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FEMS Microbes is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2633-6685Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) | 4 / 43 | 91st | Q1 |
| Parasitology | 9 / 82 | 89th | Q1 |
| Virology | 25 / 86 | 71st | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 61 / 194 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
FEMS Microbes is Q1 in Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 43), Q1 in Parasitology (rank 9 of 82) and Q2 in Virology (rank 25 of 86), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
FEMS Microbes is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.005, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,242 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.
FEMS Microbes is published by Oxford University Press. Its ISSN is 2633-6685.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
FEMS Microbes has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 3.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 43 Scopus journals in Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous).
FEMS Microbes published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 36. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.8%), United Kingdom (9.9%) and Germany (9.2%).
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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