| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature | 27 | 26,795 | 792 | 305 |
| 2 | Nucleic Acids Research | 20 | 14,258 | 474 | 62 |
| 3 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 22 | 12,043 | 341 | 47 |
| 4 | Science | 11 | 8,799 | 1.1K | 561 |
| 5 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 39 | 7,654 | 212 | 4 |
| 6 | Nature Methods | 7 | 7,066 | 202 | 74 |
| 7 | Standards in Genomic Sciences | 285 | 6,855 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 24 | 6,097 | 892 | 573 |
| 9 | Nature Biotechnology | 14 | 5,934 | 142 | 114 |
| 10 | ISME Journal | 49 | 5,152 | 15 | 31 |
| 11 | Environmental Microbiology | 28 | 3,757 | 71 | 24 |
| 12 | PLoS ONE | 37 | 3,591 | 1.8K | 828 |
| 13 | Journal of Bacteriology | 45 | 3,051 | 208 | 189 |
| 14 | Cell | 5 | 2,544 | 531 | 475 |
| 15 | PeerJ | 11 | 2,385 | 420 | 13 |
| 16 | BMC Genomics | 30 | 2,147 | 169 | 103 |
| 17 | Nature Communications | 21 | 1,987 | 907 | 877 |
| 18 | Nature Microbiology | 12 | 1,889 | 58 | 38 |
| 19 | Microbiome | 16 | 1,745 | 27 | 30 |
| 20 | PLoS Biology | 8 | 1,576 | 263 | 182 |
| 21 | New Phytologist | 12 | 1,565 | 401 | 279 |
| 22 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2 | 1,299 | 196 | 169 |
| 23 | Genome Biology | 9 | 1,261 | 103 | 101 |
| 24 | Journal of Computational Biology | 1 | 1,235 | 437 | 17 |
| 25 | Plant Cell | 4 | 1,229 | 378 | 291 |
| 26 | Plant Journal | 11 | 1,184 | 290 | 268 |
| 27 | Genome Biology | 5 | 939 | 264 | 180 |
| 28 | Genome Announcements | 60 | 912 | 9 | 2 |
| 28 | MBio | 14 | 912 | 191 | 141 |
| 30 | Systematic Biology | 3 | 865 | 201 | 94 |
| 31 | BMC Bioinformatics | 8 | 861 | 468 | 205 |
| 32 | PLoS Genetics | 4 | 854 | 701 | 451 |
| 33 | Nature Genetics | 2 | 751 | 1.3K | 1.4K |
| 34 | Photosynthesis Research | 4 | 667 | 243 | 80 |
| 35 | OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology | 3 | 649 | 133 | 11 |
| 36 | Current Biology | 3 | 643 | 770 | 515 |
| 37 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 3 | 618 | 180 | 91 |
| 38 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 3 | 532 | 357 | 124 |
| 39 | Scientific Reports | 17 | 517 | 2.3K | 2.1K |
| 40 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 5 | 515 | 3.5K | 919 |
| 41 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 4 | 511 | 460 | 299 |
| 42 | Genome Biology and Evolution | 3 | 431 | 384 | 109 |
| 43 | Frontiers in Plant Science | 8 | 397 | 676 | 483 |
| 44 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 1 | 361 | 179 | 222 |
| 45 | Extremophiles | 5 | 290 | 104 | 73 |
| 46 | Immunogenetics | 1 | 278 | 620 | 163 |
| 47 | Ecology Letters | 2 | 274 | 550 | 613 |
| 48 | Genes | 4 | 271 | 775 | 136 |
| 49 | Tropical Plant Biology | 1 | 265 | 66 | 16 |
| 50 | Scientific Data | 4 | 257 | 422 | 353 |
| 51 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 4 | 241 | 400 | 342 |
| 52 | PLoS Computational Biology | 3 | 235 | 670 | 507 |
| 53 | ELife | 3 | 231 | 851 | 735 |
| 54 | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology | 4 | 214 | 461 | 219 |
| 55 | GigaScience | 2 | 201 | 244 | 177 |
| 56 | Molecular Ecology | 3 | 193 | 776 | 777 |
| 56 | Green Chemistry | 2 | 193 | 839 | 658 |
| 58 | Molecular Genetics and Genomics | 1 | 184 | 594 | 171 |
| 59 | MSystems | 8 | 176 | 80 | 138 |
| 60 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2 | 175 | 1.5K | 1.2K |
| 61 | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2 | 171 | 773 | 701 |
| 61 | ACS Synthetic Biology | 3 | 171 | 210 | 126 |
| 63 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1 | 169 | 761 | 587 |
| 64 | Genetics | 4 | 163 | 535 | 667 |
| 64 | Plant Genome | 3 | 163 | 58 | 50 |
| 66 | Genome Research | 2 | 157 | 467 | 610 |
