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Clinical Microbiology and Infection is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1198-743XVerify ISSN ↗1469-0691Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,780 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 14 / 361 | 96th | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 9 / 147 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.1.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 14 of 361) and Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 9 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 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 17.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.658, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 219.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,780 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.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1198-743X and its online ISSN is 1469-0691.
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.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection has an h-index of 253 and a 2-year mean of 4.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection published 395 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 487. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Spain (7.5%), France (7.2%) and United Kingdom (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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.
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