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Iranian Journal of Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2008-3289Verify ISSN ↗2008-4447Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology (medical) | 101 / 147 | 31st | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 143 / 194 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
Iranian Journal of Microbiology is Q3 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 101 of 147) and Q3 in Microbiology (rank 143 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Iranian Journal of Microbiology 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.401, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 42.
Iranian Journal of Microbiology is published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2008-3289 and its online ISSN is 2008-4447.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Iranian Journal of Microbiology has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 144 Scopus journals in Microbiology (medical).
Iranian Journal of Microbiology published 119 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iran (54.6%), India (16.8%) and Iraq (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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.6 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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