About this journal
Aims and scope
*Please note that Small GTPases converted to a full Open Access journal from Volume 14 (2023). Previous volumes will continue to provide access through a Pay to Read model.
Small GTPases have emerged as key signal transducing proteins involved in every facet of cell and organismal biology. To reflect their prominence in health and disease, the journal Small GTPases aims to be a dedicated forum for the sharing of information at the forefront of the field, covering a broad range of research including cell and in vivo biology, structural studies, biochemistry, and drug discovery. In addition to the GTPase proteins themselves, Small GTPases features research focused on the structure, regulation, and function of their regulators and effectors. To reflect the advances in methodologies used for biological research, Small GTPases is particularly interested in manuscripts that make use of emerging approaches, including systems biology, biophysics, advanced imaging and, bioinformatics. These approaches complement classical experimental techniques to discover the underlying mechanisms that small GTPases employ to regulate fundamental biological processes.
Small GTPases publishes 6 issues per year and accepts:
- Original Research Papers
- Brief Reports
- Reviews
- Commentaries
- Extra Views
Article submissions should be made at https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=KSGT, after which they will be assessed by the Editor in Chief, and if found suitable, will be sent for peer-review. Pre-submission enquiries can be sent to the Editor in Chief Michael Olson at [email protected].
Please note, from 2023 the Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 131K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 6.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.532 (2023) SNIP
- 0.942 (2023) SJR
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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
Editor-in-Chief
Michael F. Olson
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada
Acquisitions Editor
Katharine Walker
Toronto, Canada
Editorial Board
Pontus Aspenström - Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE
Dafna Bar-Sagi - New York University, New York, New York, US
Vania M.M. Braga - Imperial College of London, London, England, UK
Cord Brakebusch - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK
Xosé R. Bustelo - University of Salamanca, Salamanca, ES
Richard Cerione - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Jacqueline Cherfils - LEBS,CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR
Adrienne D. Cox - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey - University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, US
Anne Debant - Centre de Recherché de Biochimie Macromoléculaire; CNRS, Montpellier, FR
Channing J. Der - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Sandrine Etienne-Manneville - Institute Curie, CNRS, Paris, FR
Stéphane Gasman - Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience Institute (INCI, CNRS) Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Andrew B. Goryachev - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Bruno Goud - Institut Curie, CNRS, Paris, FR
Bengt Hallberg - Umeå University, Umeå, SE
Shehab Ismail - Cancer Research UK, Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK
Johanna Ivaska - University of Turku, Turku, FI
Richard A. Kahn - Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, US
Erik A Lundquist - University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, US
Angeliki Malliri - The University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
Harry Mellor - University of Bristol, Bristol, England, UK
Darerca Owen - Cambridge University, Cambridge , UK
Mark Philips - New York University, New York, New York, US
Lawrence Quilliam - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, US
Michael Rogers - Garvin Institute, Sydney, AU
Klemens Rottner - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, DE
Erik Sahai - The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Victoria Sanz-Moreno - King's College London, London, UK
Michael Way - Cancer Research UK; London Research Institute, London, England, UK
Heidi Welch - Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
Michael White - UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, US
David Williams - Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, US
Jeffrey A. Frost - University of Texas, Houston, TX
Abstracting and indexing
Small GTPases is abstracted/indexed in:
- EBSCOhost
- Academic Search Alumni Edition
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Elite
- Academic Search Premier
- Biomedical Reference Collection: Corporate Edition - Elsevier BV
- EMBASE
- Scopus - National Library of Medicine
- PubMed Central (PMC) - U.S. National Library of Medicine
- MEDLINE
Open access
Small GTPases 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.
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- 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)
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