About This Journal

The Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM) publishes the most current research on the microbiological aspects of human and animal infections and infestations, with emphasis on their etiologic agents, diagnosis, and epidemiology.

Sections include:

• Guest Commentaries
• Minireviews
• Bacteriology
• Chlamydiology and Rickettsiology
• Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
• Mycology
• Parasitology
• Virology
• Clinical Veterinary Microbiology
• Epidemiology
• Case Reports
• Fast-Track Communications
  

Monthly, with 4,350 pages in 2008. Print ISSN: 0095-1137. Online ISSN: 1098-660X.

JCM has an impact factor of 3.708 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2007 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #20 by impact factor out of 94 journals in the Microbiology category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: AgBiotech News and Information, Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), Biotechnology Citation Index, CAB Abstracts, Caplus, Current Contents, EMBASE, Illustrata, Index Veterinarius, Science Citation Index Expanded, Summon, and more.