''The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers diverse and integrated areas of

microbial ecology Microbial ecology (or environmental microbiology) is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment. It concerns the three major domains of life—Eukaryota, Archaea, and Bacteria—as well as viru ...

spanning the breadth of microbial life, including

bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometr ...

, archaea, microbial eukaryotes, and

virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsk ...

es. It is an official publication of the

International Society for Microbial Ecology The International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) is the principal scientific society for the burgeoning field of microbial ecology and its related disciplines. ISME is a non-profit association and is owner of the International Symposia on Mi ...

(ISME) and publishes original research articles,

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, and commentaries. The founding

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are Mark Bailey and George Kowalchuk. The journal is published on behalf of ISME by the

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. According to the ''

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'' published in 2021, the journal had an

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

of 10.302. The SCImago Journal Rank placed the ISME Journal 9th out of 152 journals in the category "Microbiology" and 11th out of 658 journals in the category "Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics".

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