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Journals for “Gut microbiota and health”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gut Microbes Landes Bioscience · United States · DOAJ | 100% | 91.4 | #163 | 1,555 | 100% | 5,085 AUD |
| 2 | Microbiome BioMed Central · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 91% | 91.5 | #159 | 1,351 | 100% | 4,290 EUR |
| 3 | Medicine in Microecology Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 94% | 67.4 | #8,336 | 125 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Microbiome Research Reports United States | 94% | 65.1 | #9,750 | 154 | 99% | Not recorded |
| 5 | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes Nature Portfolio · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 80% | 83.8 | #1,059 | 717 | 100% | 3,890 EUR |
| 6 | Gut Microbiome Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 99% | 49.1 | #20,215 | 67 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Animal Microbiome BioMed Central · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 76% | 71.6 | #5,875 | 435 | 100% | 1,890 EUR |
| 8 | Bioscience of Microbiota Food and Health Japan | 78% | 62.3 | #11,426 | 163 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Cell Host & Microbe Cell Press · United States | 56% | 92.3 | #122 | 1,041 | 66% | Not recorded |
| 10 | mSystems American Society for Microbiology · United States · DOAJ | 60% | 83.3 | #1,190 | 1,928 | 100% | US$4,100 |
| 11 | Beneficial Microbes | 65% | 67.4 | #8,323 | 208 | 65% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Frontiers Media · Switzerland · DOAJ | 54% | 84.5 | #936 | 7,760 | 100% | 3,150 CHF |
| 13 | Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins Springer Science+Business Media · United States | 52% | 78.2 | #2,825 | 1,151 | 24% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Gut Pathogens BioMed Central · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 49% | 76.7 | #3,398 | 388 | 100% | 2,890 EUR |
| 15 | Nature Microbiology Nature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 40% | 92.5 | #113 | 1,389 | 65% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Microorganisms Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland · DOAJ | 43% | 85.4 | #763 | 13,712 | 100% | 2,700 CHF |
| 17 | Food Science and Human Wellness Elsevier BV · China · DOAJ | 52% | 68.8 | #7,488 | 1,622 | 100% | US$1,200 |
| 18 | Food Frontiers Wiley · China · DOAJ | 48% | 76.0 | #3,705 | 707 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Frontiers in Microbiology Frontiers Media · Switzerland · DOAJ | 39% | 88.9 | #335 | 20,517 | 100% | 3,150 CHF |
| 20 | Molecular Nutrition & Food Research Wiley · Germany | 43% | 81.6 | #1,628 | 1,667 | 52% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Food & Function Royal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 37% | 85.1 | #806 | 4,626 | 23% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Nature Reviews Microbiology Nature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 29% | 95.3 | #37 | 767 | 30% | Not recorded |
| 23 | Journal of Functional Foods Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 34% | 82.8 | #1,287 | 2,662 | 100% | US$2,920 |
| 24 | Journal of Advanced Research Elsevier BV · Egypt · DOAJ | 32% | 86.6 | #605 | 1,841 | 100% | US$4,400 |
| 25 | mSphere American Society for Microbiology · United States · DOAJ | 33% | 80.2 | #2,097 | 1,577 | 100% | US$3,500 |
| 26 | npj Science of Food Nature Portfolio · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 34% | 77.1 | #3,231 | 584 | 100% | 2,490 EUR |
| 27 | BMC Microbiology BioMed Central · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 30% | 82.5 | #1,367 | 2,535 | 100% | 2,690 EUR |
| 28 | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology Nature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 25% | 91.2 | #174 | 763 | 24% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Frontiers in Nutrition Frontiers Media · Switzerland · DOAJ | 28% | 83.3 | #1,184 | 11,278 | 100% | 3,150 CHF |
| 30 | Current Research in Microbial Sciences Elsevier BV · The Netherlands · DOAJ | 34% | 72.3 | #5,533 | 506 | 100% | US$3,300 |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
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