| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 6 | 6,795 | 21 | 6 |
| 2 | Science | 10 | 6,486 | 715 | 911 |
| 3 | Cell | 4 | 4,364 | 1.8K | 874 |
| 4 | Nucleic Acids Research | 15 | 4,245 | 330 | 646 |
| 5 | Biology Direct | 16 | 3,320 | 4 | 3 |
| 6 | Nature | 4 | 2,582 | 6.2K | 7.7K |
| 7 | Journal of Bacteriology | 9 | 1,800 | 496 | 102 |
| 8 | Molecular Cell | 4 | 1,797 | 822 | 333 |
| 9 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 9 | 1,625 | 2.1K | 3.3K |
| 10 | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2 | 1,280 | 13 | 22 |
| 11 | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2 | 1,116 | 176 | 12 |
| 12 | Nature Microbiology | 5 | 622 | 34 | 349 |
| 13 | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 1 | 619 | 120 | 223 |
| 14 | Nature Communications | 4 | 447 | 7.6K | 13.3K |
| 15 | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 4 | 411 | 25 | 335 |
| 16 | Nature Structural and Molecular Biology | 1 | 400 | 2.1K | 945 |
| 17 | MBio | 7 | 333 | 157 | 611 |
| 18 | Methods in Molecular Biology | 1 | 304 | 12.7K | 192 |
| 19 | CRISPR Journal | 5 | 300 | 2 | 5 |
| 20 | PLoS ONE | 2 | 263 | 49.2K | 19.8K |
| 21 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 3 | 259 | 305 | 267 |
| 22 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 258 | 2.6K | 1.4K |
| 23 | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2 | 247 | 22.4K | 16.3K |
| 24 | Life | 1 | 216 | 1.3K | 11 |
| 25 | RNA Biology | 2 | 203 | 285 | 161 |
| 26 | Biochemical Society Transactions | 2 | 192 | 829 | 208 |
| 27 | Briefings in Bioinformatics | 1 | 186 | 1.3K | 480 |
| 28 | Protein Science | 2 | 179 | 1.1K | 871 |
| 29 | Genome Biology and Evolution | 3 | 174 | 358 | 422 |
| 30 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2 | 172 | 1.6K | 1.9K |
| 31 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 3 | 170 | 4.0K | 3.5K |
| 32 | Frontiers in Genetics | 1 | 164 | 4.0K | 424 |
| 33 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 1 | 159 | 432 | 1.8K |
| 34 | BMC Biology | 1 | 156 | 706 | 635 |
| 35 | Genome Biology | 2 | 149 | 383 | 2.1K |
| 36 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2 | 138 | 4.8K | 6.1K |
| 37 | Bioinformatics | 2 | 132 | 3.5K | 4.7K |
| 38 | EMBO Reports | 1 | 121 | 1.6K | 1.9K |
| 39 | Genome Research | 1 | 110 | 3.1K | 6.0K |
| 40 | Genome Biology | 1 | 104 | 2.1K | 3.8K |
| 41 | F1000 Biology Reports | 1 | 87 | 5 | 14 |
| 42 | Nature Biotechnology | 1 | 86 | 2.8K | 9.5K |
| 43 | Virology | 1 | 81 | 3.7K | 3.0K |
| 44 | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 1 | 78 | 2.8K | 2.1K |
| 45 | Trends in Genetics | 1 | 74 | 614 | 1.9K |
| 46 | Journal of Molecular Biology | 1 | 73 | 6.9K | 8.0K |
| 47 | Trends in Biochemical Sciences | 1 | 70 | 713 | 2.3K |
| 47 | Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology | 1 | 70 | 187 | 1.3K |
| 49 | Extremophiles | 2 | 68 | 299 | 535 |
| 50 | Cell Reports | 1 | 64 | 10.0K | 19.2K |
| 51 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 3 | 58 | 985 | 3.0K |
| 52 | PLoS Biology | 1 | 47 | 2.5K | 11.0K |
| 53 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1 | 46 | 794 | 1.3K |
| 54 | Environmental Microbiology | 1 | 38 | 3.7K | 6.5K |
| 54 | Genetica | 1 | 38 | 534 | 712 |
| 56 | ACS Chemical Biology | 1 | 33 | 2.4K | 4.7K |
| 56 | Trends in Microbiology | 1 | 33 | 677 | 2.7K |
| 58 | Archaea | 1 | 26 | 84 | 234 |
| 59 | Research in Microbiology | 1 | 22 | 689 | 2.1K |
| 60 | Frontiers in Plant Science | 1 | 21 | 11.6K | 19.4K |
| 60 | Nature Protocols | 1 | 21 | 1.1K | 8.1K |
| 62 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 1 | 20 | 33.8K | 64.7K |
| 63 | Journal of Physiology | 1 | 11 | 5.2K | 11.6K |
| 63 | Biochimie | 1 | 11 | 1.8K | 6.1K |
| 65 | Standards in Genomic Sciences | 1 | 10 | 374 | 956 |
| 66 | Genes | 1 | 8 | 4.0K | 12.5K |
| 67 | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal | 1 | 2 | 623 | 4.6K |
