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Best Microbiology journals

193 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Microbiology. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 49 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 Reviews Microbiology 124 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 iMeta 43.7 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
3 Cell Host and Microbe 34.9 98th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Nature Microbiology 28.8 98th Q1 SCIE – No
5 FEMS Microbiology Reviews 26 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
6 Trends in Microbiology 25.9 97th Q1 SCIE – No
7 The Lancet Microbe 24.8 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Microbiome 23 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 Soil Biology and Biochemistry 21.1 95th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Gut Microbes 19.5 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
11 ISME Journal 17.9 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
12 Annual Review of Microbiology 17.2 94th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Current Opinion in Microbiology 14.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
14 Critical Reviews in Microbiology 14.3 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
15 Emerging Microbes and Infections 14.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
16 Microbiological Research 14.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
17 Eurosurveillance 13.6 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
18 Fungal Biology Reviews 13.4 90th Q1 SCIE – No
19 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 12.9 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
20 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 12.8 89th Q1 SCIE – No
21 British Journal of Biomedical Science 12.7 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
22 Biology and Fertility of Soils 12 88th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Food Microbiology 10.5 88th Q1 SCIE – No
24 Foods 10.3 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
25 Antibiotics 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
26 Engineering Microbiology 10.1 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
27 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins 10.1 86th Q1 SCIE – No
28 International Journal of Food Microbiology 10 85th Q1 SCIE – No
29 Mycology 10 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
30 Frontiers in Microbiology 9.9 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
31 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 9.6 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
32 Cell Surface 9.4 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
33 Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences 9.2 83rd Q1 – – Yes
34 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy 9.1 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
35 Environmental Microbiology 9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
36 Stress Biology 8.9 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
37 Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology 8.8 81st Q1 – – Yes
38 Biofilm 8.5 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
39 EcoSal Plus 8.5 80th Q1 – – No
40 mBio 8.4 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
41 Microorganisms 8.2 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
42 Current Research in Microbial Sciences 8.2 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
43 PLOS Pathogens 8.2 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
44 mSystems 8.1 77th Q1 SCIE – Yes
45 Environmental Microbiome 8 77th Q1 SCIE – Yes
46 AIMS Microbiology 7.6 76th Q1 ESCI – No
47 Virus Evolution 7.2 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
48 mLife 7.2 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
49 Virulence 7.2 75th Q1 SCIE – Yes
50 Research in Microbiology 7.2 74th Q2 SCIE – No
51 Microbial Genomics 7.1 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
52 Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 7.1 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
53 Molecular Oral Microbiology 7 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
54 Pathogens and Global Health 7 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
55 International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation 7 71st Q2 SCIE – No
56 Journal of Virology 6.8 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
