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International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0964-8305Verify ISSN ↗1879-0208Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,870 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 55 / 194 | 71st | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 45 / 151 | 70th | Q2 |
| Biomaterials | 57 / 146 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 7.
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation is Q2 in Microbiology (rank 55 of 194), Q2 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 45 of 151) and Q2 in Biomaterials (rank 57 of 146), by CiteScore 2025.
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation 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 7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.876, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 146.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,870 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.
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0964-8305 and its online ISSN is 1879-0208.
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.
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation has an h-index of 161 and a 2-year mean of 4.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation published 216 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 369. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (53.2%), India (5.5%) and Poland (5.5%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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