TopAims and Scope

Microbial Biotechnology publishes papers of original research reporting significant advances in any aspect of microbial applications, including, but not limited to biotechnologies related to:

• Green chemistry
• Primary metabolites
• Food, beverages and supplements
• Secondary metabolites and natural products
• Pharmaceuticals
• Diagnostics
• Agriculture
• Bioenergy
• Biomining, including oil recovery and processing
• Bioremediation
• Biopolymers, biomaterials
• Bionanotechnology
• Biosurfactants and bioemulsifiers
• Compatible solutes and bioprotectants
• Biosensors, monitoring systems, quantitative microbial risk assessment
• Technology development
• Protein engineering
• Functional genomics
• Metabolic engineering
• Metabolic design
• Systems analysis, modelling
• Process engineering
• Biologically-based analytical methods
• Microbially-based strategies in public health
• Microbially-based strategies to influence global processes

It will be a sister of the premier microbiology journals Molecular Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology and Cellular Microbiology.

The types of articles to be published are:

• Research Articles
• Brief Reports
• Rapid Communications
• Reviews
• Minireviews
• Genomics Update
• Netwatch
• Editorials
• Correspondence

In addition, other items relating to the journal content and biotechnological applicability will be regularly featured.

Special Issues

Each year, one or two issues will be Special Issues devoted to particularly topical subjects, and edited by expert guest editors.

TopIndexed / Abstracted in

Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases (CABI)
AgBiotech News and Information (CABI)
AgBiotechNet (CABI)
Agricultural Engineering Abstracts (CABI)
Agroforestry Abstracts (CABI)
Biocontrol News and Information (CABI)
Biofuels Abstracts (CABI)
Biological Abstracts (Thomson Reuters)
BIOSIS Previews (Thomson Reuters)
Biotechnology Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)
CAB Abstracts® (CABI)
CAB HEALTH (CABI)
CABDirect (CABI)
CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Crop Physiology Abstracts (CABI)
Dairy Science Abstracts (CABI)
Field Crop Abstracts (CABI)
Forest Products Abstracts (CABI)
Forestry Abstracts (CABI)
Global Health (CABI)
Horticultural Science Abstracts (CABI)
Index Veterinarius (CABI)
Irrigation & Drainage Abstracts (CABI)
Maize Abstracts (CABI)
MEDLINE (NLM)
Nutrition Abstracts and Review Series B: Livestock Feeds and Feeding (CABI)
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A: Human and Experimental (CABI)
Ornamental Horticulture (CABI)
Plant Breeding Abstracts (CABI)
Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts (CABI)
Review of Agricultural Entomology (CABI)
Review of Plant Pathology (CABI)
Rice Abstracts (CABI)
Science Citation Index Expanded™ (Thomson Reuters)
Seed Abstracts (CABI)
Soils and Fertilizer Abstracts (CABI)
Sugar Industry Abstracts (CABI)
Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI)
Veterinary Bulletin (CABI)
Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)
Weed Abstracts (CABI)
Wheat, Barley & Triticale Abstracts (CABI)