Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology: impact and ranking
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.12 in OpenAlex, which ranks #849 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 331. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.12 #849 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 331 #369 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #325 of 18,122
- Works
- 21k 51.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 7.12, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology #849 of 18,122 journals, in the top 5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology?
OpenAlex gives Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology an h-index of 331: 331 of its papers have each been cited at least 331 times. That ranks #369 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology publish?
OpenAlex records 21,321 works in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology from 1912 to 2026, cited 1,094,582 times in all, 51.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #325 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Country
- Germany
- ISSN-L
- 0175-7598
- In OpenAlex
- 1912 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,190.
- Website
- www.springer.com/journal/253
- OpenAlex record
- S70979998
Journals ranked near Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 816 | Applied Thermal Engineering | 7.20 | 252 |
| 825 | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | 7.18 | 328 |
| 835 | Bioresource Technology | 7.16 | 437 |
| 859 | Journal of Political Economy | 7.06 | 519 |
| 867 | Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry | 7.02 | 337 |
| 876 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 6.99 | 424 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.