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Infectious Microbes and Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 101 / 173 | 41st | Q3 |
| Infectious Diseases | 240 / 361 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 109 / 147 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Infectious Microbes and Diseases is Q3 in Epidemiology (rank 101 of 173), Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 240 of 361) and Q3 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 109 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Infectious Microbes and Diseases 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,800 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.
Infectious Microbes and Diseases is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 2096-7241 and its online ISSN is 2641-5917.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Infectious Microbes and Diseases has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 171 Scopus journals in Epidemiology.
Infectious Microbes and Diseases published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 33. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (69.6%), United States (6.2%) and India (4.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (18.3 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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