Rating of Scientific Journals — page 15

This review and the criteria we outline aim to develop a unified framework to improve our understanding of subseafloor microbial ecology, enable quantification of geomicrobial processes, and facilitate their accurate assimilation into biogeochemical models.

PLOS Medicine is the leading open-access medical journal, providing an influential venue for outstanding research and commentary on the major challenges to human health worldwide. We specifically seek to publish articles relevant to clinicians and policymakers across a range of settings that adhere to the highest standards of methodology, ethics and reporting and address the major biological, environmental, social, and political determinants of health.

Clinical Microbiology Reviews (CMR) analyzes the latest developments in clinical microbiology and immunology. Key topics include pathogenic mechanisms, individual and groups of microbial pathogens, clinical and laboratory aspects of newly recognized and reemerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial agents and their applications, and diagnostic laboratory technologies. Clinical and medical microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, public health workers, and infectious disease specialists all turn to the journal to discover not only the current state of knowledge in the field, but also balanced, thought-provoking perspectives on controversial issues of the day.

For 45 years, the Aldrichimica Acta has been an international forum for the frontiers of chemical research. Articles, written by chemists from around the world, cover a variety of topics usually based on a synthetic theme involving organic, organometallic, bio-organic, or inorganic chemistry.