About Journal of Molecular Signaling

What is Journal of Molecular Signaling?

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.

Content overview

Journal of Molecular Signaling considers 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, Journal of Molecular Signaling is supported by an international Editorial Board.

Publishing in Journal of Molecular Signaling

All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, CAS and Scopus.

Articles in Journal of Molecular Signaling should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

J Mol Signal 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Journal of Molecular Signaling does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Journal of Molecular Signaling using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Journal of Molecular Signaling is published  by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Journal of Molecular Signaling however, has taken this further by making all its content Open Access.

Journal of Molecular Signaling's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with the Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Journal of Molecular Signaling will be available.

Journal of Molecular Signaling is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.