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Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1). Published by Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology.
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ISSN 1598-642XVerify ISSN ↗2234-7305Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology | 278 / 325 | 14th | Q4 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 116 / 134 | 13th | Q4 |
| Microbiology | 175 / 194 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters is Q4 in Biotechnology (rank 278 of 325), Q4 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 116 of 134) and Q4 in Microbiology (rank 175 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters 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, quartile Q4, 14th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.199, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 24.
Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters is published by Korean Society for Microbiolog and Biotechnology. Its print ISSN is 1598-642X and its online ISSN is 2234-7305.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #260 of 309 Scopus journals in Biotechnology.
Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters published 90 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (52.9%), India (15.2%) and Iraq (4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (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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