New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Frontiers in Microbiology16453
2 Open Forum Infectious Diseases11521
3 Microorganisms11047
4 Microbiology Spectrum7163
5 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology6367
6 Pathogens5504
7 Journal of Fungi4371
8 mBio3224
9 Clinical Infectious Diseases3214
10 Microbial Pathogenesis2516
11 Journal of Infectious Diseases2410
12 Applied and Environmental Microbiology2271
13 BMC Microbiology2033
14 Archives of Microbiology1933
15 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology1862
16 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1855
17 Current Microbiology1851
18 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy1764
19 Clinical Microbiology and Infection1662
20 mSystems1432
21 International Journal of Food Microbiology1405
22 Gut Microbes1270
23 Veterinary Microbiology1186
24 mSphere1180
25 Nature Microbiology1176
26 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology1160
27 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease1144
28 Environmental Microbiology1134
29 Microbiological Research1115
30 Emerging Microbes & Infections1068
31 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents1060
32 Microbiome1054
33 Journal of Clinical Microbiology1044
34 ISME Journal957
35 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology956
36 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases953
37 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins934
38 Microbial Biotechnology895
39 Microbial Genomics884
40 Journal of Bacteriology867
41 Cell Host & Microbe851
42 Food Microbiology754
43 Trends in Microbiology753
44 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica720
45 Virulence719
46 Journal of Microbiological Methods682
47 Journal of Basic Microbiology650
48 Journal of Medical Microbiology634
49 Molecular Microbiology629
50 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases616
51 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control615
52 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection609
53 Nature Reviews Microbiology595
54 Microbial Ecology589
55 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology586
56 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes580
57 Journal of Water and Health562
58 Journal of Applied Microbiology555
59 Environmental Microbiology Reports536
60 Indian Journal of Microbiology529
61 Microbiology-SGM519
62 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology517
63 Future Microbiology514
64 APMIS471
65 Microbiology458
66 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia454
67 Folia Microbiologica443
68 Current Opinion in Microbiology430
- Microbes and Infection430
70 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy426
71 Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases419
72 Helicobacter410
73 Anaerobe401
74 Journal of Antibiotics388
75 Tuberculosis387
76 Microbial Drug Resistance359
77 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials347
78 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology341
79 Microbiology and Immunology326
80 Microbiologyopen309
81 Journal of Microbiology308
82 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology294
83 Gut Pathogens290
84 Letters in Applied Microbiology285
85 Yeast278
86 Symbiosis273
87 Journal of Oral Microbiology272
88 Canadian Journal of Microbiology252
89 Research in Microbiology248
90 Systematic and Applied Microbiology246
91 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia237
92 European Journal of Protistology221
93 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology219
94 Phytobiomes Journal208
95 Critical Reviews in Microbiology207
96 Clinical Microbiology Reviews190
97 Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni189
- Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica189
99 Molecular Oral Microbiology186
100 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews163
101 Food and Environmental Virology162
102 Microbes and Environments157
- Extremophiles157
104 Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health145
105 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology140
106 Annual Review of Microbiology139
107 Protist138
108 Medical Microbiology and Immunology135
109 Pathogens and Disease132
110 Microbial Cell124
111 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology121
112 International Journal of Medical Microbiology118
113 Microbial Risk Analysis109
114 Beneficial Microbes86
115 Cellular Microbiology76
- Innate Immunity76
117 Plasmid73
118 Annals of Microbiology50
119 Aquatic Microbial Ecology45
120 FEMS Microbiology Letters30
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