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Microbial Cell Factories is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1475-2859Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 19 / 134 | 86th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 60 / 325 | 81st | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 36 / 168 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Microbial Cell Factories is Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 19 of 134), Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 60 of 325) and Q1 in Bioengineering (rank 36 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Microbial Cell Factories 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 1.177, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 144.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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 Cell Factories is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1475-2859.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Microbial Cell Factories has an h-index of 168 and a 2-year mean of 7.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Microbial Cell Factories published 282 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 350. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (25.3%), Germany (13%) and Egypt (11.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (2.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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