| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature | 6 | 22,352 | 3.1K | 246 |
| 2 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 6 | 6,650 | 21 | 7 |
| 3 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 27 | 4,015 | 144 | 543 |
| 4 | Biology Direct | 24 | 4,003 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | BMC Bioinformatics | 1 | 3,913 | 4.3K | 36 |
| 6 | Nucleic Acids Research | 13 | 3,493 | 462 | 785 |
| 7 | Genome Research | 12 | 2,897 | 65 | 164 |
| 8 | Genome Biology | 9 | 1,878 | 20 | 99 |
| 9 | Journal of Bacteriology | 10 | 1,619 | 414 | 129 |
| 10 | Science | 2 | 1,388 | 11.6K | 10.9K |
| 11 | Journal of Molecular Biology | 3 | 1,240 | 2.5K | 309 |
| 11 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 11 | 1,240 | 3 | 8 |
| 13 | Trends in Genetics | 9 | 1,121 | 7 | 27 |
| 14 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2 | 997 | 19 | 113 |
| 15 | Molecular Cell | 1 | 971 | 5.0K | 921 |
| 16 | MBio | 12 | 968 | 37 | 72 |
| 17 | Genome Biology and Evolution | 10 | 572 | 21 | 21 |
| 18 | Archives of Virology | 4 | 556 | 626 | 212 |
| 19 | Briefings in Bioinformatics | 3 | 465 | 321 | 147 |
| 20 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 4 | 449 | 609 | 556 |
| 21 | PLoS ONE | 3 | 444 | 49.2K | 7.4K |
| 22 | Nature Communications | 7 | 434 | 2.3K | 13.9K |
| 23 | Nature Microbiology | 4 | 415 | 75 | 627 |
| 24 | Current Biology | 1 | 413 | 7.2K | 2.2K |
| 25 | BioEssays | 2 | 359 | 220 | 149 |
| 26 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 3 | 349 | 69 | 1.2K |
| 27 | Annual Review of Biochemistry | 1 | 346 | 122 | 530 |
| 28 | FEBS Letters | 1 | 336 | 8.7K | 1.2K |
| 29 | Virology Journal | 1 | 321 | 1.3K | 55 |
| 30 | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2 | 319 | 22.4K | 12.5K |
| 31 | CRISPR Journal | 5 | 300 | 2 | 5 |
| 32 | Environmental Microbiology | 2 | 273 | 1.9K | 1.2K |
| 33 | Bioinformatics | 2 | 264 | 3.5K | 2.7K |
| 34 | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1 | 256 | 68 | 322 |
| 35 | Journal of Virology | 4 | 243 | 3.5K | 4.0K |
| 36 | BMC Biology | 5 | 240 | 10 | 318 |
| 37 | Journal of Biology | 1 | 234 | 11 | 41 |
| 38 | Life | 1 | 216 | 1.3K | 11 |
| 39 | Biochemical Society Transactions | 2 | 192 | 824 | 208 |
| 40 | PLoS Computational Biology | 3 | 170 | 1.1K | 2.1K |
| 41 | Virology | 1 | 154 | 3.7K | 1.6K |
| 42 | PLoS Biology | 1 | 132 | 2.5K | 5.5K |
| 43 | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | 1 | 119 | 2.3K | 583 |
| 44 | ISME Journal | 1 | 105 | 2.7K | 3.8K |
| 45 | Theoretical Population Biology | 1 | 100 | 409 | 228 |
| 46 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 1 | 90 | 834 | 1.8K |
| 47 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 74 | 6.2K | 7.2K |
| 48 | Chemistry and Biology | 1 | 71 | 968 | 2.2K |
| 49 | F1000Research | 6 | 67 | 124 | 1.1K |
| 50 | Cell Reports | 1 | 64 | 10.0K | 19.2K |
| 51 | PLOS Currents | 2 | 58 | 75 | 224 |
| 52 | Molecular BioSystems | 2 | 52 | 431 | 1.4K |
| 53 | Communications Biology | 2 | 51 | 258 | 2.1K |
| 54 | Extremophiles | 1 | 48 | 647 | 762 |
| 55 | RNA Biology | 1 | 45 | 830 | 1.4K |
| 56 | Cell Cycle | 1 | 44 | 2.8K | 3.7K |
| 56 | ELife | 1 | 44 | 10.2K | 22.6K |
| 58 | Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics | 1 | 43 | 2.7K | 2.8K |
| 59 | Virus Evolution | 1 | 36 | 387 | 437 |
| 60 | Trends in Microbiology | 1 | 33 | 677 | 2.7K |
| 60 | Journal of Computational Biology | 2 | 33 | 251 | 708 |
| 62 | Methods in Molecular Biology | 3 | 26 | 2.2K | 7.6K |
| 62 | Physica Scripta | 1 | 26 | 3.3K | 2.2K |
| 64 | FASEB Journal | 1 | 24 | 19.3K | 17.9K |
| 65 | Research in Microbiology | 1 | 22 | 689 | 2.1K |
| 66 | Nature Protocols | 1 | 21 | 1.1K | 8.1K |
| 67 | Journal of Physiology | 1 | 11 | 5.2K | 11.6K |
| 68 | Standards in Genomic Sciences | 1 | 10 | 374 | 956 |
| 69 | Physical Review X | 1 | 9 | 1.6K | 6.0K |
| 70 | PLoS Pathogens | 1 | 8 | 8.2K | 25.9K |
| 70 | Genes | 1 | 8 | 4.0K | 12.5K |
| 70 | Advances in Bioinformatics | 1 | 8 | 24 | 183 |
| 73 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2 | 7 | 7.0K | 39.0K |
| 73 | BMC Genomics | 1 | 7 | 8.3K | 26.8K |
| 73 | Viruses | 1 | 7 | 6.7K | 15.9K |
| 76 | Genome Biology | 1 | 0 | 2.1K | 9.7K |
