Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Discipline	Microbiology
Language	English
Edited by	Gordon Ramage, PhD
Publication details
History	First published 1971
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group (UK)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	no
Impact factor	6.5 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Crit. Rev. Microbiol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1040-841X (print) 1549-7828 (web)
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Critical Reviews in Microbiology is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes comprehensive review articles covering all areas of medical microbiology. Areas covered by the journal include bacteriology, virology, microbial genetics, epidemiology, and diagnostic microbiology. It is published by Taylor and Francis Group.

Core research areas

Expert reviewers address the following disciplines:

• Molecular biology
• Microbial genetics
• Microbial physiology
• Microbial biochemistry
• Microbial structure
• Medical microbiology
• Epidemiology
• Public health
• Diagnostic microbiology

Editor-in-chief

Publication format

Critical Reviews in Microbiology publishes 4 issues per year in simultaneous print and online editions.

Subscribers to the electronic edition of Critical Reviews in Microbiology receive access to the online archive, which dates back to 1971, as part of their subscription.^[1]