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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	95
2	Nature Microbiology	88
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	84
4	Microorganisms	83
5	Cell Host & Microbe	80
6	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	70
-	Microbiome	70
8	Clinical Infectious Diseases	68
9	Gut Microbes	66
10	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	55
-	Journal of Fungi	55
12	Microbiological Research	53
-	ISME Journal	53
14	Trends in Microbiology	52
-	mBio	52
-	Pathogens	52
17	Microbiology Spectrum	51
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	51
19	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	45
20	Current Opinion in Microbiology	44
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	44
-	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	44
23	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	39
24	International Journal of Food Microbiology	38
-	Microbial Pathogenesis	38
-	mSystems	38
-	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	38
28	BMC Microbiology	37
29	Virulence	36
-	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	36
31	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	35
-	Environmental Microbiology	35
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	35
34	Archives of Microbiology	34
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	34
-	Microbial Biotechnology	34
37	Annual Review of Microbiology	32
-	Food Microbiology	32
39	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	31
40	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	30
-	Current Microbiology	30
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	30
43	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	28
44	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	27
-	Microbiology-SGM	27
46	Microbial Ecology	26
-	Journal of Bacteriology	26
-	mSphere	26
49	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	25
-	Microbial Genomics	25

51	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	24
-	Helicobacter	24
-	Journal of Basic Microbiology	24
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	24
55	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	23
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	23
-	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	23
58	Journal of Water and Health	22
-	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	22
-	Molecular Microbiology	22
61	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	21
-	Gut Pathogens	21
-	Journal of Oral Microbiology	21
64	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	20
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	20
-	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	20
67	Folia Microbiologica	19
-	Microbes and Infection	19
-	Veterinary Microbiology	19
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	19
-	Anaerobe	19
72	Tuberculosis	18
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	18
-	Future Microbiology	18
75	Environmental Microbiology Reports	17
-	Journal of Antibiotics	17
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	17
-	Journal of Microbiology	17
-	Microbiologyopen	17
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	17
81	APMIS	16
-	Research in Microbiology	16
-	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	16
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	16
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	16
86	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	15
-	Molecular Oral Microbiology	15
-	Beneficial Microbes	15
-	Yeast	15
-	Microbes and Environments	15
91	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	14
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	14
-	Pathogens and Disease	14
-	Phytobiomes Journal	14
95	Symbiosis	13
-	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	13
-	Extremophiles	13
-	Microbiology and Immunology	13
-	Annals of Microbiology	13
-	Food and Environmental Virology	13
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	13
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	13
103	Microbial Cell	12
104	Protist	11
-	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	11
-	European Journal of Protistology	11
-	Innate Immunity	11
-	Microbiology	11
109	Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health	10
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	10
111	Plasmid	9
112	Cellular Microbiology	8
-	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	8
114	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	7
115	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	6
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	6
-	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	6
118	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	5
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	5
120	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	4