Open Access
Open access

Microorganisms

MDPI
MDPI
ISSN: 20762607
SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
4.1
SJR
0.944
CiteScore
7.4
Categories
Microbiology
Microbiology (medical)
Virology
Areas
Immunology and Microbiology
Medicine
Years of issue
2013-2025
journal names
Microorganisms
Publications
14 171
Citations
168 001
h-index
109
Publications
13 052
Citations
164 469
Top-3 citing journals
Microorganisms
Microorganisms (9421 citations)
Frontiers in Microbiology
Frontiers in Microbiology (5961 citations)
Top-3 countries
China (2620 publications)
USA (2217 publications)
Italy (1404 publications)
China (2436 publications)
USA (1975 publications)
Italy (1275 publications)

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Microorganisms
9421 citations, 5.61%
Frontiers in Microbiology
5961 citations, 3.55%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
3472 citations, 2.07%
Antibiotics
2203 citations, 1.31%
Scientific Reports
2157 citations, 1.28%
Foods
1917 citations, 1.14%
Pathogens
1560 citations, 0.93%
Science of the Total Environment
1439 citations, 0.86%
Nutrients
1431 citations, 0.85%
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
1361 citations, 0.81%
Animals
1327 citations, 0.79%
Journal of Fungi
1214 citations, 0.72%
Viruses
1199 citations, 0.71%
Microbiology spectrum
1196 citations, 0.71%
Fermentation
1080 citations, 0.64%
Plants
1051 citations, 0.63%
Frontiers in Immunology
998 citations, 0.59%
PLoS ONE
986 citations, 0.59%
Molecules
978 citations, 0.58%
Frontiers in Plant Science
852 citations, 0.51%
Heliyon
786 citations, 0.47%
Agronomy
725 citations, 0.43%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
699 citations, 0.42%
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
666 citations, 0.4%
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
656 citations, 0.39%
Food Bioscience
637 citations, 0.38%
Food Research International
608 citations, 0.36%
LWT - Food Science and Technology
570 citations, 0.34%
Archives of Microbiology
546 citations, 0.32%
Biology
541 citations, 0.32%
International Journal of Food Microbiology
530 citations, 0.32%
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
525 citations, 0.31%
BMC Microbiology
524 citations, 0.31%
Journal of Applied Microbiology
512 citations, 0.3%
Microbial Pathogenesis
511 citations, 0.3%
Life
510 citations, 0.3%
Biomedicines
509 citations, 0.3%
Frontiers in Nutrition
500 citations, 0.3%
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
498 citations, 0.3%
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
485 citations, 0.29%
Journal of Hazardous Materials
480 citations, 0.29%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
479 citations, 0.29%
Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins
462 citations, 0.27%
Poultry Science
461 citations, 0.27%
Microbiological Research
452 citations, 0.27%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
449 citations, 0.27%
Vaccines
445 citations, 0.26%
Bioresource Technology
439 citations, 0.26%
Sustainability
428 citations, 0.25%
Environmental Research
420 citations, 0.25%
Chemosphere
409 citations, 0.24%
Toxins
400 citations, 0.24%
Aquaculture
398 citations, 0.24%
Agriculture (Switzerland)
396 citations, 0.24%
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
378 citations, 0.22%
Cureus
378 citations, 0.22%
Current Microbiology
377 citations, 0.22%
Gut Microbes
372 citations, 0.22%
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
367 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Clinical Medicine
361 citations, 0.21%
Pharmaceutics
353 citations, 0.21%
Food Microbiology
340 citations, 0.2%
Frontiers in Marine Science
338 citations, 0.2%
Food Control
337 citations, 0.2%
Food and Function
334 citations, 0.2%
Biomolecules
330 citations, 0.2%
Antioxidants
330 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Environmental Management
326 citations, 0.19%
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
318 citations, 0.19%
PeerJ
312 citations, 0.19%
Nature Communications
311 citations, 0.19%
Environmental Microbiology
307 citations, 0.18%
Veterinary Sciences
306 citations, 0.18%
Environmental Pollution
303 citations, 0.18%
Cells
293 citations, 0.17%
Frontiers in Pharmacology
290 citations, 0.17%
Horticulturae
290 citations, 0.17%
Microbial Ecology
288 citations, 0.17%
Marine Drugs
