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Impact factor
6.1
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
ISME Communications
ISME COMMUN

Most cited in 5 years

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Top-100

Citing journals

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Frontiers in Microbiology
259 citations, 3.11%
Science of the Total Environment
227 citations, 2.73%
Water Research
152 citations, 1.83%
Microorganisms
132 citations, 1.59%
Journal of Hazardous Materials
125 citations, 1.5%
Nature Communications
123 citations, 1.48%
Applied Soil Ecology
119 citations, 1.43%
Scientific Reports
116 citations, 1.39%
Microbiome
94 citations, 1.13%
Frontiers in Marine Science
94 citations, 1.13%
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
94 citations, 1.13%
Environmental Science & Technology
92 citations, 1.11%
Microbiology spectrum
85 citations, 1.02%
Environmental Microbiology
84 citations, 1.01%
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
84 citations, 1.01%
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
78 citations, 0.94%
mSystems
77 citations, 0.93%
Journal of Environmental Management
77 citations, 0.93%
Environmental Research
70 citations, 0.84%
ISME Communications
70 citations, 0.84%
Environmental Microbiomes
69 citations, 0.83%
Plant and Soil
68 citations, 0.82%
ISME Journal
67 citations, 0.81%
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
53 citations, 0.64%
Chemical Engineering Journal
52 citations, 0.63%
Trends in Microbiology
49 citations, 0.59%
Environmental Microbiology Reports
47 citations, 0.57%
PLoS ONE
45 citations, 0.54%
Limnology and Oceanography
44 citations, 0.53%
mBio
40 citations, 0.48%
Global Change Biology
39 citations, 0.47%
Bioresource Technology
39 citations, 0.47%
Frontiers in Plant Science
38 citations, 0.46%
Geoderma
38 citations, 0.46%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
37 citations, 0.44%
Systematic and Applied Microbiology
36 citations, 0.43%
bioRxiv
36 citations, 0.43%
Nature Microbiology
35 citations, 0.42%
Microbial Ecology
34 citations, 0.41%
Marine Pollution Bulletin
33 citations, 0.4%
Communications Biology
33 citations, 0.4%
Environmental Pollution
33 citations, 0.4%
Agronomy
31 citations, 0.37%
BMC Microbiology
30 citations, 0.36%
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
30 citations, 0.36%
Catena
30 citations, 0.36%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
30 citations, 0.36%
Molecular Ecology
29 citations, 0.35%
Microbiological Research
28 citations, 0.34%
Nature Reviews Microbiology
28 citations, 0.34%
Plants
27 citations, 0.32%
Chemosphere
27 citations, 0.32%
Current Opinion in Microbiology
26 citations, 0.31%
mSphere
25 citations, 0.3%
Environmental International
25 citations, 0.3%
Biogeosciences
25 citations, 0.3%
Land Degradation and Development
25 citations, 0.3%
Microbial genomics
25 citations, 0.3%
Marine Environmental Research
24 citations, 0.29%
Forests
24 citations, 0.29%
Gut Microbes
23 citations, 0.28%
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
23 citations, 0.28%
Animal Microbiome
23 citations, 0.28%
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
22 citations, 0.26%
Communications Earth & Environment
22 citations, 0.26%
New Phytologist
21 citations, 0.25%
PeerJ
20 citations, 0.24%
Journal of Water Process Engineering
20 citations, 0.24%
Aquaculture
19 citations, 0.23%
Biology and Fertility of Soils
19 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
19 citations, 0.23%
Soil Ecology Letters
19 citations, 0.23%
Nature
18 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
18 citations, 0.22%
Scientific data
17 citations, 0.2%
Diversity
17 citations, 0.2%
Ecology and Evolution
16 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Environmental Sciences
16 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
16 citations, 0.19%
Water (Switzerland)
16 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Fungi
15 citations, 0.18%
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
15 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Applied Microbiology
15 citations, 0.18%
Harmful Algae
15 citations, 0.18%
Phytobiomes Journal
15 citations, 0.18%
Heliyon
15 citations, 0.18%
Science advances
15 citations, 0.18%
Algal Research
15 citations, 0.18%
Life
15 citations, 0.18%
Viruses
14 citations, 0.17%
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
14 citations, 0.17%
Ecological Indicators
14 citations, 0.17%
Soil and Tillage Research
14 citations, 0.17%
Current Microbiology
14 citations, 0.17%
Cell Host and Microbe
14 citations, 0.17%
iMeta
14 citations, 0.17%
Rhizosphere
13 citations, 0.16%
iScience
13 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Phycology
13 citations, 0.16%
Molecular Ecology Resources
13 citations, 0.16%
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Elsevier
2436 citations, 29.29%
Springer Nature
1492 citations, 17.94%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
779 citations, 9.37%
Wiley
746 citations, 8.97%
MDPI
569 citations, 6.84%
Frontiers Media S.A.
