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Acta Microbiologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Acta Microbiologica Sinica Editorial Office.
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ISSN 0001-6209Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Acta Microbiologica Sinica Editorial Office
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) | 33 / 43 | 24th | Q4 |
| Virology | 72 / 86 | 16th | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 169 / 194 | 13th | Q4 |
| Immunology | 212 / 243 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 1985–2016), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.3.
Acta Microbiologica Sinica is Q4 in Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) (rank 33 of 43), Q4 in Virology (rank 72 of 86) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 169 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Acta Microbiologica Sinica is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q4, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 26.
Acta Microbiologica Sinica is published by Acta Microbiologica Sinica Editorial Office. Its ISSN is 0001-6209.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Microbiologica Sinica has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 43 Scopus journals in Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous).
Acta Microbiologica Sinica published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 12. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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