Nature Reviews Microbiology
Last updated ISSN 1740-1526
Nature Reviews Microbiology is published by Nature Portfolio in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nature Reviews Microbiology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Gut microbiota and health
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Key facts
| Publisher | Nature Portfolio |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1740-1526, 1740-1534 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,653 |
| Publishing since | 1818 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/nrmicro/ |
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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