506 citations, 6.08%
American Society for Microbiology
365 citations, 4.39%
Oxford University Press
280 citations, 3.37%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
166 citations, 2%
Taylor & Francis
95 citations, 1.14%
Microbiology Society
88 citations, 1.06%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
66 citations, 0.79%
American Geophysical Union
45 citations, 0.54%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
38 citations, 0.46%
Copernicus
36 citations, 0.43%
Annual Reviews
32 citations, 0.38%
Research Square Platform LLC
30 citations, 0.36%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
28 citations, 0.34%
The Royal Society
26 citations, 0.31%
Scientific Societies
23 citations, 0.28%
PeerJ
22 citations, 0.26%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
20 citations, 0.24%
Inter-Research Science Center
13 citations, 0.16%
Cambridge University Press
12 citations, 0.14%
Pensoft Publishers
12 citations, 0.14%
OAE Publishing Inc.
10 citations, 0.12%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
8 citations, 0.1%
The Company of Biologists
7 citations, 0.08%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
6 citations, 0.07%
eLife Sciences Publications
6 citations, 0.07%
Canadian Science Publishing
6 citations, 0.07%
BMJ
6 citations, 0.07%
American Dairy Science Association
6 citations, 0.07%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
5 citations, 0.06%
Mary Ann Liebert
5 citations, 0.06%
IWA Publishing
5 citations, 0.06%
Science in China Press
5 citations, 0.06%
SAGE
4 citations, 0.05%
IOP Publishing
4 citations, 0.05%
American Society for Nutrition
4 citations, 0.05%
F1000 Research
4 citations, 0.05%
IntechOpen
4 citations, 0.05%
AIP Publishing
3 citations, 0.04%
Optica Publishing Group
3 citations, 0.04%
Portland Press
3 citations, 0.04%
American Physical Society (APS)
3 citations, 0.04%
Water Environment Federation
3 citations, 0.04%
Walter de Gruyter
2 citations, 0.02%
Pleiades Publishing
2 citations, 0.02%
Medpharm Publications Ltd.
2 citations, 0.02%
American Physiological Society
2 citations, 0.02%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
2 citations, 0.02%
Spandidos Publications
2 citations, 0.02%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2 citations, 0.02%
Veterinary World
2 citations, 0.02%
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
2 citations, 0.02%
Hindawi Limited
2 citations, 0.02%
S. Karger AG
2 citations, 0.02%
JMIR Publications
2 citations, 0.02%
PAGEPress Publications
2 citations, 0.02%
Baishideng Publishing Group
2 citations, 0.02%
Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
2 citations, 0.02%
Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology
2 citations, 0.02%
IMR Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Rockefeller University Press
1 citation, 0.01%
IOS Press
1 citation, 0.01%
EDP Sciences
1 citation, 0.01%
University of California Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
1 citation, 0.01%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
1 citation, 0.01%
American Society for Clinical Investigation
1 citation, 0.01%
Magnolia Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1 citation, 0.01%
Edizioni Minerva Medica
1 citation, 0.01%
Japanese Society Of Microbial Ecology
1 citation, 0.01%
Zhejiang University Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
1 citation, 0.01%
Tsinghua University Press
1 citation, 0.01%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
1 citation, 0.01%
The Endocrine Society
1 citation, 0.01%
American Medical Association (AMA)
1 citation, 0.01%
Mineralogical Society of America
1 citation, 0.01%
Japanese Society of Limnology
1 citation, 0.01%
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
1 citation, 0.01%
Entomological Society of America
1 citation, 0.01%
Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
1 citation, 0.01%
Zoological Society of Japan
1 citation, 0.01%
Korean Society of Mycology
1 citation, 0.01%
Han-Gug Misaengmul Hag-hoe/The Microbiological Society of Korea
1 citation, 0.01%
Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
1 citation, 0.01%
Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz
1 citation, 0.01%
The Electrochemical Society
1 citation, 0.01%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
1 citation, 0.01%
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
1 citation, 0.01%
Akademiai Kiado
1 citation, 0.01%
CSIRO Publishing
1 citation, 0.01%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
1 citation, 0.01%
SciELO
1 citation, 0.01%
