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Best Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology journals

134 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 34 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Biotechnology 66.4 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Nature Reviews Bioengineering 40.3 98th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Nature Microbiology 28.8 98th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Biotechnology Advances 24.8 97th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology 23.4 96th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 20.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Journal of Nanobiotechnology 20.2 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Current Opinion in Food Science 19.1 94th Q1 SCIE – No
9 International Journal of Biological Sciences 17.8 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
10 Bioengineered 15.4 92nd Q1 – – No
11 Critical Reviews in Microbiology 14.3 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
12 Grain and Oil Science and Technology 13.9 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
13 Metabolic Engineering 13.9 90th Q1 SCIE – No
14 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 12.9 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
15 Biotechnology Reports 12.5 89th Q1 – – Yes
16 Current Research in Food Science 12.5 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
17 Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 10.1 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
18 Engineering Microbiology 10.1 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Microbial Cell Factories 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
20 Microbial Biotechnology 9.4 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
21 Cell Surface 9.4 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
22 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 9 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
23 Process Biochemistry 8.9 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
24 Food Structure 8.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
25 Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 8.9 81st Q1 SCIE – No
26 Advanced NanoBiomed Research 8.8 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
27 Biofilm 8.5 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
28 Environmental Microbiome 8 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
29 Annals of Microbiology 8 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 Journal of Applied Microbiology 7.9 77th Q1 SCIE – No
31 Biotechnology and Bioengineering 7.8 77th Q1 SCIE – No
32 Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology 7.7 76th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Health and Technology 7.7 75th Q1 ESCI – No
34 Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 7.7 75th Q1 SCIE – Yes
35 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 7.7 74th Q2 SCIE – No
36 Enzyme and Microbial Technology 7.6 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
37 Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology 7.5 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
38 Journal of Basic Microbiology 7.3 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
39 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 7.3 71st Q2 SCIE – No
40 Journal of Biotechnology 7.2 70th Q2 SCIE – No
41 Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 7.1 69th Q2 – – Yes
42 International Dairy Journal 7.1 69th Q2 SCIE – No
43 Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering 7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
44 Food Analytical Methods 6.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
45 AMB Express 6.7 66th Q2 SCIE – Yes
46 Applied and Environmental Microbiology 6.7 66th Q2 SCIE – Yes
47 Systematic and Applied Microbiology 6.5 65th Q2 SCIE – No
48 FEMS Microbiology Ecology 6.5 64th Q2 SCIE – Yes
49 Advanced Biotechnology 6.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
50 Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing 6.1 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
51 Molecular Biotechnology 6 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
52 Food Science and Biotechnology 6 61st Q2 SCIE – No
53 Electronic Journal of Biotechnology 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – Yes
54 Food Bioengineering 5.8 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
55 Biotechnology Journal 5.7 59th Q2 SCIE – No
56 FEMS Yeast Research 5.6 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
57 BioTech 5.6 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
58 Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 5.6 57th Q2 SCIE – No
59 Advances in Applied Microbiology 5.6 56th Q2 – – No
60 Current Research in Toxicology 5.4 55th Q2 ESCI – Yes
61 Microbial Cell 5.4 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
