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:

• 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 8,071 projected pages in 2009. Print ISSN: 0099-2240. Online ISSN: 1098-5336.

AEM has an impact factor of 3.801 and an Eigenfactor score of 0.166 according to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports. It is the #1 cited journal in Microbiology and the #1 cited journal in Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology in 2008, with more than 69,000 citations, as reported in the 2008 Journal Citation Reports. AEM is also the #1 journal in Microbiology and the #2 journal in Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology ranked by Eigenfactor score.This year AEM was named by the SLA as one of the top 100 most influential journals of the last 100 years.

AEM is ranked #21 by impact factor out of 91 journals in the Microbiology category as well as #25 out of 144 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.