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Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Slovak University of Agriculture.
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ISSN 1338-5178Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Slovak University of Agriculture
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Science | 258 / 420 | 38th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 224 / 325 | 31st | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 154 / 194 | 20th | Q4 |
| Molecular Biology | 344 / 414 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences is Q3 in Food Science (rank 258 of 420), Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 224 of 325) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 154 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.268, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences is published by Slovak University of Agriculture. Its ISSN is 1338-5178.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #250 of 407 Scopus journals in Food Science.
Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences published 173 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 256. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Slovakia (27.9%), India (12.6%) and Indonesia (6.8%).
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 2 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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