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FEMS Microbiology Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0168-6496Verify ISSN ↗1574-6941Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 69 / 491 | 86th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 63 / 194 | 67th | Q2 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 48 / 134 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology is Q1 in Ecology (rank 69 of 491), Q2 in Microbiology (rank 63 of 194) and Q2 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 48 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.028, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 199.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,297 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 Microbiology Ecology is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0168-6496 and its online ISSN is 1574-6941.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology has an h-index of 227 and a 2-year mean of 5.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology published 132 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 266. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (11%), Germany (10.6%) and Sweden (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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