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Environmental Microbiology

Published jointly with the Society for Applied Microbiology

Edited by:
Kenneth N. Timmis, David A. Stahl, Edward F. DeLong, Michael Wagner, Mike Jetten and Juan L. Ramos


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 12/94 (Microbiology)
Impact Factor: 4.929


Environmental Microbiology is devoted to the study of microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities and microbial interactions.

Environmental Microbiology provides a high profile vehicle for publication of the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities and microbial interactions.

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A New Journal for 2009 - Environmental Microbiology Reports
Environmental Microbiology Reports will be an online only sister journal to Environmental Microbiology and will be the publication vehicle for brief reports that document a single important finding, described within only the shortest of text and accompanied by a minimal number of tables and figures.

The journal will be identical in scope to Environmental Microbiology and will share the same editorial team and submission site. The two journals will be mutually supportive and evolve side-by-side.  

Online Open
Authors of articles in this journal can now choose to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more.

Early View 
Environmental Microbiology now publishes Early View papers - fully reviewed and revised articles published online in advance of publication in a forthcoming printed issue. To view theses papers, click here

Faculty of 1000
Faculty of 1000 Biology is an award-winning online service that highlights and evaluates the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of over 2000 of the world's top researchers. A paper published in Environmental Microbiology (March 2008) has recently been evaluated by Judy Wall. Read the evaluation

Blackwell goes CarbonNeutral®
Blackwell Publishing is the first publisher to become CarbonNeutral®. Read more about the initiatives we have signed up to with The CarbonNeutral Company here.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), the AGORA initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

NIH Public Access Mandate
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Crystal Ball articles
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Volume 9 Issue 12 Page 2911-2922, December 2007

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Special Issues published in Environmental Microbiology

Metagenomics
December 2005, Volume 7, Issue 12

Rhizosphere
November 2005, Volume 7, Issue 11