57 Microbiology (United Kingdom) 6.7 70th Q2 SCIE – Yes
58 Rhizosphere 6.7 70th Q2 SCIE – No
59 Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 6.7 69th Q2 – – No
60 Microbiome Research Reports 6.6 69th Q2 ESCI – No
61 FEMS Microbes 6.6 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
62 Systematic and Applied Microbiology 6.5 68th Q2 SCIE – No
63 BMC Microbiology 6.5 67th Q2 SCIE – Yes
64 FEMS Microbiology Ecology 6.5 67th Q2 SCIE – Yes
65 Advances in Microbial Physiology 6.5 66th Q2 – – No
66 Folia Microbiologica 6.5 66th Q2 SCIE – No
67 Fungal Systematics and Evolution 6.5 65th Q2 – – No
68 Gut Pathogens 6.4 65th Q2 SCIE – Yes
69 Geomicrobiology Journal 6.4 64th Q2 SCIE – No
70 Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab 6.3 64th Q2 SCIE – No
71 Frontiers in Fungal Biology 6.3 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
72 Molecular Microbiology 6.1 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
73 Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 6.1 62nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
74 Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing 6.1 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
75 European Journal of Soil Biology 6 61st Q2 SCIE – No
76 EFSA Journal 5.9 61st Q2 SCIE – Yes
77 Archives of Microbiology 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – No
78 Microbial Pathogenesis 5.9 60th Q2 SCIE – No
79 Journal of Bacteriology 5.8 59th Q2 SCIE – Yes
80 Infection and Immunity 5.7 59th Q2 SCIE – Yes
81 FEMS Yeast Research 5.6 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
82 Anaerobe 5.6 57th Q2 SCIE – No
83 ISME Communications 5.6 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
84 Journal of Tropical Medicine 5.6 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
85 Beneficial Microbes 5.5 56th Q2 SCIE – No
86 Infection, Genetics and Evolution 5.5 55th Q2 SCIE – Yes
87 Innate Immunity 5.4 55th Q2 SCIE – Yes
88 Journal of Food Protection 5.4 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
89 Microbial Cell 5.4 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
90 Mycotoxin Research 5.4 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
91 JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance 5.3 53rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
92 International Journal of Microbiology 5.3 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
93 Epidemics 5.2 52nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
94 Journal of Microbiology 5.2 51st Q2 SCIE – No
95 MicrobiologyOpen 5.1 51st Q2 SCIE – Yes
96 Microbes and Infection 5 50th Q2 SCIE – No
97 mSphere 5 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
98 Biodegradation 5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
99 Microbial Drug Resistance 5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
100 Current Issues in Molecular Biology 5 48th Q3 SCIE – Yes
101 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
102 Current Microbiology 4.6 47th Q3 SCIE – No
103 Fungal Genetics and Biology 4.6 47th Q3 SCIE – No
104 European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology 4.6 46th Q3 ESCI – No
105 Extremophiles 4.5 46th Q3 SCIE – No
106 Microbiology and Immunology 4.5 45th Q3 SCIE – No
107 Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 4.4 45th Q3 SCIE – No
108 International Microbiology 4.4 44th Q3 SCIE – No
109 Journal of Food Safety 4.3 44th Q3 SCIE – No
110 Mycopathologia 4.3 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
111 Tuberculosis 4.3 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
112 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases 4.3 42nd Q3 – – Yes
113 International Journal of Medical Microbiology 4.2 42nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
114 Veterinary Microbiology 4.2 41st Q3 SCIE – No
115 Future Microbiology 4.2 40th Q3 SCIE – No
116 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology 4.1 40th Q3 SCIE – No
117 Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health 4.1 39th Q3 SCIE – No
118 Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 4.1 39th Q3 SCIE – No
119 Frontiers in Virology 4.1 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
120 New Microbes and New Infections 3.9 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
121 FEMS Microbiology Letters 3.8 37th Q3 SCIE – No
122 Journal of Medical Microbiology 3.8 37th Q3 SCIE – No
123 Journal of Microbiological Methods 3.8 36th Q3 SCIE – No
124 Mycobiology 3.7 36th Q3 SCIE – Yes
125 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 3.7 35th Q3 SCIE – No
