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FEMS Microbiology Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 26), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0168-6445Verify ISSN ↗1574-6976Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 7 / 361 | 98th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 5 / 194 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1989–1990, 1986), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 26.
FEMS Microbiology Reviews is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 7 of 361) and Q1 in Microbiology (rank 5 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
FEMS 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 26, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.555, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 273.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. 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 Reviews is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0168-6445 and its online ISSN is 1574-6976.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
FEMS Microbiology Reviews has an h-index of 319 and a 2-year mean of 14.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 26, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
FEMS Microbiology Reviews published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 72. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.7%), China (11.9%) and Germany (7.6%).
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.
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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