MicrobialLife is an international peer-reviewed, open access journal.
MicrobialLife disseminates original research that advances understanding across diverse areas of microbiology, including fundamental microbial physiology, microbial ecology, molecular and genetic mechanisms at the basis of microbial life, and investigations addressing microbiological phenomena of practical relevance.
Aims and Scope
MicrobialLife disseminates original research that advances understanding across diverse areas of microbiology, including fundamental microbial physiology, microbial ecology, molecular and genetic mechanisms at the basis of microbial life, and investigations addressing microbiological phenomena of practical relevance. The journal provides a scholarly forum for studies that elucidate core microbiological concepts, essential microbial functions, and foundational issues in general and applied microbiology.
MicrobialLife welcomes original and impactful contributions spanning the full breadth of microbiological research, encompassing both foundational investigations and studies with translational relevance. Areas of interest include primarily the following topics:
- Antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance
- Biodegradation and microbial-driven bioprocesses
- Environmental microbiology and ecosystem-level microbial processes
- Eukaryotic microbiology
- Evolutionary, comparative, and genomic microbiology
- Food-associated microbiology and microbial safety
- Geomicrobiology and microbe–mineral interactions
- Industrial and applied microbiology
- Medical, veterinary, and clinical microbiology
- Methodological and technological innovations advancing basic and applied microbiological research
- Microbial biotechnology and bioengineering
- Microbial ecology, population dynamics, and evolutionary processes
- Microbial genetics and molecular microbiology
- Microbial physiology and metabolism
- Microbiology of viruses, including ecological, evolutionary, public health, industrial, and biotechnological perspectives
- System microbiology
Interdisciplinary studies of fundamental problems are particularly welcome.
MicrobialLife publishes a variety of formats including Original Research Articles, Short Reports, Reviews, Perspectives, Commentaries, Meta-analyses and Opinions.
Ownership
The journal is owned by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and published by OAE Publishing Inc.
Publishing Model
Gold open access. All articles published by MicrobialLife are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.
Copyright and License to Publish
Articles in MicrobialLife are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.
Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting MicrobialLife, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Editorial Board
For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.
Editorial Policies
All manuscripts submitted to MicrobialLife should adhere to MicrobialLife's Editorial Policies.
Peer Review
The journal adheres to a rigorous peer review process and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.
Journal Information and Statistics
- Publication model: Open access
- ISSN 2831-932X (Online)
- Frequency: Quarterly
Indexing & Archiving
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