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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Clinical Infectious Diseases	111
2	Nature Reviews Microbiology	95
3	Cell Host & Microbe	90
4	Frontiers in Microbiology	85
5	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	84
6	Nature Microbiology	80
7	Microorganisms	71
8	Microbiome	68
9	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	67
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	67
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	67
12	ISME Journal	65
13	Gut Microbes	61
14	mBio	59
15	Journal of Fungi	53
16	Pathogens	52
-	Trends in Microbiology	52
18	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	50
19	mSystems	47
20	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	45
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	45
22	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	44
23	Environmental Microbiology	42
24	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	41
-	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	41
26	Microbial Pathogenesis	40
-	Microbiological Research	40
28	mSphere	39
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	39
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	39
31	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	38
32	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	37
33	Annual Review of Microbiology	36
-	Food Microbiology	36
-	Microbiology Spectrum	36
-	BMC Microbiology	36
37	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	35
38	Microbial Biotechnology	34
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	34
40	Current Opinion in Microbiology	33
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	33
42	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	32
43	Virulence	31
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	31
45	Current Microbiology	30
46	Archives of Microbiology	29
47	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	27
-	Microbial Ecology	27
49	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	26
50	Molecular Microbiology	25

-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	25
-	Veterinary Microbiology	25
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	25
-	Journal of Bacteriology	25
-	Microbes and Infection	25
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	25
57	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	23
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	23
59	Microbial Genomics	22
-	Helicobacter	22
-	FEMS Microbiology Ecology	22
-	Future Microbiology	22
63	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	21
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	21
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	21
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	21
69	Microbial Drug Resistance	20
-	Microbiology-SGM	20
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
-	Gut Pathogens	20
-	Journal of Microbiology	20
74	Environmental Microbiology Reports	19
-	Microbiologyopen	19
-	Journal of Antibiotics	19
77	Cellular Microbiology	18
-	Annals of Microbiology	18
-	Pathogens and Disease	18
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	18
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	18
82	Folia Microbiologica	17
-	Anaerobe	17
-	Beneficial Microbes	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	17
87	Phytobiomes Journal	16
-	Symbiosis	16
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Water and Health	16
91	Research in Microbiology	15
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
-	Extremophiles	15
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	15
-	Food and Environmental Virology	15
96	APMIS	14
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	14
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	14
-	Yeast	14
-	Innate Immunity	14
-	Microbial Cell	14
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	14
-	International Microbiology	14
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	14
105	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	European Journal of Protistology	13
107	Microbiology and Immunology	12
-	FEMS Yeast Research	12
109	Microbial Risk Analysis	11
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	11
-	Plasmid	11
-	Protist	11
113	Microbiology	10
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	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	3