FEMS Microbes
Last updated ISSN 2633-6685
FEMS Microbes is published by Oxford University Press in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,242.
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What it publishes
Recent work in FEMS Microbes concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2633-6685 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,242 |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 189 |
| Publishing since | 2020 |
| Journal website | academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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