About Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology publishes a substantial share of the most significant current research in the areas of biotechnology, microbial ecology, food microbiology, and industrial microbiology. Highlighting research findings applicable to the development of new processes or products, AEM is a broad-based journal that is indispensable to those whose basic work has implications of near-term practical benefit.

Secions include:

• Instructions to Authors (January issue)
• Guest Commentaries
• Minireviews
• Meeting Review
• Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Enzymology and Protein Engineering
• Physiology and Biotechnology
• Mycology
• Public Health Microbiology
• Environmental Microbiology
• Microbial Ecology
• Geomicrobiology
• Food Microbiology
• Plant Microbiology
• Invertebrate Microbiology
• Methods
• Biodegradation
• Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
• Genome Announcements

Twice monthly with 7,700 pages in 2008. Print ISSN: 0099-2240. Online ISSN: 1098-5336.

AEM has an impact factor of 4.004 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2007 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #18 by impact factor out of 94 journals in the Microbiology category as well as #23 out of 138 journals in the Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: BIOSIS, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Index Medicus, EMBASE, Microbiology Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and more.