Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiology Spectrum is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. Topics the journal covers include: archaea, food microbiology, bacterial genetics, cell biology, physiology, clinical microbiology, environmental microbiology, ecology, eukaryotic microbes, genomics, computational and synthetic microbiology, immunology, pathogenesis, and virology.

The journal was established in October 2013. In Spring 2021, it became an online-only open access publication.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • BIOSIS Previews

• CAB Abstracts

• Current Contents/Life Sciences

• Embase

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 3.7.