Journals in Agricultural and biological sciences
Journals in Agricultural and biological sciences
The Agricultural and Biological Sciences collection advances science-based knowledge for the improvement of animal and plant life and for secure food systems that produce nutritious, novel, sustainable foods with minimal environmental impact. Food Science titles include not only those products from agriculture but all other aspects from food production to nutrition, health and safety, chemistry to security, policy, law and regulation. Biological Sciences address animal behaviour and biodiversity, organismal and evolutionary biology, entomology, marine biology and aquaculture, plant science and forestry.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
The Journal of Theoretical Biology is the leading forum for theoretical perspectives that give insight into biological processes. It covers a very wide range of topics and is of interest to biologists in many areas of research, including:• Brain and Neuroscience • Cancer Growth and Treatment • Cell Biology • Developmental Biology • Ecology • Evolution • Immunology, • Infectious and non-infectious Diseases, • Mathematical, Computational, Biophysical and Statistical Modeling • Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry • Networks and Complex Systems • Physiology • Pharmacodynamics • Animal Behavior and Game TheoryAcceptable papers are those that bear significant importance on the biology per se being presented, and not on the mathematical analysis. Papers that include some data or experimental material bearing on theory will be considered, including those that contain comparative study, statistical data analysis, mathematical proof, computer simulations, experiments, field observations, or even philosophical arguments, which are all methods to support or reject theoretical ideas. However, there should be a concerted effort to make papers intelligible to biologists in the chosen field.Whatever the topic of the paper, please note that the biological significance of the problem being studied should be clearly stated. In addition, Highlights are required for each article and they should feature the biological applications as well as any theoretical advancements.Highly speculative papers not based on current biological knowledge will not be accepted. Importantly, papers in which only mathematics is utilized, only technical mathematical results are proved, or standard statistical/bioinfor... methods are applied to existing genomic data, without new theoretical perspective or biologically novel insight will NOT be considered. The journal does not accept unsolicited review papers. Comments on theoretical issues or on papers published specifically in the Journal of Theoretical Biology are welcomed in the form of Letters to the Editors.- ISSN: 0022-5193
Current Opinion in Insect Science
Current Opinion in Insect Science is a systematic review journal that provides specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Insect Science. For such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections, each of which is reviewed once a year.The following 11 defined areas are covered by Current Opinion in Insect Science.MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND OMICS: Cell physiology, function, communication; immunity, genetics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, post-translational processing, epigenetics, physiological genetics, application of new technological approaches, bioinformaticsDEVELO... AND SYSTEMS PHYSIOLOGY: Organism level: Morphogenesis, hormonal regulation, endocrinology, tissue physiology, developmental physiology, interaction between systems to maintain homeostasis, mechanistic physiology from cells to systems, biomechanics ECOLOGY: Behavior and physiology in relation to environment, chemical and physical ecology, population dynamics, population and community ecologyEVOLUTION: Comparative evolutionary morphology, evolutionary physiology and development, evolutionary relationships, natural selection, molecular phylogeny, speciation, behavioral ecologyPESTS AND PEST MANAGEMENT: Major pests of agriculture, invasive species, IPM, resistance and resistance management, biological control, habitat managementMEDICAL, VETERINARY AND URBAN ENTOMOLOGY: Pests of urban, human and / or animal health importance, disease vectors, management SOCIAL INSECTS: Behavior, communication, aspects within or between social insect groupsINSECTS AND THE ANTHROPOCENE: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS: Conservation, biodiversity, invasive species; impacts of climate change, pollution, urbanization, habitat change and management, pesticide regulation, monitoring and surveillanceNEUROSCIENCE: Nervous system physiology, molecular biology of neural systems, developmental biology, toxicology, ethology / neuroethology, brain structure and function, sensory physiologyBIOTECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS: Use of insects or parts thereof for production of useful products, including food and feed; application of bioengineering (microbes, crops, insects) for pest management; new biotechnological approachesSYMBIOSES AND MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS: Interaction of insects with other organisms including plants, pathogens, parasites; microbiome, immunity, vectors of agricultural importanceThere is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field.- ISSN: 2214-5745
Food Webs
The journal Food Webs publishes original research articles, focused reviews and short communication papers examining the species interactions that structure ecological communities. This interdisciplinary journal encompasses both experimental and theoretical research that seeks a mechanistic understanding of the influence of these interactions on the composition of communities and functioning of ecosystems. As such, articles focus on a multitude of areas within the area of food web biology.These include, but are not limited to, the following: • simple trophic relationships and cascading effects between levels of a community • multi-species interactions and the structuring of populations and communities • effect of competition and co-existence of species in defining trophic relationships • effect of perturbation on species and interaction pathways • quantifying direct and indirect effects on populations • stability and productivity of food webs • empirical and theoretical assessment of food web structure and complexity • models explaining food web structure and trophic relationshipsFood Webs will consider papers from terrestrial, freshwater and marine systems, without any bias for the taxa being studied or techniques used- ISSN: 2352-2496
Zoologischer Anzeiger
