Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature (JBAPN) is a multidisciplinary, peer reviewed international journal devoted to the dissemination of current developments and trends in the area of natural products derived from terrestrial and oceanic plants and animals and microorganisms conferring biological activities through the publication of original research articles, short communications, and review papers. The Journal covers a broad scope including the extraction, isolation, characterization, structure elucidation and structure-activity relationship, synthesis and transformation (including biosynthesis and biotransformation) of bioactive natural products; pharmacognosy, pharmacology and toxicology (e.g. action of natural products on the structure or function in human and/or animal, cells/tissues/genes, in vitro and in vivo screening of biological and pharmacological effects); development and bioassay screening of formulations; development of methods for standardization of bioactive extract on the basis of active constituents, development of methods for standardization of natural products and recovery of bioactive molecules; docking, molecular modeling, QSAR, SAR, and computational studies of bioactive interactions. Manuscripts reporting the following will generally not be considered for publication: • Bioactivity of crude extracts that have not been characterized for their major constituents using HPLC, NMR. • Routine bioactivity screening of crude extracts for antimicrobial, antioxidant, antifeedant, insecticidal activity, fungitoxicity against plant pathogens, etc. • Unexceptional and predictable bioactivity (e.g. antioxidant capacities of phenolics or antimicrobial activity of essential oils) • Routine synthesis of metal nanoparticles using natural extracts and their routine bioactivity screening • Docking, molecular modeling, QSAR, SAR, and computational studies of bioactive interactions without method validation using experimental data. • Uncritical ethnopharmacological studies, where a list of plants and their use are simply recorded. JBAPN encourages communication amongst the scientists, researchers, technologists, academics, industrialists, R&D institutes, planners, producers and users of natural products. The Journal is a bimonthly publication available in both electronic and print edition.
Journal metrics
Usage
7K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.359 (2023) SNIP
0.243 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
3 days avg. from submission to first
decision
67 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
34 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
10% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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.
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