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Malaysian Journal of Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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ISSN 1823-8262Verify ISSN ↗2231-7538Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Sains Malaysia
Cost to publish: About US$110 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 120 / 134 | 10th | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 180 / 194 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Malaysian Journal of Microbiology is Q4 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 120 of 134) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 180 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 10th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$110 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.
Malaysian Journal of Microbiology is published by Universiti Sains Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 1823-8262 and its online ISSN is 2231-7538.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Malaysian Journal of Microbiology has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Malaysian Journal of Microbiology published 90 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 136. 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 85 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (49.8%), Indonesia (15.9%) and India (6.5%).
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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