Scope

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN BIOLOGY

Highlighting rigorous work exploring the fundamental mechanisms of life, the Biochemical Journal is a leading single-anonymous peer-reviewed bioscience journal that publishes high-impact scientific research papers and reviews on the latest advances and mechanistic concepts in the fields of biochemistry, cellular biosciences and molecular biology and their importance across the kingdoms of life.

The Journal and its international Editorial Board, led by Professor Mark Lemmon (Yale University School of Medicine, USA), are committed to publishing work that significantly advances current mechanistic understanding by publishing high-impact research and reviews in 21st century biochemistry from across the world; studies that go beyond observational work – using in vitro and/or in vivo – approaches are welcomed. 

The Biochemical Journal is a hybrid journal, offering the option to publish open access (OA), and is published by Portland Press on behalf of the Biochemical Society. The Biochemical Society was founded in 1911 and, given its breadth of coverage within the life sciences, continues to attract a strong membership community; Portland Press is the publishing arm of the Biochemical Society, with all profits being returned to the Society for them to carry out their charitable endeavours.

Publishing with us is completely free under a standard license, and the Biochemical Journal does not charge page fees, publication charges or colour fees. If you choose to make your article available under an open access license, there is an article publishing charge, and more information can be found on the journal’s website. Authors at participating institutions can publish open access with no author-facing open access fees, through our transformative Read & Publish offerings. Find out more and see the full list of participating institutions.

Painless publishing: 
All papers undergo a rigorous peer review process; however, the Editorial Board is committed to ensuring that, if revisions are recommended, extra experiments not necessary to the paper will not be asked for.

Areas covered in the journal – across all domains of biology – include:

• Biochemistry
• Biophysics
• Cell biology
• Chemical biology
• Energy processes
• Gene expression and regulation
• Glycobiology
• Mechanisms of disease
• Metabolism
• Molecular structure and function
• Plant biology
• Signalling
• Systems biology

If you have any pre-submission queries, please do not hesitate to contact our Editorial Office who will be happy to assist, or complete our review article pre-submission enquiry form..