Microbiology: 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 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Clinical Infectious Diseases	120
2	Nature Reviews Microbiology	93
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	86
4	Cell Host & Microbe	85
5	Nature Microbiology	81
6	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	79
7	Emerging Microbes & Infections	70
8	Journal of Infectious Diseases	68
9	Microbiome	67
10	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	65
11	Microorganisms	64
12	ISME Journal	63
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	63
14	mBio	62
15	Gut Microbes	58
16	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	54
17	Trends in Microbiology	52
18	Pathogens	50
19	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	48
-	mSystems	48
21	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	46
22	Journal of Fungi	44
23	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	43
24	Environmental Microbiology	42
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	42
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	42
27	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	41
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	41
29	Food Microbiology	40
30	Annual Review of Microbiology	39
31	mSphere	38
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	38
33	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	37
34	BMC Microbiology	35
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	35
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	35
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	35
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	35
-	Microbiological Research	35
40	Current Opinion in Microbiology	33
-	Microbial Biotechnology	33
42	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	32
43	Microbes and Infection	29
44	Microbiology Spectrum	28
-	Virulence	28
46	Molecular Microbiology	27
-	Journal of Bacteriology	27
-	Archives of Microbiology	27
49	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	26
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	26

-	FEMS Microbiology Ecology	26
-	Current Microbiology	26
53	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	25
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	25
-	Veterinary Microbiology	25
-	Microbial Genomics	25
57	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	24
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	24
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	24
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	24
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	24
63	Helicobacter	23
-	Microbiologyopen	23
-	Microbial Ecology	23
66	Future Microbiology	22
67	Anaerobe	21
-	FEMS Microbiology Reviews	21
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	21
-	Gut Pathogens	21
-	Journal of Antibiotics	21
72	Microbiology-SGM	20
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	20
-	Cellular Microbiology	20
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	20
-	Journal of Microbiology	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	20
79	Phytobiomes Journal	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	19
-	Pathogens and Disease	19
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	19
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	19
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	19
86	APMIS	18
87	Annals of Microbiology	17
-	Beneficial Microbes	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
-	Extremophiles	17
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	17
92	Research in Microbiology	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
-	Folia Microbiologica	16
-	Innate Immunity	16
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	16
-	FEMS Yeast Research	16
-	Journal of Water and Health	16
99	Symbiosis	15
-	European Journal of Protistology	15
-	Food and Environmental Virology	15
102	Yeast	14
-	Microbiology	14
-	Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	International Microbiology	14
-	Microbial Cell	14
107	Microbes and Environments	13
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	13
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
110	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	12
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	12
112	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	11
113	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
-	Plasmid	10
-	Protist	10
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	10
117	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	9
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	9
119	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	8
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	8
122	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	7
123	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	6
124	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	5