About This Journal

Clinical Microbiology Reviews (CMR) offers a variety of reviews of developments in clinical microbiology and immunology, providing an excellent and timely overview of topics of concern to microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, public health workers, and infectious disease specialists. Bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology are among the fields covered.

Scope includes:

• Pathogenic mechanisms
• Specific or groups of microbial pathogens
• Clinical and laboratory aspects of newly recognized or reemerging infectious diseases
• Recently developed antimicrobial agents and their applications
• New diagnostic laboratory technology

Quarterly, with 850 pages in 2008. Print ISSN: 0893-8512. Online ISSN: 1098-6618.

CMR has an impact factor of 16.409 and an Eigenfactor score of 0.026 according to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports. It is the #3 ranked journal among ScienceWatch's Top 10 Research Journals (2004-2008) in Microbiology, with more than 31 average citations per paper.

It is ranked #2 by impact factor out of 91 journals in the Microbiology category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: AgBiotech News and Information, Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Caplus, Current Contents, EMBASE, Illustrata, Index Veterinarius, Science Citation Index Expanded, Summon, and more.