This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Microbiology journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature Reviews Bioengineering | Springer Nature | 27316092 | 7.993 |
| 2 | Cell Host and Microbe | Cell Press | 19346069, 19313128 | 7.067 |
| 3 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Research | 20585276 | 6.893 |
| 4 | iMeta | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 2770596X, 27705986 | 6.223 |
| 5 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 08938512, 10986618 | 5.594 |
| 6 | The Lancet Microbe | Elsevier Ltd | 26665247 | 5.262 |
| 7 | EMBO Journal | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 02614189, 14602075 | 4.821 |
| 8 | Molecular Systems Biology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 17444292 | 4.783 |
| 9 | Annual Review of Microbiology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 00664227, 15453251 | 4.505 |
| 10 | Microbiome | BioMed Central Ltd | 20492618 | 4.117 |
| 11 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | Elsevier Ltd | 380717 | 3.982 |
| 12 | ISME Journal | Oxford University Press | 17517362, 17517370 | 3.973 |
| 13 | Gut Microbes | Landes Bioscience | 19490984, 19490976 | 3.609 |
| 14 | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Oxford University Press | 01686445, 15746976 | 3.408 |
| 15 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 10985557, 10922172 | 3.165 |
| 16 | Trends in Microbiology | Elsevier Ltd | 18784380, 0966842X | 3.152 |
| 17 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford University Press | 15376591, 10584838 | 2.992 |
| 18 | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | Elsevier B.V. | 1198743X, 14690691 | 2.742 |
| 19 | International Journal of Biological Sciences | Ivyspring International Publisher | 14492288 | 2.715 |
| 20 | PLoS Biology | Public Library of Science | 15449173, 15457885 | 2.691 |
| 21 | Biotechnology Advances | Elsevier Inc. | 18731899, 07349750 | 2.662 |
| 22 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | Elsevier Ltd | 18790364, 13695274 | 2.495 |
| 23 | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes | Nature Publishing Group | 20555008 | 2.37 |
| 24 | Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 15691705, 15729826 | 2.338 |
| 25 | EcoSal Plus | American Society for Microbiology | 23246200 | 2.331 |
| 26 | Eurosurveillance | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) | 15607917, 1025496X | 2.331 |
| 27 | Journal of Nanobiotechnology | BioMed Central Ltd | 14773155 | 2.282 |
| 28 | Emerging Microbes and Infections | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 22221751 | 2.264 |
| 29 | Journal of Infection | W.B. Saunders Ltd | 01634453, 15322742 | 2.046 |
| 30 | Nature Biotechnology | Nature Research | 15461696, 10870156 | 19.006 |
| 31 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | Nature Research | 17401534, 17401526 | 13.861 |
| 32 | PLoS Pathogens | Public Library of Science | 15537374, 15537366 | 1.987 |
| 33 | Virus Evolution | Oxford University Press | 20571577 | 1.9 |
| 34 | mBio | American Society for Microbiology | 21612129, 21507511 | 1.885 |
| 35 | Emerging Infectious Diseases | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 10806040, 10806059 | 1.879 |
| 36 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | American Society for Microbiology | 1098660X, 00951137 | 1.878 |
| 37 | Critical Reviews in Biotechnology | Informa Healthcare | 15497801, 07388551 | 1.868 |
| 38 | Biology and Fertility of Soils | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14320789, 01782762 | 1.84 |
| 39 | Current Opinion in Food Science | Elsevier Ltd | 22147993 | 1.825 |
| 40 | Critical Reviews in Microbiology | Informa Healthcare | 15497828, 1040841X | 1.816 |
| 41 | Infectious Disease Clinics of North America | W.B. Saunders | 15579824, 08915520 | 1.796 |
| 42 | Metabolic Engineering | Academic Press Inc. | 10967176, 10967184 | 1.771 |
| 43 | Microbiological Research | Elsevier GmbH | 09445013, 16180623 | 1.62 |
| 44 | Food Packaging and Shelf Life | Elsevier B.V. | 22142894 | 1.603 |
| 45 | Current Protocols | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 26911299 | 1.598 |
| 46 | Virulence | Landes Bioscience | 21505594, 21505608 | 1.585 |
| 47 | Cell Surface | Elsevier B.V. | 24682330 | 1.573 |
| 48 | mSystems | American Society for Microbiology | 23795077 | 1.558 |
| 49 | Microbial Genomics | Microbiology Society | 20575858 | 1.539 |
| 50 | Environmental Microbiome | BioMed Central Ltd | 25246372 | 1.532 |
| 51 | Infectious Diseases and Therapy | 21938229, 21936382 | 1.526 | |
