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Avg Days to First Decision
28

Avg Days to Publication from Acceptance*
99%

of Published Articles Cited within Two Years of Publication**

mBio^® is an open-access journal that seeks to reflect the enormity of the interconnected microbial world: from symbiosis to pathogenesis, energy acquisition and conversion, climate change, geologic change, food and drug production, and even animal behavioral change. If your work is within the field of microbiology and you feel that it is top science, then mBio welcomes your submission.

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Why We're Different
Edited by Working Scientists
Quick Decisions, Rapid Publication, and Impactful Citations
mBio is published in association with the American Academy of Microbiology

About the Journal

Editor in Chief
Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

6 Bi-Monthly Issues
Articles Published As-Ready
Articles Published Under CC-BY (4.0) License
Online only

Online ISSN: 2150-7511

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Indexing/Abstracting

Indexed/Abstracted in: Agricola, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Current Contents—Life Sciences, EMBASE, Illustrata, MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Summon, and more.

Peer review averages above are based on 2021 data.
* This number reflects the final article posting date.
** Citation data is from Web of Science for the 2018-2019 time period.

UPDATED October 2022