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Journal of Microbiological Methods is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0167-7012Verify ISSN ↗1872-8359Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,120 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology (medical) | 77 / 147 | 47th | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 123 / 194 | 36th | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 283 / 414 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Microbiological Methods is Q3 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 77 of 147), Q3 in Microbiology (rank 123 of 194) and Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 283 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Microbiological Methods 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 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.524, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 159.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,120 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.
Journal of Microbiological Methods is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-7012 and its online ISSN is 1872-8359.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Microbiological Methods has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 144 Scopus journals in Microbiology (medical).
Journal of Microbiological Methods published 234 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 252. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (26.5%), China (13.4%) and United States (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 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.
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