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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	95
2	Frontiers in Microbiology	93
3	Nature Microbiology	86
4	Microorganisms	85
5	Gut Microbes	81
6	Cell Host & Microbe	79
7	Microbiome	74
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	67
9	Clinical Infectious Diseases	62
10	Microbiological Research	60
11	Pathogens	57
-	ISME Journal	57
13	Trends in Microbiology	56
14	Microbiology Spectrum	55
15	Journal of Fungi	53
16	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	49
-	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	49
-	mBio	49
19	Emerging Microbes & Infections	47
20	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	45
21	Current Opinion in Microbiology	44
22	BMC Microbiology	42
23	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	40
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	40
25	mSystems	39
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	39
27	Microbial Pathogenesis	38
28	Virulence	37
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	37
-	Microbial Biotechnology	37
31	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	36
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	36
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	36
-	Archives of Microbiology	36
35	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	35
36	Food Microbiology	34
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
38	Journal of Applied Microbiology	32
39	Environmental Microbiology	31
40	Microbial Ecology	30
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	30
42	mSphere	29
-	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	29
-	Current Microbiology	29
45	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	28
-	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	28
47	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	27
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	27
-	Journal of Bacteriology	27
50	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	26

-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	26
-	Microbiology-SGM	26
53	Microbial Genomics	25
54	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	24
-	Helicobacter	24
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	24
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	24
59	Journal of Basic Microbiology	23
-	Molecular Microbiology	23
61	Veterinary Microbiology	22
62	Gut Pathogens	21
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	21
64	Journal of Water and Health	20
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	20
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	20
67	Journal of Medical Microbiology	19
-	Journal of Microbiology	19
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	19
-	Microbes and Infection	19
-	Research in Microbiology	19
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	19
73	Folia Microbiologica	18
-	Anaerobe	18
75	Microbiologyopen	17
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	17
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	17
-	APMIS	17
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	17
80	Tuberculosis	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Antibiotics	16
-	Phytobiomes Journal	16
-	Future Microbiology	16
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	16
86	Symbiosis	15
-	Beneficial Microbes	15
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	15
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	15
-	Yeast	15
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	15
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
93	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	14
-	Food and Environmental Virology	14
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	14
96	Pathogens and Disease	13
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	13
-	Microbial Cell	13
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
100	Protist	12
-	Microbiology and Immunology	12
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	12
-	European Journal of Protistology	12
-	Extremophiles	12
-	Microbes and Environments	12
106	Microbial Drug Resistance	11
-	Microbiology	11
108	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	10
109	Innate Immunity	9
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	9
111	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	8
112	Cellular Microbiology	7
113	Plasmid	6
114	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	5
-	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	5
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	5
118	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4