About the Journal
Focus & Scope | Aim | Audience | Review Process | Editorial Team | About the Editors | Facts About the Journal | Benefits | Abstracting and Indexing Information | Journal Ethics | Plagiarism Policy | Archival Policy | Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing | Ahead of Print Policy | Advertisements | Subscription Information | Publisher
The Modern Journal of Microbial Biology (MJMB) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Microbial Biology from across the globe. The journal is owned by Prof. Dr. Emad Abd Elmoniem Mohamed Ebada and published by the Scientific Scholar. The journal aims to present the most current information in Microbial Biology that is relevant to the current practice.
Focus & Scope
The Modern Journal of Microbial Biology covers topics related to Microbiology, but are not limited to Agricultural Microbiology, Bacteriology, Evolutionary Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Medical Microbiology, Microbial Biology, Microbial Biotechnology, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Genetics, Pharmaceuticals Microbiology, Plant-Microbe interactions, Systematic Microbiology, Veterinary Microbiology, Virology.
Aim
Aims to publish the most complete and reliable information on the discoveries, experimental approaches and current research works on Microbial ecology, Medical Microbiology, Microbial physiology, etc., with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure high quality of scientific works related to the field.
Audience
Our audience includes all scientists in the field of microbiology (including but not limited to Microbiologists, Medical Researchers, Geneticists, Veterinary science professionals, Pharmaceutical Researchers), Graduated students, Governmental and private organizations, and Public.
Review Process
MJMB has a highly rigorous double-blinded peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts of interest, affiliations and financial disclosures such that the published content is not biased.
In-house submissions that contain the work of any editorial board member, are not allowed to be reviewed by that editorial board member and all decisions regarding this manuscript are made by an independent editor. In addition, these manuscripts are reviewed by the two external reviewers. This is also disclosed in the published manuscript under the section of Conflict of Interest.
Editorial Team
The editorial board comprises a panel of international experts in Microbial Biology from various countries to provide their expertise and guidance to the Editor-In-Chief in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the journal’s purpose.
About the Editor
Prof. Dr. Emad A. Abada PhD
editor@modernjmicrobiol.com
Prof. of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. He has got his B.Sc. in Botany from the faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt, 1992. He has got his master’s in Microbiology from the Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt, 1996. He has got his PhD. from the Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Giessen University, Giessen, Germany, 2002. He was awarded a Post-doc fellowship at the faculty of Science, Chonnam University, South Korea from 2006-2008. According to googol scholar, Prof. Dr. Abada had published 33 papers including 2 book chapters in the field of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology with 281 citations and 10 h-index, mostly in impact factor international journal. Prof. Abada was the supervisor of many master and doctor students. Prof. Abada was a principal investigator and co-investigator of many research projects funded by high institution funder. He participated in many international and local conferences during his carrier.
Facts About the Journal
MJMB is a peer-reviewed international journal with a double-blind review process. Its frequency of publication is continuous. The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand.
Benefits
A manuscript published in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees. The author retains the copyright of the manuscript and the figures. This allows authors to extend their exposure in the world of medical research and get worldwide recognition for their work.
Abstracting and Indexing Information
The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, ProQuest, ReadCube, CrossRef, PorticoJournal Ethics
The journal is committed to meeting and upholding ethical guidelines at all stages of the publication process. We follow the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines Section.
Plagiarism Policy
We provide plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system. We encourage our editors and reviewers to use the plagiarism check. The manuscript’s found to have plagiarism is rejected.
Archival Policy
We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our manuscripts are assigned a DOI number from CROSSREF, and we are members of Crossref https://crossref.org.
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
Modern Journal of Microbial Biology is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Ahead of Print Policy
Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. The journal has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.
Advertisements
While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place (https://scientificscholar.com/adv-policies/) to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content are not biased or influenced by the advertisement.
“Pop-up” and “Banner” advertisement appears at a fixed location on the page and does not interfere with the reading/display of the manuscript in any form. (https://modernjmicrobiol.com/advertise/)
All advertisements are approved in consultation with Editor-In-Chief/the Editorial Board.
Advertisers submit their advertisements without prior information of the journal content to be published.
Subscription Information
MJMB is a continuous publication and published manuscripts in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees.
The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand. The journal offers a Print-on-Demand subscription – https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions/.
Publisher
Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.
The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.