About This Journal

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) publishes a substantial share of the most significant current research in the areas of biotechnology, microbial ecology, food microbiology, and industrial microbiology. Highlighting research findings applicable to the development of new processes or products, AEM is a broad-based journal that is indispensable to those whose basic work has implications of near-term practical benefit.

Sections include:

  • Guest Commentaries
  • Meeting Reviews
  • Meeting Presentations
  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Enzymology and Protein Engineering
  • Physiology
  • Biotechnology
  • Mycology
  • Public Health Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Geomicrobiology
  • Food Microbiology
  • Plant Microbiology
  • Invertebrate Microbiology
  • Methods
  • Biodegradation
  • Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
  • Genome Announcements

Twice monthly, with 7,700 pages in 2008. Print ISSN: 0099-2240. Online ISSN: 1098-5336.

AEM has an impact factor of 4.004 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2007 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #18 by impact factor out of 94 journals in the Microbiology category as well as #23 out of 138 journals in the Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: AgBiotech News and Information, Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Caplus, Current Contents, EMBASE, Illustrata, Index Veterinarius, Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A), Science Citation Index Expanded, Summon, and more.