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

• 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
• 8 weeks to online issue (11 weeks to print issue)

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

• International Editorial Board

• Expert Commentaries
• highlight outstanding papers

• Stable Impact Factor: 4.1*

• Very long Cited Half-Life: 8.7 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 Young Researcher Biochemical Society members†

• No submission fees or page charges

• 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 (Stage 2a post-print) 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 final authoritative version of your paper freely available
  • pre-paid articles are posted on PubMed Central and inclusion on its mirror sites is permitted
  • final authoritative version of record may be posted on author or institutional websites or to free public servers

• 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

*Journal Citation Reports, Thomson 2007

† After membership of at least 2 years