Biology of the Cell
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Benefits of publishing in Biology of the Cell

  • Independent and fair review process
    • each paper seen by two independent reviewers selected by our PhD-level staff
  • Fast review
    • 4 weeks for Research Articles
    • 5 weeks for Reviews and Scientiae Forum articles
  • Comprehensive reviewer reports
    • constructive and thorough comments
  • Fast time to publication
    • PDFs of manuscripts on the Web on the day of acceptance
    • 14 weeks to online issue (16 weeks to print issue)
  • Free colour figures
  • Impact Factor: 3.974*
  • 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.789
  • Immediacy Index: 1.135
  • Long Cited Half-Life: 5.6 years*
  • High international visibility
    • electronic table of contents with links to papers distributed widely
    • articles extensively downloaded and cited
  • No submission fees or page charges
  • Commitment to quality
    • highly trained staff oversee the editorial and production processes for your paper
  • 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.
  • Opt2Pay
    • 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
  • Reference linking
    • extensive reference linking to PubMed
    • CrossRef services
  • Indexing and abstracting
    • included in all the major indexing and abstracting services
  • Society Journal
    • owned by the Société Française des Microscopies and the Société de Biologie Cellulaire de France
*2009 Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters



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