ASM Launches mBio
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: With this issue, ASM launches a new, interdisciplinary journal designed to accommodate the universe of microbiology and its allied disciplines under one roof. While perusing the pages of this first issue of mBio , one will note that there are articles addressing a myriad of questions in virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, immunology, ecology, and basic cell biology. To have papers from different disciplines in the same journal is a departure for ASM, which heretofore has published the highest-quality, first-rate science in journals that are focused on a single discipline (or field). This modus operandi has made it possible for ASM to publish a series of journals that are grounded in their respective fields and renowned for rigorous peer review and publishing excellence. Given that mBio is an interdisciplinary journal, and the first such journal for ASM, the first question one might ask is why mBio ?
The answer is both simple and complex. mBio is the brainchild of Tom Shenk, Chair of the ASM Publications Board—a brainchild that was given form by members of the Publications Board and support by ASM leadership. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of high-visibility journals focused on different problems in microbiology ranging from pathogenesis to host-microbe interaction. These journals have developed a high profile in the scientific literature and have become very desirable venues for publishing microbiology-related research. As a result of the increasing view of microbiology as a multidisciplinary field, more narrowly focused, single-discipline-oriented journals are sometimes overlooked as a first choice for submission of cutting-edge research. Mindful of the wider and wider net that is cast to answer …
Source: mBio
Author: Arturo Casadevall
Language: Yiddish
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,900
OpenAlex ID: W1965415092