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Mycological Society of Japan The Mycological Society of Japan (MSJ) is a learned society that serves as the professional organization of mycologists in Japan. It was founded in 1956. Members of the MSJ meet annually to exchange information and build understanding of fungi. ...

. A publication of the

Mycological Society of Japan The Mycological Society of Japan (MSJ) is a learned society that serves as the professional organization of mycologists in Japan. It was founded in 1956. Members of the MSJ meet annually to exchange information and build understanding of fungi. ...

, it was founded in 1956 as Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan (1956–1993) and was later titled ''Mycoscience'' (1994–present).

Editor-in-Chief

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: * 1956–1969 - Rokuya Imazeki * 1970–1971 - Minoru Hamada * 1972–1973 - Hiroharu Indo * 1974–1975 - Keisuke Tsubaki * 1976 - Minoru Hamada * 1976 - Kiyoo Aoshima * 1977–1978 - Akinori Ueyama * 1979–1980 - Syunichi Udagawa * 1981–1984 - Shinichi Hatanaka * 1985–1988 - Tatsuo Yokoyama * 1989–1990 - Yukio Harada * 1991–1992 - Kishio Hatai * 1995–1996 - Kazuko Nishimura * 1997–1998 - Takao Horikoshi * 1999–2000 - Masatoshi Saikawa * 2001–2004 - Makoto Kakishima * 2005–2006 - Akira Nakagiri * 2007–2008 - Gen Okada * 2009–2010 - Takashi Yaguchi * 2011–2012 - Yoshitaka Ono * 2013–2014 - Gen Okada * 2015–2016 - Takayuki Aoki (Mycologist) * 2017–2018 - Tsutomu Hattori * 2019–2020 - Eiji Tanaka * 2021–present - Yutaka Tamai

Abstracting and indexing

''Mycoscience'' is abstracted and indexed in: According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.223.

References

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