To make scanning JIMB easier, after several requests, and in consultation with the JIMB Senior Editors and others, the following nine areas have been established as “Sections/Categories” (i.e. subdivisions) for JIMB:

  • Biocatalysis

  • Bioenergy/Biofuels/Biochemicals

  • Biotechnology Methods

  • Environmental Microbiology

  • Fermentation, Cell Culture and Bioengineering

  • Genetics and Molecular Biology of Industrial Organisms

  • Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology

  • Natural Products

  • Systems Biotechnology

For all future original article submissions authors will be asked to choose the subsection they wish their article to appear as part of the submission process.

Also available are Reviews, Mini-Reviews (new!), and Short Communications. As Reviews will not be separated into subdivisions it is ensured that they appear at the beginning of each issue.

For all manuscripts currently in production our publisher, Springer, has arranged that their corrections team adds a query in proof to these articles that the authors shall assign one of the nine new categories to their original articles and mark this as correction. Reviews and Mini-Reviews are excepted, of course.

This enhancement to JIMB will make our journal more useful to our scientific community.

Editor-in-Chief

JIMB