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Clinical Microbiology Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 28.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
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ISSN 0893-8512Verify ISSN ↗1098-6618Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology (medical) | 1 / 147 | 99th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 4 / 725 | 99th | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 6 / 361 | 98th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 4 / 173 | 97th | Q1 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 2 / 63 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 28.9.
Clinical Microbiology Reviews is Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 1 of 147), Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 4 of 725) and Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 6 of 361), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Clinical Microbiology Reviews 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 28.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.584, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 358.
Clinical Microbiology Reviews is published by American Society for Microbiology. Its print ISSN is 0893-8512 and its online ISSN is 1098-6618.
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 Reviews has an h-index of 422 and a 2-year mean of 17.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 28.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 144 Scopus journals in Microbiology (medical).
Clinical Microbiology Reviews published 62 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (30%), China (11.1%) and Australia (7.5%).
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 1 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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