Microbiome

Microbiome is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal published by BioMed Central that was established in 2013 and covers the microbiomes colonizing humans, animals, plants and the environment, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 14.9（Microbiome）是由（BioMed Central）出版的完全开放获取同行评审期刊，2013 年创刊，涵盖定植于人类、动物、植物与环境的微生物组，2025 年影响因子为 14.9。

Scope

• The scope encompasses studies of microbiomes colonizing humans, animals, plants or the environment, both built and natural or manipulated, as in agriculture其范围涵盖定植于人类、动物、植物或环境的微生物组研究，既包括建成环境、也包括自然或被改造的环境，例如农业环境。^[1]
• It considers studies on the development and application of meta-omics approaches or novel bioinformatics tools该刊考虑宏组学方法或新型生物信息学工具的开发与应用研究。^[2]
• It emphasizes community and host interaction with structure-function relationships that advance the field该刊重视群落与宿主的互作，尤其强调能推动领域发展的结构-功能关系。
• It is especially interested in studies that go beyond descriptive omics surveys and include experimental or theoretical approaches that mechanistically support proposed microbiome functions该刊尤其关注超越描述性组学调查的研究，要求包含以机制性证据支持所提微生物组功能的实验或理论方法。^[3]
• It seeks studies that establish cause and effect relationships between microbiomes and their hosts or environments该刊寻求能够确立微生物组与其宿主或环境之间因果关系的研究。
• Studies of individual microbial isolates or species that do not explore how they affect the complex microbiome will not be considered不探索单个微生物分离株或物种如何影响复杂微生物组的研究将不予考虑。

History

• It was established by BioMed Central, part of Springer Nature, in 2013 and has been fully open access since its launch该刊于 2013 年由（BioMed Central）创办，该社属（Springer Nature）旗下，自创刊起即完全开放获取。
• It works closely with its sister journals Environmental Microbiome and Animal Microbiome, and with BMC Microbiology该刊与姊妹刊（Environmental Microbiome）和（Animal Microbiome）以及（BMC Microbiology）紧密协作。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 14.9, and its 2023 metrics included a five-year Impact Factor of 17.9, SNIP of 2.725 and SJR of 3.802其 2025 年影响因子为 14.9，2023 年指标包括五年影响因子 17.9、（SNIP）2.725 与（SJR）3.802。
• In 2024 the median time from submission to first editorial decision was 22 days and from submission to acceptance 176 days2024 年投稿至首次编辑决定的中位时间为 22 天，投稿至接收为 176 天。
• Articles are published online without print issues and carry unique article numbers instead of page numbers文章在线发表、不出版印刷期次，使用唯一条目编号而非页码。
• It operates a closed peer-review system in which suitable manuscripts are sent to at least two reviewers before the editorial team makes the final decision该刊实行闭合同行评审制度，合适稿件送交至少两位审稿人评审，最终决定由编辑团队作出。

Editors

• Its Editor-in-Chief is Jacques Ravel of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the United States其主编为（Jacques Ravel），任职于美国（University of Maryland School of Medicine）。
• It is also edited by Elizabeth Wellington of the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom另一主编为（Elizabeth Wellington），任职于英国（University of Warwick）。
• Its Senior Editors include Greg Amos of the Waltham Petcare Science Institute in the United Kingdom其资深编辑包括（Greg Amos），任职于英国（Waltham Petcare Science Institute）。
• Senior Editors also include Laure Bindels of Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium and Yanfen Cheng of Nanjing Agricultural University in China资深编辑还包括比利时（Universite catholique de Louvain）的（Laure Bindels）与中国（Nanjing Agricultural University）的（Yanfen Cheng）。
• They further include Victor Carrion Bravo of the University of Malaga in Spain and Thomas Clavel of the University Hospital Aachen in Germany还包括西班牙（University of Malaga）的（Victor Carrion Bravo）与德国（University Hospital Aachen）的（Thomas Clavel）。
• The editorial board draws members from many countries and spans human, animal, plant and environmental microbiome research编委来自多个国家，覆盖人类、动物、植物与环境微生物组等研究方向。