JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY (ISSN: 0021-9193)

Description

The Journal of Bacteriology (JB) has been disseminating important results from basic research studies of bacteria and other microorganisms since 1916. Topics include structure and function, biochemistry, enzymology, metabolism and its regulation, molecular biology, genetics, plasmids and transposons, general microbiology, plant microbiology, chemical and physical characterization of microbial structures and products, and basic biological properties of organisms.

Journal of Bacteriology features:

Commentaries
Dialogs
Minireviews
Meeting Reviews
Meeting Presentations
Genome Announcements
The scope of Journal of Bacteriology includes:

Computational Biology
Structural Biology
Genomics and Proteomics
Molecular Biology of Pathogens
Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids
Signal Transduction
Microbial Communities and Interactions
Gene Regulation
Microbial Cell Biology
Plant Microbiology
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Physiology and Metabolism
Enzymes and Proteins
Population Genetics and Evolution
Twice monthly, with 6,000 pages allocated in 2011. Print ISSN: 0021-9193. Online ISSN: 1098-5530.

JB has an Impact Factor of 3.94 and an Eigenfactor score of 0.149, according to the 2009 Journal Citation Reports. It is the #1 journal in Microbiology ranked by Eigenfactor score. It is also the #2 cited journal in Microbiology, receiving more than 63,000 citations, as reported in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports. JB is ranked #21 by Impact Factor out of 94 journals in the Microbiology category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: Agricola, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Biotechnology Citation Index, CAB Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service, Current Contents- Life Sciences, EMBASE, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Illustrata, MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded, Summon, and more.