Journal History

1956 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica was published as a bimonthly journal by the Hellenic Society for Microbiology.
1975 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica changed its cover design.
1989 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica was indexed in Scopus.
1990 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica was resized to an A4 format.
2004 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica was indexed in Biological Abstracts and BIOSIS Previews—Web of Science.
2009 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica adopted a quarterly publication schedule.
2014 The original website of the Hellenic Society for Microbiology (www.hms.org.gr) was introduced. It made possible, among other things, the online management of submissions and the retrieving of manuscripts published in Acta Microbiologica Hellenica.
2016 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica became bilingual—Greek and English.
2018 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica launched its own website (www.acta.hms.org.gr).
2024 Acta Microbiologica Hellenica was published by MDPI from Volume 69, Issue 1 (2024).

Editor-in-Chief

1956–1965 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Constantinos Moutoussis
1965–1978 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Antigoni Emmanouillidou-Arseni
1978–1986 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Georgios Papaevangelou
1986–1990 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Tzeni Kourea-Kremastinou
1990–1992 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nikolaos Legakis
1992–1998 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Tzeni Kourea-Kremastinou
1998–2000 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Evangellos Vogiatzakis
2000–2004 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Efmorphia Sakgana
2004–2007 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Georgios Karakatsanis
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Konstantina Tzanetou
2007–2010 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Konstantina Tzanetou
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Georgia Vrioni
2010–2013 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou
2013–2016 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Spyridon Pournaras
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Joseph Papaparaskevas
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Olympia Zarkotou
2016–2025 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Athanasios Tsakris
2026–present Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Georgia Vrioni
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maria Panopoulou
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