World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
MicrobiologyOpen
H-index 22

MicrobiologyOpen

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Microbiology 131 43 47 16
Biology and Biochemistry 474 61 57 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 194
Documents by Best Scientists*: 159
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 65
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.99
Impact Factor: 4.6

Top Publications

  • Impact of antibiotics on the human microbiome and consequences for host health

    (2022)
    544 Citations
  • The incidence of antibiotic resistance within and beyond the agricultural ecosystem: A concern for public health.

    Chidozie D. Iwu;Lise Korsten;Anthony I. Okoh

    (2020)
    223 Citations
  • Antimicrobial properties of Lactobacillus cell-free supernatants against multidrug-resistant urogenital pathogens.

    Marina Scillato;Ambra Spitale;Gino Mongelli;Grete Francesca Privitera

    (2021)
    126 Citations
  • Environmental hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes.

    Shalini Kunhikannan;Shalini Kunhikannan;Colleen J. Thomas;Ashley E. Franks;Sumana Mahadevaiah

    (2021)
    105 Citations
  • Microbial interaction between the succinate-utilizing bacterium Phascolarctobacterium faecium and the gut commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

    Nao Ikeyama;Takumi Murakami;Atsushi Toyoda;Hiroshi Mori

    (2020)
    79 Citations
  • Mobile fosfomycin resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae-An increasing threat.

    Katrin Zurfluh;Andrea Treier;Kira Schmitt;Roger Stephan

    (2020)
    64 Citations
  • Putting an end to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa IQS controversy.

    Pierre Cornelis;Pierre Cornelis

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • Whole-genome comparison between the type strain of Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 3754 T ) and the laboratory strains R1 and NRC-1

    Friedhelm Pfeiffer;Gerald Losensky;Anita Marchfelder;Bianca Habermann;Bianca Habermann

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Multilocus sequence typing of Escherichia coli isolates from urinary tract infection patients and from fecal samples of healthy subjects in a college community.

    Yusuke Matsui;Yuan Hu;Julia Rubin;Reginara Souza de Assis

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Hidden heterogeneity and co-occurrence networks of soil prokaryotic communities revealed at the scale of individual soil aggregates.

    Márton Szoboszlay;Christoph C Tebbe

    (2021)
    26 Citations

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