| 52 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | Royal Society Publishing | 14712954, 09628452 | 1.45 |
| 53 | Current Research in Food Science | Elsevier B.V. | 26659271 | 1.408 |
| 54 | MicroLife | Oxford University Press | 26336693 | 1.407 |
| 55 | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | Frontiers Media SA | 22352988 | 1.393 |
| 56 | Grain and Oil Science and Technology | KeAi Communications Co. | 25902598, 20964501 | 1.377 |
| 57 | Environmental Microbiology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14622912, 14622920 | 1.345 |
| 58 | Stress Biology | Springer | 27310450 | 1.339 |
| 59 | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | Elsevier B.V. | 12019712, 18783511 | 1.323 |
| 60 | DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms | Company of Biologists Ltd | 17548403, 17548411 | 1.318 |
| 61 | Animal Microbiome | BioMed Central Ltd | 25244671 | 1.291 |
| 62 | Journal of Virology | American Society for Microbiology | 10985514, 0022538X | 1.283 |
| 63 | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | BioMed Central Ltd | 20472994 | 1.278 |
| 64 | Current Research in Microbial Sciences | Elsevier B.V. | 26665174 | 1.275 |
| 65 | Biometrics | Oxford University Press | 0006341X, 15410420 | 1.257 |
| 66 | Molecular Microbiology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 13652958, 0950382X | 1.25 |
| 67 | Vaccine | Elsevier Ltd | 0264410X, 18732518 | 1.248 |
| 68 | mSphere | American Society for Microbiology | 23795042 | 1.237 |
| 69 | International Journal of Medical Microbiology | Elsevier GmbH | 14384221, 16180607 | 1.217 |
| 70 | Engineering Microbiology | Elsevier B.V. | 26673703 | 1.215 |
| 71 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | Oxford University Press | 03057453, 14602091 | 1.209 |
| 72 | mLife | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 2770100X, 20971699 | 1.203 |
| 73 | Microbial Biotechnology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 17517915, 17517907 | 1.195 |
| 74 | Food Structure | Elsevier B.V. | 22133291 | 1.192 |
| 75 | Microbial Cell | Shared Science Publishers OG | 23112638 | 1.179 |
| 76 | Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 09517375, 14736527 | 1.174 |
| 77 | Frontiers in Microbiology | Frontiers Media SA | 1664302X | 1.172 |
| 78 | Infection | Urban und Vogel | 03008126, 14390973 | 1.167 |
| 79 | International Journal of Food Microbiology | Elsevier B.V. | 18793460, 01681605 | 1.163 |
| 80 | Microbiology Spectrum | American Society for Microbiology | 21650497 | 1.149 |
| 81 | Journal of Oral Microbiology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 20002297 | 1.143 |
| 82 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Oxford University Press | 01686496, 15746941 | 1.129 |
| 83 | Fungal Systematics and Evolution | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | 25893823, 25893831 | 1.126 |
| 84 | Cellular Microbiology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 14625814, 14625822 | 1.124 |
| 85 | European Journal of Soil Biology | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 11645563 | 1.123 |
| 86 | Antibiotics | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20796382 | 1.114 |
| 87 | EFSA Journal | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 18314732 | 1.111 |
| 88 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | American Society for Microbiology | 00992240, 10985336 | 1.106 |
| 89 | Microbial Cell Factories | BioMed Central Ltd | 14752859 | 1.103 |
| 90 | Fungal Biology Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 17494613 | 1.099 |
| 91 | Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14787210, 17448336 | 1.09 |
| 92 | Journal of Bacteriology | American Society for Microbiology | 00219193, 10985530 | 1.088 |
| 93 | Mycology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21501211, 21501203 | 1.081 |
| 94 | Discovery Immunology | Oxford University Press | 27542483 | 1.073 |
| 95 | JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance | Oxford University Press | 26321823 | 1.063 |
| 96 | Food Microbiology | Academic Press | 07400020, 10959998 | 1.06 |
| 97 | Gut Pathogens | BioMed Central Ltd | 17574749 | 1.055 |
| 98 | Infection and Immunity | American Society for Microbiology | 10985522, 00199567 | 1.054 |
| 99 | Bioengineered | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21655987, 21655979 | 1.051 |
| 100 | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge University Press | 15596834, 0899823X | 1.048 |
| 101 | Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts | BioMed Central Ltd | 27313654 | 1.036 |
| 102 | Biotechnology Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 2215017X | 1.034 |
