Current Opinion in Microbiology

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 divided into themed sections, covering the following topics:

• 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.

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.