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Overview
Biodegradation publishes papers, reviews and mini-reviews on the biotransformation, mineralization, detoxification, recycling, amelioration or treatment of chemicals or waste materials by naturally-occurring microbial strains, microbial associations, or recombinant organisms.
Coverage spans a range of topics, including Biochemistry of biodegradative pathways; Genetics of biodegradative organisms and development of recombinant biodegrading organisms; Molecular biology-based studies of biodegradative microbial communities; Enhancement of naturally-occurring biodegradative properties and activities. Also featured are novel applications of biodegradation and biotransformation technology, to soil, water, sewage, heavy metals and radionuclides, organohalogens, high-COD wastes, straight-, branched-chain and aromatic hydrocarbons; Coverage extends to design and scale-up of laboratory processes and bioreactor systems. Also offered are papers on economic and legal aspects of biological treatment of waste.
"Waste treatment" papers are expected to contain something novel as regards to one or more of the following: (a) microbiology, (b) molecular biology, (c) biochemistry, (d) ecology, or (e) engineering. The simple reporting of a new isolate or process that does the same thing as reported many times by others is not sufficient.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Claudia K. Gunsch
- Impact factor
- 3.6 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 3.6 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 38 days
- Downloads
- 161,628 (2023)
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Latest articles
Journal updates
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Announcement: COVID-19 impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
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For Authors and Editors
Types of papers
Mini Reviews
Mini reviews should be short updates (3-5 journal pages) concerning the very latest progress in any field covered by BIODEGRADATION. Please send questions related to the relevance of a particular topic to the Mini Review Editor.Useful Resources for Authors and Editors:
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1572-9729
- Print ISSN
- 0923-9820
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Chimica
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EI Compendex
- EMBiology
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- IFIS Publishing
- INIS Atomindex
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information