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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2047-2994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 46 / 725 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 41 / 361 | 88th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 34 / 278 | 87th | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 23 / 147 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.4.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 46 of 725), Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 41 of 361) and Q1 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 34 of 278), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 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 8.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.306, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2047-2994.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 4.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control published 173 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 210. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (9.5%), South Korea (9.3%) and United States (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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