Bioinformation (ISSN: 0973-8894)

Description

Bioinformation (Online ISSN 0973-2063; Print ISSN 0973-8894) is a scientific journal publishing research articles in biological knowledge discovery after full peer review. It is a transparent media for scholarly communication of scientific information in biology. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance.

Aim and Scope
Bioinformation publishes original research articles in all aspects of biological knowledge discovery through mathematical and computational analysis of biological data. The journal specifically invites articles describing new biological insights based on primary or derived data.

Biology aspect of Bioinformation
Agriculture, Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Clinical Medicine, Immunology, Infectious diseases, Inflammation. Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Evolution, Structural Biology, Tissue Engineering, Transplantation

Information aspect of Bioinformation
Data cleaning, data storage, data representation, data retrieval, data analysis and knowledge extraction

Enabling Technologies
By definition, articles describing databases, datasets, prediction servers, prediction models and computer programs are classified under enabling technologies.

Criteria
Publication of research articles by Bioinformation is dependent primarily on their novelty, relevance and coherence, as judged by peer reviewers.

Speed
Bioinformation offers a very fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review.

Processing Charge
Bioinformation is an open access journal (free to read online). Therefore, author contribution to article processing it is important.
General category (processing charge of US$ 500**)
We maintain a fast review process of 2-3 weeks and the article will be published immediately online upon acceptance as and when the supply chain and demand is established. **A 50% discount is given for eligible authors from developing nations upon review of justification

Express category (processing charge of US$ 1000)
Editorial and peer review will be completed and a decision made within 1 week

Volumes, issues, page numbers
All papers published in Bioinformation will be assigned a volume number, an issue number and page numbers. One (1) volume will contain 10 issues and one (1) issue will contain 10 papers.

Submission of manuscripts
Manuscripts must be submitted to the managing editors through email. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

Journal Start date
February 1, 2005

Frequency
biweekly

Document type
Journal; Academic/Scholarly

Document format
HTML and PDF

Refereed
Yes

Review Process
All manuscripts submitted to BIOINFORMATION is subject to editorial (1 or more) and peer (2 or more) review. The review scheme is described here.

Media
Online - full text

Language
English

Subject
Biology

Abstract Indexing
PubMed, Web of Knowledge, Open J-Gate, DOAJ, InfoTrac OneFile, InfoTrac Custom, Academic ASAP, Expanded Academic, Health and Wellness Resource Center, and Science Resource Center

Article Archiving
PubMed Central, Thomson Gale, EBSCO

Journal Listing
NLM Catalog and many other library collections.

Journal Impact
2010 IF* = 230/200 = 1.15
*Calculated by Bioinformation using ISI data**
**Raw citation data from Web of Science Data (ISI data)

h-index
10

Average citation
1.13
Copyright policy
The authors of published articles in Bioinformation automatically transfer the copyright to the publisher upon formal acceptance. However, the authors reserve right to use extracted transcripts from the article for non commercial purposes.

Publisher
Biomedical Informatics (online)
Biomedical Informatics (P) Ltd (Print)
Publisher contact: publisher-AT-bioinformation.net

Publishing Partner (Distribution)
Thomson Gale (Effective January 2006)