About This Journal

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC)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.

Sections include:

  • 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: AgBiotech News and Information, Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Caplus, Current Contents, EMBASE, Illustrata, Index Veterinarius, Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A), Science Citation Index Expanded, Summon, and more.