Companion Journal to Marine Ecology Progress Series and Aquatic Biology
AME and MEPS have received international recognition as the leaders in their respective fields of science
History
Aquatic Microbial Ecology (AME) was founded by Otto Kinne, Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan and John Dolan. It is the successor to 'Marine Microbial Food Webs', which was founded by P. Bougis and F. Rassoulzadegan and published by the 'Institut Océanographique, Fondation Albert 1er Prince de Monaco', Paris, from 1985 to 1994. The last issue of 'Marine Microbial Food Webs' was Volume 8, Number 2.
According to the Journal CItation Reports 2020 release, AME features an Impact Factor (IF) of 1.841 from 4103 total cites (5-year IF = 2.562), Immediacy Index = 0.541, Eigenfactor = 0.00227.
Aim
AME serves as a worldwide forum for scientific communications on all aspects of aquatic microbial dynamics. In particular, the journal covers research on viruses, prokaryotes and eukaryotes - both planktonic and benthic, autotrophic and heterotrophic - in marine, limnetic and brackish habitats. AME strives for:
Scope
AME is international and interdisciplinary. It presents rigorously refereed and carefully selected Research Articles, Reviews and Notes, as well as Comments/Reply Comments (for details see AME 27:209), Opinion Pieces (previously called 'As I See It') and AME Specials. For details consult the Guidelines for Authors. Papers may be concerned with:
Conflicts of Interest
Authors, Reviewers and Editors must disclose relationships (e.g. financial, economic, institutional) that may affect the integrity of the scientific process.
Authors may choose either Subscriber Access (no Publication Fee) or Open Access (Article Processing Charges for authors apply) for their article at the time of manuscript acceptance. Open Access is issued under the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) Licence. Copyright remains with the original copyright owners, and re-use is unrestricted. The Article Processing Charges (APCs) are:
Articles submitted on or after 1 April 2019
All articles will become freely accessible to all users 5 years after publication. In addition, Feature Articles are published with Open Access at no cost to the authors.
Only articles clearly marked with "CC BY" in the top right corner of the front page are published with the Creative Commons by Attribution Licence. The CC-BY option was not available for Inter-Research journals before 1 April 2013. Articles marked "Open Access" or "Free Access" but not marked "CC BY" are made freely accessible at the time of publication but are subject to standard copyright law regarding reproduction and distribution.
* As a rough guide, 1 printed page = 2 to 3 manuscript pages
Tax information
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All AME articles are available online. Articles published >5 years ago may be accessed freely. Currently articles published in 2015 or earlier are freely available.
Annual Publication Program/ Subscription Information
Prices do not include Value Added Tax (VAT)
2021: 2 volumes, Vols 86 and 87
2021 Open Access 'double-dipping' adjustment calculation (rounded): AME: 456 + (1.3% + (17.0–16.5)%) = 464 (+1.8%)
2020: 2 volumes, Vols 84 and 85
Back issues (print; Volumes 1 to 8) are available from the Institut Océanographique, 195, rue Saint-Jacques, F-75005 Paris, France. Volumes 9 onwards are available from Inter-Research for substantially reduced prices; for details write to Inter-Research.
Beginning with Volume 9, tables of contents and abstracts are available online free of charge for all articles.
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