Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Field ranking · 2006
Immunology and Microbiology journal rankings 2006
92 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Immunology and Microbiology has 92 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Nature Immunology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Immunity.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Immunology and Microbiology (5)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2006. | Compare |
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1Nature ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United States | 5.83Q1 | 18.65 1.33 up from 2005 | 687 | 19% | $12,690 | ||
2The Journal of Experimental MedicineRockefeller University Press · United States | 4.79Q1 | 14.11 0.74 down from 2005 | 1,161 | 91% | — | ||
3ImmunityCell Press · United States | 4.69Q1 | 16.10 1.80 up from 2005 | 494 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
4Annual Review of ImmunologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.96Q1 | 43.19 1.04 up from 2005 | 95 | 3% | — | ||
5Seminars in ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.77Q1 | 10.17 1.97 up from 2005 | 132 | 10% | $4,370 | ||
6Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.37Q1 | 7.11 0.23 up from 2005 | 1,528 | 48% | $4,900 | ||
7The Journal of ImmunologyAmerican Association of Immunologists · United States | 2.03Q1 | 6.91 0.22 down from 2005 | 5,524 | 52% | $3,500 | ||
8Infection and ImmunityOAAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 1.86Q1 | 4.58 0.10 up from 2005 | 2,907 | 70% | — | ||
9International Journal for ParasitologyElsevier BV · Australia | 1.80Q1 | 3.59 0.10 up from 2005 | 536 | 11% | $2,880 | ||
10Genes and ImmunitySpringer Nature · United States | 1.64Q1 | 4.74 0.91 up from 2005 | 330 | 16% | $3,190 | ||
11Springer Seminars in ImmunopathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.63Q1 | 5.38 1.59 up from 2005 | 103 | 10% | — | ||
12European Journal of ImmunologyWiley · Germany | 1.61Q1 | 4.96 0.30 down from 2005 | 1,162 | 65% | $4,550 | ||
13Nature reviews. ImmunologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 11.27 0.15 down from 2005 | 691 | 5% | — | ||
14Vector-Borne and Zoonotic DiseasesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.82 0.41 up from 2005 | 117 | 7% | — | ||
15Journal of Leukocyte BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.55Q1 | 4.60 0.33 down from 2005 | 848 | 11% | $3,800 | ||
16Sexually Transmitted DiseasesLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.44Q1 | 3.40 0.44 up from 2005 | 481 | 4% | — | ||
17Critical Reviews in ImmunologyBegell House · United States | 1.44Q1 | 4.08 0.43 up from 2005 | 70 | 6% | — | ||
18BMC ImmunologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 3.77 0.92 up from 2005 | 56 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
19The AAPS JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.28Q1 | 2.44 1.82 up from 2005 | 111 | 72% | $5,090 | ||
20Sexually Transmitted InfectionsBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 3.16 0.98 up from 2005 | 505 | 99% | — | ||
21International ImmunologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 4.31 0.02 up from 2005 | 503 | 27% | $3,530 | ||
22Journal of Clinical ImmunologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.24Q1 | 3.48 0.18 up from 2005 | 192 | 7% | $4,990 | ||
23Clinical ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 3.37 0.14 up from 2005 | 511 | 2% | $4,400 | ||
24Molecular and Biochemical ParasitologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q2 | 2.76 0.28 down from 2005 | 573 | 10% | $3,460 | ||
25Molecular ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 3.33 0.27 down from 2005 | 695 | 6% | $3,340 | ||
26Parasite ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.50 0.73 up from 2005 | 201 | 17% | $4,220 | ||
27BioDrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland | 1.12Q2 | 3.27 0.82 up from 2005 | 113 | 4% | $5,190 | ||
28Clinical & Experimental ImmunologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 3.11 0.10 down from 2005 | 937 | 95% | $3,816 | ||
29RetrovirologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 3.94 0.05 up from 2005 | 127 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
30Expert Opinion on Biological TherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 3.07 0.04 up from 2005 | 414 | 3% | — | ||
