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• http://www.nature.com/ismej
• Editor: Mark Bailey, John Heidelberg and George Kowalchuk
• Volume 3: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 1751-7362
• EISSN: 1751-7370
• Impact factor : 5.029*
• Impact ranking: 10/124 in Ecology*
• Date Established: 2007
• Published on behalf of: The International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME)

Aims and Scope: The ISME Journal encompasses the breadth of microbial ecology and topics of particular concentration include, but are not limited to:

• Integration of genomics and post-genomics approaches into studies of microbial activities, interactions and phylogeny
• Interactions among microorganisms and between microbes and their eukaryotic hosts, including plant, animal and human diseases and symbioses
• Understanding of biotic/abiotic interactions in situ and microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles
• Integrated advances in environmental biotechnology
• Impacts of global change on microbial communities and processes
• Theoretical advances in microbial population and community ecology.

Readership: Microbiologists, molecular biologists, cell biologists, biotechnologists, earth scientists, evolution and ecology researchers and geneticists.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to May 2007.
• A site license provides access to all content published during the supply period. Archive content is freely available after 12 months.
• Indexed in Medline (PubMed), Biological Abstracts, Biosis Previews, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences, Current Contents/ Life Sciences and Science Citation Index Expanded.

*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)