Reasons to publish with the Microbiology Society
When deciding where to publish, authors have a variety of options. Here we discuss why you should consider publishing your next article with the Microbiology Society.
Publishing for the community
Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefit of everyone. This supports our principal goal to develop, expand and strengthen the networks available to our members so that they can generate new knowledge about microbes and ensure that it is shared with other communities. For example, publishing one article with us generates the revenue to give grants to four early career members to attend Annual Conference.
Microbiology Society and open access
See our Routes to Open Access page to discover how you can publish Open Access with the Society.
Our peer review process
We offer a simple, transparent and efficient end-to-end, in-house publishing process. Our editors and editorial boards are leading experts in the field and accessible to our authors the whole way through the publishing process.
95% of authors are likely to submit another article to a Microbiology Society journal
"I find the process easy and straightforward and the comments and decisions to be timely and helpful."
"The editorial handling of the manuscript was fast, fair and extremely professional."
"Manuscript was handled efficiently and the review process was quick"
Data from the Microbiology Society's author survey 2024.
We publish across the breadth of microbiology
- Microbiology: the home of high-quality research from across the breadth of microbiology since 1947.
- Journal of General Virology: the journal at the forefront of virology research and home to the invaluable ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles.
- Journal of Medical Microbiology : the go-to interdisciplinary journal for medical, dental and veterinary microbiology at bench and in the clinic.
- Microbial Genomics: the Open Access journal of choice for pioneering research in genomics, fully supported by innovative, collaborative services.
- International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology: official publication of the ICSP and the BAM division of the IUMS and the official journal of record for the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes.
- Access Microbiology: an open research platform publishing sound science across the breadth of microbiology, including replication studies, negative results and case reports.