmid	3
-	Protist	3
110	Microbiology	2
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	2
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	2
-	Yeast	2
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	2
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	2
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	2
117	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	1
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	1
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	1
-	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	1
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	1