Virology: 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Cell Host & Microbe	79
2	Viruses-Basel	68
3	Journal of Medical Virology	58
4	Journal of Virology	39
5	Reviews in Medical Virology	31
-	Virology Journal	31
7	Current Opinion in Virology	30
8	Antiviral Research	29
9	Virus Evolution	28
10	Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses	27
11	AIDS	26
-	Virus Research	26
-	Archives of Virology	26
14	Journal of General Virology	25
15	Journal of Clinical Virology	24
16	Annual Review of Virology	23
17	Virology	22
18	Journal of Virological Methods	19
19	Journal of Viral Hepatitis	16
20	Retrovirology	14
-	Virus Genes	14
-	Journal of Neurovirology	14
23	Food and Environmental Virology	13
24	Future Virology	12
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
-	AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses	12
27	Antiviral Therapy	11
-	Viral Immunology	11
29	Journal of Virus Eradication	9
30	Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine	8
31	Current HIV Research	7
-	Intervirology	7