About this journal

RNA Biology  is an open access international peer-reviewed journal for RNA research including structural biology, genome, transcription, and splicing research.

RNA has played a central role in all cellular processes since the beginning of life: decoding the genome, regulating gene expression, structural biology, mediating molecular interactions, and catalyzing chemical reactions. 

RNA Biology, as a leading journal in the field, provides a platform for presenting and discussing all cutting-edge RNA research. The journal accepts the following types of article: Research Paper/Report, Brief Communications, Technical Paper, Commentaries and Views, Meeting Reports, Letters to the Editor, Reviews, Point-of-View, Commentaries.

The journal publishes research related to: 

• RNA biochemistry & structural biology
• Transcription & translation
• Regulatory RNAs in eukaryotes and prokaryotes
• Sequencing & bioinformatics
• RNA localization
• RNA in disease and therapy
• other topics relevant to RNA biology

RNA Biology offers a variety of formats for paper submission, including original research articles, short reports, reviews and commentaries. The journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

Open Access means you can publish your research so it is free to access online as soon as it is published, meaning anyone can read (and cite) your work. Please see our  guide to Open Access for more information. Many funders mandate publishing your research open access; you can check  open access funder policies and mandates here. The standard article publishing charge (APC) for this journal is $3,175 / £2,495 / €2,895 / AUD 4,335 plus VAT, or other local taxes where applicable in your country. There is no submission charge. Find out more about article publishing charges and funding options.

RNA Biology operates a single anonymized peer review policy. 

Read the Instructions for Authors .

Please note, from 2022 the Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.

*Please note that RNA Biology converted to a full Open Access journal from Volume 19 (2022).

Editor-in-Chief
Alain Laederach
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
USA

Acquisitions Editor
Adam Weiss
Prague, CZ
[email protected]

Associate Editors
Rolf Backofen - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, DE
Andrea Barta - Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AT
Chunru Lin - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, US
Daniel Gautheret - Universitè Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, FR
Tony Gutschner - Martin Luther University, Halle, DE
Tetsuro Hirose - Osaka University, Suita, JP
Michael Jantsch - Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AT
Marlene Oeffinger - Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, CA
Kannanganattu V. Prasanth - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, US
Andreas Keller - Saarland University, Saarbrücken, DE
Valérie de Crécy-Lagard - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, US
Carol S. Lutz - Rutgers University, New Jersey, US
Gregory Matera - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Beatrix Suess - TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE
Mithun Sinha - Indiana University, Indianapolis, US
Anita Marchfelder - Ulm University, Ulm, DE
Kai Papenfort - Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, DE
Xiangting Wang - University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, CN

Editorial Board
Victor R. Ambros - Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, US
Benjamin Blencowe - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CA
Ronald R. Breaker - Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
Juergen Brosius - University of Münster, Münster, DE
Donald H. Burke - University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, US
Maria Carmo-Fonseca - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT
Ling-Ling Chen - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, CN
Lesley J. Collins - Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Palmerston North, NZ
Sven Diederichs - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, DE
Witold Filipowicz - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH
Elizabeth R. Gavis - Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US
Paul P. Gardner - School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, NZ
Kenn Gerdes - Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Alexander Hüttenhofer - Section for Genomics and RNomics, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, AT
Jack D. Keene - Department of Molecular Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, US
Tamas Kiss - Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote du CNRS, Toulouse, FR
Dagmar Klostermeier - Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster, Muenster, DE
Maria M. Konarska - The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, US
Ashish Lal - National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, US
Lynne E. Maquat - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, US
Manja Marz - Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, DE
Eric Moss - UMDNJ, Stratford, NJ, US
Karin Musier-Forsyth - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US
Sathyanarayanan Puthanveettil - Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, FL, US Elena Rivas - HHMI Janelia Farm, Ashburn, VA, US
Pascale Romby - University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR
Dieter Söll - Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
Haruhiko Siomi - Keio University, Tokyo, JP
Sunnie Thompson - The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US
David Tollervey - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Jean-Jacques Toulme - Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, FR
Xiujie J. Wang - Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, Beijing, CN
Anton Wutz - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Yungui Yang - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN
Michael Yarus - University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US
Li Yiang - Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Shigeyuki Yokoyama - Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP

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