The Journal of Antibiotics

The Journal of Antibiotics is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Nature Publishing Group for the Japan Antibiotics Research Association.

The journal seeks to endorse studies on antibiotics and associated types of biologically-active substances.

In June 2020, the journal published a pioneer systematic review on ivermectin and COVID-19 by Fatemeh Heiday and Reza Gharebaghi which has become highly cited.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed for example in: • CAB Abstracts

• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine

• MEDLINE

• Science Citation Index

• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.3.