Benefits of publishing in the Biochemical Journal

• Independent and fair review process
• each paper seen by an Editor and Referee selected by our PhD level staff

• "Painless Publishing" strategy
• eases the burden on authors where their work has been identified by reviewers as novel and interesting by only requesting extra experimental work if absolutely necessary to justify conclusions

• Fast review
• 4 weeks for Full Papers
• 2 weeks for Accelerated Publications

• Comprehensive editorial reports
• constructive and thorough comments

• Fast time to publication
• PDFs of manuscripts on the Web on the day of acceptance
• 9 weeks to online issue (10 weeks to print issue)

• Improved focus with nine Knowledge Environments (Cell, ChemBio, Disease, Energy, Gene, Metabolism, Plant, Signal, Structure)
• choose where your paper appears and connect with your community

• Semantic tagging and Utopia Documents
• before publication the PDF of your paper will be annotated by the editorial staff, making your data more accessible

• International Editorial Board

• Expert Commentaries
• highlight outstanding papers

• Impact Factor: 5.016*

• Immediacy Index: 0.842*

• Long Cited-Half life: 10.0 years*

• High international visibility
• over 7 million downloads/annum
• electronic table of contents with links to papers distributed widely

• Free colour
• in Accelerated Publications and Reviews
• for Full and Early Career Biochemical Society members†

• No submission fees or page charges

• Easy and rapid online submission process
• using author-generated PDFs

• Commitment to quality
• highly trained staff oversee the editorial and production processes for your paper

• Multi-media and online data
• enhance your paper with video clips, PDB structures and supplementary data
• animations and 3D interactive structures complement review articles

• Copyright and licence to publish
• copyright remains with you
• NIH compliant - you may deposit your Accepted Manuscript (AM) in PubMed Central on acceptance (with an embargo for release 12 months after your article appears in print) and in an institutional repository 6 months after it appears in print.

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  • choose to make the Version of Record (VoR) of your article freely available
  • pre-paid articles are posted on PubMed Central and inclusion on its mirror sites is permitted
  • PMCID supplied to you by email
  • Version of Record (VoR) may be posted on author or institutional websites or to free public servers

• China Server
• We have a designated server based in Beijing - Chinese researchers can access all of the Journal's content with no online charges

• Reference linking
• extensive reference linking to PubMed
• CrossRef services

• Indexing and abstracting
• included in all the major indexing and abstracting services

• Published since 1906
• long-established and highly respected journal

• Not-for-profit publisher
• Portland Press is the wholly owned subsidiary of the Biochemical Society

*2010 Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters

† After membership of at least 2 years