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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
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ISSN 0066-4804Verify ISSN ↗1098-6596Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 49 / 361 | 86th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 40 / 278 | 85th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 65 / 328 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present (also 1963–1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 49 of 361), Q1 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 40 of 278) and Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 65 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.473, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 309.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy is published by American Society for Microbiology. Its print ISSN is 0066-4804 and its online ISSN is 1098-6596.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy has an h-index of 359 and a 2-year mean of 4.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy published 439 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 957. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (32%), China (17.8%) and France (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 17 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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