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mBio 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.
mBio strives to publish the highest quality of microbial research. The findings must be of interest to the entire microbiology community. Editors will evaluate for:
- High importance to researchers in the field of microbial sciences
- Research that is within the top 10% of the field
- Broad interest to the microbiology community and beyond
Article Types
- Research Articles
- Observations
- Minireviews
- Opinions/Hypothesis
- Commentaries
- Perspectives
- Editorials/Guest Editorials
As part of the submission process, authors are encouraged to provide a 150-word "Importance" paragraph, a nontechnical summary written in language that conveys the importance of the work to non-specialists.
ASM Journals are now Format Neutral.
ASM primary research journals will consider for publication manuscripts that have been posted in a recognized not-for-profit preprint archive. Please review our preprint policy for more information.
Benefits of publishing mBio
- Rapid decisions (34 avg calendar days to first decision)
- Authors receive an up or down Decision
- Home for high-quality research across the microbial sciences
- Expedited review for manuscripts previously reviewed by certain highly selective non-ASM journals
- Rigorous peer review by working scientists in your field
- Published by a Scientific Society
- Compliant with Funder Mandates
- Final copyedited, composed articles posted weekly
- Open-access publication: wide dissemination
- Authors retain copyright under a Creative Commons CC BY license
- 99% of articles cited within two years of publication
- Streamlined transfer process to other ASM Journals: ASM has a long-standing tradition of publishing ground-breaking, impactful research across the microbial sciences. Therefore, authors have the option to transfer their manuscript to another ASM journal if a manuscript is rejected after initial Editor screening (without external peer review).