31International Journal of Medical Microbiology SupplementsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 2.87 1.77 up from 2005 | 40 | — | — | ||
32ImmunologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 3.20 0.08 down from 2005 | 692 | 78% | $5,330 | ||
33Journal of AutoimmunityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 2.65 0.13 down from 2005 | 279 | 15% | $5,420 | ||
34Journal of Immunological MethodsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 2.59 0.27 down from 2005 | 747 | 10% | $2,970 | ||
35Journal of Reproductive ImmunologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 2.43 0.19 down from 2005 | 173 | 1% | $3,690 | ||
36Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious DiseasesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.94 1.12 up from 2005 | 90 | 5% | $3,550 | ||
37Developmental & Comparative ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.66 0.75 down from 2005 | 327 | 8% | $3,340 | ||
38CytokineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.73 0.56 up from 2005 | 455 | 10% | $3,220 | ||
39Clinical Reviews in Allergy & ImmunologySpringer Nature · United States | 0.98Q2 | 2.14 0.73 down from 2005 | 139 | 2% | $5,490 | ||
40Immunology and Cell BiologyWiley · Australia | 0.93Q2 | 2.64 0.48 up from 2005 | 274 | 19% | $3,750 | ||
41Cytokine & Growth Factor ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 10.76 1.80 up from 2005 | 157 | 10% | $4,900 | ||
42Journal of NeuroVirologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.29 0.57 down from 2005 | 265 | 17% | $4,790 | ||
43Journal of Interferon & Cytokine ResearchMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.90Q2 | 2.60 0.65 up from 2005 | 253 | 9% | — | ||
44Veterinary Immunology and ImmunopathologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 1.98 0.34 up from 2005 | 566 | 9% | $3,250 | ||
45Trends in ImmunologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 10.98 1.56 up from 2005 | 381 | 10% | $7,030 | ||
46International Journal of ImmunogeneticsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.26 2.26 up from 2005 | 66 | 12% | $2,900 | ||
47ImmunogeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.88Q3 | 3.04 0.45 down from 2005 | 347 | 12% | $2,890 | ||
48International Reviews of ImmunologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.86Q3 | 2.28 0.37 down from 2005 | 77 | 10% | — | ||
49Human ImmunologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.84Q3 | 2.70 0.38 up from 2005 | 455 | 3% | $3,600 | ||
50Immunologic ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.83Q3 | 2.68 0.06 up from 2005 | 180 | 12% | $2,890 |
Subfields of Immunology and Microbiology, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Immunology and Microbiology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 92
- Window papers (baseline)
- 79,076 +15.3% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.88 +16.4% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12Comparison-group list (12)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 77 | 81 | 84 | 87 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 96 | 96 | 99 | 100 | 109 | 113 | 118 | 117 | 124 | 126 | 135 | 135 | 131 | 134 | 128 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 130 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 57,420 | 61,729 | 64,988 | 68,564 | 70,081 | 74,504 | 79,076 | 85,172 | 89,884 | 96,132 | 103,748 | 109,236 | 113,003 | 114,572 | 119,036 | 122,584 | 124,030 | 123,505 | 122,958 | 123,895 | 126,939 | 132,755 | 139,280 | 143,532 | 145,253 | 146,708 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.76 | 0.79 | 0.837 | 0.88 | 0.945 | 0.98 | 1.15 | 1.11 | 1.089 | 1.07 | 1.04 | 1.052 | 1.053 | 1.092 | 0.99 | 0.954 | 0.948 | 0.89 | 0.847 | 0.841 | 0.854 | 0.87 | 0.853 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 1.9% | 116 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.118 per 1,000 | 102 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -14.5% | 121 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 82.5% | 130 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,340 | 99 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.3% | 128 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.1% | 130 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.85 | 125 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 25.6% | 130 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 42.4% | 130 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.