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IMA Fungus

IMA Fungus will cease to be published by BMC as of January 1st, 2025. The journal will continue in cooperation with a new publisher, Pensoft. Please contact the Editor-in-Chief for information regarding the new publisher and submission process. To submit your new manuscript to IMA Fungus, please visit the new submission system.

BMC will continue to host an archive of all articles previously published in the journal and all articles published in IMA Fungus during its time with BMC will remain fully searchable via the BMC website.

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  4. Authors: M. Catherine Aime, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Konstanze Bensch, Lei Cai, Pedro W. Crous, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Paul M. Kirk, Robert Lücking, Tom W. May, Elaine Malosso, Scott A. Redhead, Amy Y. Rossman, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines…

    Content type: Nomenclature

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Mycology research on the front line of environmental and health challenges

Mycology crucially contributes to the understanding of the raising threat that fungi present for humans, plants and animals, as well as their role in ecology and environment diversity. David Hawksworth, Editor-in-Chief, and Wieland Meyer, President of the International Mycological Association, tell us more in interview blog.

Dark fungi: discovery and recognition of unseen fungal diversity

This topical collection, compiled by Robert Lücking and David Hawksworth, flags papers that in some way relate to dark fungi taxonomy and nomenclature, including methodological approaches, nomenclature, and associated topics such as important resources, the extent of unknown fungal diversity, or aspects of species concepts in lineages only known from sequence data.

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Mycology at Springer Nature

At Springer Nature, we are committed to raising the quality of academic research across Microbiology. We've now created a new page, highlighting our mycology journals and mycology content. 

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Aims and scope

IMA Fungus, founded in 2010, is the flagship journal of the International Mycological Association (IMA). The IMA represents the interests of mycology and mycologists worldwide, through a series of regional and national organizations, and is responsible for the now four-yearly International Mycological Congresses (IMCs). The journal considers contributions from all areas of mycology expected to be of interest to the wider mycological community, from basic research to applications. It also includes editorials, news, correspondence, reports of mycological meetings, information on awards and mycologists, and book reviews. IMA Fungus is mandated as the journal in which formal proposals relating to the rules on the naming of fungi or protected lists of names are to be published.  

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 5.2
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 5.2
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 2.022
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.376

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 17
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 194

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 411,171
    Altmetric mentions: 375

IMA Fungus

ISSN: 2210-6359

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