The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all areas of microbial ecology spanning the breadth of microbial life, including bacteria, archaea, microbial eukaryotes, and viruses. It is an official publication of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) and publishes original research articles, reviews, and commentaries.
The editors-in-chief are Mark Bailey, George Kowalchuk, and Janet Jansson.
The journal is published on behalf of ISME by the Nature Publishing Group. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 7.375, ranking it 6th out of 135 journals in the category "Ecology".
Famous quotes containing the word journal:
“Unfortunately, many things have been omitted which should have been recorded in our journal; for though we made it a rule to set down all our experiences therein, yet such a resolution is very hard to keep, for the important experience rarely allows us to remember such obligations, and so indifferent things get recorded, while that is frequently neglected. It is not easy to write in a journal what interests us at any time, because to write it is not what interests us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)