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 | Cell Host and Microbe | Cell Press | 19346069, 19313128 | 9.892 |
| 2 | Nature Reviews Bioengineering | Springer Nature | 27316092 | 9.178 |
| 3 | iMeta | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 2770596X, 27705986 | 9.121 |
| 4 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Research | 20585276 | 7.44 |
| 5 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 08938512, 10986618 | 6.584 |
| 6 | The Lancet Microbe | Elsevier Ltd | 26665247 | 5.192 |
| 7 | Annual Review of Microbiology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 00664227, 15453251 | 5.052 |
| 8 | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Oxford University Press | 01686445, 15746976 | 4.555 |
| 9 | EMBO Journal | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 02614189, 14602075 | 4.413 |
| 10 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | Elsevier Ltd | 380717 | 4.24 |
| 11 | Molecular Systems Biology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 17444292 | 4.229 |
| 12 | Microbiome | BioMed Central Ltd | 20492618 | 4.166 |
| 13 | Gut Microbes | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 19490984, 19490976 | 4.109 |
| 14 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 10985557, 10922172 | 3.769 |
| 15 | ISME Journal | Oxford University Press | 17517362, 17517370 | 3.415 |
| 16 | Trends in Microbiology | Elsevier Ltd | 18784380, 0966842X | 3.364 |
| 17 | EcoSal Plus | American Society for Microbiology | 23246200 | 3.349 |
| 18 | International Journal of Biological Sciences | Ivyspring International Publisher | 14492288 | 3.073 |
| 19 | Nature Biotechnology | Nature Research | 15461696, 10870156 | 23.109 |
| 20 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford University Press | 15376591, 10584838 | 2.891 |
| 21 | Eurosurveillance | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) | 15607917, 1025496X | 2.81 |
| 22 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | Elsevier Ltd | 18790364, 13695274 | 2.802 |
| 23 | Biotechnology Advances | Elsevier Inc. | 18731899, 07349750 | 2.761 |
| 24 | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes | Nature Research | 20555008 | 2.732 |
| 25 | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | Elsevier B.V. | 1198743X, 14690691 | 2.658 |
| 26 | Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 15691705, 15729826 | 2.637 |
| 27 | PLOS Biology | Public Library of Science | 15449173, 15457885 | 2.525 |
| 28 | Journal of Nanobiotechnology | BioMed Central Ltd | 14773155 | 2.517 |
| 29 | Emerging Microbes and Infections | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 22221751 | 2.269 |
| 30 | Journal of Infection | W.B. Saunders Ltd | 01634453, 15322742 | 2.18 |
| 31 | hLife | Elsevier B.V. | 29499283 | 2.077 |
| 32 | ISME Communications | Oxford University Press | 27306151 | 2.075 |
| 33 | Emerging Infectious Diseases | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 10806040, 10806059 | 2.034 |
| 34 | Biology and Fertility of Soils | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14320789, 01782762 | 2.013 |
| 35 | mBio | American Society for Microbiology | 21612129, 21507511 | 2.002 |
| 36 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | Nature Research | 17401534, 17401526 | 18.406 |
| 37 | PLOS Pathogens | Public Library of Science | 15537374, 15537366 | 1.932 |
| 38 | Microbiological Research | Elsevier GmbH | 09445013, 16180623 | 1.872 |
| 39 | Metabolic Engineering | Academic Press Inc. | 10967176, 10967184 | 1.842 |
| 40 | Critical Reviews in Microbiology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15497828, 1040841X | 1.831 |
| 41 | Critical Reviews in Biotechnology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15497801, 07388551 | 1.779 |
| 42 | MicroLife | Oxford University Press | 26336693 | 1.758 |
| 43 | Food Packaging and Shelf Life | Elsevier B.V. | 22142894 | 1.746 |
| 44 | Environmental Microbiome | BioMed Central Ltd | 25246372 | 1.741 |
| 45 | Stress Biology | Springer | 27310450 | 1.712 |
| 46 | Advanced Biotechnology | Springer | 29482801 | 1.673 |
| 47 | mSystems | American Society for Microbiology | 23795077 | 1.671 |
| 48 | Infectious Diseases and Therapy | 21938229, 21936382 | 1.66 | |
| 49 | British Journal of Biomedical Science | Frontiers Media SA | 09674845, 24740896 | 1.658 |
| 50 | Current Opinion in Food Science | Elsevier Ltd | 22147993 | 1.646 |
| 51 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | American Society for Microbiology | 1098660X, 00951137 | 1.641 |
| 52 | Virulence | Landes Bioscience | 21505594, 21505608 | 1.632 |
| 53 | Cell Surface | Elsevier B.V. | 24682330 | 1.607 |
| 54 | mLife | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 2770100X, 20971699 | 1.59 |
| 55 | Microbial Genomics | Microbiology Society | 20575858 | 1.575 |