126 Revista Argentina de Microbiologia 3.7 35th Q3 SCIE – Yes
127 Microbial Physiology 3.7 34th Q3 SCIE – Yes
128 Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 3.7 34th Q3 SCIE – No
129 Canadian Journal of Microbiology 3.6 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
130 Indian Journal of Microbiology 3.6 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
131 European Journal of Protistology 3.6 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
132 Microbiology Research 3.5 32nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
133 Protist 3.5 31st Q3 SCIE – No
134 Polish Journal of Microbiology 3.4 31st Q3 SCIE – Yes
135 PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research 3.4 30th Q3 ESCI – No
136 Frontiers in Microbiomes 3.2 30th Q3 ESCI – Yes
137 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology 3.1 29th Q3 SCIE – No
138 Cellular Microbiology 2.9 29th Q3 SCIE – Yes
139 Medical Mycology Journal 2.9 28th Q3 ESCI – No
140 NPJ Viruses 2.8 28th Q3 ESCI – Yes
141 Microorganisms for Sustainability 2.7 27th Q3 – – No
142 Methods in Microbiology 2.6 27th Q3 – – No
143 Iranian Journal of Microbiology 2.6 26th Q3 ESCI – Yes
144 Tropical Parasitology 2.5 26th Q3 – – No
145 Applied Microscopy 2.5 25th Q3 – – Yes
146 Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 2.4 25th Q3 SCIE – Yes
147 Microbe (Netherlands) 2.4 24th Q4 ESCI – Yes
148 Current Medical Mycology 2.4 23rd Q4 – – Yes
149 Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica 2.4 23rd Q4 SCIE – No
150 Medical Mycology Case Reports 2.3 22nd Q4 ESCI – Yes
151 Microbiology Australia 2.3 22nd Q4 ESCI – Yes
152 Journal of Foraminiferal Research 2.3 21st Q4 SCIE – No
153 Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2.2 21st Q4 SCIE – No
154 Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences 2.2 20th Q4 ESCI – No
155 Access Microbiology 2.1 20th Q4 – – Yes
156 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2.1 19th Q4 ESCI – Yes
157 Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia 2 19th Q4 SCIE – No
158 Exploration of Immunology 1.9 18th Q4 – – Yes
159 Microbiology (Russian Federation) 1.8 18th Q4 SCIE – No
160 Iranian Journal of Medical Microbiology 1.8 17th Q4 – – No
161 Turkish Journal of Biology 1.8 17th Q4 SCIE – Yes
162 Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science 1.7 16th Q4 SCIE – No
163 Journal of Fungal Research 1.6 16th Q4 – – No
164 Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 1.5 15th Q4 SCIE – No
165 Mycota 1.5 15th Q4 – – No
166 Passer Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 1.5 14th Q4 – – Yes
167 Novel Research in Microbiology Journal 1.4 14th Q4 – – No
168 Microbial Biosystems 1.4 13th Q4 – – Yes
169 Acta Microbiologica Sinica 1.3 13th Q4 – – No
170 Allelopathy Journal 1.2 12th Q4 – – No
171 Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems 1.2 12th Q4 ESCI – Yes
172 Protistology 1.2 11th Q4 – – No
173 Problemy Osobo Opasnykh Infektsii 1.1 11th Q4 – – Yes
174 Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal 1.1 10th Q4 – – No
175 Indian Journal of Microbiology Research 1 9th Q4 – – No
176 Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology 1 9th Q4 SCIE – No
177 Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters 1 9th Q4 – – No
178 Journal of Bacteriology and Virology 1 8th Q4 – – No
179 Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 0.8 7th Q4 ESCI – No
180 Commagene Journal of Biology 0.7 6th Q4 – – No
181 Journal of Food Safety and Food Quality 0.7 6th Q4 SCIE – No
182 Antibiotiki i Khimioterapiya 0.7 5th Q4 – – Yes
183 Acta Microbiologica Bulgarica 0.6 5th Q4 – – No
184 Oxford Medical Case Reports 0.6 4th Q4 ESCI – Yes
185 Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Virology 0.5 4th Q4 SCIE – No
186 Chinese Journal of Microbiology and Immunology 0.5 3rd Q4 – – No
187 Indonesian Journal of Tropical and Infectious Disease 0.4 3rd Q4 – – Yes
188 Korean Journal of Microbiology 0.3 2nd Q4 – – No
189 Problems of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases 0.3 2nd Q4 – – Yes
190 Chinese Journal of Experimental and Clinical Virology 0.3 1st Q4 – – No
191 Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences 0.3 1st Q4 ESCI – Yes
192 Journal of Medical Pest Control 0.2 0th Q4 – – No
193 Birkhauser Advances in Infectious Diseases 0.1 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Microbiology 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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