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Molecular Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0950-382XVerify ISSN ↗1365-2958Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 72 / 194 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 176 / 414 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.1.
Molecular Microbiology is Q2 in Microbiology (rank 72 of 194) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 176 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Microbiology 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.314, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 285.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,430 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.
Molecular Microbiology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0950-382X and its online ISSN is 1365-2958.
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.
Molecular Microbiology has an h-index of 338 and a 2-year mean of 3.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #92 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
Molecular Microbiology published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 311. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.8%), Germany (11.5%) and India (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 11 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.
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