Journal Title：Biofactors

BioFactors, a journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is devoted to the rapid publication of highly significant original research articles and reviews in experimental biology in health and disease.

The word “biofactors” refers to the many compounds that regulate biological functions. Biological factors comprise many molecules produced or modified by living organisms, and present in many essential systems like the blood, the nervous or immunological systems. A non-exhaustive list of biological factors includes neurotransmitters, cytokines, chemokines, hormones, coagulation factors, transcription factors, signaling molecules, receptor ligands and many more. In the group of biofactors we can accommodate several classical molecules not synthetized in the body such as vitamins, micronutrients or essential trace elements.

In keeping with this unified view of biochemistry, BioFactors publishes research dealing with the identification of new substances and the elucidation of their functions at the biophysical, biochemical, cellular and human level as well as studies revealing novel functions of already known biofactors. The journal encourages the submission of studies that use biochemistry, biophysics, cell and molecular biology and/or cell signaling approaches.

《生物因子》是國(guó)際生物化學(xué)和分子生物學(xué)聯(lián)合會(huì)的期刊，致力于快速發(fā)表健康和疾病實(shí)驗(yàn)生物學(xué)領(lǐng)域中具有重要意義的原創(chuàng)研究文章和評(píng)論。

“生物因子”一詞指的是調(diào)節(jié)生物功能的許多化合物。生物因子包括由生物體產(chǎn)生或修飾的許多分子，存在于許多基本系統(tǒng)中，如血液、神經(jīng)或免疫系統(tǒng)。生物因子的非詳盡列表包括神經(jīng)遞質(zhì)、細(xì)胞因子、趨化因子、激素、凝血因子、轉(zhuǎn)錄因子、信號(hào)分子、受體配體等等。在生物因子組中，我們可以容納幾種體內(nèi)無(wú)法合成的經(jīng)典分子，例如維生素、微量營(yíng)養(yǎng)素或必需微量元素。

為了遵循這種統(tǒng)一的生物化學(xué)觀點(diǎn)，BioFactors 發(fā)表的研究涉及新物質(zhì)的識(shí)別及其在生物物理、生物化學(xué)、細(xì)胞和人體層面的功能的闡明，以及揭示已知生物因子的新功能的研究。該期刊鼓勵(lì)提交使用生物化學(xué)、生物物理學(xué)、細(xì)胞和分子生物學(xué)和/或細(xì)胞信號(hào)傳導(dǎo)方法的研究。

Biofactors創(chuàng)刊于1988年，由Wiley-Blackwell出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋生物 - 內(nèi)分泌學(xué)與代謝全領(lǐng)域，此刊是中等級(jí)別的SCI期刊，所以過(guò)審相對(duì)來(lái)講不是特別難，但是該刊專業(yè)認(rèn)可度不錯(cuò)，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 較慢,6-12周 ，影響因子指數(shù)5，該期刊近期被列入國(guó)際期刊預(yù)警名單，請(qǐng)廣大學(xué)者慎重選擇。