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Overview
Microbial Ecology is a comprehensive open-access forum dedicated to presenting high-quality scientific investigations of how microorganisms interact with their environment, each other, and their hosts.
- Covers the ecology of microorganisms in natural and engineered environments.
- Offers articles of original research, brief reviews, commentaries, and topical position papers.
- Established over 50 years ago and has evolved to be a premier location for advances in the field of microbial ecology.
- Rapid publication ensured by a dedicated Editorial Board.
- Encourages contributions of images from authors for its cover images.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Karen E. Nelson
- Impact factor
- 3.6 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 4.2 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 3 days
- Downloads
- 814,463 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Join us at our upcoming webinar "Food Security and Sustainability from a Microbiology Perspective"ent Item
In this webinar, Microbial Ecology's Editor-in-Chief Karen Nelson will be joined by speakers in the field, including Wondwossen Abebe Gebreyes, and MeiLing Zhang, to discuss the real world impact of the microbial world on food security and sustainability - from livestock, water availability, soils, crops, fisheries and biotechnology.
Save the date:
🗓️ Wednesday 31st Jan 2024
⏲️ 14.00 PM (London)
https://cassyni.com/events/2ZbRzJMzKAh9EZDspU7mRX?csxhp
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Microbial Ecology is now fully open access!
We are excited to announce that Microbial Ecology has now become a fully open-access (OA) journal as of January 2024. This means that we will only be publishing articles as Open Access meaning content will be freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse.
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Investigating the Ocular Surface Microbiome: Best Practices for Low-Biomass Microbial Research
The National Eye Institute invites you to participate in an online symposium, titled “Investigating the Ocular Surface Microbiome: Best Practices for Low-Biomass Microbial Research,” Monday, August 2, 2021, 3-8 p.m. EDT.
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DMykG
The 55th Scientific Conference of the German speaking Mycological Society (DMykG) e. V. will be held 27-29 September 2021.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1432-184X
- Print ISSN
- 0095-3628
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- ANVUR
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Google Scholar
- JSTOR
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Meta
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information
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