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Journal overview

Aims and scope:

Biochemistry Insights is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal encompassing all topics within the field of biochemistry. This includes the chemistry, structure and functionality of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and smaller molecular components of cells and tissues. Cell metabolism, genomes, protein synthesis, cell signalling, transportation, and signal transduction are included but are not exclusive subjects. The journal also accepts articles on related topics applicable to this area, such as technology, outcomes, techniques and applications.

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by:

• CAS 
• DOAJ
• OAIster
  

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Information for authors

Call for papers:

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

Register as a peer reviewer:

Do you wish to register as a peer reviewer?  Or are you already a registered peer reviewer but you need to update your contact details?   To register or update your details visit the peer reviewer registration form. 

Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

Dr Gabor Mocz is a Professor/Specialist in Biochemistry at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii, where he is the Director of the Frederick Greenwood Molecular Biology Core Laboratory. He has served (twice) as elected Chair of the American Chemical Society Hawaii Section and as Vice-President of the Hawaii Society of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists.

Dr Mocz has a MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Biochemistry from Eötvös Loránd University, the largest, oldest and most prestigious academic institution in Hungary. He then became a postdoctoral fellow at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute before returning to his alma mater in Hungary to lecture and conduct research in Biochemistry. He then moved to Hawaii to his current institution where he leads a bioanalytical core laboratory in their Biotechnology Program. Dr Mocz’s major research interest is the molecular basis of muscle contraction and cell motility. More recently he has been studying the broad area of biomolecular interactions and their applications in protein folding, molecular modeling, and fluorescence.

Dr Mocz has published over 50 refereed articles, book chapters, review papers, and symposium proceedings on biochemistry. He has presented invited talks, received grants and research support from federal and state funding agencies, is involved in many professional organizations and committees and reviews for journals and granting agencies. He is listed in 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century, and has received the International Medal for Scientific Excellence from the American Biographical Institute.

>> Dr Mocz's latest call for papers

Editorial Board

Sanjay Adhikari, PhD
Instructor, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Centre, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

Andre Stephan Bachmann, MS PhD
Assistant Professor, Natural Products and Cancer Biology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

Heping Cao, PhD
Research Biologist, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, USA

Katalin Csiszar, PhD
Professor; Co-Director, Cardiovascular Research Center; Associate Chair for Research, CAM Department, John A. Burns School of Medicine; Associate Member, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Omar Deeb, PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem

Giovanni Gadda, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Graduate Program, Director, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Jahan B. Ghasemi
Professor, Chemistry Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran

Hugo Hoenigsberg, PhD
Professor & Director, Instituto de Genética Evolutiva & Biologia Molecular (Institute Evolutionary Genetics & Molecular Biology), Member of the Directing Council of the Instituto de Genética Ecológica y Biodiversidad del Trópico Americano, Bogotá D.C., Colombia, South America

Andrzej Jerzmanowski, PhD
Professor, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Warsaw University / IBB Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

M. Lamar Jones, BS HT(ASCP)
Manager, Anatomic Pathology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Program Director and Clinical Instructor, School of Histotechnology, Davidson County Community College, Lexington, North Carolina, USA

Padmakar Vinayak Khadikar, PhD
Professor and Technical Director, Biochemical section, Research Division, Laxmi Fumigation & Pest Control, KhatiPura, Indore , M.P., India

Caterina A.M. La Porta, PhD
Professor, Department of Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Kenshi Matsumoto, MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Donovan Anthony McGrowder, PhD
Lecturer, Chemical Pathology, Pathology Department, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Kingston, Jamaica

Igor L. Medintz, PhD
Research Biologist, Center for BIo/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA

Luca Mendler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Amarendra Narayan Misra, PhD
Professor and Head, Department of Biosciences and Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, India

Balraj Mittal, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, U.P., India

Laszlo Nyitray, PhD
Associate Professor, Head of Department, Biochemistry, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

Mark A. Smith, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Executive Director of the American Aging Association, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Richard A Stein, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Suren A. Tatulian, PhD
Professor, Biomolecular Science Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

Hong Wan, PhD
Principal Scientist, Associate Professor, Lead Generation, DMPK and Physical Chemistry, AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Mölndal, Sweden

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