Zoologischer Anzeiger (A Journal of Comparative Zoology) is devoted to comparative zoology with a special emphasis on morphology, systematics, biogeography, and evolutionary biology targeting all metazoans, both modern and extinct. The journal also considers taxonomic submissions addressing a broader systematic and/or evolutionary context. The overall aim of the journal is to contribute to our understanding of the organismic world from an evolutionary perspective.- ISSN: 0044-5231
Current Opinion in Systems Biology
Current Opinion in Systems Biology is a new review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up-to-date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Systems Biology. It publishes polished, concise and timely reviews and opinion articles. In addition to describing recent trends, the authors are encouraged to give their subjective opinion on the topics discussed. As this is such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections each of which is regularly reviewed.The following areas will be covered by Current Opinion in Systems Biology: • Genomics and Epigenomics • Gene Regulation • Metabolic Networks • Cancer and Systemic Diseases • Mathematical Modelling • Big Data Acquisition and Analysis • Systems Pharmacology and Physiology • Synthetic Biology • Stem Cells, Development, and Differentiation • Systems Biology of Model Organisms • Systems Immunology and Host-Pathogen Interaction • Systems Ecology and EvolutionSection Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors in Chief of the journal. They divide their sections into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section Editors commission reviews from authors on each topic that they have selected and arrange for the peer review process. The papers are reviewed by 2 independent reviewers.ReviewsAut... write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.Opinion ArticlesAuthoritativ... opinion articles that provide an in-depth background and personal, well reasoned perspective on current, relevant as well as controversial topics within the themes of the journal will be written by the Editor-in-Chief and / or invited by the Editor-in-Chief.Edit... OverviewSection Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particular interesting developments.Invited authors are encouraged to visit our Guide for Authors for information on article submission.- ISSN: 2452-3100
Current Opinion in Food Science
Current Opinion in Food Science is a review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of food science. It publishes 6 issues per year covering the following 12 sections, each of which is reviewed once a year: Food Physics and Materials Science; Food Engineering and Processing; Food Toxicology; Food Chemistry and Biochemistry; Food Bioprocessing; Food Microbiology; Food Safety; Food Mycology; Sensory Sciences and Consumer Behavior; Functional Foods and Nutrition; Foodomics Technologies; Innovations in Food Science.Current Opinion in Food Science builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating reproducible biomedical research targeted at improving human health. It is a companion to the new Gold Open Access journal Current Research in Food Science and is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals. All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.- ISSN: 2214-7993
Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology publishes original research, review, and perspective articles focusing on the physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of plant and animal protection agents. These include chemical and microbial pesticides, pesticidal proteins and nucleic acids, parasiticides, repellents, and growth regulators. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, modes of action; detoxification pathways; resistance mechanisms; regulatory pathways influencing toxicity; biochemical and molecular strategies to enhance pesticide efficacy; and the development of nucleic acid–based pesticides and related biotechnologies for pest management.Manuscrip... are considered unsuitable if their primary focus is on pesticide efficacy testing; laboratory studies involving pesticide formulations or crude extracts from plants or other organisms; or computational analyses such as bioinformatics, molecular modeling, or docking without experimental validation. Studies investigating non-target effects at environmentally irrelevant doses or concentrations are also not appropriate for this journal.- ISSN: 0048-3575
Fish & Shellfish Immunology
The official journal of the International Society of Fish and Shellfish Immunology (ISFSI)Fish and Shellfish Immunology rapidly publishes high-quality, peer-refereed contributions in the expanding fields of fish and shellfish immunology. It presents studies on the basic mechanisms of both the specific and non-specific defense systems, the cells, tissues, and humoral factors involved, their dependence on environmental and intrinsic factors, response to pathogens, response to vaccination, and applied studies on the development of specific vaccines for use in the aquaculture industry.Database coverage includes Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS); Current Contents; SciSearch and Research Alert. Science Citation Index and Focus on: Veterinary Science and Medicine.Fish and Shellfish Immunology is the companion title to the open access journal Comparative Immunology Reports.- ISSN: 1050-4648
Food Microbiology
Food Microbiology publishes original research articles, short research communications, opinions, and review papers on all aspects of the microbiology of foods and food environments, including safety, shelf-life, diagnostics, ecology, and sensory attributes. The Journal aims to advance the microbiology of foods by discoveries, increasing knowledge, research tools, and concepts. The global audience includes academia, government, industry, and competent authorities. The journal considers articles dealing with the application, association, or prevention of viruses, bacteria, yeast, and molds related to foods or food environments through physical, biological, chemical, diagnostics, application of omics, or training/education. The application of advanced tools such as artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and omics is encouraged. The following categories and examples that are within the scope of Food Microbiology:Food processing: Papers that report on intervention methods (physical, biological or chemical) related to inactivation and control of microbes will be considered. The articles should demonstrate optimization (validation) and verification with relevant microbes for the food matrix being reported. The use of protective cultures, microbial metabolites, and bacteriophages, amongst others, will be considered provided efficacy is demonstrated within food systems. Studies relating to natural antimicrobials (for example, bacteriocins, phenolic compounds, or essential oils) can be included, although these should be chemically characterized and novel without simply confirming previous findings. Food fermentations: The ecology, performance, and functionality