Environmental Microbiology

Aims & Scope

Environmental Microbiology provides a high profile vehicle for publication of the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field.

The journal publishes full length research articles as well as brief reports, minireviews, opinion articles and highlights.

The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities, interactions and evolution and includes, but is not limited to, the following: • the structure, activities and communal behaviour of microbial communities • microbial community genetics and evolutionary processes • microbial symbioses, microbial interactions and interactions with plants, animals and abiotic factors • microbes in the tree of life, microbial diversification and evolution • microbiomes and holobionts • population biology and clonal structure • microbial metabolic and structural diversity • microbial physiology, growth and survival • primary and secondary metabolism in the environment • microbes and surfaces, adhesion and biofilm • responses to environmental signals and stress factors • modelling and theory development • pollution microbiology • microbial ecology of pathogens • extremophiles and life in extreme and unusual little-explored habitats • element cycles and biogeochemical processes • microbes in a changing world, microbially-influenced global changes • systems biology and computational predictions • evolution and diversity of archaeal and bacterial viruses • new technological developments in microbial ecology and evolution, in particular for the study of activities of microbial communities, non-culturable microorganisms and emerging pathogens • single cell microbial ecology Interdisciplinary studies of fundamental problems are particularly welcome.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	4
2024	4.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.345

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	234

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2910

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	5731

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Immunology and Microbiology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Every base matters: assessing small subunit <scp>rRNA</scp> primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples

  Citation: 3031

  Authors: Alma E., David M., Jed A.

• Formation of propionate and butyrate by the human colonic microbiota

  Citation: 2150

  Authors: Petra, Harry J.

• Heavy use of prophylactic antibiotics in aquaculture: a growing problem for human and animal health and for the environment

  Citation: 1739

  Authors: Felipe C.

• Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure

  Citation: 1418

  Authors: William T., Mary, Stephen, Ian M., Sean, Thomas P.

• Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile <i>Pseudomonas putida</i> KT2440

  Citation: 1171

  Authors: K. E., C., I. T., R. J., H., V. A. P., D. E., S. R., M., M., L., M., R. T., S., J., R., W., O., J., H., I., P. Chris, E., D., K., A., T., M., K., D., D., H., J., D., J., M., S., C., J., K. N., A., B., C. M.

• Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

  Citation: 1110

  Authors: Susan M., David Mark, Hilary G., Mitchell L.

• The influence of soil pH on the diversity, abundance and transcriptional activity of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria

  Citation: 1099

  Authors: Graeme W., Sven, Christa, James I.

• Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

  Citation: 1042

  Authors: Victor, Anna, Howard, Philip

• Beyond the Venn diagram: the hunt for a core microbiome

  Citation: 956

  Authors: Ashley, Jo

• A fluorimetric method for the estimation of G<b>+</b>C mol% content in microorganisms by thermal denaturation temperature

  Citation: 851

  Authors: J. M., C.

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