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ISME Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1751-7362Verify ISSN ↗1751-7370Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 5 / 736 | 99th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 11 / 194 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.9.
ISME Journal is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 5 of 736) and Q1 in Microbiology (rank 11 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
ISME Journal 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 17.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.415, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 267.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,153 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.
ISME Journal is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1751-7362 and its online ISSN is 1751-7370.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
ISME Journal has an h-index of 312 and a 2-year mean of 10.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
ISME Journal published 298 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 319. 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 (21%), United States (17.3%) and Germany (9.6%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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