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.

Sections 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
  

AAC has an impact factor of 4.153 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2006 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #30 by impact factor out of 199 journals in the Pharmacology & Pharmacy category as well as #15 out of 88 journals in the Microbiology 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.