Impact Factor
4.42
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
Description based on first issue; title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 2, 2008).
Published jointly with the Society for Applied Microbiology.
Some articles in v. 2008 published electronically in 2007.