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Beneficial Microbes is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Brill Wageningen Academic.
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ISSN 1876-2883Verify ISSN ↗1876-2891Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology (medical) | 52 / 147 | 64th | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 85 / 194 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
Beneficial Microbes is Q2 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 52 of 147) and Q2 in Microbiology (rank 85 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Beneficial Microbes 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.847, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 74.
Beneficial Microbes is published by Brill Wageningen Academic. Its print ISSN is 1876-2883 and its online ISSN is 1876-2891.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Beneficial Microbes has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 144 Scopus journals in Microbiology (medical).
Beneficial Microbes published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 114. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (12.9%), United States (11.7%) and France (7.3%).
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.
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