About this journal
Aims and scope
Prion publishes international gold open access research on protein folding and misfolding, protein assembly disorders and protein structural inheritance.
- Prion aims to foster communication and rapid exchange of information through timely publication of important results using traditional as well as electronic formats.
The journal publishes Research Articles, Commentaries & Views, Perspectives, Meeting Reports, Letters to the Editor, Methods, Data Notes and Reigstered Reports. Please find out more about each article type on the Instructions for Authors.
Prion operates a single-anonymized peer review policy.
Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here. Alternatively, you can contact the Editorial Office at: [email protected].Journal metrics
Usage
- 152K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.525 (2023) SNIP
- 0.614 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 6 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 67% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
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
Editor-in-Chief
Yury O. Chernoff
School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA
Email: [email protected]
Associate Editor
Galina Zhouravleva - Professor, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia
Editorial Board
Jason C. Bartz - Creighton University, Omaha, NB, USA
Neil Cashman - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Byron Caughey - NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
John Collinge - UCL, London, UK
Brian S. Cox - University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Christophe Cullin - University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Douglas M. Cyr - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Jean-Philippe Deslys - François Jacob Institute of Biology, French Atomic Energy Commission, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Pascale Dupuis-Williams - Universite Paris, Paris, France
Pierluigi Gambetti - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Bernardino Ghetti - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
John Glover - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CA
Purnananda Guptasarma - Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Mohali, PB, India
David A. Harris - Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Sergey Inge - St. Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia
Jeffrey W. Kelly - Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA
Liming Li - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Pawel P. Liberski - University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
Susan Liebman - University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
David G. Lynn - Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Hidehiro Mizusawa - Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshikazu Nakamura - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kevin O'Connell - NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Annalisa Pastore - Kings College London, London, UK
Stanley B. Prusiner - UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
Richard A. Rachubinski - University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Jiri G. Safar - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Sven J. Saupe - CNRS Université de Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France,
Hermann M. Schätzl - University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Christina J. Sigurdson - UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA
Greenfield Sluder - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
M. Catia Sorgato - University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Claudio Soto - University of Texas Health, Houston, TX, USA
Witold K. Surewicz - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Glenn C. Telling - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Mick F. Tuite - University of Kent, Caterbury, UK,
Erich E. Wanker - Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany,
Stefan F.T. Weiss - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,
Jonathan Weissman - UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
Charles Weissmann - Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA
Reed B. Wickner - NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Indexing
- Biochemistry and Biophysics Citation Index (Online)
- Biological Abstracts (Online)
- BIOSIS Previews
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
- EMBASE
- MEDLINE
- PubMed Central
- Reactions Weekly (Online)
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
Open access
Prion is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
To publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis. Discounts and waivers may also be available for researchers in selected countries when publishing in open access journals.
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