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Microbiology Spectrum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
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ISSN 2165-0497Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 57 / 491 | 88th | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 58 / 361 | 84th | Q1 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 11 / 63 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Physiology | 40 / 196 | 79th | Q1 |
| Genetics | 75 / 357 | 79th | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 34 / 147 | 77th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 98 / 289 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Microbiology Spectrum is Q1 in Ecology (rank 57 of 491), Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 58 of 361) and Q1 in Immunology and Microbiology (all) (rank 11 of 63), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Microbiology Spectrum 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.206, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 111.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Microbiology Spectrum is published by American Society for Microbiology. Its ISSN is 2165-0497.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Microbiology Spectrum has an h-index of 140 and a 2-year mean of 3.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Microbiology Spectrum published 1,601 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 2,160. 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 China (40.5%), United States (17.7%) and South Korea (5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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