| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature | 11 | 24,138 | 872 | 207 |
| 2 | Science | 10 | 12,305 | 715 | 250 |
| 3 | Nucleic Acids Research | 18 | 5,615 | 214 | 441 |
| 4 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 15 | 5,094 | 672 | 319 |
| 5 | Journal of Bacteriology | 20 | 3,165 | 112 | 24 |
| 6 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 3 | 2,974 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | Nature Biotechnology | 6 | 2,532 | 157 | 565 |
| 8 | Environmental Microbiology | 12 | 1,920 | 99 | 47 |
| 9 | Microbiological Reviews | 2 | 1,637 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 10 | 1,595 | 521 | 284 |
| 11 | PLoS Biology | 4 | 1,173 | 127 | 232 |
| 12 | Genome Research | 3 | 905 | 791 | 623 |
| 13 | PLoS ONE | 17 | 782 | 835 | 2.2K |
| 13 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 5 | 782 | 419 | 37 |
| 15 | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 7 | 704 | 953 | 575 |
| 16 | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 6 | 694 | 183 | 111 |
| 17 | Molecular Microbiology | 3 | 640 | 1.5K | 523 |
| 18 | PLoS Genetics | 2 | 627 | 3.5K | 1.1K |
| 19 | Journal of Molecular Biology | 2 | 554 | 3.8K | 974 |
| 20 | Briefings in Bioinformatics | 1 | 551 | 1.3K | 109 |
| 21 | Journal of Membrane Biology | 2 | 508 | 315 | 33 |
| 22 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 12 | 466 | 160 | 636 |
| 23 | Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology | 6 | 444 | 9 | 23 |
| 24 | FASEB Journal | 2 | 394 | 10.2K | 1.1K |
| 25 | ISME Journal | 5 | 392 | 356 | 1.1K |
| 26 | BMC Genomics | 3 | 378 | 1.9K | 805 |
| 27 | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 3 | 355 | 15.1K | 11.1K |
| 28 | PLoS Pathogens | 1 | 335 | 8.2K | 1.8K |
| 29 | Current Opinion in Cell Biology | 1 | 333 | 613 | 379 |
| 30 | Molecules | 2 | 295 | 11.1K | 1.1K |
| 31 | Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology | 1 | 288 | 509 | 139 |
| 31 | Genome Biology | 1 | 288 | 1.0K | 1.1K |
| 33 | Gene | 4 | 244 | 578 | 532 |
| 34 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 1 | 228 | 432 | 1.5K |
| 35 | MBio | 4 | 222 | 538 | 1.2K |
| 36 | BBA - Biomembranes | 1 | 207 | 11 | 64 |
| 37 | FEBS Letters | 1 | 203 | 8.7K | 2.6K |
| 38 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2 | 196 | 176 | 454 |
| 39 | Npj Biofilms and Microbiomes | 2 | 190 | 22 | 38 |
| 40 | Research in Microbiology | 4 | 178 | 69 | 193 |
| 41 | EcoSal Plus | 2 | 176 | 3 | 11 |
| 42 | Genes | 2 | 160 | 1.3K | 188 |
| 43 | Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy | 1 | 150 | 576 | 162 |
| 44 | Journal of Medical Microbiology | 1 | 147 | 1.8K | 414 |
| 45 | BMC Microbiology | 2 | 146 | 500 | 674 |
| 46 | Microbial Biotechnology | 2 | 144 | 227 | 240 |
| 47 | PLoS Computational Biology | 1 | 141 | 5.0K | 2.6K |
| 48 | Medical Mycology | 1 | 140 | 1.0K | 311 |
| 49 | Trends in Biochemical Sciences | 1 | 131 | 713 | 1.5K |
| 50 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 3 | 128 | 1.7K | 2.2K |
| 51 | Phytopathology | 1 | 115 | 1.4K | 772 |
| 52 | Nature Communications | 4 | 104 | 7.6K | 64.5K |
| 53 | Marine Drugs | 1 | 101 | 3.3K | 1.6K |
| 54 | Infection and Immunity | 1 | 100 | 5.1K | 4.3K |
| 54 | Scientific Data | 2 | 100 | 444 | 2.0K |
| 56 | Fungal Genetics and Biology | 1 | 99 | 1.0K | 736 |
| 57 | Analytical Chemistry | 3 | 94 | 5.7K | 11.3K |
