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Annual Review of Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Annual Reviews Inc..
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ISSN 0066-4227Verify ISSN ↗1545-3251Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 12 / 194 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962–2025 (also 1960, 1950–1958, 1948), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.2.
Annual Review of Microbiology is Q1 in Microbiology (rank 12 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Annual Review of Microbiology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 17.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.052, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 229.
Annual Review of Microbiology is published by Annual Reviews Inc. Its print ISSN is 0066-4227 and its online ISSN is 1545-3251.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annual Review of Microbiology has an h-index of 322 and a 2-year mean of 9.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
Annual Review of Microbiology published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 43. 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.
In its latest 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.2%), China (6.3%) and France (6.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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