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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Clinical Infectious Diseases	98
2	Nature Reviews Microbiology	93
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	85
4	Cell Host & Microbe	83
5	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	82
6	Nature Microbiology	78
7	Microorganisms	73
8	Microbiome	68
9	ISME Journal	66
10	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	65
11	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	63
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	63
13	Gut Microbes	62
14	mBio	59
15	Journal of Fungi	53
16	Trends in Microbiology	51
17	Pathogens	49
18	Emerging Microbes & Infections	46
19	mSystems	45
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	45
21	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	44
22	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	43
23	Microbiological Research	42
24	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	41
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	41
26	Environmental Microbiology	40
27	International Journal of Food Microbiology	39
28	Microbiology Spectrum	38
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	38
30	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	37
-	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	37
32	Annual Review of Microbiology	36
-	Food Microbiology	36
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	36
35	mSphere	35
-	BMC Microbiology	35
-	Current Opinion in Microbiology	35
38	Microbial Biotechnology	34
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	34
40	Virulence	32
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	32
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	32
43	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	31
44	Current Microbiology	30
45	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	29
46	Archives of Microbiology	28
47	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	27
48	Molecular Microbiology	26
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	26
-	Microbial Ecology	26

51	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	25
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	25
-	Journal of Bacteriology	25
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	25
55	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	24
56	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	23
-	Veterinary Microbiology	23
58	Helicobacter	22
-	Microbial Genomics	22
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
61	Microbiology-SGM	21
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	21
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	21
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Journal of Microbiology	21
66	Environmental Microbiology Reports	20
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	20
-	FEMS Microbiology Ecology	20
-	Gut Pathogens	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
71	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	19
-	Future Microbiology	19
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	19
-	Microbes and Infection	19
75	Cellular Microbiology	18
-	Microbiologyopen	18
-	Annals of Microbiology	18
-	Pathogens and Disease	18
-	Journal of Antibiotics	18
-	Journal of Water and Health	18
81	Journal of Oral Microbiology	17
-	Anaerobe	17
-	Beneficial Microbes	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	17
86	Phytobiomes Journal	16
-	Folia Microbiologica	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	16
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	16
91	APMIS	15
-	Research in Microbiology	15
-	Extremophiles	15
-	Symbiosis	15
-	Food and Environmental Virology	15
96	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	14
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	14
-	Yeast	14
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	14
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	14
-	International Microbiology	14
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	14
103	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	European Journal of Protistology	13
-	Innate Immunity	13
-	Microbial Cell	13
-	Microbiology and Immunology	13
108	FEMS Yeast Research	12
109	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	11
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	11
-	Microbes and Environments	11
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	11
-	Plasmid	11
-	Protist	11
115	Microbiology	10
116	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	9
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	9
118	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	8
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	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	3