Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Encyclopedia
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (published as Applied Microbiology until 1976) is a online and print bimonthly academic journal
published by the American Society for Microbiology
. The title is commonly abbreviated AEM and the ISSN is 0099-2240 for the print version, and 1098-5336 for the electronic version. Usually all the archive articles which are older than six months are available free of cost from the website. However the newly published articles within six months are available to subscribed members only.
As of 2008, AEM has an impact factor of 3.801 and an Eigenfactor
score of 0.166, according to the Journal Citation Reports. AEM has been evaluated as one of the top 100 journals over the past 100 years, in the fields of biology and medicine. AEM is ranked 21st by impact factor out of 91 journals in the Microbiology category as well as 25th out of 144 journals in the Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology category.
AEM publishes peer reviewed scientific articles in the following broad fields of life-science.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
published by the American Society for Microbiology
American Society for Microbiology
The American Society for Microbiology is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. Microbiology is the study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye and which must be viewed with a...
. The title is commonly abbreviated AEM and the ISSN is 0099-2240 for the print version, and 1098-5336 for the electronic version. Usually all the archive articles which are older than six months are available free of cost from the website. However the newly published articles within six months are available to subscribed members only.
As of 2008, AEM has an impact factor of 3.801 and an Eigenfactor
Eigenfactor
The Eigenfactor score, developed by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington, is a rating of the total importance of a scientific journal...
score of 0.166, according to the Journal Citation Reports. AEM has been evaluated as one of the top 100 journals over the past 100 years, in the fields of biology and medicine. AEM is ranked 21st by impact factor out of 91 journals in the Microbiology category as well as 25th out of 144 journals in the Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology category.
AEM publishes peer reviewed scientific articles in the following broad fields of life-science.
- Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Enzymology and Protein Engineering
- Physiology
- Biotechnology
- Mycology
- Public Health Microbiology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Microbial Ecology
- Food Microbiology
- Plant Microbiology
- Invertebrate Microbiology
- Methods
- Biodegradation
- Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
- Genome Announcements