New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Microbiology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Frontiers in Microbiology15531
2 Open Forum Infectious Diseases12306
3 Microorganisms11201
4 Microbiology Spectrum7162
5 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology6327
6 Pathogens5406
7 Journal of Fungi4098
8 mBio3109
9 BMC Microbiology2707
10 Microbial Pathogenesis2655
11 Journal of Infectious Diseases2504
12 Applied and Environmental Microbiology2255
13 Current Microbiology2078
14 Archives of Microbiology1960
15 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1863
16 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology1771
17 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy1753
18 Clinical Microbiology and Infection1661
19 International Journal of Food Microbiology1527
20 mSystems1454
21 Gut Microbes1453
22 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease1308
23 Veterinary Microbiology1268
24 Nature Microbiology1242
25 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology1206
26 mSphere1192
27 Microbiological Research1161
28 Microbiome1160
29 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins1141
30 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents1122
31 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases1100
32 Emerging Microbes & Infections1076
33 Journal of Clinical Microbiology1066
34 Environmental Microbiology1043
35 ISME Journal1040
36 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology1019
37 Microbial Biotechnology920
38 Microbial Genomics915
39 Cell Host & Microbe871
40 Journal of Bacteriology835
41 Virulence827
42 Journal of Microbiological Methods789
43 Food Microbiology781
44 Trends in Microbiology768
45 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes751
46 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica700
47 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control648
48 Environmental Microbiology Reports625
49 Journal of Medical Microbiology615
50 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology613
51 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology605
52 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases596
53 Molecular Microbiology573
54 Nature Reviews Microbiology568
55 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection558
56 APMIS554
57 Journal of Water and Health546
58 Folia Microbiologica533
59 Microbiology527
60 Indian Journal of Microbiology525
61 Microbiology-SGM522
62 Future Microbiology511
63 Microbiologyopen496
64 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy441
65 Microbial Ecology431
66 Current Opinion in Microbiology425
67 Helicobacter421
68 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases411
69 Tuberculosis404
70 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia398
71 Microbes and Infection379
72 Journal of Antibiotics377
73 Anaerobe357
74 Journal of Oral Microbiology350
- Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials350
76 Gut Pathogens346
77 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology335
78 Microbiology and Immunology329
79 Journal of Microbiology324
80 Journal of Applied Microbiology301
81 Symbiosis298
82 Microbial Drug Resistance287
83 Yeast257
84 Canadian Journal of Microbiology252
85 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia248
86 Systematic and Applied Microbiology246
87 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology240
88 European Journal of Protistology226
89 Research in Microbiology219
90 Phytobiomes Journal214
91 Clinical Microbiology Reviews212
92 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica197
93 Molecular Oral Microbiology189
94 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews181
- Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni181
96 Letters in Applied Microbiology178
97 Food and Environmental Virology175
98 Critical Reviews in Microbiology173
99 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology168
100 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology165
101 Extremophiles163
102 International Journal of Medical Microbiology152
103 Protist148
104 Annual Review of Microbiology144
105 Microbes and Environments141
106 Medical Microbiology and Immunology138
- Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health138
108 Microbial Risk Analysis122
109 Microbial Cell120
110 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology103
111 Pathogens and Disease83
112 Innate Immunity71
113 Beneficial Microbes68
- Cellular Microbiology68
115 Plasmid60
116 Aquatic Microbial Ecology42
117 Annals of Microbiology21
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