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International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by New Century Health Publishers.
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ISSN 1555-1431Verify ISSN ↗2641-7197Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: New Century Health Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 537 / 725 | 25th | Q3 |
| Food Animals | 35 / 46 | 25th | Q3 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 116 / 147 | 21st | Q4 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 114 / 134 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 2008–2018), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 537 of 725), Q3 in Food Animals (rank 35 of 46) and Q4 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 116 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 21.
International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics is published by New Century Health Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1555-1431 and its online ISSN is 2641-7197.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #630 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics published 5 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 9. 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 23 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (37%), Japan (13%) and South Korea (8.7%).
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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