About the journal
As of January 2024, FEMS Microbiology Reviews is a fully open access journal. This means that all previously published content is free to read from this date.
It also means that all submissions that get accepted for publication will be published open access and will therefore be subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC). See the Copyright and license including Open Access section of our Author Guidelines for more information.
At FEMS we are working hard to make publishing in our journals as financially accessible as possible. We want the barrier to entry to publishing in our journals to be around the quality and soundness of the science, rather than a financial barrier. This is why we are keeping one broad-scope journal free-to-publish; our APCs are set lower than many other quality journals in our field; and we have put in place generous discount and waiver policies; visit our Open Access FAQs page for more information.
Ranking 13th in Microbiology in the 2022 Journal Citation Reports, FEMS Microbiology Reviews publishes Reviews from leading authors to provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage on key issues in microbiology.
Scope of the journal
FEMS Microbiology Reviews publishes reviews dealing with all aspects of microbiology that have not been surveyed recently. Reviews should be devoted to topics of current interest and provide comprehensive, critical and authoritative coverage. They should provide new perspectives and critical, detailed discussions of significant trends in the areas being reviewed and may contain elements of a speculative and selective nature. All reviews should address both specialists and the general reader. Whenever possible, reviews should be put into the framework of general microbiology and biology. Manuscripts of lectures delivered at symposia that do not review the related field are not acceptable, nor are unevaluated compilations of the literature.
Journal metrics and highlights
2023 Journal Impact Factor: 10.1
Ranking: 12/161 (Microbiology)
Source: Journal Impact Factor™, from Clarivate, 2024
2023 CiteScore: 17.5*
*About CiteScore: The 2022 CiteScore is based on the number of citations received to documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) by a journal over four years, divided by the number of the same document types indexed in Scopus and published in those same four years.
2023 downloads: 1.5 million
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