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The Lancet Microbe — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of The Lancet Microbe is 21.9 (Q1 in Infectious Diseases; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 21.9 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Infectious Diseases
- Quartile
- Q1 in Infectious Diseases
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- –
Position within the field
Ranked 2 of the 42 journals in Infectious Diseases on this site (top 10%).
Infectious Diseases journals with a similar Impact Factor
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases IF 29.4
- Clinical Microbiology Reviews IF 19.0
- The Lancet HIV IF 14.6
- Journal of Infection IF 10.0
- Clinical Microbiology and Infection IF 8.7
- Clinical Infectious Diseases IF 8.3
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of The Lancet Microbe (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 21.9. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Infectious Diseases.