Virology: 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Cell Host & Microbe	78
2	Viruses-Basel	68
3	Journal of Medical Virology	58
4	Journal of Virology	41
5	Reviews in Medical Virology	32
6	Virology Journal	31
7	Annual Review of Virology	30
8	Antiviral Research	29
-	Current Opinion in Virology	29
10	Archives of Virology	27
-	Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses	27
-	Virus Evolution	27
-	Virus Research	27
14	Journal of General Virology	25
-	AIDS	25
16	Journal of Clinical Virology	24
17	Virology	22
18	Journal of Virological Methods	21
19	Journal of Viral Hepatitis	18
20	Journal of Neurovirology	14
-	Virus Genes	14
-	Future Virology	14
23	Food and Environmental Virology	13
-	Retrovirology	13
25	AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses	12
-	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
27	Journal of Virus Eradication	10
-	Viral Immunology	10
-	Antiviral Therapy	10
-	Virologica Sinica	10
31	Intervirology	8
-	Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine	8
33	Current HIV Research	7