Journal History
2012 | The inaugural issue was released. Antibiotics was published as a quarterly journal. |
2015 | The journal Twitter account was established. |
2016 | Antibiotics was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), PubMed (NLM), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science). Full-text papers were archived in the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC). |
2017 | Antibiotics announced the first edition of the Travel Award. |
2018 | Antibiotics was indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE – Web of Science) and BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science). |
2019 |
Antibiotics received its first Impact Factor (2.921), ranked 40/89 (Q2) in “Infectious Diseases” and 109/267 (Q2) in “Pharmacology & Pharmacy”. Antibiotics established the following sections: Antibiotics started the Topic Board. |
2020 |
Antibiotics received an Impact Factor (3.893), ranked 23/93 (Q1) in “Infectious Diseases” and 64/270 (Q1) in “Pharmacology & Pharmacy”. Antibiotics adopted a monthly publication schedule. Antibiotics started the Reviewer Board. Antibiotics announced the first edition of the Best Paper Award, Reviewer Award and Young Investigator Award. |
2021 |
Antibiotics received an Impact Factor (4.639), ranked 26/92 (Q2) in “Infectious Diseases” and 75/275 (Q2) in “Pharmacology & Pharmacy”. Antibiotics established the following sections: |
2022 |
The year 2022 marked the 10th Anniversary of Antibiotics. |
Editor-in-Chief
2012–2019 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Christopher C. Butler |
2019–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nicholas Dixon |
Section Editor-in-Chief
2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Albert Figueras for the section on Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Lipman for the section on Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Drugs. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Carlos M. Franco for the section on Novel Antimicrobial Agents. Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Jean-Marc Sabatier for the section on Antimicrobial Peptides. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. John E. Gustafson for the section on Mechanism and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. William N. Setzer for the section on Plant-Derived Antibiotics. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jesus Simal-Gandara for the section on The Global Need for Effective Antibiotics. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Anthony William Coleman for the section on Mechanisms of Antibiotic Action. |
2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Adelaide Almeida for the section on Bacteriophages. |
2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Manuel Simões for the section on Biosynthesis and Combinatorial Approaches in Antimicrobial Discovery. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Max Maurin for the section on Antibiotics in Animal Health. Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Wolf-Rainer Abraham for the section on Antibiofilm Strategies. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Aaron J. Oakley for the section on Structures of Bacterial Proteins. Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Anders Løbner-Olesen for the section on Biochemical and Genetics Studies of Infectious Disease Progression and Intervention. |
2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Serena Riela for the section on Antimicrobial Materials and Surface. Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Mehran Monchi for the section on Antibiotic Therapy in Infectious Diseases. |
2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shiping Tian for the section on Fungi and Their Metabolites. |
2024–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Krisztina M. Papp-Wallace for the section on Mechanism and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance. |