Draft:MSphere

mSphere is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. It was created in 2015^[1] by Michael Imperiale, to provide a venue for publishing outstanding research in all areas of the microbial sciences. The current Editor in Chief is Ira Blader^[2]. The current Senior Editors are Lark Coffey, Craig Ellermeier, Paul Fey, Ryo Honda, Michael D. L. Johnson, Joanne Parish, Marcela Pasetti, Rebecca Shapiro, Garret Suen, Vincent Young, and Bing Zhai. It has an Editorial Board composed of leading microbiology researchers from 20 countries^[3]. The journal focuses on publishing high quality science while emphasizing open access publishing, rapid peer review decisions, limited rounds of peer review, and undertaking publishing experiments in order to improve scientific publishing for all.

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Declined by Pythoncoder 13 days ago. Last edited by Headbomb 12 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: Needs independent sources —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 14:09, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Comment: In accordance with Wikipedia's Conflict of interest guideline, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. Toxoguy (talk) 19:33, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

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