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Microbes and Infectious Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Zagazig University, Faculty of Medicine.
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ISSN 2682-4132Verify ISSN ↗2682-4140Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Zagazig University, Faculty of Medicine
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 291 / 361 | 19th | Q4 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 127 / 147 | 13th | Q4 |
| Molecular Biology | 388 / 414 | 6th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Microbes and Infectious Diseases is Q4 in Infectious Diseases (rank 291 of 361), Q4 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 127 of 147) and Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 388 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Microbes and Infectious Diseases is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4, 19th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.185, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 9.
Microbes and Infectious Diseases is published by Zagazig University, Faculty of Medicine. Its print ISSN is 2682-4132 and its online ISSN is 2682-4140.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Microbes and Infectious Diseases has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Microbes and Infectious Diseases published 554 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.
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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