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Critical Reviews in Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1040-841XVerify ISSN ↗1549-7828Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 14 / 194 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 11 / 134 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present (also 1971–1982), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.3.
Critical Reviews in Microbiology is Q1 in Microbiology (rank 14 of 194) and Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 11 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Reviews in Microbiology 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 14.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.831, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 124.
Critical Reviews in Microbiology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1040-841X and its online ISSN is 1549-7828.
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.
Critical Reviews in Microbiology has an h-index of 148 and a 2-year mean of 7.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
Critical Reviews in Microbiology published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 67. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (23.9%), India (15.6%) and United States (11.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (6.9 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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