Current Opinion in Microbiology (COMICR) publishes authoritative, comprehensive, and systematic reviews. COMICR helps specialists keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of microbiology. Expert authors annotate the most interesting papers from the expanding volume of information published today, saving valuable time and giving the reader insight on areas of importance.

Current Opinion in Microbiology is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals and is a companion to the new primary research, open access journal, Current Research in Microbial Sciences (CRMICR). CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.

Current Opinion in Microbiology is divided into themed sections. It consists of 6 issues per year covering the following sections, each of which is reviewed once a year:
Host-microbe interactions: bacteria
Host-microbe interactions: viruses
Host-microbe interactions: fungi
Host-microbe interactions: parasites
Cell regulation
Environmental microbiology
Microbiota
Antimicrobials
Microbial Systems and Synthetic Biology


There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. The journal builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating reproducible biomedical research targeted at improving human health.

Expertise: Expert authors, who are leaders in their field, are invited to write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject and provide short annotations to the papers that they think are most relevant
Comprehensiveness: There are 27 high-impact Current Opinion review journals in a range of subjects from food science to green and sustainable chemistry
Impact: In addition to a vast readership, Current Opinion titles enjoy high citations, Impact Factors, and CiteScores.
Discoverability: Articles get high visibility and maximum exposure on an industry-leading platform that reaches a vast global audience.

Selection of topics to be reviewed
Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected.

Reviews
Authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasising the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.

Review articles in Current Opinion in Microbiology are by invitation only.

Editorial Overview
Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.

Ethics in Publishing: General Statement
The Editor(s) and Publisher of this Journal believe that there are fundamental principles underlying scholarly or professional publishing. While this may not amount to a formal 'code of conduct', these fundamental principles with respect to the authors' paper are that the paper should: i) be the authors' own original work, which has not been previously published elsewhere, ii) reflect the authors' own research and analysis and do so in a truthful and complete manner, iii) properly credit the meaningful contributions of co-authors and co-researchers, iv) not be submitted to more than one journal for consideration, and v) be appropriately placed in the context of prior and existing research. Of equal importance are ethical guidelines dealing with research methods and research funding, including issues dealing with informed consent, research subject privacy rights, conflicts of interest, and sources of funding. While it may not be possible to draft a 'code' that applies adequately to all instances and circumstances, we believe it useful to outline our expectations of authors and procedures that the Journal will employ in the event of questions concerning author conduct. With respect to conflicts of interest, the Publisher now requires authors to declare any conflicts of interest that relate to papers accepted for publication in this Journal. A conflict of interest may exist when an author or the author's institution has a financial or other relationship with other people or organizations that may inappropriately influence the author's work. A conflict can be actual or potential and full disclosure to the Journal is the safest course. All submissions to the Journal must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. The Journal may use such information as a basis for editorial decisions and may publish such disclosures if they are believed to be important to readers in judging the manuscript. A decision may be made by the Journal not to publish on the basis of the declared conflict.

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Editors-in-Chief
Judith Armitage
Oxford, United Kingdom
Joan Mecsas
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Editorial Board
Melanie Blokesch
Lausanne, Switzerland
Vern Carruthers
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Brendan Cormack
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Robert A. Cramer Jr.
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Andrew Darwin
New York, New York, United States
Diego De Mendoza
Rosario, Argentina
Jeff Errington
Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
B Brett Finlay
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sarah Fortune
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nancy Freitag
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Celia Garcia
São Paulo, Brazil
Bill Goldman
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Robert Hancock
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Regine Hengge
Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Hube
Jena, Germany
Jean-Paul Latgé
Paris, France
Michael Laub
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Jeffery Miller
Los Angeles, California, United States
Aaron Mitchell
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Valerie Mizrahi
Cape Town, South Africa
Joseph Mougous
Seattle, Washington, United States
Richard Novick
New York, New York, United States
Chad A. Rappleye
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Chihiro Sasakawa
Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Willem van Schaik, PhD
Birmingham, United Kingdom
David Shub
Albany, New York, United States
L. David Sibley
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Thomas J Silhavy
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Eric P. Skaar
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Geoffrey Smith
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen
Marburg, Germany
Mitchell Sogin
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States
Dominique Soldati-Favre
Geneva, Switzerland
Jason Stajich
Riverside, California, United States
Olivia Steele-Mortimer
Hamilton, Montana, United States
Christoph Tang
Oxford, United Kingdom
Fred C Tenover
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Kenneth Timmis
Braunschweig, Germany
Matthew Waldor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Graham C. Walker
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
David Weiss
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Morimasa M Yagisawa
Shinagawa-Ku, Japan
Igor B. Zhulin
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States