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Journal of Medical Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Microbiology Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0022-2615Verify ISSN ↗1473-5644Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Microbiology Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology (medical) | 76 / 147 | 48th | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 121 / 194 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Medical Microbiology is Q3 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 76 of 147) and Q3 in Microbiology (rank 121 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Medical 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.723, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 140.
Journal of Medical Microbiology is published by Microbiology Society. Its print ISSN is 0022-2615 and its online ISSN is 1473-5644.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Medical Microbiology has an h-index of 169 and a 2-year mean of 3.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 144 Scopus journals in Microbiology (medical).
Journal of Medical Microbiology published 160 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 243. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (26.6%), China (16.2%) and United States (13.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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.
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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