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Nature Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 28.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 2058-5276Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology (medical) | 2 / 147 | 98th | Q1 |
| Genetics | 6 / 357 | 98th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 4 / 194 | 98th | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 3 / 134 | 98th | Q1 |
| Immunology | 7 / 243 | 97th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 10 / 289 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 28.8.
Nature Microbiology is Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 2 of 147), Q1 in Genetics (rank 6 of 357) and Q1 in Microbiology (rank 4 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Nature 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 28.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 7.440, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 176.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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.
Nature Microbiology is published by Nature Research. Its ISSN is 2058-5276.
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.
Nature Microbiology has an h-index of 233 and a 2-year mean of 17.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 28.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 144 Scopus journals in Microbiology (medical).
Nature Microbiology published 345 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (31.9%), China (13.2%) and United Kingdom (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 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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