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 2019-05-01 to 2023-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	248
2	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	122
3	Nature Reviews Microbiology	114
4	Cell Host & Microbe	97
5	Annual Review of Microbiology	88
6	Microbiome	80
7	Nature Microbiology	64
8	ISME Journal	56
9	Current Opinion in Microbiology	54
10	Trends in Microbiology	44
11	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	42
-	Gut Microbes	42
13	mBio	30
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	30
15	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	29
16	Food Microbiology	28
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	28
-	Environmental Microbiology	28
19	Frontiers in Microbiology	27
-	mSystems	27
21	Microbiological Research	26
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	26
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	26
24	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	25
25	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	24
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	24
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	24
-	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	24
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	24
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	24
31	Journal of Oral Microbiology	23
-	Phytobiomes Journal	23
-	Beneficial Microbes	23
-	Clinical Infectious Diseases	23
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	23
36	Research in Microbiology	22
37	Microbial Biotechnology	21
-	Virulence	21
-	Helicobacter	21
-	Microbial Ecology	21
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	21
42	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	20
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	20
-	Molecular Microbiology	20
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	20
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	20
-	BMC Microbiology	20
-	Gut Pathogens	20
49	Journal of Bacteriology	19
-	Microbiology-SGM	19

-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	19
-	FEMS Yeast Research	19
53	mSphere	18
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	18
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	18
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	18
-	Microbes and Infection	18
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
59	Microbial Pathogenesis	17
-	Microorganisms	17
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	17
-	FEMS Microbiology Ecology	17
63	Tuberculosis	16
-	Cellular Microbiology	16
-	Food and Environmental Virology	16
66	Microbial Genomics	15
-	Extremophiles	15
-	Journal of Microbiology	15
-	Microbiologyopen	15
-	Anaerobe	15
-	Veterinary Microbiology	15
72	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	14
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	14
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	14
-	Microbial Cell	14
-	Protist	14
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	14
78	Microbes and Environments	13
-	Pathogens	13
-	Journal of Antibiotics	13
-	Annals of Microbiology	13
-	Plasmid	13
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	13
84	Journal of Fungi	12
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	12
-	APMIS	12
-	Symbiosis	12
-	Archives of Microbiology	12
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	12
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	12
-	European Journal of Protistology	12
-	International Microbiology	12
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	12
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	12
-	Yeast	12
97	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	11
-	Current Microbiology	11
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	11
-	Folia Microbiologica	11
101	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
-	Innate Immunity	10
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	10
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	10
-	Journal of Water and Health	10
-	Microbiology Spectrum	10
-	Pathogens and Disease	10
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	10
-	Future Microbiology	10
110	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	9
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	9
112	Microbiology and Immunology	8
113	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	7
114	Microbiology	6
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	6
116	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	5
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	5
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	5
119	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	2
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	2
-	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	2
122	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	1