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Journal of Bacteriology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
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ISSN 0021-9193Verify ISSN ↗1098-5530Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 79 / 194 | 59th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 193 / 414 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
Journal of Bacteriology is Q2 in Microbiology (rank 79 of 194) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 193 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Bacteriology 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.402, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 292.
Journal of Bacteriology is published by American Society for Microbiology. Its print ISSN is 0021-9193 and its online ISSN is 1098-5530.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Bacteriology has an h-index of 399 and a 2-year mean of 4.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
Journal of Bacteriology published 244 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 377. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (57.4%), Germany (7.3%) and China (7.1%). 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. 30 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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