Journal History
| 2012 | The inaugural issue was released. Antibiotics was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2015 | The journal Twitter account was established. |
| 2016 | Antibiotics was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), PubMed (NLM), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science). Full-text papers were archived in the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC). |
| 2017 | Antibiotics announced the first edition of the Travel Award. |
| 2018 | Antibiotics was indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE – Web of Science) and BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science). |
| 2019 | Antibiotics received its first Impact Factor (2.921), ranked 40/89 (Q2) in “Infectious Diseases” and 109/267 (Q2) in “Pharmacology & Pharmacy”. Antibiotics established 13 topic sections. Antibiotics started the Topic Board. |
| 2020 | Antibiotics received an Impact Factor (3.893), ranked 23/93 (Q1) in “Infectious Diseases” and 64/270 (Q1) in “Pharmacology & Pharmacy”. Antibiotics adopted a monthly publication schedule. Antibiotics started the Reviewer Board. Antibiotics announced the first edition of the Best Paper Award, Reviewer Award and Young Investigator Award. |
| 2021 | The year 2021 marked the 10th Anniversary of Antibiotics. Antibiotics received an Impact Factor (4.639), ranked 26/92 (Q2) in “Infectious Diseases” and 75/275 (Q2) in “Pharmacology & Pharmacy”. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2012–2019 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Christopher C. Butler |
| 2019–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nicholas Dixon |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shiping Tian for the section on Fungi and Their Metabolites |
