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Best Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology journals

134 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 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 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
10 Bioengineered 15.4 92th Q1 No
11 Critical Reviews in Microbiology 14.3 92th Q1 SCIE No
12 Grain and Oil Science and Technology 13.9 91th 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 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
23 Process Biochemistry 8.9 83th Q1 SCIE No
24 Food Structure 8.9 82th Q1 SCIE No
25 Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 8.9 81th 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 73th Q2 SCIE No
37 Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology 7.5 72th Q2 SCIE Yes
38 Journal of Basic Microbiology 7.3 72th Q2 SCIE No
39 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 7.3 71th 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 63th Q2 ESCI No
50 Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing 6.1 63th Q2 ESCI No
51 Molecular Biotechnology 6 62th Q2 SCIE No
52 Food Science and Biotechnology 6 61th 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 53th Q2 SCIE No
64 Letters in Applied Microbiology 5.1 52th Q2 SCIE No
65 Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology 5 51th Q2 No
66 Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 4.9 51th 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 43th Q3 Yes
77 Biofouling 3.9 42th Q3 SCIE No
78 Microbial Physiology 3.7 42th Q3 SCIE Yes
79 Recent Patents on Biotechnology 3.7 41th 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 33th Q3 ESCI No
90 Food Biotechnology 2.6 33th Q3 SCIE No
91 Applied Microscopy 2.5 32th Q3 Yes
92 Water SA 2.4 31th 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

Rank and percentile are within the Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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