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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY INC.OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY INC.

Editor-in-Chief: Ian Macreadie, RMIT University

Frequency: 4 issues/year Print + Online

Publishing since: 1980

ISSN: 1324-4272 (print + online)

eISSN: 2201-9189 (online)

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As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Microbiology Australia supports its core practices and is committed to transparency in scholarly publishing.

SCOPEMicrobiology Australia is the journal of the Australian Society for Microbiology and contains scientific papers, technical notes, book reviews, conference information, data on new products and services in microbiology, and material for tertiary students, in addition to providing detail on Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) activities.

Microbiology Australia serves as a forum for invigorating discussion on microbiology, microbiological methods and microbiologists and seeks to raise awareness of the wide applications of microbiology.

Fully sponsored by the ASM, Microbiology Australia is published Open Access by CSIRO Publishing.

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• Capture impact through citation tracking and Altmetrics

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JOURNAL METRICS

SPEED

28 days from manuscript submission to acceptance

20 days from manuscript acceptance to publication

USAGE

191,604 downloads in 2020

204 Altmetrics mentions in 2020

Metrics are correct as of August 2021

IMPACT

260 Total Citations in 2020

0.2 Journal Citation Indicator 2020

1.3 CiteScore 2020 Highest percentile 28% (379/526 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health)

0.3 SNIP 2020 Source Normalised Impact per Paper

0.2 SJR 2020 SCImago Journal Rank

11 h5-index Google Scholar index for papers published 2016-20

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