Women in Microbiome Health Research

Please note that to be considered for this collection, the first author and/or corresponding author should be a researcher who identifies as a woman.

Frontiers in Microbiomes is proud to launch “Women in Microbiome Health Research”, a dedicated Frontiers Research Topic aimed at celebrating the achievements of women in the field of health microbiomes.

The lack of women represented not only in Microbiome research but in all scientific and tech fields, is a reality. There is continued gender disparity in STEM fields. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, just 30% of the world's researchers are women. While the number of women attending university is growing, they still represent the minority of doctoral students and researchers. Women remain under-represented at the highest level of academia, holding just 26% of full professorships. At Frontiers in Microbiomes, we believe that science and gender equality are essential to ensure sustainable development as highlighted by UNESCO. Gender biases, barriers and stereotypes are behind these numbers.

Frontiers in Microbiomes is committed to defeating gender discrimination by supporting and encouraging women to pursue a career in the microbiome field. To achieve this ambitious goal, we are proud to offer this space to increase visibility, network opportunities and promote the work of female scientists across all fields of microbiome research.

Therefore, this Research Topic aims to serve as a platform to promote the innovations and work led by female scientists and highlight the diversity of research performed across the entire breadth of Microbiomes in Health research, from host and microbe associations to the impact of nutrition on microbiomes, including the new omics approaches to improve our understanding of microbiome dynamics. This Research Topic is open for submissions including Original Research, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Methods, Opinion and Perspective articles with applications to compelling problems in the field of Health Microbiomes, and all manuscripts will be handled by female editors.

Please note: to be considered for this collection, at least the first or last author should be a researcher who identifies as a woman.

Topic editor Noemie Daniel is employed by Symrise AG. The other Topic Editors report no competing interests related to this Research Topic.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
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Articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to Authors, institutions, or funders.

Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Microbiomes, Female Researchers, Microbes, Gender equality, WomeninSTEM, WomenInScience, Equity, Host and Microbes, Nutrition, Omics

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.