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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Frontiers in Microbiology16597
2 Open Forum Infectious Diseases11504
3 Microorganisms11035
4 Microbiology Spectrum7196
5 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology6349
6 Pathogens5533
7 Journal of Fungi4405
8 mBio3290
9 Clinical Infectious Diseases3214
10 Microbial Pathogenesis2464
11 Journal of Infectious Diseases2401
12 Applied and Environmental Microbiology2263
13 BMC Microbiology1958
14 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology1895
15 Archives of Microbiology1890
16 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy1826
17 Current Microbiology1804
18 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy1787
19 Clinical Microbiology and Infection1675
20 mSystems1475
21 International Journal of Food Microbiology1368
22 Gut Microbes1252
23 mSphere1208
24 Veterinary Microbiology1173
25 Environmental Microbiology1166
26 Nature Microbiology1159
27 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology1149
28 Microbiological Research1115
29 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease1113
30 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents1054
31 Emerging Microbes & Infections1048
32 Journal of Clinical Microbiology1042
33 Microbiome1041
34 ISME Journal945
35 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology941
36 European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases926
37 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins919
38 Microbial Biotechnology891
39 Journal of Bacteriology869
40 Microbial Genomics856
41 Cell Host & Microbe847
42 Food Microbiology790
43 Trends in Microbiology752
44 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica735
45 Virulence691
46 Journal of Microbiological Methods663
47 Molecular Microbiology644
- Journal of Medical Microbiology644
49 Journal of Basic Microbiology643
50 Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection638
51 Microbial Ecology618
52 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control614
53 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases599
54 Nature Reviews Microbiology594
55 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology578
56 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes571
57 Journal of Water and Health560
58 Journal of Applied Microbiology558
59 Indian Journal of Microbiology529
60 Environmental Microbiology Reports525
61 Microbiology-SGM516
62 Future Microbiology508
63 Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology507
64 APMIS473
65 Current Opinion in Microbiology467
66 Microbiology458
67 Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia449
68 Anaerobe423
69 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy422
- Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases422
71 Microbes and Infection420
72 Folia Microbiologica417
73 Helicobacter404
74 Tuberculosis385
75 Journal of Antibiotics383
76 Microbial Drug Resistance358
77 Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology344
- Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials344
79 Microbiology and Immunology327
80 Letters in Applied Microbiology305
81 Journal of Microbiology303
82 Gut Pathogens290
83 Microbiologyopen288
- Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology288
85 Yeast279
86 Symbiosis268
87 Journal of Oral Microbiology258
88 Canadian Journal of Microbiology250
89 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia243
90 Research in Microbiology241
91 European Journal of Protistology240
92 Systematic and Applied Microbiology237
93 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology221
94 Critical Reviews in Microbiology207
95 Phytobiomes Journal204
96 Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni197
97 Clinical Microbiology Reviews187
98 Molecular Oral Microbiology185
99 Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica179
100 Annual Review of Microbiology165
101 Food and Environmental Virology164
102 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews156
103 Microbes and Environments154
- Extremophiles154
105 Molecular Genetics Microbiology and Virology149
106 Protist146
107 Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health142
108 Medical Microbiology and Immunology135
- Pathogens and Disease135
110 Microbial Cell127
111 International Journal of Medical Microbiology120
112 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology119
113 Microbial Risk Analysis110
114 Beneficial Microbes93
115 Innate Immunity80
116 Cellular Microbiology79
117 Plasmid71
118 Annals of Microbiology52
119 Aquatic Microbial Ecology49
120 FEMS Microbiology Letters28
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