| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Journal of Bacteriology | 45 | 3,744 | 10 | 11 |
| 2 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 56 | 3,342 | 11 | 76 |
| 3 | Molecular Microbiology | 26 | 3,214 | 13 | 19 |
| 4 | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 16 | 2,294 | 1.1K | 576 |
| 5 | Natural Product Reports | 3 | 2,227 | 85 | 20 |
| 6 | Nucleic Acids Research | 13 | 2,109 | 462 | 1.3K |
| 7 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 3 | 1,828 | 15.8K | 2.6K |
| 8 | Science | 3 | 1,290 | 6.5K | 11.8K |
| 9 | BMC Genomics | 10 | 1,062 | 121 | 93 |
| 10 | Biochemistry | 10 | 911 | 882 | 547 |
| 11 | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1 | 907 | 68 | 40 |
| 12 | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 15 | 839 | 25 | 78 |
| 13 | FEBS Journal | 7 | 834 | 248 | 116 |
| 14 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2 | 822 | 186 | 548 |
| 15 | Nature Chemical Biology | 2 | 814 | 631 | 275 |
| 16 | PLoS ONE | 21 | 712 | 382 | 2.8K |
| 17 | Journal of Biotechnology | 2 | 679 | 1.1K | 70 |
| 18 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 31 | 619 | 10 | 352 |
| 19 | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 12 | 617 | 1 | 143 |
| 20 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2 | 612 | 19 | 234 |
| 21 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 3 | 583 | 1.7K | 285 |
| 22 | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | 1 | 553 | 1.6K | 192 |
| 23 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 9 | 476 | 13 | 236 |
| 24 | Environmental Microbiology | 11 | 458 | 117 | 570 |
| 25 | ACS Synthetic Biology | 13 | 381 | 18 | 70 |
| 26 | Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek | 5 | 370 | 166 | 80 |
| 27 | ISME Journal | 4 | 349 | 525 | 1.2K |
| 28 | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | 2 | 316 | 490 | 346 |
| 29 | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 5 | 309 | 1.5K | 1.5K |
| 30 | Nature | 1 | 271 | 32.1K | 56.5K |
| 31 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2 | 242 | 176 | 329 |
| 32 | Trends in Biotechnology | 1 | 208 | 732 | 854 |
| 33 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2 | 191 | 1.6K | 1.7K |
| 34 | Molecular Systems Biology | 1 | 181 | 874 | 1.0K |
| 35 | MBio | 7 | 169 | 157 | 1.8K |
| 36 | BioEssays | 1 | 154 | 777 | 685 |
| 37 | FEBS Journal | 2 | 152 | 958 | 859 |
| 38 | Nature Biotechnology | 1 | 146 | 2.8K | 7.8K |
| 38 | Infection and Immunity | 5 | 146 | 988 | 3.0K |
| 40 | Genome Biology | 2 | 144 | 383 | 2.1K |
| 41 | Journal of Visualized Experiments | 4 | 133 | 71 | 219 |
| 42 | FEBS Letters | 2 | 130 | 4.3K | 4.6K |
| 43 | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 2 | 117 | 395 | 454 |
| 43 | Annual Review of Food Science and Technology | 1 | 117 | 56 | 181 |
| 45 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1 | 115 | 5.4K | 6.0K |
| 46 | Protein Engineering, Design and Selection | 4 | 114 | 73 | 315 |
| 47 | Bioinformatics | 6 | 103 | 693 | 5.6K |
| 48 | Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism and Toxicology | 1 | 102 | 568 | 249 |
| 49 | Methods | 1 | 101 | 840 | 874 |
| 50 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1 | 95 | 3.5K | 1.7K |
| 51 | Briefings in Bioinformatics | 1 | 94 | 1.3K | 1.1K |
| 52 | Scientific Reports | 4 | 89 | 14.7K | 52.4K |
| 52 | Metabolic Engineering | 3 | 89 | 308 | 1.1K |
| 54 | Journal of Applied Microbiology | 2 | 88 | 813 | 1.2K |
| 55 | Microbial Pathogenesis | 1 | 85 | 2.3K | 821 |
| 56 | Applied Bioinformatics | 1 | 82 | 15 | 14 |
| 57 | Genome Announcements | 11 | 81 | 89 | 262 |
