Microbiology journals in Scopus

Scopus journals in the Microbiology category, ranked by their quartile in this category.

Scopus subject areas › Immunology and Microbiology › Microbiology

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194 journals · page 1 of 4 · list date 2026-11-10

JournalWeb of ScienceJCRCategory QDOAJ
Q1Annual Review of Microbiology
United States · ANNUAL REVIEWS · ISSN 0066-4227, 1545-3251
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Antibiotics
Switzerland · MDPI · ISSN 2079-6382
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Biofilm
Netherlands · ELSEVIER · ISSN 2590-2075
ESCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1Biology and Fertility of Soils
Germany · SPRINGER · ISSN 0178-2762, 1432-0789
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1British Journal of Biomedical Science
United Kingdom · FRONTIERS MEDIA SA · ISSN 0967-4845, 2474-0896
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Cell Host and Microbe
United States · CELL PRESS · ISSN 1931-3128, 1934-6069
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Cell Surface
Netherlands · ELSEVIER · ISSN 2468-2330
ESCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1Critical Reviews in Microbiology
United Kingdom · TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 1040-841X, 1549-7828
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Current Opinion in Microbiology
United Kingdom · CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD · ISSN 1369-5274, 1879-0364
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1EcoSal Plus
United States · American Society for Microbiology · ISSN 2324-6200
——Q1—
Q1Emerging Microbes and Infections
United Kingdom · TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 2222-1751
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Engineering Microbiology
Netherlands · KEAI PUBLISHING LTD · ISSN 2097-4280, 2667-3703
ESCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1Environmental Microbiology
United Kingdom · WILEY · ISSN 1462-2912, 1462-2920
SCI-EQ2Q1—
Q1Environmental Microbiome
United Kingdom · BMC · ISSN 2524-6372
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Eurosurveillance
Sweden · EUR CENTRE DIS PREVENTION & CONTROL · ISSN 1025-496X, 1560-7917
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1FEMS Microbiology Reviews
United Kingdom · OXFORD UNIV PRESS · ISSN 0168-6445, 1574-6976
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Switzerland · FRONTIERS MEDIA SA · ISSN 2235-2988
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Frontiers in Microbiology
Switzerland · FRONTIERS MEDIA SA · ISSN 1664-302X
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Fungal Biology Reviews
Netherlands · ELSEVIER SCI LTD · ISSN 1749-4613, 1878-0253
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Fungal Systematics and Evolution
Netherlands · Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute · ISSN 2589-3823, 2589-3831
——Q1—
Q1Gut Microbes
United States · TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC · ISSN 1949-0976, 1949-0984
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1iMeta
United States · WILEY · ISSN 2770-596X, 2770-5986
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1ISME Communications
United Kingdom · OXFORD UNIV PRESS · ISSN 2730-6151
ESCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1ISME Journal
United Kingdom · OXFORD UNIV PRESS · ISSN 1751-7362, 1751-7370
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Journal of Bacteriology
United States · AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY · ISSN 0021-9193, 1098-5530
SCI-EQ2Q1Yes
Q1Journal of Virology
United States · AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY · ISSN 0022-538X, 1098-5514
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1mBio
United States · AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY · ISSN 2150-7511, 2161-2129
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Microbial Genomics
United Kingdom · MICROBIOLOGY SOC · ISSN 2057-5858
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Microbiological Research
Germany · ELSEVIER GMBH · ISSN 0944-5013, 1618-0623
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
United States · AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY · ISSN 1092-2172, 1098-5557
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Microbiology (United Kingdom)
United Kingdom · MICROBIOLOGY SOC · ISSN 1350-0872, 1465-2080
SCI-EQ2Q1Yes
Q1Microbiome
United Kingdom · BMC · ISSN 2049-2618
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Microbiome Research Reports
United States · OAE PUBLISHING INC · ISSN 2771-5965
ESCIQ2Q1—
Q1mLife
China · WILEY · ISSN 2097-1699, 2770-100X
ESCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1Molecular Microbiology
United Kingdom · WILEY · ISSN 0950-382X, 1365-2958
SCI-EQ3Q1—
Q1mSphere
United States · AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY · ISSN 2379-5042
SCI-EQ2Q1Yes
Q1mSystems
United States · AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY · ISSN 2379-5077
SCI-EQ2Q1Yes
Q1Mycology
United Kingdom · TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD · ISSN 2150-1203, 2150-1211
ESCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1Nature Microbiology
United Kingdom · NATURE PORTFOLIO · ISSN 2058-5276
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Nature Reviews Microbiology
United Kingdom · NATURE PORTFOLIO · ISSN 1740-1526, 1740-1534
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
United Kingdom · NATURE PORTFOLIO · ISSN 2055-5008
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1PLOS Pathogens
United States · PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE · ISSN 1553-7366, 1553-7374
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Soil Biology and Biochemistry
United Kingdom · PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD · ISSN 0038-0717
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Stress Biology
Germany · SPRINGERNATURE · ISSN 2731-0450
ESCIQ1Q1Yes
Q1The Lancet Microbe
United Kingdom · ELSEVIER · ISSN 2666-5247
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Trends in Microbiology
United Kingdom · CELL PRESS · ISSN 0966-842X, 1878-4380
SCI-EQ1Q1—
Q1Virulence
United States · TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC · ISSN 2150-5594, 2150-5608
SCI-EQ1Q1Yes
Q1Virus Evolution
United Kingdom · OXFORD UNIV PRESS · ISSN 2057-1577
SCI-EQ2Q1Yes
Q2AIMS Microbiology
United States · AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS · ISSN 2471-1888
ESCIQ1Q2—
Q2Anaerobe
United States · ELSEVIER SCI LTD · ISSN 1075-9964, 1095-8274
SCI-EQ3Q2—

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