About this journal
Aims and scope
Biocatalysis and Biotransformation publishes high quality research on the application of biological catalysts for the synthesis, interconversion or degradation of chemical species.
Papers are published in the areas of:
- Mechanistic principles
- Kinetics and thermodynamics of biocatalytic processes
- Chemical or genetic modification of biocatalysts
- Developments in biocatalyst's immobilization
- Activity and stability of biocatalysts in non-aqueous and multi-phasic environments, including the design of large scale biocatalytic processes
- Biomimetic systems
- Environmental applications of biocatalysis
- Metabolic engineering
Types of articles published are; full-length original research articles, reviews, short communications on the application of biotransformations, and preliminary reports of novel catalytic activities.
Peer Review PolicyAll manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor in Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, are peer reviewed by independent, expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 34K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.452 (2023) SNIP
- 0.351 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 38 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 59 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 13 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 30% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors in Chief
Antonio O. Ballesteros
Department of Biocatalysis
CSIC Institute of Catalysis
28049 Madrid
Spain
Andres R. Alcantara
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Executive Editors
Tom Desmet - University of Gent, Belgium
Roberto Fernandez-Lafuente - Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Virinder S. Parmar - Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India
Roger A. Sheldon - The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and TU Delft, The Netherlands
Maria F. Villegas-Torres - Icesi University, Cali, Colombia
Roland Wohlgemuth - Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Associate Editors
Andreaus J - Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Brasil
Arroyo, Miguel - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
De Lacey, Antonio L. - Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Dominquez de Maria, P - Sustainable Momentum, Spain
Fernandez-La Fuente, R. - Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Fonseca, Luis P - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Gotor-Fernandez V - University of Oviedo, Spain
Jiang, Guangde - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Herradon, Bernardo - CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Jacobsen, Elisabeth E - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Mukherjee, Monalisa - Amity University, India
Martinkova, Ludmila - Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Nidetzky, Bernd - Technical University Graz, Austria
Sastre, Enrique - Instituto de Catalisis y Petroquimica - CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Secundo, Francesco - Institute of Chemistry of Molecular Recognition ICRM, Italy
Valero, Francisco - Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Alcalde M - CSIC Institute of Catalysis, Madrid, Spain
Baldessari A - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Basri M - Universiti Putra, Malaysia
Bialecka-Florjanczyk E - Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Bielecki S - Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Cabral JMS - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Cavaco-Paulo A - University of Minho, Portugal
Dordick JS - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Eijsink VGH - Agricultural University of Norway, Aas, Norway
Findrik Z - University of Zagrev, Croatia
Garcia-Arellano H - Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Gardossi L - Universitá degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
Halling PJ - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Kanerva L - University of Turku, Finland
Klibanov AM - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Kolisis FN - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Krieger N - Universidade Federal do Parana, Brasil
Leak DJ - University of Bath, UK
Littlechild JA - University of Exeter, UK
Lye GJ - University College London, UK
Miyamoto K - Keio University, Japan
Miyazawa T - Konan University, Japan
Plou FJ - Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Poppe L - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Reetz MT - Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Remaud-Simeon M - INSA Toulouse, France
Shukla P - Maharshi Dayanand University, Haryana, India
Soetaert W - University Gent, Belgium
Svedas V - Moscow State University, Russian Fed.
Turner NJ - University of Manchester (CoEBio3), UK
Vikso-Nielsen A - Novozymes, Denmark
Woodley JM - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Abstracting and indexing
Biocatalysis and Biotransformation is abstracted in;
- Thomson Reuters - Science Citation Index
- CABI
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- IFIS
- Technical Information Centre of Denmark
- BIOSIS Previews
- Scopus
- PubMed
Open access
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- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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6 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Biocatalysis and Biotransformation (1995 - current)
Formerly known as
- Biocatalysis (1987 - 1994)
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