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Journal of Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Microbiological Society of Korea.
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ISSN 1225-8873Verify ISSN ↗1976-3794Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Microbiological Society of Korea
Cost to publish: About US$3,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 62 / 134 | 54th | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 94 / 194 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
Journal of Microbiology is Q2 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 62 of 134) and Q2 in Microbiology (rank 94 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.731, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 88.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,690 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 Microbiology is published by Microbiological Society of Korea. Its print ISSN is 1225-8873 and its online ISSN is 1976-3794.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Microbiology has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 4.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Journal of Microbiology published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 134. 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 South Korea (81.8%), China (11.1%) and United States (2.5%). 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. 11 retracted papers are recorded (2.7 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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