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Biofilm is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2590-2075Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 38 / 194 | 80th | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 27 / 134 | 80th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 95 / 414 | 77th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 77 / 289 | 73rd | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Biofilm is Q1 in Microbiology (rank 38 of 194), Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 27 of 134) and Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 95 of 414), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Biofilm is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.333, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,140 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.
Biofilm is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2590-2075.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biofilm has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 7.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
Biofilm published 92 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (18.4%), United States (17.7%) and France (8%).
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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