About Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology 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:

• Instructions to Authors (January issue)
  
• Guest Commentaries
  
• Minireviews
  
• Meeting Review
  
• Genetics and Molecular Biology
  
• Enzymology and Protein Engineering
  
• Physiology and Biotechnology
  
• Mycology
  
• Public Health Microbiology
  
• Environmental Microbiology
  
• Microbial Ecology
  
• Geomicrobiology
  
• Food Microbiology
  
• Plant Microbiology
  
• Invertebrate Microbiology
  
• Methods
  
• Biodegradation
  
• Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
  
• Genome Announcements
  

AEM has an impact factor of 3.532 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2006 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #26 by impact factor out of 140 journals in the Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology category as well as #20 out of 88 journals in the Microbiology category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: BIOSIS, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Biotechnology, Current Contents, Index Medicus, EMBASE, Microbiology Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and more.