62 Journal of Microbiology 5.2 54th Q2 SCIE – No
63 Yeast 5.2 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
64 Letters in Applied Microbiology 5.1 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
65 Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology 5 51st Q2 – – No
66 Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 4.9 51st Q2 SCIE – No
67 Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 4.7 50th Q2 SCIE – No
68 Food Biophysics 4.6 49th Q3 SCIE – No
69 Current Microbiology 4.6 48th Q3 SCIE – No
70 Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists 4.5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
71 Biotechnology Letters 4.5 47th Q3 SCIE – No
72 Mycopathologia 4.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
73 Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health 4.1 45th Q3 SCIE – No
74 Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 4.1 45th Q3 SCIE – No
75 Frontiers in Virology 4.1 44th Q3 ESCI – Yes
76 JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology 4 43rd Q3 – – Yes
77 Biofouling 3.9 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
78 Microbial Physiology 3.7 42nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
79 Recent Patents on Biotechnology 3.7 41st Q3 – – No
80 Applied Microbiology (Switzerland) 3.6 40th Q3 – – Yes
81 Canadian Journal of Microbiology 3.6 39th Q3 SCIE – No
82 Polish Journal of Microbiology 3.4 39th Q3 SCIE – Yes
83 PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research 3.4 38th Q3 ESCI – No
84 Biologicals 3.4 37th Q3 SCIE – No
85 International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms 3.3 36th Q3 SCIE – No
86 Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology 2.8 36th Q3 – – No
87 Applied Food Biotechnology 2.8 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
88 Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry 2.8 34th Q3 SCIE – No
89 Environmental Sustainability 2.7 33rd Q3 ESCI – No
90 Food Biotechnology 2.6 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
91 Applied Microscopy 2.5 32nd Q3 – – Yes
92 Water SA 2.4 31st Q3 SCIE – Yes
93 Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture 2.4 30th Q3 SCIE – Yes
94 Microbiology Australia 2.3 30th Q3 ESCI – Yes
95 Shengwu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2.3 29th Q3 – – No
96 Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Experimental Therapeutics 2.1 28th Q3 – – Yes
97 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2.1 27th Q3 ESCI – Yes
98 Microbiology (Russian Federation) 1.8 27th Q3 SCIE – No
99 Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology 1.7 26th Q3 SCIE – No
100 Italian Journal of Mycology 1.7 25th Q3 – – Yes
101 Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology 1.5 25th Q3 – – No
102 Mycota 1.5 24th Q4 – – No
103 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 1.5 23rd Q4 SCIE – No
104 Vitae 1.5 22nd Q4 – – Yes
105 Journal of Tropical Biodiversity and Biotechnology 1.4 22nd Q4 – – No
106 Journal of Cellular Biotechnology 1.4 21st Q4 – – No
107 Novel Research in Microbiology Journal 1.4 20th Q4 – – No
108 Biotech Studies 1.4 19th Q4 – – No
109 Microbial Biosystems 1.4 19th Q4 – – Yes
110 Food and Fermentation Industries 1.3 18th Q4 – – No
111 Minerva Biotechnology and Biomolecular Research 1.3 17th Q4 SCIE – No
112 BrewingScience 1.2 16th Q4 ESCI – No
113 Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports 1.2 16th Q4 ESCI – No
114 International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics 1.1 15th Q4 – – No
115 Mexican Journal of Biotechnology 1 14th Q4 – – No
116 Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters 1 13th Q4 – – No
117 Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology 0.9 13th Q4 – – No
118 Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology 0.8 12th Q4 – – No
119 Journal of Biological Control 0.8 11th Q4 – – No
120 Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 0.8 10th Q4 ESCI – No
121 Marine Science and Technology Bulletin 0.7 10th Q4 – – Yes
122 Research Journal of Biotechnology 0.7 9th Q4 ESCI – No
123 Meat Technology 0.6 8th Q4 – – Yes
124 China Brewing 0.6 7th Q4 – – Yes
125 Lecture Notes in Bioengineering 0.5 7th Q4 – – No
126 Asian Biotechnology and Development Review 0.5 6th Q4 ESCI – No
127 Biotecnologia Aplicada 0.5 5th Q4 – – No
128 Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology 0.5 4th Q4 – – No
129 Rossijskij Bioterapevticeskij Zurnal 0.4 4th Q4 – – No
130 Taiwanese Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Food Science 0.3 3rd Q4 – – No
131 Journal of Medical Pest Control 0.2 2nd Q4 – – No
132 Chinese Journal of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 0.2 1st Q4 – – No
133 Food Agricultural Sciences and Technology 0 0th Q4 – – Yes
134 Seibutsu-kogaku Kaishi 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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