Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1092-2172Verify ISSN ↗1098-5557Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 20 / 361 | 94th | Q1 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 4 / 63 | 94th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 20 / 194 | 89th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 45 / 414 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.8.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 20 of 361), Q1 in Immunology and Microbiology (all) (rank 4 of 63) and Q1 in Microbiology (rank 20 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 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 12.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.769, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 293.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is published by American Society for Microbiology. Its print ISSN is 1092-2172 and its online ISSN is 1098-5557.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews has an h-index of 316 and a 2-year mean of 11.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews published 57 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (45.5%), China (6.5%) and Germany (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
Comments load as you scroll here.