Nature Reviews Microbiology

Nature Reviews Microbiology, abbreviated Nat. Rev. Microbiol., Is a journal that is published by the Nature Publishing Group. The first edition appeared in October 2003. Currently, twelve issues per year are published. The journal publishes reviews of the highest quality in all areas of microbiology. The following topics are considered insofar as they relate to bacteria, viruses, fungi or protozoa:

• Biochemistry, Physiology and Molecular Biology
• Genetics and Genomics
• Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity
• Cellular Microbiology
• Environmental Microbiology
• Pathogenesis and host defense
• Clinical and diagnostic microbiology
• Infectious diseases
• Antimicrobial therapies and vaccines
• Epidemiology and Public Health Microbiology
• Applied and industrial microbiology
• Teaching in Microbiology
• Microbiology and Society

The impact factor of the journal was in 2012 at 22.490. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the journal impact factor with this in the category Microbiology is conducted in the first place of 116 journals.

Chief editor is Sheilagh Molloy, who is employed by the publisher.