The Journal of Antibiotics
Last updated ISSN 0021-8820
The Journal of Antibiotics is published by Springer Nature in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,590.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Antibiotics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
- Fungal Biology and Applications
- Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms
- Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Legal and Regulatory Analysis
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Military Technology and Strategies
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0021-8820, 1881-1469 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,590 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 12,371 |
| Publishing since | 1876 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/ja/ |
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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