Virology: 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Cell Host & Microbe	35
2	Current Opinion in Virology	20
3	Reviews in Medical Virology	13
-	Virologica Sinica	13
5	Journal of Virology	10
-	Retrovirology	10
7	Journal of Clinical Virology	9
-	Journal of Medical Virology	9
-	Viruses-Basel	9
-	Antiviral Research	9
11	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	7
-	Virus Research	7
-	Food and Environmental Virology	7
-	Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses	7
-	Virology Journal	7
16	Journal of General Virology	6
-	Journal of Virological Methods	6
18	Antiviral Therapy	5
-	Virology	5
-	AIDS	5
-	Archives of Virology	5
-	Intervirology	5
-	Journal of Neurovirology	5
24	AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses	4
-	Journal of Viral Hepatitis	4
-	Virus Genes	4
27	Future Virology	3
-	Viral Immunology	3
-	Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine	3
30	Current HIV Research	2