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Microbial Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1751-7907Verify ISSN ↗1751-7915Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 60 / 448 | 86th | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 20 / 134 | 85th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 61 / 325 | 81st | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 37 / 168 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Microbial Biotechnology is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 60 of 448), Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 20 of 134) and Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 61 of 325), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Microbial Biotechnology 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.392, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,260 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 Biotechnology is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1751-7907 and its online ISSN is 1751-7915.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Microbial Biotechnology has an h-index of 138 and a 2-year mean of 7.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Microbial Biotechnology published 251 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 259. 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 (24%), Spain (21.4%) and Germany (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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