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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0003-6072Verify ISSN ↗1572-9699Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 137 / 194 | 29th | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 317 / 414 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1946–present (also 1941–1944, 1934–1939), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.1.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology is Q3 in Microbiology (rank 137 of 194) and Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 317 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.494, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 128.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,690 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.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0003-6072 and its online ISSN is 1572-9699.
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.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology has an h-index of 157 and a 2-year mean of 2.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology published 175 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 206. 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 India (26.8%), China (20.8%) and Iran (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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