| 67 | Cell Host and Microbe | 2 | 154 | 333 | 513 |
| 68 | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 1 | 149 | 276 | 274 |
| 69 | Biochemical Society Transactions | 2 | 148 | 850 | 387 |
| 69 | ACS Chemical Biology | 4 | 148 | 300 | 319 |
| 71 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 4 | 146 | 377 | 475 |
| 72 | BMC Microbiology | 1 | 145 | 1.0K | 440 |
| 72 | Trends in Plant Science | 1 | 145 | 451 | 444 |
| 74 | Eukaryotic Cell | 1 | 143 | 416 | 291 |
| 75 | Microbial Cell Factories | 4 | 142 | 194 | 240 |
| 76 | Chemico-Biological Interactions | 1 | 140 | 1.1K | 466 |
| 77 | Molecular Systems Biology | 1 | 139 | 253 | 251 |
| 78 | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 7 | 135 | 397 | 690 |
| 79 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 130 | 521 | 717 |
| 80 | Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics | 8 | 127 | 32 | 28 |
| 81 | Development Genes and Evolution | 1 | 124 | 326 | 130 |
| 82 | MSphere | 4 | 122 | 198 | 206 |
| 83 | Trends in Genetics | 1 | 117 | 448 | 450 |
| 84 | Phytopathology | 3 | 115 | 160 | 136 |
| 84 | Nature Protocols | 1 | 115 | 599 | 662 |
| 86 | G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics | 3 | 110 | 355 | 267 |
| 87 | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 3 | 108 | 206 | 280 |
| 88 | Trends in Microbiology | 1 | 105 | 486 | 486 |
| 89 | Human Mutation | 2 | 102 | 942 | 1.0K |
| 90 | American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics | 1 | 100 | 189 | 101 |
| 91 | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 1 | 99 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 92 | International Journal of Astrobiology | 2 | 98 | 106 | 56 |
| 93 | Methods in Molecular Biology | 10 | 95 | 878 | 890 |
| 94 | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2 | 89 | 2.2K | 2.5K |
| 95 | Journal of Biotechnology | 1 | 88 | 1.1K | 658 |
| 96 | Environmental Science & Technology | 2 | 87 | 1.4K | 1.7K |
| 96 | Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek | 3 | 87 | 414 | 412 |
| 98 | Microbiology Resource Announcements | 16 | 86 | 46 | 22 |
| 99 | Mammalian Genome | 2 | 84 | 366 | 322 |
| 100 | Biotechnology for Biofuels | 2 | 80 | 289 | 407 |
| 100 | Current Opinion in Virology | 2 | 80 | 124 | 167 |
| 102 | BMC Plant Biology | 1 | 77 | 832 | 651 |
| 102 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 12 | 77 | 35 | 609 |
| 104 | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1 | 76 | 925 | 902 |
| 105 | Communications Biology | 3 | 74 | 630 | 640 |
| 105 | Horticulture Research | 3 | 74 | 112 | 143 |
| 107 | Molecular Cell | 2 | 71 | 605 | 1.0K |
| 108 | Metabolic Engineering | 1 | 70 | 270 | 280 |
| 109 | Chemical Engineering Journal | 1 | 69 | 2.0K | 1.9K |
| 110 | Advances in Genetics | 1 | 68 | 125 | 126 |
| 111 | Nature Plants | 2 | 66 | 265 | 548 |
| 111 | Marine Genomics | 2 | 66 | 128 | 84 |
| 113 | Plant Direct | 4 | 65 | 28 | 43 |
| 114 | Journal of Medical Genetics | 1 | 63 | 933 | 930 |
| 115 | Molecular Microbiology | 3 | 62 | 649 | 1.1K |
| 115 | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | 1 | 62 | 379 | 354 |
| 117 | Soil Systems | 1 | 61 | 129 | 38 |
| 118 | Journal of Phycology | 2 | 60 | 569 | 623 |
| 119 | Genomics | 1 | 57 | 1.1K | 923 |
| 119 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 1 | 57 | 458 | 548 |
| 119 | Fungal Diversity | 1 | 57 | 227 | 361 |
| 122 | Marine Drugs | 1 | 56 | 1.0K | 858 |
| 122 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 1 | 56 | 140 | 277 |
| 124 | Journal of Biomolecular Techniques | 1 | 53 | 102 | 54 |
| 125 | Conservation Genetics | 1 | 52 | 653 | 452 |
| 126 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1 | 50 | 747 | 785 |
| 126 | PLoS Pathogens | 1 | 50 | 1.2K | 1.4K |
