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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Clinical Infectious Diseases	114
2	Nature Reviews Microbiology	97
3	Cell Host & Microbe	90
4	Frontiers in Microbiology	87
5	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	83
6	Nature Microbiology	80
7	Microbiome	70
-	Microorganisms	70
9	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	69
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	69
11	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	67
12	ISME Journal	64
13	mBio	63
14	Gut Microbes	62
15	Pathogens	54
16	Trends in Microbiology	52
-	Journal of Fungi	52
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	52
19	mSystems	48
20	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	46
21	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	45
22	Emerging Microbes & Infections	44
23	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	42
-	Environmental Microbiology	42
25	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	41
26	International Journal of Food Microbiology	40
-	mSphere	40
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	40
29	Food Microbiology	39
-	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	39
-	Microbiological Research	39
32	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	38
33	BMC Microbiology	37
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	37
35	Microbiology Spectrum	36
36	Annual Review of Microbiology	35
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	35
38	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	34
-	Microbial Biotechnology	34
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	34
41	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	32
-	Current Opinion in Microbiology	32
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	32
44	Virulence	31
45	Current Microbiology	29
46	Archives of Microbiology	28
47	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	26
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	26
-	Microbes and Infection	26
-	Microbial Ecology	26

51	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	25
-	Veterinary Microbiology	25
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	25
54	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	24
-	Journal of Bacteriology	24
-	Molecular Microbiology	24
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
58	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	23
-	Microbial Genomics	23
-	FEMS Microbiology Ecology	23
-	Future Microbiology	23
62	Helicobacter	22
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	22
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
65	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	21
-	Pathogens and Disease	21
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Gut Pathogens	21
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	21
-	Journal of Microbiology	21
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	21
73	Microbiology-SGM	20
-	Microbiologyopen	20
75	Cellular Microbiology	19
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Anaerobe	19
-	Journal of Antibiotics	19
80	Annals of Microbiology	18
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	18
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	18
83	Tuberculosis	17
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	17
85	Phytobiomes Journal	16
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	16
-	Folia Microbiologica	16
-	Symbiosis	16
-	Beneficial Microbes	16
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Water and Health	16
92	Journal of Oral Microbiology	15
-	Food and Environmental Virology	15
94	Research in Microbiology	14
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	14
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	14
-	Yeast	14
-	European Journal of Protistology	14
-	Extremophiles	14
-	Innate Immunity	14
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	14
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	14
103	APMIS	13
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	International Microbiology	13
-	Microbial Cell	13
-	Microbiology and Immunology	13
108	FEMS Yeast Research	12
109	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	11
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	11
-	Plasmid	11
-	Protist	11
113	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	10
-	Microbiology	10
115	Microbes and Environments	9
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	9
117	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	8
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	8
120	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	7
121	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	6
122	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	5
123	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4