287 citations, 0.17%
Pharmaceuticals
283 citations, 0.17%
Fish and Shellfish Immunology
280 citations, 0.17%
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
276 citations, 0.16%
Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
268 citations, 0.16%
Food Chemistry
265 citations, 0.16%
Diagnostics
263 citations, 0.16%
mSystems
259 citations, 0.15%
Microbial Cell Factories
258 citations, 0.15%
Metabolites
257 citations, 0.15%
mBio
254 citations, 0.15%
Applied Soil Ecology
252 citations, 0.15%
Parasites and Vectors
250 citations, 0.15%
Infection and Drug Resistance
248 citations, 0.15%
Microbiome
240 citations, 0.14%
Plant and Soil
237 citations, 0.14%
Genes
235 citations, 0.14%
Water Research
232 citations, 0.14%
Water (Switzerland)
231 citations, 0.14%
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
225 citations, 0.13%
Processes
223 citations, 0.13%
Microbial Biotechnology
215 citations, 0.13%
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MDPI
42136 citations, 25.08%
Elsevier
37300 citations, 22.2%
Springer Nature
24910 citations, 14.83%
Frontiers Media S.A.
14075 citations, 8.38%
Wiley
9644 citations, 5.74%
Taylor & Francis
4901 citations, 2.92%
American Society for Microbiology
3735 citations, 2.22%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
3673 citations, 2.19%
Oxford University Press
2456 citations, 1.46%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
2005 citations, 1.19%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1551 citations, 0.92%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1112 citations, 0.66%
Microbiology Society
888 citations, 0.53%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
784 citations, 0.47%
Hindawi Limited
644 citations, 0.38%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
566 citations, 0.34%
IntechOpen
558 citations, 0.33%
SAGE
504 citations, 0.3%
Mary Ann Liebert
493 citations, 0.29%
Research Square Platform LLC
490 citations, 0.29%
Pleiades Publishing
454 citations, 0.27%
Scientific Societies
418 citations, 0.25%
PeerJ
357 citations, 0.21%
Walter de Gruyter
354 citations, 0.21%
Baishideng Publishing Group
290 citations, 0.17%
IOP Publishing
283 citations, 0.17%
Cambridge University Press
251 citations, 0.15%
EDP Sciences
243 citations, 0.14%
Veterinary World
225 citations, 0.13%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
211 citations, 0.13%
BMJ
196 citations, 0.12%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
169 citations, 0.1%
Annual Reviews
166 citations, 0.1%
King Saud University
164 citations, 0.1%
SciELO
164 citations, 0.1%
F1000 Research
159 citations, 0.09%
Medknow
136 citations, 0.08%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
128 citations, 0.08%
Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology
124 citations, 0.07%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
114 citations, 0.07%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
114 citations, 0.07%
Canadian Science Publishing
111 citations, 0.07%
AIP Publishing
109 citations, 0.06%
Spandidos Publications
104 citations, 0.06%
103 citations, 0.06%
IWA Publishing
103 citations, 0.06%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
100 citations, 0.06%
OAE Publishing Inc.
96 citations, 0.06%
The Royal Society
94 citations, 0.06%
S. Karger AG
93 citations, 0.06%
International Association for Food Protection
92 citations, 0.05%
IGI Global
91 citations, 0.05%
Portland Press
83 citations, 0.05%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
79 citations, 0.05%
Pensoft Publishers
77 citations, 0.05%
CSIRO Publishing
76 citations, 0.05%
PAGEPress Publications
76 citations, 0.05%
American Dairy Science Association
73 citations, 0.04%
American Physiological Society
72 citations, 0.04%
Korean Society of Food Science and Technology
72 citations, 0.04%
eLife Sciences Publications
71 citations, 0.04%
American Society of Animal Science
63 citations, 0.04%
American Society for Nutrition
61 citations, 0.04%
Akademiai Kiado
60 citations, 0.04%
Tsinghua University Press
59 citations, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
57 citations, 0.03%
IOS Press
54 citations, 0.03%
Central Research Institute for Epidemiology
52 citations, 0.03%
AME Publishing Company
51 citations, 0.03%
Han-Gug Misaengmul Hag-hoe/The Microbiological Society of Korea
50 citations, 0.03%