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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	93
2	Nature Microbiology	87
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	82
4	Microorganisms	81
5	Cell Host & Microbe	79
6	Microbiome	70
-	Clinical Infectious Diseases	70
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	68
9	Gut Microbes	64
10	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	55
11	Pathogens	54
-	Journal of Fungi	54
13	Microbiological Research	53
14	mBio	52
-	Trends in Microbiology	52
-	Microbiology Spectrum	52
17	Emerging Microbes & Infections	51
-	ISME Journal	51
19	Current Opinion in Microbiology	45
20	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	44
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	44
22	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	43
23	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	40
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	40
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	40
26	mSystems	39
27	Microbial Pathogenesis	38
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	38
29	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	37
30	BMC Microbiology	36
-	Virulence	36
32	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	35
-	Environmental Microbiology	35
34	Microbial Biotechnology	34
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
-	Food Microbiology	34
37	Archives of Microbiology	33
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	33
39	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	31
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	31
41	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	30
-	Current Microbiology	30
43	mSphere	28
44	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	27
-	Microbial Ecology	27
46	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	26
-	Microbiology-SGM	26
-	Journal of Bacteriology	26
49	Microbial Genomics	25
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	25

-	Helicobacter	25
52	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	24
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	24
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
55	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	23
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	23
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	23
58	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	22
59	Molecular Microbiology	21
-	Gut Pathogens	21
-	Journal of Water and Health	21
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	21
64	Journal of Oral Microbiology	20
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	20
-	Veterinary Microbiology	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
68	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Anaerobe	19
70	Microbes and Infection	18
-	Folia Microbiologica	18
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
73	Future Microbiology	17
-	Microbiologyopen	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
76	Microbial Drug Resistance	16
-	Research in Microbiology	16
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Microbiology	16
-	APMIS	16
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	16
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	16
-	Journal of Antibiotics	16
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	16
86	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	15
-	Beneficial Microbes	15
-	Yeast	15
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	15
90	Microbes and Environments	14
-	Phytobiomes Journal	14
-	Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	14
-	Pathogens and Disease	14
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	14
-	Extremophiles	14
97	Food and Environmental Virology	13
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	13
-	Symbiosis	13
100	Annals of Microbiology	12
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
-	Microbial Cell	12
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	12
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	12
-	Innate Immunity	12
106	Microbiology	11
-	European Journal of Protistology	11
108	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
-	Protist	10
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	10
111	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
-	Plasmid	8
-	Cellular Microbiology	8
114	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	7
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	7
117	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	6
118	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
119	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4
-	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4