Microbial Ecology
Last updated ISSN 0095-3628
Microbial Ecology is published by Springer Science+Business Media in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,590.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Microbial Ecology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Gut microbiota and health
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0095-3628, 1432-184X |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,590 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,565 |
| Publishing since | 1960 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/248 |
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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