About mBio

Submit a Manuscript

  • 2

    Avg Days Initial Editor Screening

  • 34

    Avg Days to First Decision

  • 99%

    of Published Articles Cited within Two Years of Publication*

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.

 

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

Fair and Constructive Peer Review
ASM values the work of authors and reviewers. Therefore, mBio is committed to providing a fair and streamlined review process. Manuscripts are handled by well-known and established experts in the field of microbial research. Once accepted, manuscripts are published online in final format as quickly as possible.

Format-Neutral Submissions
For initial submissions, mBio welcomes papers in any format (format-neutral submissions). At this stage, authors are encouraged to upload a single PDF that incorporates the full text, tables, and figures. The reference style, the arrangement of sections of the paper, and other formatting issues are at the discretion of the author at initial submission.

Peer review averages above are based on 2019 data.
* Citation data is from Web of Science for the 2016-2017 time period.

UPDATED March 2020

Features

  • Observations
  • Minireviews
  • Opinions and Hypotheses
  • Commentaries
  • Perspectives
  • 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.

About the Journal

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

 

 

6 Bi-Monthly Issues
Articles Published As-Ready
Online only

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Online ISSN: 2150-7511