Journal profile · Engineering-Building and Construction
Micro and Nanosystems
ISSN 1876-4029 · eISSN 1876-4037 · Bentham
Micro and Nanosystems: subscription journal; median 104 days to acceptance (55 articles, last 24 months); 26 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Micro and Nanosystems is published by Bentham. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications, together about 31.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pharmaceutical Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Building and Construction
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advanced Drug Delivery SystemsPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics11.1%
- Advanced MEMS and NEMS TechnologiesEngineering10.4%
- Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis ApplicationsEngineering9.8%
- Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryMaterials Science6.2%
- Advancements in Transdermal Drug DeliveryPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics5.7%
- Drug Solubulity and Delivery SystemsPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics5.4%
- Low-power high-performance VLSI designEngineering4.8%
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing TechnologiesEngineering4.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | Q3 | 157/258 | 39th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.16LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.22LetPub ·
- h-index
- 24OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 68OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.34OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 641 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33 | 0 | 205 |
| 2025 | 26 | 0 | 315 |
| 2024 | 44 | 1 | 245 |
| 2023 | 26 | 2 | 275 |
| 2022 | 27 | 0 | 230 |
| 2021 | 42 | 4 | 196 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
105 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 89 days – 124 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 235 days (52 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 339 days
- Sample
- 52 articles with submission and acceptance dates (80 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Bentham
- ISSN
- 1876-4029
- Electronic ISSN
- 1876-4037
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Micro and Nanosystems
How long does peer review take at Micro and Nanosystems?
Based on the dates recorded on 55 articles published between November 2024 and November 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 104 days (interquartile range 88–123 days). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Micro and Nanosystems?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Micro and Nanosystems is indexed in Scopus.
Is Micro and Nanosystems open access, and what is the APC?
Micro and Nanosystems is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .