Journal History
| 2013 | The Inaugural issue was released. Microorganisms was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2016 | Microorganisms was indexed in PubMed - National Library of Medicine. |
| 2017 |
Microorganisms established the following sections:
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| 2018 |
Microorganisms was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).
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| 2019 |
Microorganisms adopted a monthly publication schedule.
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| 2020 |
Microorganisms became an affiliated journal of the Spanish Society for Nitrogen Fixation (SEFIN). Microorganisms established the following section:
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| 2021 |
Microorganisms established the following sections:
Microorganisms became an affiliated journal of the Hellenic Society Mikrobiokosmos (MBK). |
| 2022 | Microorganisms became an affiliated journal of the Society for Microbial Ecology and Disease (SOMED). |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2013–2016 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. John Fuerst |
| 2016–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Martin von Bergen |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2017–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Martin von Bergen for the Section on Gut Microbiota |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nico Jehmlich for the Section on Environmental Microbiology |
| 2018–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Giuseppe Comi for the Section on Food Microbiology Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Peter Neubauer for the Section on Microbial Biotechnology |
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. James F. White for the Section on Plant Microbe Interactions Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Ciani for the Section on Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David S. Lindsay for the Section on Parasitology |
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Eiko Kuramae for the Section on Systems Microbiology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ute Römling for the Section on Biofilm |
| 2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Andrea Marzi for the Section on Virology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Antonella d'Arminio Monforte for the Section on Medical Microbiology |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Wegrzyn for the Section on Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Paolo Calistri for the Section on Public Health Microbiology Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Pramod Gopal for the Section on Gut Microbiota Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Aránzazu Portillo for the Section on Parasitology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paul Andrew Barrow for the Section on Veterinary Microbiology |
