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United Kingdom · Oxford University Press

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The ISME Journal

The ISME Journal is a journal indexed in SJR in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Microbiology with an H index of 251. It has a price of 3060 €. It has an SJR impact factor of 3,973 and it has a best quartile of Q1. It is published in English. It has an SJR impact factor of 3,973.

The ISME Journal focuses its scope in these topics and keywords: marine, microbial, niche, globally, functional, community, communities, infection, abundant, environmental, ...

ISSN: 1751-7362

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Category: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

3,973 Q1

H-index 251

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20% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

3.060 € Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

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SJR Impact

3,973

H-index

251

Docs (year)

283

Docs 3y

758

Total refs

20576

Cites 3y

9316

Citable 3y

746

Cites/Doc 2y

10.15

Ref/Doc

72.71

Immediate OA

3060 €

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Best articles by citations

Community genomic analysis of an extremely acidophilic sulfur-oxidizing biofilm

Visualizing the dynamics of soil aggregation as affected by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Diversity and distribution of single-stranded DNA phages in the North Atlantic Ocean

Divergent symbiont communities determine the physiology and nutrition of a reef coral across a light-availability gradient

Distribution of microbial terpenoid lipid cyclases in the global ocean metagenome

Disentangling the relative influence of bacterioplankton phylogeny and metabolism on lysogeny in reservoirs and lagoons

Cross-exchange of B-vitamins underpins a mutualistic interaction between Ostreococcus tauri and Dinoroseobacter shibae

Controlled sampling of ribosomally active protistan diversity in sediment-surface layers identifies putative players in the marine carbon sink

Contribution of crenarchaeal autotrophic ammonia oxidizers to the dark primary production in Tyrrhenian deep waters (Central Mediterranean Sea)

Comparative metagenomics of microbial traits within oceanic viral communities

Comparative genomics reveals new evolutionary and ecological patterns of selenium utilization in bacteria

Comparative genomics reveals a deep-sea sediment-adapted life style of Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM9913

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Comparative genomics of two newly isolated Dehalococcoides strains and an enrichment using a genus microarray

A dynamic microbial community with high functional redundancy inhabits the cold, oxic subseafloor aquifer

Black reefs: iron-induced phase shifts on coral reefs

Baltic Sea methanogens compete with acetogens for electrons from metallic iron

Bacterial cis-2-unsaturated fatty acids found in the cystic fibrosis airway modulate virulence and persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Archaea in metazoan diets: implications for food webs and biogeochemical cycling

Anaerobic oxidation of methane associated with sulfate reduction in a natural freshwater gas source

Anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation in candidate phylum 'Atribacteria' (JS1) inferred from genomics

Acetate oxidation by syntrophic association between Geobacter sulfurreducens and a hydrogen-utilizing exoelectrogen

Accuracy of protist diversity assessments: morphology compared with cloning and direct pyrosequencing of 18S rRNA genes and ITS regions using the conspicuous tintinnid ciliates as a case study

A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus-host interactions in extreme environments

A single genus in the gut microbiome reflects host preference and specificity

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The ISME Journal has an SJR of 3,973 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is 3060 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for The ISME Journal is 20%.

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