Impact Factor
4.20
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
5.65
2,102 total citations
h5-index
50
h5 depth signal
Cited share
90.7%
380 of 419
Total citations
2,102
Citation footprint
Metric signal
5.48
External metric anchor
Self-citation
4.5%
94 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United Kingdom
679
United States
411
Australia
291
China
155
France
148
Citing Fields of Research
Bacteriology
1,063
Antibiotic & Antibacterial Agents
609
Genetics & Genomics
599
Virology
120
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases & Infections
108
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
1,796
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
419
380 cited publications
Last 12 months
329
27.4 publications/month
Open access share
100.0%
329 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United Kingdom
679 citing publications
Leading citing field
Bacteriology
1,063 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
14 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v2n1, Jan. 2016-
v1n1, July 2015-
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Bacteriology
Antibiotic & Antibacterial Agents
Genetics & Genomics
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
issuing body
Society for General Microbiology
issuing body
Microbiology Society
Broad Categories
Genetics
Microbiology
Antibiotic & Antibacterial Agents
Bacteriology
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases & Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Virology
MeSH Descriptors
Genome, Microbial
Genomics
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001848
Open DOI
Bile, sulphur and carbohydrate metabolic variation co-occur with host adiposity in mice colonized with primate microbiota
Although mechanistic links between the microbiome and chronic disease are increasingly well defined, how microbiomes facilitate normal variation in host metabolism remains less clear. Building on our recent demonstration that pooled faec...
02
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001856
Open DOI
Microbiome ecology and antibiotic treatment failure: resistance spread, microbial competition and community engineering
The failure of antibiotic treatment is a growing concern, driven in large part by the rising incidence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Increasing evidence points to the importance of microbial competition in preventing the colonizatio...
03
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001863
Open DOI
Members of the Lactococcus–Pseudolactococcus clade exhibit extensive genomic diversity in features associated with phage–host co-adaptation
Lactococcus lactis and Lactococcus cremoris are widely exploited in global dairy fermentations. Consequently, strains of these species are extensively studied, as are their interactions with their infecting bacteriophages. In recent year...
04
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001846
Open DOI
Plasmidomics: studying plasmids as ecological entities beyond their hosts
Plasmids are mobile genetic elements with autonomous replication, whose ecology extends beyond individual bacterial hosts. As molecular symbionts, they have the potential to traverse bacterial taxa and environments, disseminating adaptiv...
05
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001851
Open DOI
Uncovering multidrug-resistance genes and potential biomarkers in Klebsiella pneumoniae using pan-genomic machine-learning feature-selection approach
Background. Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest threats to modern medicine, yet our understanding of its genetic basis remains incomplete. Current surveillance strategies rely on established resistance genes catalogued in cura...
06
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001855
Open DOI
Association of microbial pathways predicted/inferred using 16S and shotgun metagenome with faecal metabolite abundances
The gut microbiome is an essential metabolic organ influencing host health through metabolite production. While metabolite production levels can be directly measured by gas or liquid chromatography, they are commonly inferred from the ab...
07
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001858
Open DOI
Genomic global epidemiology and evolution of Escherichia coli ST131 clade A
During the 2010s, Escherichia coli ST131 clade A tested sensitive to most antibiotics. In the 2020s, Europe experienced outbreaks of fluoroquinolone-resistant ST131-A that contained CTX-M β-lactamases and OXA-48-like carbapenemases. We i...
08
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001853
Open DOI
Targeted genome recovery of under-sequenced microbes from the Sequence Read Archive using STAT
Most microbial species are represented by a single genome in public databases. The lack of genomes for these ‘singleton’ organisms limits our understanding of their pan-genome diversity and evolution. Although the Sequence Read Archive (...
09
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001857
Open DOI
Escherichia coli ST131 isolates are rare in human meningitis but belong to a distinct O25b-fimH22 clade B lineage shared with avian pathogenic Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli ST131 is a globally disseminated extraintestinal lineage best known for its resistance-driven expansion, yet it is rarely reported as a cause of neonatal meningitis. Whether specific ST131 sublineages retain neuroinvasiv...
10
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001847
Open DOI
Deep-sea Microbial Dataset of the Antarctic Ocean (dsMDAO): A high-resolution deep-sea microbial dataset of the Antarctic Ocean reveals potential for taxonomic and functional diversity
Antarctic deep-sea ecosystems harboured unique and metabolically versatile micro-organisms that sustained key biogeochemical processes under extreme polar conditions. However, the genomic diversity and ecological functions of these sedim...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
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