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Future Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1746-0913Verify ISSN ↗1746-0921Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology (medical) | 73 / 147 | 50th | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 115 / 194 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Future Microbiology is Q2 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 73 of 147) and Q3 in Microbiology (rank 115 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Future 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.540, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 111.
Future Microbiology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1746-0913 and its online ISSN is 1746-0921.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Future Microbiology has an h-index of 126 and a 2-year mean of 3.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 144 Scopus journals in Microbiology (medical).
Future Microbiology published 102 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 160. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (15.9%), Brazil (11.7%) and China (11.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 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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