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China Brewing is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by Editorial Department of China Brewing.
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ISSN 0254-5071Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Department of China Brewing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 124 / 134 | 7th | Q4 |
| Molecular Biology | 400 / 414 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
China Brewing is Q4 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 124 of 134) and Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 400 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
China Brewing 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 7th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
China Brewing is published by Editorial Department of China Brewing. Its ISSN is 0254-5071.
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.
China Brewing has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
China Brewing published 58 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 609. 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.
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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