| 56 | Virus Evolution | Oxford University Press | 20571577 | 1.57 |
| 57 | Fungal Systematics and Evolution | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | 25893823, 25893831 | 1.517 |
| 58 | Infectious Disease Clinics of North America | W.B. Saunders | 15579824, 08915520 | 1.482 |
| 59 | Grain and Oil Science and Technology | KeAi Communications Co. | 25902598, 20964501 | 1.473 |
| 60 | Journal of Oral Microbiology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 20002297 | 1.44 |
| 61 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | Royal Society Publishing | 14712954, 09628452 | 1.408 |
| 62 | Current Research in Food Science | Elsevier B.V. | 26659271 | 1.406 |
| 63 | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | Frontiers Media SA | 22352988 | 1.403 |
| 64 | Journal of Bacteriology | American Society for Microbiology | 00219193, 10985530 | 1.402 |
| 65 | Microbial Biotechnology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 17517915, 17517907 | 1.392 |
| 66 | Engineering Microbiology | KeAi Communications Co. | 26673703 | 1.377 |
| 67 | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | Elsevier B.V. | 12019712, 18783511 | 1.344 |
| 68 | Biofilm | Elsevier B.V. | 25902075 | 1.333 |
| 69 | Molecular Microbiology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 13652958, 0950382X | 1.314 |
| 70 | Biometrics | Oxford University Press | 0006341X, 15410420 | 1.311 |
| 71 | Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 09517375, 14736527 | 1.309 |
| 72 | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | BioMed Central Ltd | 20472994 | 1.306 |
| 73 | DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms | Company of Biologists Ltd | 17548403, 17548411 | 1.306 |
| 74 | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | Elsevier B.V. | 09248579, 18727913 | 1.301 |
| 75 | Journal of Virology | American Society for Microbiology | 10985514, 0022538X | 1.301 |
| 76 | Fungal Biology Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 17494613 | 1.289 |
| 77 | International Journal of Neonatal Screening | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2409515X | 1.288 |
| 78 | Antibiotics | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20796382 | 1.276 |
| 79 | Environmental Microbiology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14622912, 14622920 | 1.269 |
| 80 | Frontiers in Microbiology | Frontiers Media SA | 1664302X | 1.26 |
| 81 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | Oxford University Press | 03057453, 14602091 | 1.258 |
| 82 | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | Microbiology Society | 13500872, 14652080 | 1.242 |
| 83 | Mycology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21501211, 21501203 | 1.234 |
| 84 | Microbiome Research Reports | OAE Publishing Inc. | 27715965 | 1.228 |
| 85 | Food Structure | Elsevier B.V. | 22133291 | 1.217 |
| 86 | mSphere | American Society for Microbiology | 23795042 | 1.209 |
| 87 | Microbiology Spectrum | American Society for Microbiology | 21650497 | 1.206 |
| 88 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | American Society for Microbiology | 00992240, 10985336 | 1.203 |
| 89 | Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials | BioMed Central Ltd | 14760711 | 1.19 |
| 90 | Vaccine | Elsevier Ltd | 0264410X, 18732518 | 1.186 |
| 91 | Microbial Cell Factories | BioMed Central Ltd | 14752859 | 1.177 |
| 92 | Infection and Immunity | American Society for Microbiology | 10985522, 00199567 | 1.171 |
| 93 | Gut Pathogens | BioMed Central Ltd | 17574749 | 1.169 |
| 94 | Animal Microbiome | BioMed Central Ltd | 25244671 | 1.16 |
| 95 | Current Research in Microbial Sciences | Elsevier B.V. | 26665174 | 1.144 |
| 96 | BMC Microbiology | BioMed Central Ltd | 14712180 | 1.141 |
| 97 | Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins | Springer | 18671314, 18671306 | 1.137 |
| 98 | Biotechnology Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 2215017X | 1.131 |
| 99 | NPJ Viruses | Springer Nature | 29481767 | 1.131 |
| 100 | Current Clinical Microbiology Reports | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21965471 | 1.128 |
| 101 | EFSA Journal | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 18314732 | 1.122 |
| 102 | International Journal of Food Microbiology | Elsevier B.V. | 18793460, 01681605 | 1.116 |
| 103 | Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts | BioMed Central Ltd | 27313654 | 1.108 |
| 104 | Infection | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 03008126, 14390973 | 1.087 |
| 105 | MicrobiologyOpen | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 20458827 | 1.082 |
| 106 | Discovery Immunology | Oxford University Press | 27542483 | 1.079 |
| 107 | Microorganisms | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20762607 | 1.077 |
| 108 | AIMS Microbiology | AIMS Press | 24711888 | 1.067 |
