Indian Journal of Microbiology

Indian Journal of Microbiology is the official journal of the Association of Microbiologists of India, and it is published by Springer India on behalf of that society from New Delhi.《印度微生物学杂志》是印度微生物学家协会的机关刊物，由 Springer India 在新德里为该学会出版。

The quarterly has been in print since 1961 and takes work from every corner of microbiological research, with papers on soil and crop plants, on food and dairy organisms, on clinical pathogens and on the genetics of the organisms themselves. The 2025 edition of the journal citation report gives it an impact factor of 2.2 and a five-year figure of 2.4.该刊自 1961 年起刊行，一年四期，稿件来自微生物学的各个角落，从土壤与作物植物、食品与乳品微生物到临床病原体，再到微生物自身的遗传。2025 年版期刊引证报告给出的影响因子为 2.2，五年影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The journal serves as the official organ of the Association of Microbiologists of India, and its pages carry the work of the society's members alongside papers from microbiologists working elsewhere.该刊是印度微生物学家协会的机关刊物，版面既有本会会员的研究，也有来自别处微生物学者的论文。

• Full-length papers form the core of what it publishes, and an original research article is expected to stand on its own as a self-contained account.全文论文构成该刊的主体，原创研究须以自足的方式报告，能够独立成立。

• Shorter contributions have a place of their own, and short communications are named among the forms the journal accepts.篇幅较短的稿件另有其位，短篇通讯列在该刊接受的形式之中。

• Reviews are taken as well, and a paper of that kind sets out what a body of work shows and where it stops.综述同样在收载之列，这类论文梳理一批研究所呈现的内容，也指出它的边界。

• Mini reviews are set apart as a form of their own, and they treat one narrow question briefly.微型综述被单列为一种形式，用较短的篇幅处理一个较窄的问题。

• Agricultural microbiology is one field of special interest, and work on the microbes of soil, of crop plants and of the rhizosphere is admitted.农业微生物学是特别关注的方向之一，土壤、作物植物与根际微生物方面的工作都在收载之列。

• Food microbiology is treated at length, and the journal takes studies of the organisms that spoil food, that ferment it and that preserve it.食品微生物学占相当篇幅，该刊收载关于致使食品腐败、促成食品发酵与用于食品保藏微生物的研究。

• Environmental microbiology is named, and papers on microbes in water, in soil and in waste have a place in it.环境微生物学被点名，水体、土壤与废物中微生物的论文在其中有位置。

• Industrial microbiology is part of the remit, and the journal carries work on strains put to use in manufacturing and in the production of useful compounds.工业微生物学属于收稿范围，该刊刊载把菌株用之于制造以及用于有用化合物生产的研究。

• Medical microbiology is treated, and the journal admits papers on the organisms that cause disease and on the response of the host to them.医学微生物学得到处理，该刊收载关于致病微生物以及机体对其反应的论文。

• Pharmaceutical microbiology falls inside the scope, and papers on drugs of microbial origin and on the assay of such drugs are admitted.药物微生物学在收稿之列，关于微生物来源药物及其测定方法的论文都可见于其中。

• Veterinary microbiology is named, and the journal takes work on the pathogens of animals and on the organisms that live with them.兽医学微生物学被点名，该刊收载动物病原体以及与动物共栖微生物方面的研究。

• Molecular microbiology appears among the areas of special interest, and papers that reach down to the genetics of the organism are wanted.分子微生物学位列特别关注的方向，深入到微生物遗传层面的论文是其所欢迎的。

• The subject of the journal is microbiology at large, and a manuscript is judged on the microbiology in it rather than on the discipline it was written in.该刊的题材是广义的微生物学，稿件的取舍看其中的微生物学内容，而不看它写自哪一个学科门类。

History

• The journal began in 1961 as the publication of the Association of Microbiologists of India, and the society has been its owner ever since.该刊于 1961 年作为印度微生物学家协会的刊物创刊，此后会一直由该学会主办。

• The early volumes were produced in Calcutta, and the imprint recorded in the National Library of Medicine still names that city for the original run.最初的若干卷在加尔各答印行，美国国家医学图书馆保存的出版著录仍以这座城市标注创刊阶段。

• Printing later moved to New Delhi, where Springer India publishes the journal today, and the same imprint line records the move.印行后来迁到新德里，如今 Springer India 在此出版该刊，同一条出版著录也记下了这次迁动。

• The volume number has run with the year of publication, and the issue of October 2026 carries volume 66 of the series.卷号一路与出版年份同行，2026 年 10 月这一期是该刊的第 66 卷。

• Four numbers make a year, and they fall in March, June, September and December, which the journal's own scope page sets out.一年由四期组成，出版月份为 3 月、6 月、9 月与 12 月，该刊的范围说明页把这一点写明。

• The volume numbering marks the turn of the present arrangement, and the National Library of Medicine records that PubMed has covered the journal from volume 50, number 4, in 2010.卷号标出现行编排的转折点，美国国家医学图书馆记载 PubMed 自 2010 年第 50 卷第 4 期起收录此刊。