| 128 | Heredity | 2 | 47 | 537 | 751 |
| 128 | Nature Chemical Biology | 1 | 47 | 532 | 773 |
| 128 | DNA Research | 2 | 47 | 129 | 250 |
| 131 | Journal of Microbiology | 1 | 46 | 294 | 249 |
| 132 | European Journal of Immunology | 1 | 44 | 1.1K | 1.1K |
| 132 | Advances in Bioinformatics | 1 | 44 | 33 | 24 |
| 132 | ISME Communications | 3 | 44 | 19 | 27 |
| 135 | Developmental Biology | 1 | 43 | 943 | 1.1K |
| 135 | Human Molecular Genetics | 1 | 43 | 1.4K | 1.7K |
| 137 | Journal of Experimental Biology | 1 | 42 | 1.2K | 1.2K |
| 138 | Cell and Bioscience | 1 | 41 | 255 | 209 |
| 139 | BMC Research Notes | 2 | 39 | 983 | 993 |
| 140 | GCB Bioenergy | 2 | 38 | 159 | 292 |
| 141 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 1 | 37 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 142 | Journal of Visualized Experiments | 2 | 36 | 1.4K | 717 |
| 142 | Geomicrobiology Journal | 1 | 36 | 419 | 375 |
| 144 | Archaea | 1 | 35 | 66 | 88 |
| 144 | Phytobiomes Journal | 2 | 35 | 29 | 41 |
| 146 | Journal of Virology | 1 | 32 | 1.6K | 1.9K |
| 146 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1 | 32 | 1.6K | 1.8K |
| 146 | Bioinformatics | 3 | 32 | 839 | 1.4K |
| 149 | BioTechniques | 1 | 31 | 704 | 647 |
| 150 | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1 | 30 | 778 | 953 |
| 150 | Development (Cambridge) | 1 | 30 | 1.0K | 1.2K |
| 152 | Science of the Total Environment | 1 | 28 | 3.5K | 4.1K |
| 152 | Environmental Pollution | 1 | 28 | 2.0K | 2.5K |
| 154 | Fungal Biology Reviews | 1 | 27 | 57 | 125 |
| 154 | Animal Microbiome | 1 | 27 | 75 | 67 |
| 156 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 26 | 1.3K | 1.7K |
| 157 | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 1 | 24 | 338 | 569 |
| 157 | Molecular Oral Microbiology | 1 | 24 | 107 | 139 |
| 157 | IEEE Life Sciences Letters | 1 | 24 | 10 | 5 |
| 160 | Journal of Comparative Neurology | 1 | 23 | 966 | 1.1K |
| 161 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 1 | 22 | 999 | 1.2K |
| 161 | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 1 | 22 | 1.6K | 2.0K |
| 163 | Biochemical Journal | 1 | 20 | 1.5K | 1.9K |
| 163 | Frontiers in Pharmacology | 1 | 20 | 1.9K | 2.1K |
| 163 | Environmental Microbiomes | 1 | 20 | 36 | 34 |
| 166 | Analytical Chemistry | 2 | 19 | 1.6K | 2.5K |
| 166 | BMC Proceedings | 2 | 19 | 336 | 176 |
| 166 | Microorganisms | 1 | 19 | 1.6K | 1.4K |
| 166 | Yeast | 1 | 19 | 467 | 573 |
| 170 | Computational Biology and Chemistry | 1 | 18 | 472 | 518 |
| 171 | The Journal of Experimental Zoology | 1 | 17 | 693 | 812 |
| 171 | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1 | 17 | 1.1K | 1.5K |
| 171 | Microbial Biotechnology | 1 | 17 | 357 | 567 |
| 174 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 1 | 16 | 337 | 543 |
| 174 | Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography | 1 | 16 | 605 | 688 |
| 176 | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | 1 | 15 | 1.1K | 1.6K |
| 177 | Water Research | 1 | 14 | 1.5K | 2.3K |
| 177 | Fungal Genetics and Biology | 1 | 14 | 424 | 661 |
| 177 | Future Microbiology | 2 | 14 | 215 | 558 |
| 177 | Bioenergy Research | 2 | 14 | 170 | 449 |
| 177 | International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications | 1 | 14 | 149 | 60 |
| 182 | Journal of Molecular Biology | 1 | 13 | 1.2K | 1.6K |
| 182 | Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry | 1 | 13 | 1.1K | 1.3K |
| 182 | Cytogenetic and Genome Research | 1 | 13 | 665 | 804 |
| 182 | Work | 1 | 13 | 828 | 734 |
| 186 | Electrophoresis | 1 | 12 | 1.3K | 1.6K |
| 186 | Nature Structural and Molecular Biology | 1 | 12 | 538 | 878 |
| 186 | AMB Express | 1 | 12 | 408 | 653 |
