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Nature Reviews Microbiology Template

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About the Nature Reviews Microbiology format

Nature Reviews Microbiology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature, covering Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Gut microbiota and health, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology. Over its lifetime it has published 4,651 papers, which have received 807,899 citations.

PublisherSpringer Nature
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (Nature)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Reviews Microbiology 12, 45–58 (2023).

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Publishes research inBacteriophages and microbial interactions Gut microbiota and health Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
ISSN1740-1526
Citation impact (2-yr)30.39
h-index487
i10-index1,713
Top institutions publishing herehttps://openalex.org/I4210093580
Journal websitewww.nature.com
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Papers published in Nature Reviews Microbiology per year

225
2014
194
2015
194
2016
177
2017
194
2018
174
2019
187
2020
176
2021
168
2022
159
2023
135
2024
129
2025

Citation impact of Nature Reviews Microbiology by publication year

36K
2014
34.4K
2015
36K
2016
31.9K
2017
50.9K
2018
33K
2019
43.6K
2020
28.1K
2021
22.8K
2022
19.8K
2023
7.8K
2024
2.2K
2025

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

Most-cited papers in Nature Reviews Microbiology

Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses

Jie Cui, Fang Li, Zheng‐Li Shi · 10 Dec 2018

Coronaviruses cause respiratory and intestinal infections in animals and humans 1 . They were not considered to be highly pathogenic to humans until the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002 and 2003 in Guangdong province, China 2-5 , as the coronaviruses that circulated before that time in humans mostly caused mild infections…

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Nature Reviews Microbiology template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Nature Reviews Microbiology format?
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What reference style does Nature Reviews Microbiology use?
Nature Reviews Microbiology uses Superscript numbered (Nature) references, shown as superscript numerals in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Reviews Microbiology 12, 45–58 (2023).
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Nature Portfolio journal (Springer Nature). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by Springer Nature.
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