| 103 | Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases | Elsevier GmbH | 18779603, 1877959X | 1.034 |
| 104 | BMC Microbiology | BioMed Central Ltd | 14712180 | 1.032 |
| 105 | Foods | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 23048158 | 1.021 |
| 106 | hLife | Elsevier B.V. | 29499283 | 1.018 |
| 107 | Journal of Hospital Infection | W.B. Saunders Ltd | 15322939, 01956701 | 1.017 |
| 108 | Medical Microbiology and Immunology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14321831, 03008584 | 1.016 |
| 109 | Microorganisms | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20762607 | 1.009 |
| 110 | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | Elsevier GmbH | 16180984, 07232020 | 1.008 |
| 111 | International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation | Elsevier Ltd | 9648305 | 1.003 |
| 112 | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance | Elsevier Ltd | 22137173, 22137165 | 0.992 |
| 113 | MicrobiologyOpen | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 20458827 | 0.99 |
| 114 | Fish and Shellfish Immunology | Academic Press | 10959947, 10504648 | 0.987 |
| 115 | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | Springer Verlag | 09349723, 14354373 | 0.986 |
| 116 | Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology | KeAi Communications Co. | 2405805X | 0.983 |
| 117 | Sexually Transmitted Diseases | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. | 15374521, 01485717 | 0.971 |
| 118 | Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials | BioMed Central Ltd | 14760711 | 0.968 |
| 119 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14320614, 01757598 | 0.967 |
| 120 | Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins | Springer | 18671314, 18671306 | 0.967 |
| 121 | Microbial Physiology | S. Karger AG | 26731665, 26731673 | 0.964 |
| 122 | Biofilm | Elsevier B.V. | 25902075 | 0.959 |
| 123 | Infectious Diseases | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23744235, 23744243 | 0.957 |
| 124 | Journal of Fungi | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2309608X | 0.956 |
| 125 | Advanced NanoBiomed Research | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 26999307 | 0.955 |
| 126 | Current Research in Toxicology | Elsevier B.V. | 2666027X | 0.955 |
| 127 | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | Elsevier B.V. | 09248579, 18727913 | 0.955 |
| 128 | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | Microbiology Society | 13500872, 14652080 | 0.953 |
| 129 | Pathogens | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20760817 | 0.949 |
| 130 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 00063592, 10970290 | 0.94 |
| 131 | STAR Protocols | Cell Press | 26661667 | 0.925 |
| 132 | Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity | KeAi Communications Co. | 25889338 | 0.922 |
| 133 | Transboundary and Emerging Diseases | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 18651674, 18651682 | 0.919 |
| 134 | Innate Immunity | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17534259, 17534267 | 0.917 |
| 135 | Epidemics | Elsevier B.V. | 17554365, 18780067 | 0.903 |
| 136 | Biodegradation | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 09239820, 15729729 | 0.895 |
| 137 | World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 09593993, 15730972 | 0.892 |
| 138 | Biology | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20797737 | 0.888 |
| 139 | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | Oxford University Press | 14765535, 13675435 | 0.881 |
| 140 | Molecular Oral Microbiology | American Journal of Nursing Company | 20411006, 20411014 | 0.88 |
| 141 | International Journal of Microbiology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 16879198, 1687918X | 0.872 |
| 142 | Microbiome Research Reports | OAE Publishing Inc. | 27715965 | 0.862 |
| 143 | International Dairy Journal | Elsevier B.V. | 9586946 | 0.849 |
| 144 | Journal of Basic Microbiology | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 0233111X, 15214028 | 0.849 |
| 145 | FEMS Microbes | Oxford University Press | 26336685 | 0.848 |
| 146 | AMB Express | SpringerOpen | 21910855 | 0.832 |
| 147 | Microbial Pathogenesis | Academic Press | 10961208, 08824010 | 0.825 |
| 148 | Biotechnology Journal | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 18607314, 18606768 | 0.824 |
| 149 | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 24146366 | 0.817 |
| 150 | International Journal of Neonatal Screening | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2409515X | 0.816 |