of fermented foods would be within the journal's scope provided the reported study can be replicated and results applied to define, improve, or contribute to the body of knowledge. Using omics to characterize, correlate, and/or identify populations or to study community assembly in fermented foods is encouraged. Findings of omics are preferably verified and not solely based on sequencing, metabolic profiles, and correlation software. Probiotic studies will be within scope but only if these relate to the interaction of stability within a food system rather than the gastrointestinal tract or effects on the immune system. Food processing environments: The prevalence of pathogens or spoilage microbes within the processing environment can be considered if linked to a production practice or process. The control of biofilms by bacterial strains or communities is within scope if evidence of biofilm formation within a simulated commercial environment exists. Biofilms formed on surfaces not encountered within food processing environments, such as microtiter plates, will not be considered. Pre-harvest microbiology of foods: Aspects of microbiology, ecology, and control of microbes encountered in animal or plant production that impact food safety and/or shelf-life are considered. Survey and prevalence studies: The prevalence of pathogens, including antimicrobial resistance, would be considered within the journal if sampled over a reasonable time period and geographical region and linked to a practice or procedure (for example, administration of antibiotics, cage-free production, amongst others). Risk assessment and predictive microbiology: Studies reporting on risk assessment or predictive microbiology, including the application of artificial intelligence, are within the journal's scope provided they relate to the activity of microbes within a food or processing environment. Microbiology diagnostics: Diagnostics, including biosensors, for detecting microbes are within scope provided they are tested using a sufficient spectrum of strains to assess selectivity and sensitivity. Detection of targets with relevant food systems should also be demonstrated. Food safety education and training tools: Training or teaching approaches and training tools can be considered, provided the learning approaches, methodological framework, delivery methods, and success metrics are provided. Fundamental research on the physiology, genetics, and/or transcriptome of food-derived isolates: Research that reports on the mechanisms of virulence, physiology, or regulation of microbes isolated from foods but not necessarily within a food system. Out of scope The following areas are out of scope for Food Microbiology:Microbi... that resides outside the food or food processing environments. Exceptions are fundamental genetics/physiology of food isolates in relation to virulence, stress resistance or food fermentation. Observations, non-hypothesis, driven research or studies that confirm previous published works. Preliminary studies that only report observations. Research supporting health claims of pre- or probiotics. Prevalence studies or surveys that don’t report on practices, process or cause of the observations. Control of phytopathogens. Drugs or treatments administered to animals, unless there is an impact on the carriage of human pathogens through to the final product.Fermentation studies that do not verify through culturing, sequence and sensory metabolite attribution. Biosensors and microbiology methods that do not demonstrate the performance of detecting relevant microbiological targets in real food systems. Confirmation of diagnostics or those detecting chemical or physical adulterants.- ISSN: 0740-0020
Journal of Food Engineering
Journal of Food Engineering (JFE), since its first issue in 1982, aims to provide an international forum for publication of original research papers on any subject at the interface between food and engineering, particularly those of relevance to industry with emphasis on novelty, engineering rigor and clear perspectives of applications, including:Engineerin... properties of foods, food (multi-phase and multi-scale) physics and physical chemistry with their effects on food processing with novelty and relevance of engineering properties to food manufacturing.Innova... methods, sensors and actuators for food processing, quality and safety, packaging, storage, and supply chain, Advanced engineering aspects of analysis, design and optimization of food processing, control of food processing equipment and plant,Artificial intelligence and data-driven innovations with an emphasis on industrial applications, andSustainability and economics of the proposed solutions for food engineering, including alternative processes.With respect to process design and optimization, mathematical modeling studies with validation and process applications in conventional and novel processing illustrating food engineering principles are of particular interest. The use of specific software in modeling studies should avoid using the black-box approach and present the fundamental details of the applied modeling approach. Design and optimization studies should demonstrate engineering rigor rather than only observational comparisons. For analytical techniques (such as imaging methods and image processing with machine learning, and the use artificial intelligence), the manuscripts should demonstrate the required scientific background and potential innovative food process applications. Food packaging related manuscripts focusing on quantitative analysis (e.g., release kinetics, diffusion modelling, novel shelf-life modelling methods) are also of interest for publication in JFE.For review articles, critical comprehensive reviews should present a detailed background of the given subject with critical opinions of the authors suggesting challenges and priorities for the future research. The authors must have a significant scientific background on the topic to discuss the insights obtained from the literature with a critical assessment of the food engineering rigor of the reviewed works. Our expectation of engineering rigor in works published in JFE has various aspects:clear presentation of the underlying (e.g., physical or chemical) mechanism and its rationale within the (food) engineering discipline,developme... of theoretical considerations that are well grounded in physical/chemical sciences, experimental design and approaches described in a sufficient manner so that they can be replicated in another laboratory,data analysis based on well-established statistical methods,development of mathematical models with validation and for broader application of results, discussion of results that demonstrate how the work uniquely contributes to new knowledge, andwhen appropriate, application of results to industrial-scale problem-solving, with an emphasis on quantitative approach and analysis.- ISSN: 0260-8774