| 57 | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | 6 | 81 | 35 | 1.1K |
| 59 | Microbial Biotechnology | 6 | 75 | 36 | 623 |
| 60 | Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology | 3 | 72 | 24 | 140 |
| 61 | Peptides | 2 | 70 | 891 | 1.3K |
| 62 | BMC Microbiology | 2 | 67 | 500 | 1.9K |
| 63 | International Dairy Journal | 4 | 66 | 239 | 795 |
| 64 | Metallomics | 1 | 65 | 944 | 750 |
| 65 | Journal of Molecular Biology | 2 | 61 | 3.8K | 9.1K |
| 66 | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2 | 60 | 16.2K | 38.5K |
| 66 | Nature Communications | 2 | 60 | 25.4K | 64.5K |
| 66 | Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology | 1 | 60 | 2.8K | 1.2K |
| 69 | Journal of Microbiological Methods | 2 | 57 | 416 | 1.2K |
| 70 | Microbial Cell Factories | 3 | 56 | 338 | 1.5K |
| 70 | Microbial Genomics | 3 | 56 | 134 | 359 |
| 72 | Recent Patents on Biotechnology | 1 | 55 | 92 | 46 |
| 73 | Food Microbiology | 1 | 53 | 1.5K | 1.7K |
| 74 | Npj Biofilms and Microbiomes | 2 | 47 | 22 | 478 |
| 75 | BMC Bioinformatics | 3 | 46 | 1.0K | 5.1K |
| 76 | Genomics Data | 5 | 45 | 15 | 84 |
| 77 | PLoS Genetics | 1 | 39 | 8.2K | 19.6K |
| 78 | Communications Biology | 1 | 38 | 1.5K | 3.3K |
| 79 | Amino Acids | 1 | 36 | 1.4K | 1.8K |
| 80 | FEBS Open Bio | 1 | 34 | 263 | 336 |
| 81 | Biotechnology for Biofuels | 1 | 33 | 1.6K | 3.1K |
| 82 | Research in Microbiology | 1 | 32 | 689 | 1.7K |
| 83 | Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery | 1 | 31 | 377 | 804 |
| 83 | Metabolic Engineering Communications | 1 | 31 | 92 | 202 |
| 85 | Cell Chemical Biology | 2 | 30 | 174 | 2.0K |
| 86 | ChemBioChem | 1 | 28 | 3.1K | 4.8K |
| 87 | Microbiology Resource Announcements | 6 | 27 | 125 | 207 |
| 88 | Chemistry - A European Journal | 1 | 26 | 20.4K | 27.6K |
| 88 | Letters in Applied Microbiology | 1 | 26 | 803 | 1.4K |
| 90 | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 1 | 23 | 2.6K | 5.1K |
| 91 | PLoS Pathogens | 1 | 20 | 8.2K | 21.9K |
| 91 | WIREs Mechanisms of Disease | 1 | 20 | 2 | 8 |
| 93 | Computer Graphics Forum | 1 | 19 | 1.1K | 1.5K |
| 93 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 1 | 19 | 1.9K | 5.8K |
| 95 | Archives of Microbiology | 1 | 18 | 1.4K | 2.6K |
| 96 | Biochemical Society Transactions | 1 | 17 | 1.9K | 4.6K |
| 96 | Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy | 1 | 17 | 825 | 2.4K |
| 98 | Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces | 1 | 16 | 5.2K | 12.8K |
| 99 | Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 1 | 15 | 10.4K | 21.2K |
| 100 | Angewandte Chemie | 2 | 12 | 9.6K | 21.7K |
| 100 | Methods in Molecular Biology | 1 | 12 | 12.7K | 15.7K |
| 100 | Phytochemistry Reviews | 1 | 12 | 269 | 1.3K |
| 103 | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 1 | 11 | 2.0K | 5.3K |
| 104 | Pharmaceuticals | 1 | 10 | 1.9K | 5.9K |
| 105 | Journal of Antibiotics | 1 | 9 | 763 | 1.9K |
| 105 | Genome Research | 1 | 9 | 3.1K | 11.5K |
| 105 | Tissue Barriers | 1 | 9 | 64 | 382 |
| 108 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 1 | 8 | 550 | 2.5K |
| 108 | Dairy Science and Technology | 1 | 8 | 65 | 186 |
| 110 | Antibiotics | 1 | 6 | 2.7K | 7.9K |
| 111 | Mathematics and Visualization | 1 | 5 | 134 | 188 |
| 112 | Journal of Natural Products | 1 | 4 | 3.8K | 9.0K |
| 113 | Cell and Molecular Response To Stress | 1 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
| 113 | MicroLife | 1 | 3 | 5 | 71 |
| 115 | Japanese Journal of Lactic Acid Bacteria | 1 | 1 | 15 | 19 |
| 115 | Bio-protocol | 1 | 1 | 666 | 3.7K |
| 115 | Springer Protocols | 1 | 1 | 107 | 373 |
