Microbiology: 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	37
2	Cell Host & Microbe	35
3	Nature Microbiology	34
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	34
-	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	34
6	Microbiome	32
7	Gut Microbes	27
8	Current Opinion in Microbiology	22
9	ISME Journal	21
10	Trends in Microbiology	20
-	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	20
12	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	19
13	Journal of Applied Microbiology	17
-	Microbiological Research	17
15	Emerging Microbes & Infections	15
16	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	14
-	Food Microbiology	14
18	mBio	13
-	Microbial Ecology	13
20	mSystems	12
-	Annals of Microbiology	12
-	Beneficial Microbes	12
-	Frontiers in Microbiology	12
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	12
25	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	11
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	11
-	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	11
-	Microbiology Spectrum	11
-	Clinical Infectious Diseases	11
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	11
31	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	10
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	10
-	Journal of Fungi	10
-	Microbial Biotechnology	10
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	10
-	Environmental Microbiology	10
37	mSphere	9
-	Research in Microbiology	9
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	9
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	9
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	9
-	Microorganisms	9
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	9
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	9
-	Virulence	9
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	9
-	Helicobacter	9
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	9
49	Microbiology-SGM	8
-	Molecular Microbiology	8

-	Pathogens	8
-	Gut Pathogens	8
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	8
-	Journal of Bacteriology	8
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	8
-	Anaerobe	8
-	BMC Microbiology	8
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	8
59	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	7
-	Archives of Microbiology	7
-	Food and Environmental Virology	7
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	7
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	7
-	Pathogens and Disease	7
-	Microbes and Infection	7
66	Phytobiomes Journal	6
-	Veterinary Microbiology	6
-	Extremophiles	6
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	6
-	Microbial Genomics	6
-	Innate Immunity	6
-	Journal of Microbiology	6
-	Journal of Water and Health	6
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	6
-	Microbial Cell	6
76	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	5
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	5
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	5
-	Current Microbiology	5
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	5
-	European Journal of Protistology	5
-	Future Microbiology	5
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	5
-	Protist	5
-	Tuberculosis	5
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	5
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	5
-	Folia Microbiologica	5
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	5
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	5
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	5
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	5
93	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	4
-	Yeast	4
-	Cellular Microbiology	4
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	4
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	4
-	Microbes and Environments	4
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	4
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	4
-	Symbiosis	4
-	Journal of Antibiotics	4
103	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	3
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	3
-	APMIS	3
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	3
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	3
-	Microbiology	3
-	Plasmid	3
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	3
-	Microbiology and Immunology	3
-	Microbiologyopen	3
113	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	2
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	2
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	2
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	2
117	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	1
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	1
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	1