The Journal of Bacteriology (JB) is the flagship journal of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Indeed, many of the other current ASM journals are direct spin-offs of JB. In my opinion it is the most important journal in the fields of microbiology that fall within its scope. I have scanned the Table of Contents of every issue of JB published since I was a graduate student and it is rare that I do not find something of direct interest to ongoing research in my lab or to the graduate level course I teach on prokaryotic molecular biology. I have published more than 80 papers in JB and I count several as among my most important contributions. Indeed, what I think is the best of these was first rejected by multiple “high-profile” journals.

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在细菌学杂志（JB）是美国微生物学会（ASM）的旗舰刊物。实际上，许多其他当前的ASM期刊都是JB的直接衍生产品。我认为这是微生物学领域内最重要的期刊。自从我读研究生以来，我已经扫描了每一期JB的目录，很少发现我对实验室正在进行的研究或我所教授的原核分子生物学课程没有直接兴趣。我在JB上发表了80多篇论文，其中几篇是我最重要的贡献。的确，我认为最好的就是首先被多家“知名”杂志所拒绝。