What is this collection about?
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to human and environmental health, as harmful pathogens and bacteria become increasingly resistant to physician treatment. Antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria are rapidly spreading and have been identified in almost all environments, from urban wastewater to the most pristine environments on Earth. With human and ecosystem health being increasingly threatened, is critical to understand where antibiotic resistance is harbored and how it is disseminating.
With this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions that highlight the spread of antibiotic resistance across the environment.
Why is this collection important?
This is a cross-journal collection between Nature Water, Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment, Communications Sustainability, npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, npj Veterinary Sciences, and Scientific Reports. Authors are welcome to submit to any of the participating journals. All manuscripts published in the collection are hosted on a dedicated nature portfolio portal, giving articles high visibility beyond the journal they are published in.
Why submit to a collection?
Collections like this one help promote high-quality science. They are led by In-House Editors who are experts in their fields and supported by a dedicated team of Commissioning Editors and Managing Editors at Springer Nature. Collection manuscripts typically see higher citations, downloads, and Altmetric scores, and provide a one-stop-shop on a cutting-edge topic of interest.
Who is involved?
Communications Earth & Environment is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members.
Guest editor for Communications Earth & Environment
Malak M Tfaily, Phd, University of Arizona, USA
Dr. Malak Tfaily is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona and Principal Investigator of the Tfaily Lab for Ecosystem Genomics. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the Lebanese University in Beirut and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Florida State University.Dr. Tfaily's research program integrates advanced mass spectrometry, metabolomics, and multi-omics approaches to investigate the molecular underpinnings of ecosystem processes in the face of global environmental change.
Communications Sustainability is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members.
Nature Communications is edited by in-house professional editors.
Nature Water is edited by in-house professional editors.
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is edited by a team of external academic editors.
npj Antimicrobials and resistance is edited by a team of external academic editors.
npj Veterinary Sciences is edited by a team of external academic editors.
Scientific Reports is managed by in-house professional editors and edited by Editorial Board Members.
Our editors work closely together to ensure the quality of our published papers and consistency in author experience.
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