About Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy is a major forum exclusively devoted to antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiparasitic agents and chemotherapy. It is also a key source for microbiologists, pharmaceutical researchers, biochemists, pharmacologists, clinicians, and other specialists in infectious diseases.

Secions include:

• Instructions to Authors (January issue)
• Guest Commentaries
• Minireviews
• Chemistry; Biosynthesis
• Mechanisms of Action: Physiological Effects
• Mechanisms of Resistance
• Susceptibility
• Biologic Response Modifiers
• Analytical Procedures
• Antiviral Agents
• Experimental Therapeutics
• Clinical Therapeutics
• Pharmacology
• Recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approvals

Monthly with 4,900 pages in 2008. Print ISSN: 0066-4804. Online ISSN: 1098-6596.

AAC has an impact factor of 4.390 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2007 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #15 by impact factor out of 94 journals in the Microbiology category as well as #27 out of 205 journals in the Pharmacology and Pharmacy category.

Indexed/Abstracted in: Biological Abstracts, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Contents, Index Medicus, EMBASE, Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Microbiology Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and more.