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About Journal of Molecular Signaling

Aims and scope | Open access | Article-processing charges | Indexing services | Publication and peer review process | Editorial policies | Citing articles in Journal of Molecular Signaling | Why publish your article in Journal of Molecular Signaling?

This page includes information about the aims and scope of Journal of Molecular Signaling, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors.

Aims & scope

Journal of Molecular Signaling encompasses all the molecular aspects of cell signaling involving receptors, G-proteins, kinases, phosphatases, and transcription factors in regulating cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and oncogenesis in mammalian cells.

Journal of Molecular Signaling is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of molecular signaling.

Molecular signaling is an exponentially growing field that encompasses different molecular aspects of cell signaling underlying normal and pathological conditions. Specifically, the research area of the journal is on the normal or aberrant molecular mechanisms involving receptors, G-proteins, kinases, phosphatases, and transcription factors in regulating cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and oncogenesis in mammalian cells. This area also covers the genetic and epigenetic changes that modulate the signaling properties of cells and the resultant physiological conditions.

Open access

All articles published by Journal of Molecular Signaling are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

Authors of articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement.

Article-processing charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. Journal of Molecular Signaling therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1290/$2010/€1515 for each article accepted for publication. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. Generally, if the submitting author's institution is a Member the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page. A limited number of waivers for article-processing charges are also available at the editors' discretion, and authors wishing to apply for these waivers should contact the editors.

Indexing services

All articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling include:

  • CAS
  • Citebase
  • Embase
  • EmBiology
  • Google Scholar
  • Index Copernicus
  • OAIster
  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central
  • SCImago
  • Scirus
  • Scopus
  • SOCOLAR
  • Zetoc

The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands).

Journal of Molecular Signaling has an unofficial Impact Factor of 2.31. BioMed Central is working with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling will be available.

Publication and peer review process

Content overview

Journal of Molecular Signalingconsiders the following types of articles:

  • Research: reports of data from original research.
  • Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. Opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board usually write these articles. They have an educational aim and are 2000-3000 words. Reviews can cover any topical themes such as basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, equipment reviews and thematic series to highlight specific topics in your field.
  • Short reports: brief reports of data from original research, usually about 1500 words.

Peer review policies

The Editor-in-Chief or one of the Deputy Editors will initially screen manuscripts submitted to the journal. Manuscripts that are deemed suitable for peer review will be assigned to at least two expert reviewers chosen by an editorial board member. The final decision to accept or reject a manuscript will be made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Edited by Danny Dhanasekaran and Yung Hou Wong, Journal of Molecular Signaling is supported by an expert Editorial Board

Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My Journal of Molecular Signaling, a personalized section of the site.

Reprints

High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints.

Supplements

Journal of Molecular Signaling will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. All full length articles (proceedings, reviews or research articles) are indexed by PubMed. PubMed displays the title of the supplement only in the case of meeting abstract collections. For further information, please contact us.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Molecular Signaling should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.

Citing articles in Journal of Molecular Signaling

Articles in Journal of Molecular Signaling should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. J Mol Signal [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. J Mol Signal 2009, 1:115.

refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Why publish your article in Journal of Molecular Signaling?

High visibility

Journal of Molecular Signaling's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results.

Speed of publication

Journal of Molecular Signaling offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles are published with their final citation immediately upon acceptance in a provisional PDF form. The article will subsequently be published in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Journal of Molecular Signaling, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed.

Flexibility

Online publication in Journal of Molecular Signaling gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other papers).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on Journal of Molecular Signaling's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.

In addition, articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.

Authors of articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement).

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