| 186 | Npj Biofilms and Microbiomes | 1 | 12 | 155 | 312 |
| 190 | Biomolecules | 1 | 11 | 1.5K | 1.9K |
| 190 | Microbiological Research | 1 | 11 | 476 | 875 |
| 190 | Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection | 2 | 11 | 115 | 317 |
| 190 | Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences | 1 | 11 | 866 | 1.2K |
| 194 | Molecules | 1 | 10 | 3.7K | 4.2K |
| 194 | Aquaculture | 1 | 10 | 1.1K | 1.5K |
| 194 | Protein Science | 1 | 10 | 822 | 1.1K |
| 194 | Database: the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation | 1 | 10 | 340 | 558 |
| 194 | Virus Evolution | 2 | 10 | 137 | 336 |
| 194 | Emerging Topics in Life Sciences | 1 | 10 | 82 | 158 |
| 194 | Access Microbiology | 1 | 10 | 242 | 58 |
| 201 | Archives of Microbiology | 1 | 9 | 1.2K | 1.5K |
| 201 | Gut Pathogens | 1 | 9 | 175 | 369 |
| 203 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 2 | 8 | 3.0K | 4.6K |
| 203 | Forests | 1 | 8 | 1.2K | 1.4K |
| 203 | Zoonoses and Public Health | 1 | 8 | 345 | 586 |
| 203 | Current Protocols in Plant Biology | 1 | 8 | 20 | 64 |
| 203 | Statistica Sinica | 1 | 8 | 87 | 92 |
| 208 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1 | 7 | 791 | 1.2K |
| 208 | Molecular Genetics and Metabolism | 1 | 7 | 728 | 1.1K |
| 208 | Functional Plant Biology | 1 | 7 | 424 | 722 |
| 208 | IT - Information Technology | 1 | 7 | 77 | 69 |
| 208 | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance | 1 | 7 | 497 | 839 |
| 208 | Metabolic Engineering Communications | 1 | 7 | 56 | 116 |
| 214 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1 | 6 | 1.6K | 2.1K |
| 214 | Proteomics | 1 | 6 | 1.0K | 1.7K |
| 214 | Genome | 1 | 6 | 425 | 707 |
| 214 | Scanning | 1 | 6 | 369 | 550 |
| 214 | Advances in Marine Genomics | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 219 | Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering | 1 | 5 | 506 | 806 |
| 219 | Microbial Ecology | 1 | 5 | 885 | 1.5K |
| 219 | Astrobiology | 1 | 5 | 471 | 709 |
| 219 | Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models | 1 | 5 | 20 | 29 |
| 223 | Plant Molecular Biology | 1 | 4 | 756 | 1.2K |
| 223 | Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 1 | 4 | 497 | 814 |
| 223 | Handbook of Environmental Chemistry | 1 | 4 | 240 | 309 |
| 226 | BioMed Research International | 1 | 3 | 2.7K | 4.1K |
| 226 | Energies | 1 | 3 | 2.9K | 3.8K |
| 226 | Current Microbiology | 1 | 3 | 1.2K | 1.9K |
| 226 | Viruses | 1 | 3 | 1.5K | 2.3K |
| 226 | Coral Reefs | 1 | 3 | 467 | 731 |
| 231 | Plant, Cell and Environment | 1 | 2 | 767 | 1.2K |
| 231 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education | 1 | 2 | 358 | 646 |
| 231 | Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 1 | 2 | 366 | 676 |
| 231 | Protist | 1 | 2 | 208 | 428 |
| 231 | Synthetic Biology | 1 | 2 | 30 | 81 |
| 231 | Microbiology Monographs | 1 | 2 | 55 | 154 |
| 237 | Sensors | 1 | 1 | 3.4K | 4.8K |
| 237 | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society | 1 | 1 | 672 | 761 |
| 237 | Quarterly Review of Biology | 3 | 1 | 173 | 176 |
| 237 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 1 | 986 | 1.7K |
| 237 | RNA Biology | 1 | 1 | 453 | 840 |
| 242 | Microscopy and Microanalysis | 2 | 0 | 1.2K | 1.8K |
| 242 | Scientific World Journal, The | 1 | 0 | 1.7K | 3.0K |
| 242 | Biological Bulletin | 1 | 0 | 394 | 690 |
| 242 | Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases | 1 | 0 | 638 | 922 |
| 242 | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology | 1 | 0 | 370 | 895 |
| 242 | Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture | 1 | 0 | 231 | 313 |
| 242 | ICSA Book Series in Statistics | 1 | 0 | 70 | 108 |
| 242 | Journal of Student Research | 1 | 0 | 90 | 95 |
