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Archives of Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.9), 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 0302-8933Verify ISSN ↗1432-072XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 119 / 357 | 66th | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 77 / 194 | 60th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 179 / 448 | 60th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 189 / 414 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.9.
Archives of Microbiology is Q2 in Genetics (rank 119 of 357), Q2 in Microbiology (rank 77 of 194) and Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 179 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Archives 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.656, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 129.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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.
Archives of Microbiology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0302-8933 and its online ISSN is 1432-072X.
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.
Archives of Microbiology has an h-index of 208 and a 2-year mean of 3.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
Archives of Microbiology published 403 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 668. 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 (37%), India (23.5%) and Pakistan (4.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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