| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature | 15 | 21,014 | 419 | 323 |
| 2 | Science | 11 | 10,423 | 587 | 340 |
| 3 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 17 | 7,761 | 499 | 117 |
| 4 | PLoS Biology | 18 | 6,015 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Standards in Genomic Sciences | 155 | 4,060 | 11 | 9 |
| 6 | Nature Biotechnology | 4 | 3,064 | 347 | 381 |
| 7 | PLoS ONE | 24 | 2,398 | 234 | 136 |
| 8 | PLoS Genetics | 8 | 1,680 | 268 | 195 |
| 9 | Journal of Bacteriology | 8 | 1,555 | 599 | 140 |
| 10 | Environmental Microbiology | 3 | 1,394 | 1.1K | 90 |
| 11 | Nucleic Acids Research | 4 | 1,391 | 3.8K | 1.8K |
| 12 | PeerJ | 13 | 1,169 | 13 | 34 |
| 13 | Genome Biology | 3 | 790 | 191 | 255 |
| 14 | BMC Genomics | 5 | 659 | 677 | 270 |
| 15 | Genome Research | 1 | 571 | 3.1K | 1.2K |
| 16 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 7 | 553 | 923 | 1.3K |
| 17 | PLoS Computational Biology | 3 | 528 | 1.1K | 477 |
| 18 | ISME Journal | 4 | 452 | 525 | 940 |
| 19 | Mutation Research DNA Repair | 1 | 398 | 69 | 7 |
| 20 | MSystems | 3 | 343 | 149 | 120 |
| 21 | Genetics | 1 | 274 | 3.7K | 1.3K |
| 22 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 6 | 268 | 1.0K | 1.7K |
| 23 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1 | 242 | 794 | 197 |
| 24 | Nature Microbiology | 3 | 241 | 161 | 1.2K |
| 25 | Current Opinion in Genetics and Development | 1 | 237 | 438 | 276 |
| 26 | Genome Announcements | 45 | 213 | 5 | 26 |
| 27 | Nature Communications | 1 | 201 | 57.8K | 39.4K |
| 28 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 1 | 187 | 16.8K | 3.1K |
| 29 | Cell | 1 | 164 | 10.8K | 26.2K |
| 30 | Building and Environment | 1 | 143 | 2.5K | 1.2K |
| 31 | Microbiome | 1 | 140 | 924 | 1.2K |
| 32 | Bioinformatics | 2 | 123 | 3.5K | 4.9K |
| 33 | Plant Molecular Biology | 1 | 115 | 2.1K | 1.8K |
| 34 | Genome Biology | 1 | 104 | 2.1K | 3.8K |
| 35 | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 4 | 96 | 1.0K | 1.8K |
| 36 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 1 | 94 | 533 | 1.1K |
| 37 | Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology | 1 | 92 | 1.2K | 786 |
| 38 | Theoretical Population Biology | 1 | 87 | 409 | 273 |
| 39 | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2 | 86 | 2.1K | 3.9K |
| 40 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 1 | 85 | 47.6K | 8.8K |
| 41 | MSphere | 3 | 82 | 114 | 496 |
| 42 | Genomics | 2 | 79 | 912 | 1.8K |
| 43 | OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology | 1 | 76 | 495 | 291 |
| 44 | G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics | 1 | 68 | 1.9K | 1.3K |
| 45 | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 1 | 66 | 770 | 1.8K |
| 46 | Scientific Reports | 1 | 63 | 51.9K | 64.7K |
| 46 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 1 | 63 | 3.2K | 4.8K |
| 48 | Human Genetics | 1 | 55 | 2.5K | 3.2K |
| 49 | Photosynthesis Research | 1 | 54 | 978 | 1.0K |
| 50 | BMC Bioinformatics | 2 | 49 | 1.9K | 4.8K |
| 51 | Nature Medicine | 1 | 40 | 5.2K | 22.2K |
| 52 | Archaea | 1 | 35 | 84 | 175 |
| 53 | Methods in Enzymology | 1 | 25 | 2.2K | 4.5K |
| 54 | Genome Biology and Evolution | 1 | 23 | 1.8K | 4.3K |
| 55 | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | 1 | 20 | 2.3K | 5.6K |
| 56 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2 | 17 | 1.6K | 7.0K |
| 56 | Research in Microbiology | 1 | 17 | 689 | 2.4K |
| 58 | Current Opinion in Structural Biology | 1 | 15 | 806 | 3.1K |
| 59 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 1 | 13 | 2.2K | 6.0K |
| 60 | International Journal for Parasitology | 1 | 12 | 1.4K | 3.8K |
| 60 | GigaScience | 1 | 12 | 794 | 3.8K |
| 62 | Future Microbiology | 1 | 10 | 689 | 2.3K |
| 62 | The Winnower | 3 | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| 64 | Journal of Visualized Experiments | 1 | 7 | 2.4K | 9.8K |
| 64 | Journal of Genomics | 2 | 7 | 13 | 142 |
| 66 | Microbiology Resource Announcements | 2 | 1 | 828 | 4.6K |
| 67 | Quarterly Review of Biology | 1 | 0 | 113 | 437 |
