| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | ISME Journal | 21 | 10,928 | 15 | 4 |
| 2 | MSystems | 24 | 2,890 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Nature | 2 | 2,537 | 16.0K | 7.9K |
| 4 | Science | 6 | 1,904 | 2.0K | 7.4K |
| 5 | MBio | 9 | 1,871 | 89 | 11 |
| 6 | Nature Medicine | 3 | 1,859 | 811 | 967 |
| 7 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 3 | 1,681 | 15.8K | 3.1K |
| 8 | PLoS ONE | 13 | 1,466 | 1.8K | 459 |
| 9 | Nature Biotechnology | 2 | 1,319 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 10 | Microbiome | 12 | 1,162 | 5 | 50 |
| 11 | Microbial Informatics and Experimentation | 3 | 796 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Nature Microbiology | 3 | 771 | 161 | 229 |
| 13 | Nature Communications | 5 | 764 | 4.9K | 5.5K |
| 14 | New England Journal of Medicine | 1 | 745 | 9.6K | 11.1K |
| 15 | BMC Biology | 1 | 723 | 706 | 19 |
| 16 | Environmental Microbiology | 6 | 645 | 402 | 353 |
| 17 | Cell Host and Microbe | 1 | 634 | 1.9K | 621 |
| 18 | PeerJ | 3 | 560 | 855 | 71 |
| 19 | Science Translational Medicine | 2 | 535 | 1.2K | 1.2K |
| 20 | Standards in Genomic Sciences | 6 | 449 | 67 | 37 |
| 21 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 7 | 367 | 923 | 2.2K |
| 22 | Annual Review of Marine Science | 1 | 323 | 49 | 120 |
| 23 | PLoS Biology | 2 | 272 | 692 | 2.4K |
| 24 | Nature Genetics | 2 | 260 | 6.0K | 17.9K |
| 25 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 4 | 259 | 2.4K | 1.8K |
| 26 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 3 | 258 | 1.5K | 5.1K |
| 27 | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1 | 246 | 4.7K | 2.4K |
| 28 | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2 | 224 | 3.6K | 3.1K |
| 29 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1 | 210 | 3.0K | 1.5K |
| 29 | GigaScience | 2 | 210 | 256 | 367 |
| 31 | Building and Environment | 2 | 196 | 1.4K | 838 |
| 32 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 1 | 184 | 542 | 2.0K |
| 33 | Nature Methods | 1 | 159 | 2.5K | 6.0K |
| 34 | Science of the Total Environment | 2 | 152 | 15.6K | 11.2K |
| 35 | ACS Nano | 1 | 137 | 16.4K | 16.1K |
| 36 | Genome Biology | 1 | 129 | 1.0K | 2.3K |
| 37 | Trends in Microbiology | 1 | 124 | 677 | 1.3K |
| 38 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2 | 111 | 176 | 915 |
| 39 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 1 | 107 | 2.1K | 1.7K |
| 40 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 2 | 105 | 289 | 1.5K |
| 40 | Current Opinion in Genetics and Development | 1 | 105 | 438 | 789 |
| 42 | Cell | 1 | 97 | 10.8K | 30.9K |
| 43 | Trends in Molecular Medicine | 1 | 92 | 314 | 1.1K |
| 43 | Current Pollution Reports | 1 | 92 | 68 | 71 |
| 45 | MicrobiologyOpen | 1 | 89 | 298 | 134 |
| 46 | Trends in Pharmacological Sciences | 1 | 84 | 591 | 1.6K |
| 47 | Scientific Reports | 4 | 82 | 14.7K | 58.5K |
| 47 | Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics | 2 | 82 | 816 | 1.3K |
| 49 | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2 | 79 | 1.4K | 5.5K |
| 50 | Microbial Biotechnology | 3 | 74 | 118 | 633 |
| 51 | Biology and Philosophy | 1 | 72 | 216 | 94 |
| 52 | Gastroenterology | 2 | 67 | 4.6K | 11.0K |
| 53 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 2 | 64 | 189 | 647 |
| 54 | Genome Biology | 2 | 59 | 707 | 5.5K |
| 54 | Oceanography | 1 | 59 | 529 | 808 |
| 56 | American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism | 1 | 57 | 2.2K | 2.9K |
| 57 | Aquatic Toxicology | 1 | 53 | 2.2K | 2.4K |
| 58 | Environmental Science & Technology | 1 | 50 | 14.7K | 20.4K |
