BIOCHIMIE An International Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 0300-9084 DESCRIPTION . Published under the auspices of the Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire. Biochimie publishes original research articles, short communications, review articles, graphical reviews, mini-reviews, and hypotheses in the broad areas of biology, including biochemistry, enzymology, molecular and cell biology, metabolic regulation, genetics, immunology, microbiology, structural biology, genomics, proteomics, and molecular mechanisms of disease. Biochimie publishes exclusively in English. Articles are subject to peer review, and must satisfy the requirements of originality, high scientific integrity and general interest to a broad range of readers. Submissions that are judged to be of sound scientific and technical quality but do not fully satisfy the requirements for publication in Biochimie may benefit from a transfer service to a more suitable journal within the same subject area. AUDIENCE . Biochemists, Biophysicists, Molecular Biologists, Geneticists, Immunologists, Microbiologists, Cytologists. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 4.079 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/biochi 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Current Contents - Life Sciences EMBiology BIOSIS Citation Index Chemical Abstracts Pascal Francis Embase PubMed/Medline Science Citation Index Elsevier BIOBASE Scopus EDITORIAL BOARD . Chief Editor Bertrand Friguet, Sorbonne University, Paris, France Editors Xavier Coumoul, University of Paris, Paris, France Olga A. Dontsova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Russian Federation Claude Forest, Institute of Development Research, Marseille, France Jeffrey M. Gimble, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States of America Jean-Louis Mergny, Institute Curie Research Centre Orsay, Orsay, France Yoshikazu Nakamura, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Editorial Office Manager M. Hassini, Centre Universitaire des Saints Pères, Paris, France Associate Editors Nada A. Abumrad, University of Washington, Seattle, MO, United States of America Paola B. Arimondo, National Museum for Natural History, Paris, France Cecilia Arraiano, New University of Lisbon Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, Oeiras, Portugal Sudip Bajpeyi, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America Alexandre de Brevern, University of Paris, Paris, France Tracy Bryan, Children's Medical Research Institute, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia Juan Calvete, Biomedical Institute of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Jonathan B. Chaires, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America Martin Chow, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America Michael Conlon, Ulster University, Coleraine, United Kingdom Alain J. Cozzone, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, Bâtiment Curien, Lyon Cedex, France Charlotte Esser, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany Pierre Fafournoux, INRA Centre Clermont-Ferrand-Theix-Lyon, St Genes Champanelle, France Philippe Fossé, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France Jay W. Fox, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Richmond, VA, United States of America Kerry Goralski, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Jacques Haiech, University of Strasbourg Faculty of Pharmacy, Illkirch, France Erik J. Henriksen, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America Albert Jeltsch, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany R. Manjunatha Kini, National University of Singapore Department of Biological Sciences, Singapore, Singapore Andrei A. Korostelev, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America Dominique Lagadic-Gossman, Rennes University 1 Faculty of Biological Sciences and Pharmaceuticals, Rennes, France Gilles Lalmanach, University of Tours, Tours, France Anne-Marie Lambeir, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Laura Lancaster, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America David Leys, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Bruno Lomonte, Costa Rica University, San José, Costa Rica Anh Tuân Phan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Pierre Plateau, Polytechnic University, Palaiseau, France Catherine Postic, Cochin Institute, Paris, France Pascale Romby, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/biochi 2 António Salgado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Dipankar Sen, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Graça Soveral, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Jiři Šponer, Brno, Czechia Silvio C.E. Tosatto, University of Padua, Padova, Italy Jan Vondracek, Institute of Biophysics Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechia Eric Westhof, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg, France Ying Xia, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America Huan-Ming Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Wyatt Yue, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/biochi 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Your Paper Your Way We now differentiate between the requirements for new and revised submissions. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF file to be used in the refereeing process. Only when your paper is at the revision stage, will you be requested to put your paper in to a 'correct format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of your article. To find out more, please visit the Preparation section below. INTRODUCTION Biochimie publishes original research articles, review articles and mini-reviews in the broad areas of biology, including biochemistry, enzymology, molecular and cell biology, metabolic regulation, genetics, immunology, microbiology, structural biology, genomics, proteomics, and molecular mechanisms of disease. Biochimie publishes exclusively in English. Articles are subject to peer review, and must satisfy the requirements of originality, high scientific integrity and general interest to a broad range of readers. Submissions that are judged to be of sound scientific and technical quality but do not fully satisfy the requirements for publication in Biochimie may benefit from a transfer service to a more suitable journal within the same subject area. Types of paper Original Research articles Short communications Review articles and mini-reviews Hypotheses Letters to the Editor, commenting on papers published in Biochimie Biochimie Biochimie introduces Graphical Biochemical Reviews: These reviews will summarize schematically key concepts, established and novel ideas in biochemistry which will be accessible to a broad audience and freely downloaded as PowerPoint slides for use in teaching or conference presentations. Examples: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopen.2018.05.001 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2012.10.001 Contact details for submission Prior to submission, authors may also contact Malika Hassini, Biochimie Editorial Office Manager at [email protected]. Page charges This journal has no page charges. Submission checklist You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details. 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