| 109 | Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection | Elsevier Ltd | 19959133, 16841182 | 1.066 |
| 110 | Foods | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 23048158 | 1.061 |
| 111 | Advanced NanoBiomed Research | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 26999307 | 1.058 |
| 112 | JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance | Oxford University Press | 26321823 | 1.057 |
| 113 | Infectious Medicine | Elsevier B.V. | 2772431X, 20970684 | 1.056 |
| 114 | Current Protocols | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 26911299 | 1.039 |
| 115 | European Journal of Soil Biology | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 11645563 | 1.033 |
| 116 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Oxford University Press | 01686496, 15746941 | 1.028 |
| 117 | Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14787210, 17448336 | 1.024 |
| 118 | Journal of Hospital Infection | W.B. Saunders Ltd | 15322939, 01956701 | 1.024 |
| 119 | Bioengineered | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21655987, 21655979 | 1.023 |
| 120 | Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology | KeAi Communications Co. | 2405805X | 1.014 |
| 121 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14320614, 01757598 | 1.008 |
| 122 | Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases | Elsevier GmbH | 18779603, 1877959X | 1.007 |
| 123 | Epidemics | Elsevier B.V. | 17554365, 18780067 | 1.006 |
| 124 | Fish and Shellfish Immunology | Academic Press | 10959947, 10504648 | 1.006 |
| 125 | FEMS Microbes | Oxford University Press | 26336685 | 1.005 |
| 126 | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance | Elsevier Ltd | 22137173, 22137165 | 1.002 |
| 127 | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 09349723, 14354373 | 0.998 |
| 128 | Food Microbiology | Academic Press | 07400020, 10959998 | 0.995 |
| 129 | Frontiers in Fungal Biology | Frontiers Media SA | 26736128 | 0.987 |
| 130 | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 24146366 | 0.979 |
| 131 | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge University Press | 15596834, 0899823X | 0.973 |
| 132 | Molecular Oral Microbiology | American Journal of Nursing Company | 20411006, 20411014 | 0.967 |
| 133 | Pathogens | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20760817 | 0.965 |
| 134 | Journal of Fungi | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2309608X | 0.961 |
| 135 | Current Research in Toxicology | Elsevier B.V. | 2666027X | 0.949 |
| 136 | Microbial Pathogenesis | Academic Press | 10961208, 08824010 | 0.936 |
| 137 | Pathogens and Global Health | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 20477724, 20477732 | 0.932 |
| 138 | International Journal of Medical Microbiology | Elsevier GmbH | 14384221, 16180607 | 0.93 |
| 139 | Biology | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20797737 | 0.928 |
| 140 | Innate Immunity | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17534259, 17534267 | 0.926 |
| 141 | Research in Microbiology | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 09232508, 17697123 | 0.916 |
| 142 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Landmark | IMR Press Limited | 27686701, 27686698 | 0.915 |
| 143 | World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 09593993, 15730972 | 0.909 |
| 144 | Biodegradation | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 09239820, 15729729 | 0.906 |
| 145 | Current Issues in Molecular Biology | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 14673037, 14673045 | 0.897 |
| 146 | Pathogens and Disease | Oxford University Press | 2049632X | 0.895 |
| 147 | Annals of Microbiology | BioMed Central Ltd | 18692044, 15904261 | 0.88 |
| 148 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 00063592, 10970290 | 0.877 |
| 149 | International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation | Elsevier Ltd | 9648305 | 0.876 |
| 150 | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | Oxford University Press | 14765535, 13675435 | 0.874 |
| 151 | Microbes and Infection | Elsevier Masson s.r.l. | 1769714X, 12864579 | 0.874 |
| 152 | Rhizosphere | Elsevier B.V. | 24522198 | 0.871 |
| 153 | Transboundary and Emerging Diseases | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 18651674, 18651682 | 0.865 |
| 154 | Anaerobe | Academic Press | 10759964, 10958274 | 0.858 |
| 155 | Frontiers in Antibiotics | Frontiers Media SA | 28132467 | 0.854 |
| 156 | Bacteria | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26741334 | 0.851 |
| 157 | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | Elsevier GmbH | 16180984, 07232020 | 0.848 |
| 158 | Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 08878013, 10982825 | 0.847 |
| 159 | Beneficial Microbes | 18762891, 18762883 | 0.847 | |
| 160 | STAR Protocols | Cell Press | 26661667 | 0.847 |
