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Virology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Cell Host & Microbe34
2 Current Opinion in Virology21
3 Reviews in Medical Virology13
4 Virologica Sinica11
5 Retrovirology10
- Journal of Clinical Virology10
- Viruses-Basel10
8 Antiviral Research9
- Journal of Medical Virology9
- Journal of Virology9
11 Food and Environmental Virology7
- Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses7
- Virology Journal7
- International Journal of Medical Microbiology7
- Virus Research7
16 Journal of General Virology6
- Journal of Virological Methods6
18 AIDS5
- Archives of Virology5
- Journal of Neurovirology5
- Antiviral Therapy5
- Virology5
23 Intervirology4
- Virus Genes4
- AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses4
- Journal of Viral Hepatitis4
- Viral Immunology4
28 Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine3
- Future Virology3
30 Current HIV Research2
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