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Journal of General and Applied Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Microbiology Research Foundation.
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ISSN 0022-1260Verify ISSN ↗1349-8037Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Microbiology Research Foundation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 103 / 134 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 165 / 194 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1955–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of General and Applied Microbiology is Q4 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 103 of 134) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 165 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 23rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.217, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 65.
Journal of General and Applied Microbiology is published by Microbiology Research Foundation. Its print ISSN is 0022-1260 and its online ISSN is 1349-8037.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of General and Applied Microbiology has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Journal of General and Applied Microbiology published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 53. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from Japan (71.3%), China (14.5%) and India (3%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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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