The ISME Journal
Last updated ISSN 1751-7362
The ISME Journal is published by Springer Nature in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $4,153.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The ISME Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1751-7362, 1751-7370 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $4,153 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 4,532 |
| Publishing since | 1970 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/ismej/ |
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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