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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	96
2	Frontiers in Microbiology	94
3	Nature Microbiology	86
-	Microorganisms	86
5	Gut Microbes	82
6	Cell Host & Microbe	79
7	Microbiome	76
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	70
9	Microbiological Research	61
10	Pathogens	57
-	ISME Journal	57
12	Trends in Microbiology	56
13	Journal of Fungi	55
14	Microbiology Spectrum	53
15	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	50
16	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	48
-	mBio	48
18	Emerging Microbes & Infections	47
19	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	44
20	Current Opinion in Microbiology	43
21	Journal of Infectious Diseases	41
-	BMC Microbiology	41
23	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	39
24	International Journal of Food Microbiology	38
-	mSystems	38
26	Archives of Microbiology	37
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	37
-	Microbial Biotechnology	37
-	Virulence	37
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
31	Annual Review of Microbiology	36
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	36
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	36
34	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	35
35	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
36	Food Microbiology	33
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	33
38	Environmental Microbiology	31
-	Microbial Ecology	31
40	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	29
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	29
-	Current Microbiology	29
43	mSphere	28
44	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	27
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	27
-	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	27
-	Microbiology-SGM	27
48	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	26
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	26
-	Journal of Bacteriology	26

51	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	25
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	25
53	Helicobacter	24
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	24
-	Microbial Genomics	24
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	24
57	Veterinary Microbiology	22
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	22
-	Molecular Microbiology	22
60	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
-	Journal of Water and Health	21
62	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	20
-	Gut Pathogens	20
65	Research in Microbiology	19
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	19
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	19
68	Folia Microbiologica	18
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	18
-	Journal of Microbiology	18
-	Microbes and Infection	18
72	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	17
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	17
-	Anaerobe	17
-	Tuberculosis	17
76	Phytobiomes Journal	16
-	APMIS	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
-	Future Microbiology	16
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	16
-	Microbiologyopen	16
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	16
83	Yeast	15
-	Journal of Antibiotics	15
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	15
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
87	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	14
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	14
-	Symbiosis	14
-	Beneficial Microbes	14
-	Extremophiles	14
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	14
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	14
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	14
95	Food and Environmental Virology	13
-	Microbial Cell	13
97	Microbes and Environments	12
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	12
-	Pathogens and Disease	12
-	Protist	12
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	12
-	European Journal of Protistology	12
-	Microbiology and Immunology	12
104	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	11
-	Microbiology	11
106	Annals of Microbiology	10
107	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	9
-	Innate Immunity	9
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	9
110	Cellular Microbiology	8
111	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	7
112	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
-	Plasmid	6
114	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	5
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	5
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
117	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4