Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology is published by Springer International Publishing 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 Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Biofuel production and bioconversion and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization, together about 36.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (JIMB) is a publication of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology that publishes papers in all aspects of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. These include: Biocatalysis: Discovery, characterization and engineering of enzymes towards biocatalytic and green chemistry applications. Environmental Microbiology: New insights into microbial-host interactions; applications of microbes for sustainable processes such as biodegradation, bioremediation and plastics upcycling. Fermentation, Cell Culture & Bioengineering: New approaches to microbial fermentation and mammalian cell culture that lead to more robust and reproducible growth and production, improved product titer, and/or elimination of undesirable byproducts. Metabolic Engineering & Synthetic Biology: Engineering of microbes, plants and mammalian cells using modern genetic engineering approaches for desired phenotypes, properties or product profiles. We are particularly interested in the development and engineering of biosynthetic pathways that produce useful chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fuels, etc. Natural Products Biosynthesis and Engineering:The discovery and characterization of new natural products, with a special emphasis on the genome-driven approaches such as genome mining, heterologous expression and pathway engineering. Characterization and modification of biosynthetic enzymes towards product structural diversification is also of considerable interest. Applied Genomics & Systems Biotechnology: Application of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics to the understanding and engineering of industrially relevant organisms, model laboratory organisms, microbiome, and understudied but potentially useful organisms for industrial microbiology. Bioenergy, Biofuels & Biochemicals: New approaches to enhanced production of bioenergy, biofuels and biochemicals using microbes. Novel biochemical, enzymatic and consolidated approaches to the conversion of biomass to biofuels. Biotechnology Methods & Techniques: The description of new biotechnological methods in construction, editing and propagation of recombinant DNA molecules. New approaches to genome editing, especially in organisms that are genetically difficult to manipulate. New workflows in computation identification of useful enzymes and biosynthetic pathways. Food Biotechnology & Probiotics: The application of biotechnology to the production of food and improve

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Editor-in-chief Yi TangPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 13%); most named United States 7, Mainland China 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

4.46LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

57Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

7.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.05LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

97LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

165OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,634OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

5.73OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

75%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 14 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1986

ISSN

1367-5435

Electronic ISSN

1476-5535

Official links

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