About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (JBSD) is pleased to announce a revision of its aims and scope for July 2024. These revisions should allow us to serve our community better and to enhance the impact of the research we publish.
The primary aim of the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics is to publish high-quality experimental, computational, and theoretical biophysical studies that illuminate fundamental aspects of biomolecular structure, dynamics, and function.
The scope of the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics encompasses studies of biomolecular structure and dynamics that cover biophysics, structural biology, computational modeling of biomolecular structure and dynamics, and bioinformatic approaches to understanding dynamics-function and structure-function relationships in biomolecules. Articles that report on the development of new theoretical, experimental, or computational methods to study biomolecular structure and dynamics are welcome. Drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, or synthetic chemistry manuscripts are welcome only if they include biophysical studies, either computational or experimental, that provide insight into biomolecular structure, dynamics or function.
Authors interested in submitting a review article should seek prior approval from an Associate Editor.
N.B. Authors interested in submitting a review article should seek approval from the Editorial team.
Peer Review Statement
The Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes high quality, original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editorial team and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via Scholar One Manuscripts.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 530K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 8.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.939 (2023) SNIP
- 0.600 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 21 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 40 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 33% 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
Associate Editors
Mohd Adnan
University of Ha'il, Saudi Arabia
Thomas C. Bishop
Louisiana Tech University, USA
Jonathan 'Brad' Chaires
University of Louisville, USA
Imtiyaz Hassan
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, India
Freddie Salsbury
Wake Forest University, USA
Board of Editors
Elena Bichenkova
University of Manchester, UK
Thomas E. Cheatham, III
University of Utah, USA
Christo Z. Christov
Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Miroslav Fojta
Institute of Biophysics, Czech Republic
Yaakov (Koby) Levy
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Luis A. Marky
University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Aditya Mittal
lIT-Delhi, India
Remo Rohs
University of Southern California., USA
Wolfram Saenger
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Irina M. Russu
Wesleyan University, USA
Zippora Shakked
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
R. Sowdhamini
National Center for Biological Sciences, India
Jiri Sponer
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Vladimir Uversky
Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Sybren S. Wijmenga
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Krystyna Zakrzewska
IBCP, Lyon, France
Dmitry O. Zharkov
SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology, Russia
Editorial Advisory Board
Manju Bansal
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
David L. Beveridge
Wesleyan University, USA
Samir K. Brahmachari
CSIR, New Delhi, India
Takashi Gojobori
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Andrew H.-J. Wang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
David M. J. Lilley FRS
University of Dundee, UK
Martin Karplus
Nobel Laureate,
Harvard University, USA
Olga Kennard FRS
University of Cambridge, UK
Hamilton Smith
Nobel Laureate,
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Edward N. Trifonov
University of Haifa, Israel
Chun-Ting Zhan
Tianjin University, China
Founding Editor
Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Abstracting and indexing
Commencing with Volume 1, issue 1, 1983, this Journal is covered by
PubMed-Medline, Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index (and BIOSIS and WoS), Scopus, CABI, Index Copernicus, BIOBASE, EMBASE, Chemical Abstracts Services of the American Chemical Society.
Open access
Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. 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
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