Microbial Cell is pleased to announce that it has been accepted for indexing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Thomson Reuters).Thus, Microbial Cell now appears in the Master Journal List of Thomson Reuters (see here). Journals indexed in ESCI have been evaluated by the Thomson Reuters editorial staff, which considered several factors during the selection process, including the journal’s publishing standards, its editorial content, and citation data from Web of Science. Note that as a selected journal, Microbial Cell remains under evaluation for inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded™ and other Thomson Reuters products.