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Microbial Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0095-3628Verify ISSN ↗1432-184XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 40 / 736 | 94th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 37 / 491 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 19 / 167 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present (also 1974–1977), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.3.
Microbial Ecology is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 40 of 736), Q1 in Ecology (rank 37 of 491) and Q1 in Soil Science (rank 19 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Microbial Ecology 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 9.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.118, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 161.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,590 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 Ecology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0095-3628 and its online ISSN is 1432-184X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Microbial Ecology has an h-index of 199 and a 2-year mean of 4.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Microbial Ecology published 178 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 292. 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 Spain (11.2%), China (10.5%) and United States (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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.
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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