Recently, Medicine in Microecology (ISSN: 2590-0978), an official journal initiated and sponsored by Southern Medical University (SMU), was included in Scopus, the world’s largest database of peer-reviewed publication abstracts and citations (see Note 1 for more information).
At the last count, all papers ever published by Medicine in Microecology have been uploaded into Scopus, where readers can search for relevant information. The journal’s high level of scholarship is fully affirmed by the Content Selection & Advisory Board of Scopus, whose indexing is believed to largely increase the journal’s international impact among the academia and publishing circles.
Medicine in Microecology, published by Elsevier, aims to promote the research and transformation of human microbiology in the medical field. It offers a high-quality platform for clinicians and researchers to publish and stay abreast of the frontier development of medical human microbiome studies. Its scope covers mainly the accumulation of microbiome population data, methodological optimization and innovation, mechanism studies on microbiome/host interaction and clinical translation.
The editor-in-chief of the journal is Professor Zhou Hongwei (see Note 2 for his personal profile). The deputy editors-in-chief include Dr. Zhao Fangqing, Dr. Zhang Chenhong and Professor Antoine Snijders. Dr. Zhao is a researcher from Beijing Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is also sponsored by the “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”; Dr. Zhang is a researcher representing the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, who is also supported by the “National Excellent Young Scientists Fund”; Professor Snijders is an in-service scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States.
The editorial board is composed of the following scholars:
Professor Yasuhiro Koga (President of the Japanese Scientific Association for Probiotics, Japan), Professor Lai Hsin-Chih (College of Medicine at Chang Gung University, Taiwan, China), Professor Fu Jingyuan (Medical Center at University of Groningen, Netherlands), Professor Wang Jun (Institute of Microbiology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), among some others.
Besides, the advisory board members include:
Professor Li Mengfeng (President of SMU, a distinguished professor of the national “Chang Jiang Scholars Program”), Professor Emad M. El-Omar (Director of the Microbiome Research Center at St George Hospital in Sydney, Australia, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Gut).
Medicine in Microecology is an open access journal to publish original research papers in microecology and related fields. All papers will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Once accepted, the full text of the article will be available on the journal’s website. The scope of the journal includes but is not limited to the following:
Original papers relating to bioinformatics and biotechnologies, microbiome/host interaction modeling and mechanism studies, surveys and clinical trials, studies on different types of microbes (bacteria, fungi, virus, phages, etc.), and on different body sites (gut, oral cavity, lung, skin, genital tract, etc.) and their relationships with various diseases (gastrointestinal diseases, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, neurological diseases, etc.).
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About Scopus: The Scopus database indexes more than 25,100 journals from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, including more than 9.8 million academic conference papers, 210,000 books, and 44 million patents from the world’s five major patent institutions (by January, 2021). It covers 27 disciplines in 4 categories, including natural sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, social sciences, art and humanities, etc. It is worth noting that Scopus’s large database is a key factor in its popularity among researchers, and that an indexed journal is likely to gain more visits and readings.
About Editor-in-chief: Professor Zhou Hongwei is Director of Microbiome Medicine Center and Division of Laboratory Medicine of Zhujiang Hospital affiliated to SMU, a distinguished professor of the “Guangdong Zhujiang Scholars Program”, and a national candidate for the “Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Project”. He is currently sponsored by the “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”. Professor Zhou is also a fellow of many academic associations like, e.g. the Microbiology and Immunology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the Laboratory Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the Laboratory Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the Microecological Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Association of Precision Medicine Application, the Laboratory Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association.
Professor Zhou works closely and extensively with colleagues specializing in clinical medicine and basic medicine to study the microbiome in different parts of the human body like, e.g. intestine, oral cavity, infection, reproductive tract, etc., based on an array of efficient and accurate methods for analyzing the diversity of microbial communities. His research thus aims to explore the important part that microbial communities play in the occurrence and development of diseases. Professor Zhou has so far made some systematic breakthroughs in mechanism studies of the human microbiome and developmental studies of its diagnostic methodologies. Notably, he has proposed the Regional Dependence Hypothesis (ReMiDi) in cognitive and diagnostic modeling of complex microbial communities.
