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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	95
2	Microorganisms	87
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	86
-	Nature Microbiology	86
5	Cell Host & Microbe	82
6	Microbiome	72
7	Gut Microbes	71
8	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	68
9	Clinical Infectious Diseases	66
10	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	56
11	ISME Journal	55
12	Microbiological Research	54
-	Pathogens	54
-	Trends in Microbiology	54
15	Microbiology Spectrum	52
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	52
-	Journal of Fungi	52
18	mBio	50
19	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	43
20	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	42
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	42
22	Current Opinion in Microbiology	41
23	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	39
-	International Journal of Food Microbiology	39
25	Microbial Pathogenesis	38
-	mSystems	38
-	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	38
-	BMC Microbiology	38
29	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	36
-	Archives of Microbiology	36
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	36
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	36
33	Virulence	35
-	Microbial Biotechnology	35
35	Environmental Microbiology	34
-	Food Microbiology	34
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	34
-	Annual Review of Microbiology	34
39	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	31
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	31
41	Current Microbiology	30
42	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	29
43	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	28
-	Microbiology-SGM	28
45	Microbial Ecology	27
-	Journal of Bacteriology	27
47	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	26
-	mSphere	26
49	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	25
-	Helicobacter	25

-	Microbial Genomics	25
-	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	25
53	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	24
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	24
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	24
56	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	23
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	23
58	Journal of Basic Microbiology	22
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	22
-	Gut Pathogens	22
61	Journal of Water and Health	21
-	Molecular Microbiology	21
63	Microbes and Infection	20
-	Folia Microbiologica	20
-	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	20
-	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	20
67	Letters in Applied Microbiology	19
-	Anaerobe	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Veterinary Microbiology	19
71	Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
-	Tuberculosis	18
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	18
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	18
75	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	17
-	Journal of Antibiotics	17
-	Research in Microbiology	17
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	17
-	Future Microbiology	17
80	Journal of Microbiology	16
-	Microbiologyopen	16
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	16
-	Phytobiomes Journal	16
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	16
-	APMIS	16
86	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	15
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	15
-	Microbes and Environments	15
-	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
90	Pathogens and Disease	14
-	Symbiosis	14
-	Beneficial Microbes	14
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	14
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	14
95	Microbiology and Immunology	13
-	Annals of Microbiology	13
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	13
-	Yeast	13
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	13
-	Food and Environmental Virology	13
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	13
102	Microbial Cell	12
-	Protist	12
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	12
-	Extremophiles	12
106	Innate Immunity	11
-	Microbiology	11
-	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	11
-	European Journal of Protistology	11
110	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
111	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	9
112	Plasmid	8
-	Cellular Microbiology	8
114	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	6
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	6
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	6
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	6
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
119	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4