Microbiology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2025
1	Nature Reviews Microbiology	ca. 104.6
2	Cell Host & Microbe	ca. 23.2
3	Clinical Microbiology Reviews	ca. 20.7
4	Trends in Microbiology	ca. 18.7
-	Nature Microbiology	ca. 18.7
6	FEMS Microbiology Reviews	ca. 16.9
7	Gut Microbes	ca. 15.3
8	Microbiome	ca. 14.9
9	Annual Review of Microbiology	ca. 12.2
10	Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	ca. 11.8
11	npj Biofilms and Microbiomes	ca. 11.4
12	ISME Journal	ca. 10.2
13	Clinical Microbiology and Infection	ca. 8.7
14	Microbiological Research	ca. 8.5
15	Clinical Infectious Diseases	ca. 8.3
16	Current Opinion in Microbiology	ca. 8
17	Critical Reviews in Microbiology	ca. 7
-	Emerging Microbes & Infections	ca. 7
19	Virulence	ca. 6.8
20	Journal of Oral Microbiology	ca. 6.7
-	Microbial Biotechnology	ca. 6.7
22	Journal of Clinical Microbiology	ca. 5.9
23	Frontiers in Microbiology	ca. 5.8
24	International Journal of Food Microbiology	ca. 5.7
25	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	ca. 5.5
26	BMC Microbiology	ca. 5.4
-	Food Microbiology	ca. 5.4
-	mBio	ca. 5.4
29	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins	ca. 5.3
30	mSystems	ca. 5.2
-	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials	ca. 5.2
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	ca. 5.2
33	Annals of Microbiology	ca. 5.1
34	Gut Pathogens	ca. 5
-	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents	ca. 5
36	Microorganisms	ca. 4.7
37	Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy	ca. 4.6
-	Helicobacter	ca. 4.6
39	Microbial Genomics	ca. 4.5
40	Research in Microbiology	ca. 4.4
41	Microbial Ecology	ca. 4.3
-	Journal of Fungi	ca. 4.3
-	Microbiology-SGM	ca. 4.3
44	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	ca. 4.2
-	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	ca. 4.2
46	Microbial Cell	ca. 4.1
-	Microbiology Spectrum	ca. 4.1
-	FEMS Microbiology Ecology	ca. 4.1
-	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy	ca. 4.1
-	Journal of Infectious Diseases	ca. 4.1

51	mSphere	ca. 4
-	Environmental Microbiology	ca. 4
53	Microbial Pathogenesis	ca. 3.9
54	Open Forum Infectious Diseases	ca. 3.8
-	Journal of Microbiology	ca. 3.8
-	Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection	ca. 3.8
-	Pathogens	ca. 3.8
-	Journal of Bacteriology	ca. 3.8
59	Microbiologyopen	ca. 3.6
60	Beneficial Microbes	ca. 3.5
-	FEMS Yeast Research	ca. 3.5
-	Innate Immunity	ca. 3.5
63	Molecular Oral Microbiology	ca. 3.4
-	Archives of Microbiology	ca. 3.4
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	ca. 3.4
-	Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology	ca. 3.4
67	Journal of Basic Microbiology	ca. 3.3
-	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology	ca. 3.3
69	Systematic and Applied Microbiology	ca. 3.2
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	ca. 3.2
-	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	ca. 3.2
72	Anaerobe	ca. 3.1
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	ca. 3.1
-	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	ca. 3.1
-	Folia Microbiologica	ca. 3.1
-	Molecular Microbiology	ca. 3.1
77	International Microbiology	ca. 2.9
-	Microbes and Infection	ca. 2.9
-	Symbiosis	ca. 2.9
-	Tuberculosis	ca. 2.9
81	Phytobiomes Journal	ca. 2.8
-	Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia	ca. 2.8
-	Veterinary Microbiology	ca. 2.8
-	Current Microbiology	ca. 2.8
-	Journal of Applied Microbiology	ca. 2.8
86	Journal of Antibiotics	ca. 2.7
-	Journal of Medical Microbiology	ca. 2.7
88	Cellular Microbiology	ca. 2.6
-	Microbes and Environments	ca. 2.6
90	Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	ca. 2.5
-	Future Microbiology	ca. 2.5
-	Journal of Microbiological Methods	ca. 2.5
93	Canadian Journal of Microbiology	ca. 2.4
-	Food and Environmental Virology	ca. 2.4
-	Journal of Water and Health	ca. 2.4
-	Revista Argentina de Microbiologia	ca. 2.4
-	Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology	ca. 2.4
98	Plasmid	ca. 2.3
-	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology	ca. 2.3
100	Yeast	ca. 2.2
-	Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica	ca. 2.2
-	Extremophiles	ca. 2.2
-	Indian Journal of Microbiology	ca. 2.2
-	APMIS	ca. 2.2
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	ca. 2.2
106	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology	ca. 2.1
107	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology	ca. 2
-	FEMS Microbiology Letters	ca. 2
-	Letters in Applied Microbiology	ca. 2
110	European Journal of Protistology	ca. 1.9
-	Protist	ca. 1.9
112	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease	ca. 1.8
-	Microbial Drug Resistance	ca. 1.8
114	Microbiology and Immunology	ca. 1.6
115	Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica	ca. 1.5
116	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	ca. 1.3
117	Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology	ca. 1.1
118	Microbiology	ca. 1
119	Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni	ca. 0.8
120	Journal of General and Applied Microbiology	ca. 0.6
-	Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology	ca. 0.6
122	Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology	ca. 0.4