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Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health

BMFH Press · Japan · Est. 1992

ISSN2186-6953eISSN2186-3342

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.564

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.734

Total Worksi

370

Total Citationsi

6,322

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.61

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Microbiology; Nutrition & Dietetics; Food Science; Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology; Gastroenterology; Immunology.

General Information

Country / RegionJapan

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1992

Annual Volume~ 37 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications370

OA Since2013

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

BMFH Press

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2186-6953 / 2186-3342

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

893

2019

975

2020

244

2021

329

2022

216

2023

190

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Food ScienceQ2

Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologyQ3

GastroenterologyQ3

ImmunologyQ3

MicrobiologyQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

MicrobiologyNutrition & Dietetics

Scopus Categories

ImmunologyGastroenterologyApplied Microbiology and BiotechnologyFood ScienceMicrobiology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Gut microbiota and healthProbiotics and Fermented FoodsClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens researchDiet and metabolism studiesGastrointestinal motility and disordersMicrobial Metabolites in Food BiotechnologyInfant Nutrition and HealthDermatology and Skin DiseasesFood composition and propertiesImmune Response and Inflammation

Frequently asked questions about Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health

Is Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health?

Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.61.

Is Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health?