FARC of the North-East named N.V. Rudnitskogo
1 citation, 0.01%
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing
1 citation, 0.01%
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
34 publications, 4.67%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
26 publications, 3.57%
ETH Zurich
21 publications, 2.88%
University of California, Berkeley
21 publications, 2.88%
University of Queensland
20 publications, 2.75%
Sorbonne University
18 publications, 2.47%
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
18 publications, 2.47%
Joint Genome Institute
17 publications, 2.34%
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
16 publications, 2.2%
University of Copenhagen
16 publications, 2.2%
University of Vienna
15 publications, 2.06%
University of Southern California
14 publications, 1.92%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14 publications, 1.92%
Stanford University
14 publications, 1.92%
Kyoto University
14 publications, 1.92%
Université Paris-Saclay
14 publications, 1.92%
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
14 publications, 1.92%
University of Georgia
13 publications, 1.79%
Xiamen University
12 publications, 1.65%
University of California, San Diego
12 publications, 1.65%
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
12 publications, 1.65%
University of Bremen
12 publications, 1.65%
Utrecht University
11 publications, 1.51%
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
11 publications, 1.51%
Wageningen University and Research Centre
11 publications, 1.51%
Université Laval
11 publications, 1.51%
China Agricultural University
10 publications, 1.37%
Technical University of Denmark
10 publications, 1.37%
Cornell University
10 publications, 1.37%
Oregon State University
10 publications, 1.37%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
10 publications, 1.37%
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
10 publications, 1.37%
University of Montpellier
10 publications, 1.37%
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10 publications, 1.37%
University of Helsinki
9 publications, 1.24%
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
9 publications, 1.24%
University of Washington
9 publications, 1.24%
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
9 publications, 1.24%
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9 publications, 1.24%
Leiden University
9 publications, 1.24%
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
8 publications, 1.1%
University of Oxford
8 publications, 1.1%
Queensland University of Technology
8 publications, 1.1%
University of California, Santa Cruz
8 publications, 1.1%
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
8 publications, 1.1%
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
8 publications, 1.1%
University of Texas at Austin
8 publications, 1.1%
University of Göttingen
8 publications, 1.1%
University of East Anglia
8 publications, 1.1%
Institut de Ciències del Mar
8 publications, 1.1%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8 publications, 1.1%
Paris Sciences et Lettres
8 publications, 1.1%
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
8 publications, 1.1%
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
8 publications, 1.1%
Aix-Marseille University
7 publications, 0.96%
Aarhus University
7 publications, 0.96%
Pennsylvania State University
7 publications, 0.96%
University of Melbourne
7 publications, 0.96%
Translational Research Institute
7 publications, 0.96%
Dalhousie University
7 publications, 0.96%
North Carolina State University
7 publications, 0.96%
Ohio State University
7 publications, 0.96%
University of Arizona
7 publications, 0.96%
University of California, Riverside
7 publications, 0.96%
Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity
7 publications, 0.96%
Paris Cité University
7 publications, 0.96%
University of Waterloo
7 publications, 0.96%
University of Minnesota
7 publications, 0.96%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
7 publications, 0.96%
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
7 publications, 0.96%
University of Tennessee
7 publications, 0.96%
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
7 publications, 0.96%
Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 publications, 0.96%
University of Tübingen
6 publications, 0.82%
Zhejiang University
6 publications, 0.82%
Ghent University
6 publications, 0.82%
Technical University of Munich
6 publications, 0.82%
Radboud University Nijmegen
6 publications, 0.82%
Free University of Berlin
6 publications, 0.82%
