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Metabolic Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 1096-7176Verify ISSN ↗1096-7184Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,780 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology | 29 / 325 | 91st | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 13 / 134 | 90th | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 18 / 168 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.9.
Metabolic Engineering is Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 29 of 325), Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 13 of 134) and Q1 in Bioengineering (rank 18 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Metabolic Engineering 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 13.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.842, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 165.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,780 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.
Metabolic Engineering is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 1096-7176 and its online ISSN is 1096-7184.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Metabolic Engineering has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 8.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 309 Scopus journals in Biotechnology.
Metabolic Engineering published 162 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 187. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (41%), United States (23.5%) and Germany (7.6%).
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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