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Microbial Ecology

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Open access

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
  • 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)

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1432-184X
Print ISSN
0095-3628
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. AGRICOLA
  2. ANVUR
  3. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  4. BFI List
  5. BIOSIS
  6. Baidu
  7. Biological Abstracts
  8. CAB Abstracts
  9. CLOCKSS
  10. CNKI
  11. CNPIEC
  12. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  13. Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  14. Dimensions
  15. EBSCO
  16. EMBiology
  17. Google Scholar
  18. JSTOR
  19. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  20. Medline
  21. Meta
  22. Naver
  23. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  24. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  25. Portico
  26. ProQuest
  27. SCImago
  28. SCOPUS
  29. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  30. TD Net Discovery Service
  31. UGC-CARE List (India)
  32. Wanfang
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