What are the best journals for Immunology?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Immunology journals include Immunity, Nature reviews. Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Seminars in Immunopathology, Science Immunology. The top 40 of 126 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Immunology journals ranked?

Journals are placed by two independent classifications, OpenAlex's and Scimago's, plus any documented corrections. A journal both place under Immunology ranks ahead, within its Scimago quartile, of one only OpenAlex places there — because Scimago does not cover it, files it as Multidisciplinary, or files it under a neighbouring subject or only under a broad “(miscellaneous)” category (which counts as agreement when Immunology is the journal's main OpenAlex subfield). 14 journals OpenAlex files under Immunology are left out because OpenAlex's main field for them and Scimago's categories both place them in another discipline. By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, journals both sources place under Immunology come first, then venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Immunology come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Immunology — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Immunology — is listed after all the others. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Immunology journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Immunology paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Immunology · 126 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Immunology

The top 40 of 126 Immunology journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by whether OpenAlex and Scimago agree on the subject and how central Immunology is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), leaving out journals both place in another discipline, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 15 November 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

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Immunity
25.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell Press
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Nature reviews. Immunology
25.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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3
Cellular and Molecular Immunology
22.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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4
Seminars in Immunopathology
16.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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5
Science Immunology
16.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Nature Immunology
14.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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7
Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews
13.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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8
Immunological Reviews
10.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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9
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Rockefeller University Press
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10
Immune Network
9.5 cites/paper · Q1
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11
Trends in Immunology
7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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12
Journal of Autoimmunity
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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13
Seminars in Immunology
6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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14
OncoImmunology
6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Landes Bioscience
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15
International Immunopharmacology
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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16
International Reviews of Immunology
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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17
Mucosal Immunology
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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18
Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy
5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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19
Frontiers in Immunology
5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
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20
Inflammation
5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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21
PLoS Pathogens
5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of Science
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22
Expert Review of Vaccines
5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Informa
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23
Inflammation Research
5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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24
Current Opinion in Immunology
4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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25
Immunology
4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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26
Clinical & Experimental Immunology
4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
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27
Journal of Clinical Immunology
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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28
International Immunology
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
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29
Cytokine
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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30
Fish & Shellfish Immunology
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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31
European Journal of Immunology
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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32
Journal of Immunology Research
2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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33
Cancer Immunology Research
2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for Cancer Research
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34
Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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35
Journal of Immunotherapy
2.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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36
Journal of Reproductive Immunology
1.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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37
The Journal of Immunology
0.6 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association of Immunologists
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38
Nature Medicine
32.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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39
Science Translational Medicine
15.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
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40
Cell Host & Microbe
15.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Cell Press
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.