Table 2.
Top 10 journals in the publication on quorum sensing (2004–2023).
| Rank | Journal | H-index | IF (2023) | Article counts | Percentage (N = 4,849) | Total number of citations | Average number of citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 33 | 5.2 | 177 | 3.650% | 3,916 | 22.12 |
| 2 | Journal of Bacteriology | 62 | 3.2 | 170 | 3.506% | 11,737 | 69.04 |
| 3 | PLoS ONE | 38 | 3.7 | 104 | 2.145% | 4,456 | 42.85 |
| 4 | Molecular Microbiology | 47 | 3.6 | 101 | 1.767% | 7,258 | 71.86 |
| 5 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 38 | 4.4 | 82 | 1.691% | 4,120 | 50.24 |
| 6 | Scientific Reports | 27 | 4.6 | 75 | 1.547% | 2,232 | 29.76 |
| 7 | Microbial Pathogenesis | 27 | 3.8 | 74 | 1.526% | 1,707 | 23.07 |
| 8 | Microbiology SGM | 39 | 2.8 | 74 | 1.526% | 5,783 | 78.15 |
| 9 | P Natl Acad Sci USA | 47 | 11.1 | 69 | 1.423% | 7,179 | 104.04 |
| 10 | mBio | 25 | 6.4 | 61 | 1.258% | 1,903 | 31.2 |