Journal History
| 2012 | The inaugural issue is released, and Antibiotics is published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2015 | The journal Twitter account is established. |
| 2016 | Antibiotics is indexed by Scopus (Elsevier), PubMed (NLM), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science). Full-text papers are archived in the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC). |
| 2017 | Antibiotics launches its first edition of Travel Awards. |
| 2018 | Indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE – Web of Science) and BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science). |
| 2019 | Antibiotics received the first Impact Factor of 2.921. The journal ranks 40/89 (Q2) in the "Infectious Diseases" category and 109/267 (Q2) in the 'Pharmacology & Pharmacy' category. Antibiotics established 13 topic sections. Antibiotics started the Topic Board. |
| 2020 | Antibiotics received an Impact Factor of 3.893. The journal ranks 23/93 (Q1) in 'Infectious Diseases' and 64/270 (Q1) in 'Pharmacology & Pharmacy'. Antibiotics adopted a monthly publication schedule. Antibiotics started the Reviewer Board. Antibiotics announced the first edition of three awards: Best Paper Award, Reviewer Award and Young Investigator Award. |
Editors-in-Chief
| 2012-2019 | Founding Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Christopher C. Butler |
| 2019- | Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Nicholas Dixon |
