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Geomicrobiology Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0149-0451Verify ISSN ↗1521-0529Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 30 / 194 | 84th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 64 / 249 | 74th | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 69 / 194 | 64th | Q2 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 62 / 157 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present (also 1983–1995, 1978–1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Geomicrobiology Journal is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 30 of 194), Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 64 of 249) and Q2 in Microbiology (rank 69 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Geomicrobiology Journal 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.603, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 98.
Geomicrobiology Journal is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0149-0451 and its online ISSN is 1521-0529.
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.
Geomicrobiology Journal has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 3.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Geomicrobiology Journal published 110 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (32.4%), China (22.7%) and Mexico (4.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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