Biofactors

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》是國際生物化學和分子生物學聯合會的期刊，致力于快速發表健康和疾病實驗生物學領域中具有重要意義的原創研究文章和評論。

“生物因子”一詞指的是調節生物功能的許多化合物。生物因子包括由生物體產生或修飾的許多分子，存在于許多基本系統中，如血液、神經或免疫系統。生物因子的非詳盡列表包括神經遞質、細胞因子、趨化因子、激素、凝血因子、轉錄因子、信號分子、受體配體等等。在生物因子組中，我們可以容納幾種體內無法合成的經典分子，例如維生素、微量營養素或必需微量元素。

為了遵循這種統一的生物化學觀點，BioFactors 發表的研究涉及新物質的識別及其在生物物理、生物化學、細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。該期刊鼓勵提交使用生物化學、生物物理學、細胞和分子生物學和/或細胞信號傳導方法的研究。

Biofactors創刊于1988年，由Wiley-Blackwell出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋生物 - 內分泌學與代謝全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業認可度不錯，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5，該期刊近期被列入國際期刊預警名單，請廣大學者慎重選擇。