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Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE. Published by BMFH Press.
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Publisher: BMFH Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gastroenterology | 70 / 176 | 60th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 173 / 420 | 58th | Q2 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 73 / 134 | 45th | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 117 / 194 | 39th | Q3 |
| Immunology | 152 / 243 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health is Q2 in Gastroenterology (rank 70 of 176), Q2 in Food Science (rank 173 of 420) and Q3 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 73 of 134), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.564, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health is published by BMFH Press. Its print ISSN is 2186-3342 and its online ISSN is 2186-6953.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 172 Scopus journals in Gastroenterology.
Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 48. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (58.4%), China (19.8%) and Indonesia (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.
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