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Microbes and Environments is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology.
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ISSN 1342-6311Verify ISSN ↗1347-4405Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 157 / 736 | 78th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 135 / 541 | 75th | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 55 / 167 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Microbes and Environments is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 157 of 736), Q1 in Plant Science (rank 135 of 541) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 55 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Microbes and Environments 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 Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.871, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
Microbes and Environments is published by Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology. Its print ISSN is 1342-6311 and its online ISSN is 1347-4405.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Microbes and Environments has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 2.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #122 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Microbes and Environments published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 71. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (85.5%), China (2%) and United States (1.8%). 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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