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Journal of Bacteriology and Virology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1). Published by The Korean Society for Mocrobiology / The Korean Society of Virology.
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ISSN 1598-2467Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Korean Society for Mocrobiology / The Korean Society of Virology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virology | 75 / 86 | 13th | Q4 |
| Immunology | 222 / 243 | 8th | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 178 / 194 | 8th | 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 2001–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Bacteriology and Virology is Q4 in Virology (rank 75 of 86), Q4 in Immunology (rank 222 of 243) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 178 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Bacteriology and Virology 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, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.230, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Bacteriology and Virology is published by The Korean Society for Mocrobiology / The Korean Society of Virology. Its ISSN is 1598-2467.
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.
Journal of Bacteriology and Virology has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 85 Scopus journals in Virology.
Journal of Bacteriology and Virology published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 32. 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 86 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (73.1%), Bangladesh (7%) and Philippines (6.4%). 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. 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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