| 151 | APMIS | Blackwell Munksgaard | 09034641, 16000463 | 0.814 |
| 152 | Research in Microbiology | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 09232508, 17697123 | 0.813 |
| 153 | Journal of Biotechnology | Elsevier B.V. | 01681656, 18734863 | 0.808 |
| 154 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Landmark | IMR Press Limited | 27686701, 27686698 | 0.794 |
| 155 | Current Issues in Molecular Biology | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 14673037, 14673045 | 0.791 |
| 156 | British Journal of Biomedical Science | Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) | 09674845, 24740896 | 0.79 |
| 157 | Anaerobe | Academic Press | 10759964, 10958274 | 0.788 |
| 158 | Zoonoses and Public Health | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 18631959, 18632378 | 0.788 |
| 159 | Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 08913668, 15320987 | 0.784 |
| 160 | Beneficial Microbes | 18762891, 18762883 | 0.782 | |
| 161 | Fungal Biology and Biotechnology | BioMed Central Ltd | 20543085 | 0.779 |
| 162 | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford University Press | 13652672, 13645072 | 0.779 |
| 163 | Pathogens and Immunity | Case Western Reserve University | 24692964 | 0.763 |
| 164 | AIMS Microbiology | AIMS Press | 24711888 | 0.761 |
| 165 | Annals of Microbiology | BioMed Central Ltd | 18692044, 15904261 | 0.76 |
| 166 | Frontiers in Fungal Biology | Frontiers Media SA | 26736128 | 0.76 |
| 167 | Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz | 16788060, 00740276 | 0.752 |
| 168 | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | Microbiology Society | 14665026, 14665034 | 0.749 |
| 169 | BioMed Research International | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 23146141, 23146133 | 0.744 |
| 170 | Microbes and Infection | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 1769714X, 12864579 | 0.744 |
| 171 | Pathogens and Disease | Oxford University Press | 2049632X | 0.742 |
| 172 | Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry | Wiley-Blackwell | 14708744, 08854513 | 0.738 |
| 173 | Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 08878013, 10982825 | 0.738 |
| 174 | Pathogens and Global Health | Maney Publishing | 20477724, 20477732 | 0.738 |
| 175 | Biosafety and Health | Elsevier B.V. | 25900536 | 0.734 |
| 176 | Enzyme and Microbial Technology | Elsevier Inc. | 18790909, 01410229 | 0.728 |
| 177 | Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases | Elsevier Ltd | 24055794 | 0.721 |
| 178 | Infectious Medicine | Elsevier B.V. | 2772431X, 20970684 | 0.72 |
| 179 | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 10665234, 15507408 | 0.716 |
| 180 | Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 17129532, 19181493 | 0.715 |
| 181 | Food Science and Biotechnology | The Korean Society of Food Science and Technology | 20926456, 12267708 | 0.713 |
| 182 | Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab | Elsevier B.V. | 2667145X, 26671468 | 0.712 |
| 183 | Infezioni in Medicina | EDIMES Edizioni Medico Scientifiche | 11249390 | 0.711 |
| 184 | Folia Microbiologica | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 18749356, 00155632 | 0.71 |
| 185 | Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 2052336X | 0.706 |
| 186 | Yeast | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10970061, 0749503X | 0.706 |
| 187 | Food Biophysics | Springer | 15571858, 15571866 | 0.703 |
| 188 | Health and Technology | Springer Verlag | 21907196, 21907188 | 0.7 |
| 189 | Biologics | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26738449 | 0.699 |
| 190 | Fungal Genetics and Biology | Academic Press Inc. | 10960937, 10871845 | 0.696 |
| 191 | Journal of Microbiology | 19763794, 12258873 | 0.695 | |
| 192 | Process Biochemistry | Elsevier Ltd | 18733298, 13595113 | 0.694 |
| 193 | Veterinary Microbiology | Elsevier B.V. | 03781135, 18732542 | 0.687 |
| 194 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar | IMR Press Limited | 19450516, 19450524 | 0.686 |
| 195 | Vaccine: X | Elsevier Ltd | 25901362 | 0.686 |
| 196 | Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology | Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology | 17388872, 10177825 | 0.684 |
| 197 | Microbial Risk Analysis | Elsevier B.V. | 23523522 | 0.681 |
| 198 | Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology | Elsevier B.V. | 18788181 | 0.675 |
| 199 | Microbiology and Immunology | Wiley-Blackwell | 03855600, 13480421 | 0.669 |
| 200 | Journal of Tropical Medicine | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 16879686, 16879694 | 0.663 |