| 58 | Trends in Biotechnology | 1 | 90 | 732 | 1.9K |
| 59 | Frontiers in Plant Science | 2 | 89 | 5.7K | 6.7K |
| 60 | Current Drug Targets | 1 | 87 | 572 | 454 |
| 61 | International Journal of Coal Geology | 3 | 86 | 288 | 684 |
| 61 | BMC Biology | 1 | 86 | 706 | 1.5K |
| 63 | Anthropocene | 1 | 83 | 83 | 92 |
| 64 | Chemical Reviews | 1 | 78 | 1.7K | 9.5K |
| 65 | Scientific Reports | 4 | 61 | 14.7K | 64.7K |
| 66 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 1 | 50 | 5.3K | 7.3K |
| 67 | Microbial Ecology | 4 | 48 | 191 | 2.3K |
| 68 | Biology Letters | 1 | 45 | 1.7K | 2.6K |
| 68 | Plasmid | 1 | 45 | 332 | 370 |
| 68 | ELife | 1 | 45 | 10.2K | 22.2K |
| 71 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 3 | 44 | 659 | 3.4K |
| 72 | Methods in Molecular Biology | 3 | 43 | 2.2K | 4.2K |
| 72 | Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 43 | 5.2K | 4.0K |
| 74 | BMC Systems Biology | 1 | 42 | 743 | 1.3K |
| 75 | Veterinary Microbiology | 1 | 40 | 2.9K | 3.0K |
| 76 | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 1 | 38 | 7.0K | 10.8K |
| 76 | Environmental Pollution | 1 | 38 | 8.8K | 13.0K |
| 78 | Bioinformatics | 1 | 36 | 6.8K | 10.2K |
| 79 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 1 | 35 | 38.5K | 34.9K |
| 80 | Vaccine Journal | 1 | 34 | 1.0K | 1.9K |
| 81 | IScience | 1 | 32 | 1.4K | 3.6K |
| 81 | Synthetic Biology | 1 | 32 | 42 | 69 |
| 83 | Biotechnology for Biofuels | 2 | 31 | 741 | 3.2K |
| 84 | ACS Infectious Diseases | 2 | 30 | 394 | 1.5K |
| 84 | MSystems | 1 | 30 | 958 | 1.8K |
| 86 | EBioMedicine | 1 | 29 | 2.2K | 8.5K |
| 87 | Journal of Proteome Research | 1 | 28 | 4.4K | 8.4K |
| 88 | Genome Announcements | 2 | 26 | 1.7K | 1.6K |
| 88 | Fungal Ecology | 1 | 26 | 460 | 805 |
| 90 | Gut Microbes | 1 | 25 | 641 | 2.3K |
| 91 | Ecology Letters | 1 | 21 | 2.6K | 6.8K |
| 91 | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | 1 | 21 | 2.3K | 5.3K |
| 93 | Oikos | 1 | 19 | 2.3K | 4.9K |
| 94 | Biochemical Journal | 1 | 18 | 5.3K | 12.5K |
| 94 | ACS Synthetic Biology | 2 | 18 | 627 | 2.9K |
| 96 | Communications Biology | 1 | 17 | 1.5K | 8.9K |
| 97 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 1 | 16 | 3.0K | 6.8K |
| 97 | Proteomics - Clinical Applications | 1 | 16 | 574 | 1.4K |
| 97 | Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology | 1 | 16 | 125 | 317 |
| 100 | Microbial Drug Resistance | 1 | 15 | 851 | 1.8K |
| 101 | New Biotechnology | 1 | 14 | 631 | 1.6K |
| 101 | Mobile Genetic Elements | 1 | 14 | 34 | 167 |
| 103 | Microbial Genomics | 2 | 11 | 261 | 1.6K |
| 104 | Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology | 1 | 10 | 5 | 66 |
| 104 | FEMS Yeast Research | 1 | 10 | 833 | 2.1K |
| 106 | Biochemical Society Transactions | 1 | 6 | 1.9K | 6.6K |
| 106 | Protein Expression and Purification | 1 | 6 | 1.1K | 4.4K |
| 106 | Intensive Care Medicine Experimental | 1 | 6 | 277 | 844 |
| 109 | Frontiers in Pharmacology | 1 | 5 | 7.2K | 23.9K |
| 109 | Proteomics | 1 | 5 | 2.8K | 9.2K |
| 109 | Microorganisms | 1 | 5 | 4.4K | 15.3K |
| 109 | Acta Crystallographica Section F, Structural Biology Communications | 1 | 5 | 531 | 1.1K |
| 109 | Comparative and Functional Genomics | 1 | 5 | 53 | 415 |
| 114 | Trends in Genetics | 1 | 3 | 614 | 3.7K |
| 114 | Microbiology Resource Announcements | 2 | 3 | 828 | 3.2K |
