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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Cell Host & Microbe	78
2	Viruses-Basel	68
3	Journal of Medical Virology	59
4	Journal of Virology	42
5	Reviews in Medical Virology	32
6	Current Opinion in Virology	31
-	Virology Journal	31
8	Annual Review of Virology	30
9	Antiviral Research	29
-	Archives of Virology	29
11	Virus Evolution	28
12	Journal of Clinical Virology	27
-	Virus Research	27
-	Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses	27
15	Journal of General Virology	25
16	AIDS	24
17	Virology	23
18	Journal of Virological Methods	21
19	Journal of Viral Hepatitis	18
20	Future Virology	14
-	Food and Environmental Virology	14
-	Journal of Neurovirology	14
-	Virus Genes	14
24	Retrovirology	13
25	International Journal of Medical Microbiology	12
-	Virologica Sinica	12
-	AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses	12
28	Antiviral Therapy	10
-	Journal of Virus Eradication	10
-	Viral Immunology	10
31	Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine	9
32	Intervirology	8
33	Current HIV Research	6