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Microbes & Immunity is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of the interactions between microbes and the immune system. The journal provides an open access publishing platform for researchers, clinicians, and scientists to disseminate their original research, reviews, and perspectives related to various aspects of microbes and immunity. The journal aims to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange in the fields of microbiology, immunology, infectious diseases, and related disciplines.

The scope of the Journal of Microbes & Immunity encompasses a broad range of topics within the field of microbial immunology, including but not limited to:

Microbiology

Bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic biology
Microbial pathogenesis and virulence mechanisms
Microbial genetics, genomics, and proteomics
Antimicrobial resistance and microbial evolution

Immunology

Innate and adaptive immune responses
Cytokines, chemokines, and immune signaling pathways
Immune regulation, inflammation, and immune-mediated diseases
Host defense mechanisms and immune biomarkers

Microbes and Immunity

Microbe-host interactions
Microbiome–immune system crosstalk
Immunomodulation by microbes or microbial products
Vaccines, immunotherapies, and antimicrobial peptides

Translational and Clinical Research

Infectious diseases and immune-related disorders
Diagnostic tools and immune profiling technologies
Preclinical and clinical studies with antimicrobial or immunological relevance

The journal aims to provide an inclusive platform for fundamental, translational, and clinical research that advances understanding of microbes, immunity, and their interactions.

2. Publishing Model

Gold open access. All articles published by MI are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.

3. Copyright and License to Publish

License

Articles in MI are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.

4. Editorial Board

For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.

5. Editorial Policies

All manuscripts submitted to MI should adhere to AccScience Publishing's Editorial Policies.

6. Peer Review

The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes double-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process.

7. Publication Ethics Statement

MI fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of MI take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.

8. Contact

Please visit the page of Editorial Office for details about different queries.

Microbes & Immunity, Electronic ISSN: 3029-2883 Print ISSN: 3041-0886, Published by AccScience Publishing