| 59 | Journal of Biotechnology | 1 | 48 | 2.5K | 2.9K |
| 59 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 1 | 48 | 2.0K | 3.4K |
| 61 | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | 1 | 46 | 4.9K | 6.0K |
| 62 | Chemical Reviews | 1 | 45 | 1.7K | 10.4K |
| 63 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 1 | 42 | 2.4K | 4.4K |
| 63 | Trends in Immunology | 1 | 42 | 547 | 2.0K |
| 65 | Gut Microbes | 1 | 41 | 641 | 1.5K |
| 66 | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology | 1 | 40 | 34 | 110 |
| 67 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1 | 38 | 3.3K | 4.3K |
| 67 | International Journal of Obesity | 1 | 38 | 1.9K | 2.8K |
| 67 | Indoor Air | 2 | 38 | 280 | 675 |
| 70 | Briefings in Bioinformatics | 1 | 36 | 1.3K | 2.3K |
| 71 | BMC Public Health | 1 | 32 | 10.0K | 12.6K |
| 71 | Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 1 | 32 | 471 | 1.1K |
| 73 | Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics | 1 | 31 | 325 | 817 |
| 74 | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 1 | 28 | 7.3K | 10.5K |
| 75 | Gut | 1 | 27 | 3.9K | 10.1K |
| 76 | Pediatric Research | 1 | 25 | 3.2K | 4.9K |
| 76 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 1 | 25 | 1.5K | 3.4K |
| 78 | International Journal of Sports Medicine | 1 | 23 | 864 | 1.1K |
| 79 | Journal of AAPOS | 1 | 22 | 473 | 432 |
| 80 | Forensic Science International | 1 | 19 | 1.9K | 2.9K |
| 80 | Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism | 1 | 19 | 417 | 1.1K |
| 80 | Journal of Clinical Immunology | 1 | 19 | 1.3K | 2.7K |
| 80 | ELife | 2 | 19 | 3.4K | 36.1K |
| 84 | Psychopharmacology | 1 | 18 | 3.1K | 6.0K |
| 84 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 18 | 1.5K | 7.0K |
| 86 | Journal of the American College of Surgeons | 1 | 17 | 2.3K | 3.5K |
| 86 | Physiological Reports | 1 | 17 | 1.6K | 2.8K |
| 88 | Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease | 1 | 16 | 79 | 200 |
| 89 | JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing | 1 | 15 | 196 | 444 |
| 90 | Plants | 1 | 12 | 4.9K | 8.5K |
| 90 | IScience | 1 | 12 | 1.4K | 10.3K |
| 92 | Molecular Ecology | 1 | 10 | 4.9K | 12.5K |
| 92 | Viruses | 1 | 10 | 6.7K | 13.6K |
| 94 | Methods in Molecular Biology | 1 | 9 | 12.7K | 19.1K |
| 94 | Infection and Immunity | 2 | 9 | 2.9K | 11.7K |
| 96 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2 | 8 | 3.0K | 12.6K |
| 96 | Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | 1 | 8 | 2.0K | 4.3K |
| 96 | BioTechniques | 1 | 8 | 445 | 2.5K |
| 96 | Nature Precedings | 1 | 8 | 305 | 68 |
| 100 | MSphere | 2 | 6 | 297 | 5.1K |
| 101 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2 | 5 | 45 | 1.4K |
| 102 | Journal of Vascular Surgery | 1 | 4 | 2.4K | 5.0K |
| 102 | Microbiology Spectrum | 2 | 4 | 140 | 4.6K |
| 104 | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2 | 3 | 4.0K | 18.3K |
| 104 | Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery | 1 | 3 | 218 | 433 |
| 104 | Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education | 2 | 3 | 54 | 396 |
| 104 | Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 2 | 3 | 1.1K | 3.1K |
| 108 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2 | 1 | 19 | 1.2K |
| 109 | Journal of Bacteriology | 1 | 0 | 5.6K | 12.8K |
| 109 | Journal of Virology | 1 | 0 | 10.3K | 22.5K |
| 109 | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1 | 0 | 4.7K | 14.9K |
| 109 | Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation | 2 | 0 | 170 | 481 |
| 109 | Microbiology Resource Announcements | 1 | 0 | 1.9K | 5.6K |
| 109 | PLOS Global Public Health | 1 | 0 | 96 | 1.7K |
