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Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
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ISSN 1935-7877Verify ISSN ↗1935-7885Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 84 / 235 | 64th | Q2 |
| Education | 670 / 1698 | 60th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 124 / 223 | 44th | Q3 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 39 / 63 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 84 of 235), Q2 in Education (rank 670 of 1698) and Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 124 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.443, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,700 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 and Biology Education is published by American Society for Microbiology. Its print ISSN is 1935-7877 and its online ISSN is 1935-7885.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education published 131 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 149. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (73.3%), Canada (4.4%) and Australia (3.1%). 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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