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FEMS Microbiology Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0378-1097Verify ISSN ↗1574-6968Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,297 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 201 / 357 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 122 / 194 | 37th | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 282 / 414 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.8.
FEMS Microbiology Letters is Q3 in Genetics (rank 201 of 357), Q3 in Microbiology (rank 122 of 194) and Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 282 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
FEMS Microbiology Letters 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.596, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 189.
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 Letters is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0378-1097 and its online ISSN is 1574-6968.
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.
FEMS Microbiology Letters has an h-index of 240 and a 2-year mean of 1.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #219 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
FEMS Microbiology Letters published 148 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 302. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (15.2%), Japan (12.8%) and United States (9.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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