New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Microbiology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation 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 Average citations
1 Nature Reviews Microbiology64.034
2 Cell Host & Microbe27.427
3 Clinical Microbiology Reviews27.282
4 Nature Microbiology27.110
5 Annual Review of Microbiology25.714
6 Microbiome24.531
7 Gut Microbes22.556
8 Current Opinion in Microbiology17.487
9 Trends in Microbiology16.648
10 ISME Journal16.539
11 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews16.274
12 Journal of Applied Microbiology15.830
13 Microbiological Research15.358
14 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes14.422
15 Annals of Microbiology14.400
16 Emerging Microbes & Infections12.459
17 Beneficial Microbes11.101
18 Critical Reviews in Microbiology10.875
19 Microbial Ecology10.592
20 Food Microbiology10.520
21 Clinical Infectious Diseases10.401
22 Frontiers in Microbiology9.647
23 Clinical Microbiology and Infection9.589
24 mBio9.523
25 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials9.420
26 Letters in Applied Microbiology9.274
27 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology9.062
28 International Journal of Food Microbiology9.055
29 mSystems8.946
30 Microorganisms8.611
31 Journal of Oral Microbiology8.377
32 Microbial Biotechnology8.371
33 Journal of Fungi8.227
34 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.099
35 Virulence7.950
36 Microbiology Spectrum7.806
37 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy7.553
38 Environmental Microbiology7.426
39 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy7.407
40 Research in Microbiology7.388
41 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents7.176
42 Journal of Clinical Microbiology7.122
43 Microbiology-SGM7.075
44 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection6.958
45 Gut Pathogens6.899
46 Pathogens6.883
47 Helicobacter6.880
48 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases6.677
49 Journal of Infectious Diseases6.575
50 Applied and Environmental Microbiology6.539
51 Journal of Bacteriology6.396
52 BMC Microbiology6.365
53 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy6.143
54 Systematic and Applied Microbiology6.132
55 mSphere6.108
56 Microbial Pathogenesis6.003
57 Anaerobe5.819
58 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins5.810
59 Microbial Cell5.763
60 Archives of Microbiology5.736
61 Pathogens and Disease5.542
62 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology5.374
63 International Journal of Medical Microbiology5.366
64 Molecular Microbiology5.282
65 Journal of Water and Health5.244
66 Microbes and Infection5.207
67 Molecular Oral Microbiology4.891
68 Microbial Genomics4.886
69 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology4.847
70 Journal of Microbiology4.836
71 Innate Immunity4.767
72 Food and Environmental Virology4.607
73 Medical Microbiology and Immunology4.601
74 Phytobiomes Journal4.595
75 Plasmid4.484
76 Extremophiles4.301
77 Current Microbiology4.294
78 Journal of Basic Microbiology4.256
79 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology4.253
80 Tuberculosis4.248
81 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases4.239
- Journal of Antibiotics4.239
83 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology4.138
84 Veterinary Microbiology4.064
85 Journal of Medical Microbiology4.044
86 European Journal of Protistology3.917
87 Symbiosis3.879
88 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases3.874
89 Folia Microbiologica3.824
90 Future Microbiology3.788
91 Environmental Microbiology Reports3.674
92 Canadian Journal of Microbiology3.648
93 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology3.588
94 Microbial Drug Resistance3.551
95 Indian Journal of Microbiology3.439
96 Protist3.424
97 Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health3.371
98 Cellular Microbiology3.264
99 Journal of Microbiological Methods3.249
100 Microbes and Environments3.211
101 Yeast3.202
102 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology3.010
103 Microbial Risk Analysis2.990
104 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia2.965
105 APMIS2.899
106 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease2.767
107 Microbiologyopen2.604
108 Microbiology and Immunology2.515
109 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica2.442
110 Microbiology2.010
111 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology1.997
112 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia1.895
113 Aquatic Microbial Ecology1.674
114 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica1.622
115 Open Forum Infectious Diseases1.564
116 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology1.321
117 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology1.223
118 Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni1.077
119 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology0.578
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