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Microbial Biosystems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by Arab Society for Fungal Conservation.
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ISSN 2357-0326Verify ISSN ↗2357-0334Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Arab Society for Fungal Conservation
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 167 / 253 | 34th | Q3 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 109 / 134 | 19th | Q4 |
| Immunology | 209 / 243 | 14th | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 168 / 194 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Microbial Biosystems is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 167 of 253), Q4 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 109 of 134) and Q4 in Immunology (rank 209 of 243), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Microbial Biosystems 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 1.4, quartile Q3, 34th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.201, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$150 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.
Microbial Biosystems is published by Arab Society for Fungal Conservation. Its print ISSN is 2357-0326 and its online ISSN is 2357-0334.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Microbial Biosystems has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #172 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Microbial Biosystems published 110 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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