FEMS Yeast Research

FEMS Yeast Research is published by Oxford University Press and is in Zone 4 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Fungal and yeast genetics research, Fermentation and Sensory Analysis and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, together about 47.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

As of January 2024, FEMS Yeast Research is a fully open access journal. This means that all previously published content is free to read from this date. It also means that all submissions that get accepted for publication will be published open access and will therefore be subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC). See the Copyright and license including Open Access section of our Author Guidelines for more information. At FEMS we are working hard to make publishing in our journals as financially accessible as possible. We want the barrier to entry to publishing in our journals to be around the quality and soundness of the science, rather than a financial barrier. This is why we are keeping one broad-scope journal free-to-publish; our APCs are set lower than many other quality journals in our field; and we have put in place generous discount and waiver policies; visit our Open Access FAQs page for more information. The leading journal in its field, FEMS Yeast Research bridges the gap between pure and applied research on conventional and non-conventional yeasts and yeast-like organisms. Scope of the journal FEMS Yeast Research offers efficient publication of high-quality original Research Articles, Mini-reviews, Perspectives and Commentaries. The journal will select for publication only those manuscripts deemed to be of major relevance to the field and generally will not consider articles that are largely descriptive without insights on underlying mechanism or biology. Submissions on any yeast species are welcome provided they report results within the scope outlined below and are of significance to the yeast field. We will publish articles that contribute to improving our understanding of the biology or impact of yeasts provide knowledge on any yeast species We will not consider articles that are descriptive surveys, preliminary investigations, or otherwise do not add much knowledge to the field report phenomenon or phenotypes without addressing underlying mechanisms are too limited in scale, breadth or ambition to have sufficient impact are not about yeast nor relevant to the yeast community Subject sections Protocols, tools and methods Papers in this section should cover the development or application of a new tool or method. Step-by-step protocols can be published as a standalone manuscript, or as a supplementary file to a method or tool development article. Papers discussing new synthetic biology tools, plasmids and methods are welcomed, as are new

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Editor-in-chief John MorrisseyPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 6 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 9, United Kingdom 8, France 8, Australia 7, Mainland China 6 (115 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

3.48LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

13Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

5.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.78LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.99LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

80LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

131OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,824OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.37OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

80.61%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

71LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Country or region

NETHERLANDS

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

2001

ISSN

1567-1356

Electronic ISSN

1567-1364

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website