Scopus subject area
Best Microbiology journals
193 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Microbiology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 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 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 14 | Critical Reviews in Microbiology | 14.3 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 15 | Emerging Microbes and Infections | 14.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 16 | Microbiological Research | 14.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 17 | Eurosurveillance | 13.6 | 91th | 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 | 83th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 33 | Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences | 9.2 | 83th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 34 | Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy | 9.1 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 35 | Environmental Microbiology | 9 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 36 | Stress Biology | 8.9 | 81th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 37 | Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology | 8.8 | 81th | 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 | – | Yes |
| 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 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 52 | Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases | 7.1 | 73th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 53 | Molecular Oral Microbiology | 7 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 54 | Pathogens and Global Health | 7 | 72th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 55 | International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation | 7 | 71th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 56 | Journal of Virology | 6.8 | 71th | 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 | – | Yes |
| 71 | Frontiers in Fungal Biology | 6.3 | 63th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 72 | Molecular Microbiology | 6.1 | 63th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 73 | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance | 6.1 | 62th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 74 | Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing | 6.1 | 62th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 75 | European Journal of Soil Biology | 6 | 61th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 76 | EFSA Journal | 5.9 | 61th | 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 | 53th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 91 | JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance | 5.3 | 53th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 92 | International Journal of Microbiology | 5.3 | 52th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 93 | Epidemics | 5.2 | 52th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 94 | Journal of Microbiology | 5.2 | 51th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 95 | MicrobiologyOpen | 5.1 | 51th | 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 |
Rank and percentile are within the Microbiology 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.