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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Cell Host & Microbe	80
2	Viruses-Basel	68
3	Journal of Medical Virology	58
4	Journal of Virology	40
5	Reviews in Medical Virology	31
6	Virology Journal	29
-	Virus Evolution	29
8	Current Opinion in Virology	28
-	Antiviral Research	28
-	Archives of Virology	28
11	AIDS	26
-	Journal of General Virology	26
13	Journal of Clinical Virology	25
-	Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses	25
-	Virus Research	25
16	Annual Review of Virology	24
17	Virology	22
18	Journal of Virological Methods	19
19	Journal of Viral Hepatitis	16
20	Journal of Neurovirology	15
21	Retrovirology	14
-	Virus Genes	14
23	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	13
-	Food and Environmental Virology	13
25	Antiviral Therapy	12
-	Future Virology	12
-	AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses	12
28	Viral Immunology	11
29	Journal of Virus Eradication	9
30	Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine	8
31	Current HIV Research	7
-	Intervirology	7