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npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 2055-5008Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 19 / 194 | 90th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 33 / 325 | 90th | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 14 / 134 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.9.
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is Q1 in Microbiology (rank 19 of 194), Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 33 of 325) and Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 14 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 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 12.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.732, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,290 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.
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is published by Nature Research. Its ISSN is 2055-5008.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 10.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes published 260 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (53.6%), United States (9.8%) and Spain (3.7%). 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. 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.
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