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Current Opinion in Microbiology Template

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Current Opinion in Microbiology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier, covering Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

PublisherElsevier
Reference styleNumbered (Elsevier)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Current Opinion in Microbiology 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inBacterial Genetics and Biotechnology Bacteriophages and microbial interactions Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
ISSN1369-5274
Citation impact (2-yr)6.79
h-index247
i10-index2,564
Total citations284,304
Article processing charge$3,970
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitewww.journals.elsevier.com
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Papers published in Current Opinion in Microbiology per year

139
2014
135
2015
145
2016
176
2017
102
2018
76
2019
118
2020
145
2021
98
2022
117
2023
115
2024
73
2025

Citation impact of Current Opinion in Microbiology by publication year

11.3K
2014
10.6K
2015
11.2K
2016
14K
2017
7.7K
2018
7.6K
2019
5.1K
2020
4.7K
2021
3.2K
2022
3.3K
2023
1.4K
2024
243
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Current Opinion in Microbiology

Antibiotics: past, present and future

Matthew I. Hutchings, Andrew W. Truman, Barrie Wilkinson · 1 Oct 2019

The first antibiotic, salvarsan, was deployed in 1910. In just over 100 years antibiotics have drastically changed modern medicine and extended the average human lifespan by 23 years. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 started the golden age of natural product antibiotic discovery that peaked in the mid-1950s. Since then, a gradual decline in antibiotic…

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