Stockholm University
6 publications, 0.82%
Delft University of Technology
6 publications, 0.82%
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Technology Sydney
6 publications, 0.82%
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
6 publications, 0.82%
Georgia Institute of technology
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Auckland
6 publications, 0.82%
Australian Institute of Marine Science
6 publications, 0.82%
Princeton University
6 publications, 0.82%
Harvard University
6 publications, 0.82%
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
6 publications, 0.82%
Ruhr University Bochum
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Greifswald
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Potsdam
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Innsbruck
6 publications, 0.82%
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Toronto
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Calgary
6 publications, 0.82%
University of Exeter
6 publications, 0.82%
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
6 publications, 0.82%
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
6 publications, 0.82%
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USA, 209, 28.71%
USA
209 publications, 28.71%
China, 104, 14.29%
China
104 publications, 14.29%
Germany, 86, 11.81%
Germany
86 publications, 11.81%
United Kingdom, 58, 7.97%
United Kingdom
58 publications, 7.97%
Australia, 44, 6.04%
Australia
44 publications, 6.04%
Canada, 44, 6.04%
Canada
44 publications, 6.04%
France, 43, 5.91%
France
43 publications, 5.91%
Netherlands, 33, 4.53%
Netherlands
33 publications, 4.53%
Switzerland, 32, 4.4%
Switzerland
32 publications, 4.4%
Denmark, 28, 3.85%
Denmark
28 publications, 3.85%
Japan, 25, 3.43%
Japan
25 publications, 3.43%
Spain, 19, 2.61%
Spain
19 publications, 2.61%
Norway, 19, 2.61%
Norway
19 publications, 2.61%
Sweden, 16, 2.2%
Sweden
16 publications, 2.2%
Austria, 14, 1.92%
Austria
14 publications, 1.92%
Belgium, 13, 1.79%
Belgium
13 publications, 1.79%
Israel, 12, 1.65%
Israel
12 publications, 1.65%
New Zealand, 12, 1.65%
New Zealand
12 publications, 1.65%
Finland, 11, 1.51%
Finland
11 publications, 1.51%
Italy, 10, 1.37%
Italy
10 publications, 1.37%
Portugal, 6, 0.82%
Portugal
6 publications, 0.82%
Saudi Arabia, 6, 0.82%
Saudi Arabia
6 publications, 0.82%
Mexico, 4, 0.55%
Mexico
4 publications, 0.55%
Russia, 3, 0.41%
Russia
3 publications, 0.41%
Estonia, 3, 0.41%
Estonia
3 publications, 0.41%
India, 3, 0.41%
India
3 publications, 0.41%
Ireland, 3, 0.41%
Ireland
3 publications, 0.41%
Colombia, 3, 0.41%
Colombia
3 publications, 0.41%
Luxembourg, 3, 0.41%
Luxembourg
3 publications, 0.41%
Singapore, 3, 0.41%
Singapore
3 publications, 0.41%
Chile, 3, 0.41%
Chile
3 publications, 0.41%
Bermuda, 2, 0.27%
Bermuda
2 publications, 0.27%
Brazil, 2, 0.27%
Brazil
2 publications, 0.27%
Greece, 2, 0.27%
Greece
2 publications, 0.27%
Iceland, 2, 0.27%
Iceland
2 publications, 0.27%
Lithuania, 2, 0.27%
Lithuania
2 publications, 0.27%
Malaysia, 2, 0.27%
Malaysia
2 publications, 0.27%
Panama, 2, 0.27%
Panama
2 publications, 0.27%
Poland, 2, 0.27%
Poland
2 publications, 0.27%
Slovenia, 2, 0.27%
Slovenia
2 publications, 0.27%
Thailand, 2, 0.27%
Thailand
2 publications, 0.27%
Turkey, 2, 0.27%
Turkey
2 publications, 0.27%
Czech Republic, 2, 0.27%
Czech Republic
2 publications, 0.27%
South Africa, 2, 0.27%
South Africa
2 publications, 0.27%
Hungary, 1, 0.14%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.14%
Egypt, 1, 0.14%
Egypt
1 publication, 0.14%
Indonesia, 1, 0.14%
Indonesia
1 publication, 0.14%
Cambodia, 1, 0.14%
Cambodia
1 publication, 0.14%
Côte d'Ivoire, 1, 0.14%
Côte d'Ivoire
1 publication, 0.14%
Mauritania, 1, 0.14%
Mauritania
1 publication, 0.14%
Madagascar, 1, 0.14%
Madagascar
1 publication, 0.14%
Morocco, 1, 0.14%
Morocco
1 publication, 0.14%
Mozambique, 1, 0.14%
Mozambique
1 publication, 0.14%
Namibia, 1, 0.14%
Namibia
1 publication, 0.14%
Oman, 1, 0.14%
Oman
1 publication, 0.14%
Pakistan, 1, 0.14%
Pakistan
1 publication, 0.14%
Puerto Rico, 1, 0.14%
Puerto Rico
1 publication, 0.14%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.14%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.14%
Tanzania, 1, 0.14%
Tanzania
1 publication, 0.14%
Uruguay, 1, 0.14%
Uruguay
1 publication, 0.14%
Faroe Islands, 1, 0.14%
Faroe Islands
1 publication, 0.14%
Philippines, 1, 0.14%
Philippines
1 publication, 0.14%
Sri Lanka, 1, 0.14%
Sri Lanka
1 publication, 0.14%
Taiwan, 1, 0.14%
Taiwan
1 publication, 0.14%
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