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Applied Microscopy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2287-4445Verify ISSN ↗2287-5123Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 91 / 134 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 145 / 194 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Applied Microscopy is Q3 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 91 of 134) and Q3 in Microbiology (rank 145 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Microscopy 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 2.5, quartile Q3, 32nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.299, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
Applied Microscopy is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2287-4445 and its online ISSN is 2287-5123.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Applied Microscopy has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Applied Microscopy published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 40. 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (77.4%), United States (5.2%) and India (4.3%). 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.
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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