• Springer took over the publishing side, and the journal now sits on the publisher's own platform with its archive and its back numbers in one place.出版事务后来由 Springer 接手，该刊如今落在出版方自有的平台上，档案与过刊合在一处。

• The publishing model is hybrid, and papers are issued to subscribers while a portion of the articles is placed open access for every reader to reach.该刊采用混合出版模式，论文面向订阅者发行，同时有一部分文章以开放获取方式向所有读者开放。

• A median of seventeen days passes between submission and a first decision, and the journal reports 239,300 downloads in 2025.从投稿到首次决定的中位时间是 17 天，该刊公布的 2025 年下载量为 23.9 万次。

• The impact figure has moved unevenly, standing at 2.461 in 2021, falling to 2.1 in 2023 and 1.6 in 2024, and coming back to 2.2 in the 2025 edition.影响因子一路起伏，2021 年为 2.461，2023 年降到 2.1，2024 年为 1.6，2025 年版又回到 2.2。

• The officers of the society stand on the masthead, and the president, the past presidents and the treasurer of the Association of Microbiologists of India are named in the front matter.学会的职务人员列在刊头，印度微生物学家协会的主席、历任主席与司库的名字都见于卷首页。

• A page of journal updates carries the special issues, and one on microbial taxonomy and systematics has opened for submissions running into 2027.该刊的更新页面专登专号消息，其中一个关于微生物分类与系统学的专号正在面向 2027 年征稿。

• The publisher notes that more than half of the articles published in 2025 were related to one or more of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.出版方指出，2025 年刊出的论文中有一半以上与十七项可持续发展目标中的某一项或多项相关。

Editors

• Namita Singh is editor-in-chief, and she is listed as professor and general secretary in the Department of Bio and Nano Technology at Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology in Hisar.主编是（Namita Singh），编委页把她列在哈西尔的古尔贾姆布谢卡尔科技大学生物与纳米技术系，职衔为教授兼总务主任。

• Lilly Ganju is co-editor-in-chief, and she was formerly at the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences in Delhi and now directs research and development at Malwanchal University in Indore.共同主编是（Lilly Ganju），她早年任职于德里的国防生理与相关科学研究所，如今在印多尔马万查尔大学主持研发工作。

• Roughly two dozen editors are listed, and they come from research institutes, universities and government laboratories across India.编委约有二十余人，分别来自印度的研究机构、高等院校与政府实验室。

• The board reaches beyond the country, with members in Uzbekistan, South Africa, South Korea and the United States.编委成员亦来自境外，乌兹别克斯坦、南非、韩国与美国都有其人。

• Some of the editors hold senior posts, and the office bearers of the society are printed on the same page, with Prince Sharma as president, Sunil Khare as immediate past president, Sunil Pabbi as past president and Liveleen Shukla as treasurer.部分编委身居要职，学会的职务人员也印在同一页上，主席是（Prince Sharma），前任主席是（Sunil Khare），更早一任主席是（Sunil Pabbi），司库是（Liveleen Shukla）。

• Four associate editors are named, among them Preeti Chaturvedi, who heads the aquatic toxicology laboratory at CSIR-IITR in Lucknow.副主编列有四人，其中（Preeti Chaturvedi）主持勒克瑙的 CSIR-IITR 水生毒理实验室。

• Executive members of the society sit on the board as well, and among them are Samsher Singh Kanwar, Meenu Saraf and Namasivayam Vasudevan.协会的执行委员也在编委之列，其中有（Samsher Singh Kanwar）、（Meenu Saraf）与（Namasivayam Vasudevan）。

• Manuscripts are lodged in an editorial manager system on the publisher's site, and a pre-submission checklist is kept there for authors to work through first.稿件在出版方站点的编辑管理系统中递交，那里另备有投稿前清单，供作者先行逐条核对。

• Every article is peer reviewed, and the sequence runs from editorial screening to external referees and on to a decision taken by the editors.每篇论文都经同行评审，流程自编辑初筛起，经外部审稿人之后由编辑拍板。

• The forms the journal accepts are full-length papers, short communications, reviews and mini reviews, and authors are asked to declare any competing interest.该刊接受的形式有全文论文、短篇通讯、综述与微型综述，作者须申报任何利益冲突。

• Work that touches human subjects or animals is expected to carry the approval of the relevant ethics committee, and the journal keeps a page for ethics and disclosures.涉及人或动物的研究须得到相应伦理委员会批准，该刊另设有伦理与披露专栏。

• Open access can be bought for a single article alongside the subscription model, and the journal also runs special issues with named guest editors from India and abroad.在订阅模式之外，作者也可为单篇论文购买开放获取，该刊还设有专号，由来自印度与海外的客座编辑主持。

• The board is drawn to match the fields the journal claims, and it includes people who work on plantation crops, on dairy organisms, on clinical pathogens and on environmental strains.编委的构成与该刊自陈的领域相配，其中有人做热带作物，有人做乳品微生物，有人做临床病原体，也有人做环境菌株。