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Research in Microbiology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 7.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l..
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ISSN 0923-2508Verify ISSN ↗1769-7123Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Masson s.r.l.
Cost to publish: About US$3,510 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microbiology | 50 / 194 | 74th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 137 / 414 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 7.2.
Research in Microbiology is Q2 in Microbiology (rank 50 of 194) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 137 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.916, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 129.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,510 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.
Research in Microbiology is published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 0923-2508 and its online ISSN is 1769-7123.
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.
Research in Microbiology has an h-index of 157 and a 2-year mean of 3.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 192 Scopus journals in Microbiology.
Research in Microbiology published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 105. 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 97 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from India (15.3%), China (13.2%) and France (10.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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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