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Microbial Genomics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Microbiology Society.
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ISSN 2057-5858Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Microbiology Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 27 / 173 | 84th | Q1 |
| Genetics | 86 / 357 | 76th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 52 / 194 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 141 / 414 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Microbial Genomics is Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 27 of 173), Q1 in Genetics (rank 86 of 357) and Q2 in Microbiology (rank 52 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Microbial Genomics 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.575, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 62.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,839 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 Genomics is published by Microbiology Society. Its ISSN is 2057-5858.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Microbial Genomics has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 3.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 171 Scopus journals in Epidemiology.
Microbial Genomics published 254 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.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (22.1%), United Kingdom (17.6%) and Australia (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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