The ISME Journal

The ISME Journal is the fully open access, flagship publishing venue for the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Covering diverse and integrated areas of microbial ecology, The ISME Journal’s broad scope encompasses the full breadth of microbial ecology research, exploring topics that include:

• Climate change microbiology
• Microbial contributions to biogeochemical cycles
• Community assembly
• Engineered and synthetic microbial communities
• Host-microbiome interactions
• Microbiomes of engineered environments
• Modeling and ecological theory
• Novel microorganisms and metabolic functions
• Spatial and temporal dynamics

The ISME Journal welcomes a range of content types including original research, reviews, brief communications, and perspective articles of the highest significance for the microbial ecology research community.

Why publish in The ISME Journal

• Fully Open Access: ensuring that your work is easily discovered, accessed, and shared.
• Publishes discovery-based and methods-oriented content in microbial ecology.
• An official journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology
• Royalties are used to provide funding and grants for individuals and events focused on education, science, and research.

Since January 2024, The ISME Journal is published in collaboration with Oxford University Press and the International Society for Microbial Ecology.

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