Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiology Spectrum is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. Topics the journal covers include: archaea, food microbiology, bacterial genetics, cell biology, physiology, clinical microbiology, environmental microbiology, ecology, eukaryotic microbes, genomics, computational and synthetic microbiology, immunology, pathogenesis, and virology.^[1]

Microbiology Spectrum

Discipline	Microbiology
Language	English
Edited by	Christina Cuomo
Publication details
History	2013-present
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY
Impact factor	3.8 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Microbiol. Spectr.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	2165-0497
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The journal was established in October 2013. In Spring 2021, it became an online-only open access publication.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• BIOSIS Previews^[3]
• CAB Abstracts^[4]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[3]
• Embase^[5]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[6]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[3]
• Scopus^[7]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.8.^[8]