Mycological Progress

Mycological Progress is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of fungi including lichens. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the German Mycological Society. Its editor in chief is Marco Thines.^[1]

Mycological Progress

Discipline	Mycology
Language	English
Edited by	[Marco Thines]
Publication details
History	2002–present
Publisher	Springer Nature
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.538 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Mycol. Prog.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1617-416X (print) 1861-8952 (web)
OCLC no.	67618445
Links
Journal homepage Online access

History

The journal was established in February 2002 by the German Mycological Society under founding editor-in-chief, Franz Oberwinkler (University of Tübingen). The current editor-in-chief is Marco Thines, who is also the president of the German Mycological Society. Originally published by botanical publisher, IHW-Verlag (Eching), the title transferred to Springer in 2006 by which time it was the official journal of ten European national mycological societies.^[2][3] It was published quarterly until 2015 when it converted to continuous publication online and production of the printed version ceased.^[4]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:^[5]

• AGRICOLA
• BIOSIS Previews
• Scopus
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• CAB Abstracts
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
• Elsevier Biobase
• EMBiology
• The Zoological Record

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.0.^{[citation needed]}