MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

MICROBIOLOGY-SGM is published by Microbiology Society 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 Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, together about 29.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

As the founding journal from the Microbiology Society, Microbiology brings together communities of scientists from all microbiological disciplines and from around the world. Originally Journal of General Microbiology, we have been publishing the latest advances in microbiology since 1947. Today the journal reflects the diversity and importance of microbiology in addressing current global challenges, such as food security, environmental sustainability, and health, by publishing fundamental and applied research across the breadth of the field. Microbiology publishes high-quality original research and reviews on bacteria, fungi, yeast, protists, archaea, algae, parasites, phages and other microscopic life forms. Key topic areas include, but are not limited to: Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance This topic area covers research in the field of the characterisation of the impact and mode-of-action of new and existing antimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. In addition, the section covers research into the resistance mechanisms against antimicrobials, including their evolution in bacterial populations and spread through horizontal gene transfer tolerance through biofilm formation. Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology This topic area encompasses the application and engineering of microbes, development of tools that enable genetic manipulation and studies that enhance or optimize production of compounds by microbes. Examples include establishing genetic methods in new model systems, engineering and optimizing new functionalities in microbes, using microbes to convert waste products into more valuable compounds, and discovery of new pathways in microbes that could yield new applications or enhance established applications. Ecology and Microbiomes This topic area welcomes submissions in the broad area of microbial ecology, including microbiome and biofilm studies. We are interested in studies in a range of contexts (environmental, clinical, lab model systems), where there is a primary focus on ecological questions. We similarly welcome ecology focused studies across a range of approaches (theory, observational, experimental, bioinformatic). Ecological questions of interest span scales from behavioral through to population, community and ecosystem ecology. Microbial Cell Surfaces The cell surface is the interface for microbial communication with the outside world, essential for the survival of free-living, symbiotic, and pathogenic microbes and an importan

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Microbiology

Editor-in-chief Andrew PrestonPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named United Kingdom 56, United States 16, Germany 5, Canada 3, Australia 3 (94 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

4.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

6.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.24LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

163LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

257OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

11,259OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.97OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

99.42%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

116LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 16 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Microbiology Society

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

Frequency

Continuous publication

Founded

1947

ISSN

1350-0872

Electronic ISSN

1465-2080

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
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• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
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• Editorial board ↗DOAJ