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APC $3,500
DOAJ ✓
Earliest year 1935
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Publisher American Society for Microbiology
Country/Region United States
Subject Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Open access ✓ (gold)
DOAJ ✓
License CC BY
Earliest year 1935
DOAJ article records 3,275
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Difficulty: average 11 weeks from submission to publication;3,259 articles per year
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Articles/yr 3,259
h-index 104
2-yr mean citedness 5.51
Last publication year 2026
DOAJ article records 3,275
Open access ✓
“2-yr mean citedness” is the OpenAlex field summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness (CC0): mean citations per paper over a two-year window. It is a raw bibliometric field, not a journal rating, and is not used for default ranking.
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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology604
Medicine361
Immunology and Microbiology252
Environmental Science205
Science: Microbiology1
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