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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	95
2	Cell Host & Microbe	81
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	79
4	Clinical Infectious Diseases	72
5	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	56
6	Gut Microbes	54
-	ISME Journal	54
8	Trends in Microbiology	51
9	Journal of Infectious Diseases	47
-	Microbiological Research	47
11	Current Opinion in Microbiology	44
12	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	42
13	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	41
14	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	40
15	Environmental Microbiology	39
16	Microbial Pathogenesis	37
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	37
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	37
19	BMC Microbiology	36
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	36
21	Microbial Biotechnology	35
22	Food Microbiology	34
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	34
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	34
25	Archives of Microbiology	32
26	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	31
27	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	30
28	Current Microbiology	29
29	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	27
30	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	26
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	26
-	Journal of Bacteriology	26
33	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	25
-	Microbial Ecology	25
35	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	24
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
37	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	23
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	23
-	Helicobacter	23
-	Microbiology-SGM	23
41	Gut Pathogens	22
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	22
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	22
45	Veterinary Microbiology	21
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
47	Folia Microbiologica	20
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	20
-	Molecular Microbiology	20
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	20

-	Journal of Water and Health	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
53	Anaerobe	19
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	19
-	Journal of Microbiology	19
56	Journal of Oral Microbiology	18
-	Microbes and Infection	18
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	18
59	Environmental Microbiology Reports	17
-	Future Microbiology	17
-	Research in Microbiology	17
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	17
63	APMIS	16
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	16
-	Journal of Antibiotics	16
-	Tuberculosis	16
67	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	15
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	15
-	Beneficial Microbes	15
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
-	Food and Environmental Virology	15
72	Annals of Microbiology	14
-	Extremophiles	14
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Yeast	14
77	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	13
-	Symbiosis	13
80	European Journal of Protistology	12
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	12
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
-	Microbes and Environments	12
84	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	11
-	International Microbiology	11
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	11
-	Cellular Microbiology	11
-	Innate Immunity	11
-	Protist	11
90	Microbiology	10
91	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
-	Plasmid	8
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	8
94	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	7
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	7
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	7
97	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	5
98	FEMS Microbiology Letters	4
-	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4