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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology.
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ISSN 1017-7825Verify ISSN ↗1738-8872Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology | 156 / 325 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 67 / 134 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1991), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.7.
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology is Q2 in Biotechnology (rank 156 of 325) and Q2 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 67 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.740, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 95.
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology is published by Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology. Its print ISSN is 1017-7825 and its online ISSN is 1738-8872.
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 and Biotechnology has an h-index of 97 and a 2-year mean of 3.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #113 of 309 Scopus journals in Biotechnology.
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology published 314 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from South Korea (68.6%), China (21.9%) and United States (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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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