mBio
Last updated ISSN 2150-7511
mBio is published by American Society for Microbiology in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,900.
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What it publishes
Recent work in mBio concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Fungal Infections and Studies
- Escherichia coli research studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Key facts
| Publisher | American Society for Microbiology |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2150-7511, 2161-2129 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,900 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 9,130 |
| Publishing since | 1968 |
| Journal website | journals.asm.org/journal/mbio |
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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