Thanks to authors, reviewers and readers

By the end of year 2022, Microbes and Infectious Diseases has been indexed in 3 prestigious international platform/database sites, namely EBSCO Periodicals, African Journals OnLine (AJOL), and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Theses actions would support the Journal in the road of indexing in Scopus. PMC, and WOS as soon as we can.

After successful release of 3 volumes (10 issues) of Microbes and Infectious Diseases, we’ve received 316 submissions from different countries (Africa: Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Burkina Faso; Asia: Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, and China; Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Austria, and Italy; Latin America: Cuba, Brazil, and Australia). Although many of our papers are still in the peer review process, we have already published 302 papers online with a 37% rejection rate. The median time from submission to online publication is 36 days.

The Editorial Board Members have worked hard to meet the goals of Microbes and Infectious Diseases in delivering timely decisions and maintaining publication of high-quality papers through vigorous and scientific peer review process. Besides, we believe that authors’ response to the valuable comments of our editors and reviewers is a cornerstone for impacting in the international research community.

We would like to introduce our deep thanks to 120 individual reviewers who give so freely of their time and expertise to critically evaluating manuscripts for the journal. Our reviewers, like our authors, come from all over the world to maintain a wide authorship, readership and global citation activity. It is noteworthy that within the first 6 months of our journal’s age, authors and reviewers are representing over 20 countries.

The policies and guidelines of Microbes and Infectious Diseases would help secure sufficient quality and novelty of content to become competitive with our national, regional and international competitors.

We would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge our reviewers more publicly, highlighting our most outstanding reviewers. Those reviewers who not only carry out many assignments but also demonstrate professionalism and provide comments that truly help the authors improve their work.