| 161 | Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases | Elsevier Ltd | 24055794 | 0.832 |
| 162 | Microbial Cell | Shared Science Publishers OG | 23112638 | 0.824 |
| 163 | Medical Microbiology and Immunology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14321831, 03008584 | 0.823 |
| 164 | Sexually Transmitted Diseases | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 15374521, 01485717 | 0.809 |
| 165 | Frontiers in Microbiomes | Frontiers Media SA | 28134338 | 0.799 |
| 166 | Fungal Biology and Biotechnology | BioMed Central Ltd | 20543085 | 0.799 |
| 167 | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 10665234, 15507408 | 0.798 |
| 168 | AMB Express | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21910855 | 0.797 |
| 169 | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | Elsevier B.V. | 15677257, 15671348 | 0.782 |
| 170 | Zoonoses and Public Health | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 18631959, 18632378 | 0.781 |
| 171 | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford University Press | 13652672, 13645072 | 0.779 |
| 172 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite | IMR Press Limited | 19450508, 19450494 | 0.777 |
| 173 | FEMS Yeast Research | Oxford University Press | 15671364, 15671356 | 0.776 |
| 174 | Journal of Biotechnology | Elsevier B.V. | 01681656, 18734863 | 0.765 |
| 175 | Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology | Elsevier B.V. | 18788181 | 0.764 |
| 176 | Biotechnology Journal | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 18607314, 18606768 | 0.756 |
| 177 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar | IMR Press Limited | 19450516, 19450524 | 0.754 |
| 178 | Pathogens and Immunity | Case Western Reserve University | 24692964 | 0.753 |
| 179 | BioMed Research International | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 23146141, 23146133 | 0.748 |
| 180 | Infezioni in Medicina | EDIMES Edizioni Medico Scientifiche | 11249390 | 0.748 |
| 181 | Food Science and Biotechnology | The Korean Society of Food Science and Technology | 20926456, 12267708 | 0.744 |
| 182 | Health and Technology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21907196, 21907188 | 0.744 |
| 183 | Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab | Elsevier B.V. | 2667145X, 26671468 | 0.743 |
| 184 | Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 2052336X | 0.743 |
| 185 | International Dairy Journal | Elsevier B.V. | 9586946 | 0.741 |
| 186 | Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology | Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology | 17388872, 10177825 | 0.74 |
| 187 | International Journal of Microbiology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 16879198, 1687918X | 0.739 |
| 188 | Process Biochemistry | Elsevier Ltd | 18733298, 13595113 | 0.739 |
| 189 | Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 08913668, 15320987 | 0.737 |
| 190 | Infectious Diseases | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23744235, 23744243 | 0.733 |
| 191 | Enzyme and Microbial Technology | Elsevier Inc. | 18790909, 01410229 | 0.731 |
| 192 | Food Bioengineering | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 27702081 | 0.731 |
| 193 | Journal of Microbiology | 19763794, 12258873 | 0.731 | |
| 194 | Molecular Biotechnology | Springer | 15590305, 10736085 | 0.731 |
| 195 | Applied Biosciences | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 28130464 | 0.726 |
| 196 | APMIS | Blackwell Munksgaard | 09034641, 16000463 | 0.726 |
| 197 | Journal of Food Protection | Elsevier B.V. | 19449097, 0362028X | 0.725 |
| 198 | Journal of Medical Microbiology | Microbiology Society | 14735644, 00222615 | 0.723 |
| 199 | Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry | Wiley-Blackwell | 14708744, 08854513 | 0.719 |
| 200 | Microbe (Netherlands) | Elsevier B.V. | 29501946 | 0.718 |
| 201 | Journal of Tropical Medicine | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 16879686, 16879694 | 0.714 |
| 202 | BioTech | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26736284 | 0.71 |
| 203 | Journal of Basic Microbiology | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 0233111X, 15214028 | 0.708 |
| 204 | Mycopathologia | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 15730832, 0301486X | 0.705 |
| 205 | Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 17129532, 19181493 | 0.705 |
| 206 | Vaccine: X | Elsevier Ltd | 25901362 | 0.704 |
| 207 | Mathematical Biosciences | Elsevier Inc. | 00255564, 18793134 | 0.703 |
| 208 | Food Biophysics | Springer | 15571858, 15571866 | 0.699 |
| 209 | Journal of Water and Health | IWA Publishing | 19967829, 14778920 | 0.693 |
| 210 | Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences | Mashhad University of Medical Sciences | 20083874, 20083866 | 0.685 |