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GERMS is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2248-2997Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 347 / 725 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Epidemiology | 90 / 173 | 48th | Q3 |
| Infectious Diseases | 202 / 361 | 44th | Q3 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 37 / 63 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 93 / 147 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
GERMS is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 347 of 725), Q3 in Epidemiology (rank 90 of 173) and Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 202 of 361), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
GERMS is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.433, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
GERMS is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2248-2997.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
GERMS has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 2.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #230 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
GERMS published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 66. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Romania (40.1%), Greece (6.8%) and India (5.6%).
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.
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